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The week in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 2023-05-30
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 23 – May 30, 2023 181 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Man unknowingly buys former plantation house where his ancestors were enslaved

An Air Force veteran wanted a new house for large family gatherings; he ended up getting an incredible link to his family's past.

CBS · 1 sources

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Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Scammers using text messages to drain bank accounts in new ploy

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. Surgeon General: Social media may pose risk to teen mental health

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 7 stories

  1. UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”

    acm.org · 1 outlets

  2. Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System

    jacobin.com · 1 outlets

  3. Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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  1. HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Almost 200k Job Cuts in Tech Pushes New Grads to Wall Street

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person

    block21m.substack.com · 1 outlets

Sports 7 stories

  1. Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

    kanboard.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

    youdontneedamodalwindo · 1 outlets

  2. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

    fretboardfly.com · 1 outlets

Technology 145 stories

  1. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

    blog.pypi.org · 1 outlets

  2. Let us serve you, but don't bring us down

    blog.archive.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

    math.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics

    mslivo.itch.io · 1 outlets

  3. Why I Left Rust

    jntrnr.com · 1 outlets

  4. Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

    altnews.in · 1 outlets

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  1. Tarkovsky's films online for free

    kottke.org · 1 outlets

  2. HBO Max new Captcha system

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

    pixian.ai · 1 outlets

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