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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 7 – May 7, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 128 Get it by email ↓
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Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting

They fought for fentanyl legislation, but it was killed before lawmakers even got to vote. Four grieving moms wanted to know why. They're uncovering the truth using a new AI tool designed to help everyday Californians hold lawmakers accountable. They discovered powerful lawmakers killed the popular fentanyl bill by no…

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Americans lose millions to wire transfer fraud. Could banks do more to stop it?

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 32 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 2 outlets

  2. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    terminal.shop · 1 outlets

  3. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

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  1. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  2. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  5. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

    restofworld.org · 1 outlets

  6. Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  8. Financial market applications of LLMs

    thegradient.pub · 1 outlets

  9. Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

  10. Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

    stateline.org · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

    loglog.games · 1 outlets

  2. I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

    tonoko.notion.site · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

    restoreprivacy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

    ohmygit.org · 1 outlets

  3. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  4. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

    balanc3dgame.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

Technology 635 stories

  1. Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

    electrek.co · 4 outlets

  2. AzerothCore: Self-Hosted World of Warcraft 3.3.5a Server

    stalw.art · 2 outlets

  3. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

    docs.fcc.gov · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

    newshub.co.nz · 2 outlets

  2. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  3. The man who killed Google Search?

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

  4. Equinox.space

    equinox.space · 1 outlets

  5. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

  6. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

  7. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

    bittersoutherner.com · 1 outlets

  8. Descent 3 Source Code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. FTC announces rule banning noncompetes

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

    cruncher.ch · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card

    paulbupejr.com · 5 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 2 outlets

  3. Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: A free site to explore and discover 6k plants

    github.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS

    pricelevel.com · 1 outlets

  6. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

    icode4.coffee · 2 outlets

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