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Daily News Digest - Summary for January 16, 2025

Daily News Digest - Summary for January 16, 2025
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The growing appeal of the ‘Live Free or Die’ state

At the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, New Hampshire stopped taxing interest and dividends. At that moment, the Granite State

Former Massachusetts residents now account for more than 25 percent of New Hampshire’s population.

By Jeff Jacoby, bostonglobe

At the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, New Hampshire stopped taxing interest and dividends. At that moment, the Granite State — which has never imposed a tax on wages — became a true no-income-tax state, one of only eight in America.

That means that one of the best things about living in Massachusetts — its proximity to New Hampshire — is now even better…

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Cypherpunk AI: Guide to uncensored, unbiased, anonymous AI in 2025

There are very good reasons to use uncensored, unbiased, open source AI models and to privately access ChatGPT and Claude.

byAndrew Fenton

In early 2024, Google’s AI tool, Gemini, caused controversy by generating pictures of racially diverse Nazis and other historical discrepancies. For many, the moment was a signal that AI was not going to be the ideologically neutral tool they’d hoped.

Introduced to fix the very real problem of biased AI generating too many pictures of attractive white people — which are over-represented in training data — the over-correction highlighted how Google’s “trust and safety” team is pulling strings behind the scenes…

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$35 lens turns any smartphone into a powerful microscope

View gallery - 14 images Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpen

This little gadget gives you instant, inexpensive access to the microscopic world

By Bronwyn Thompson

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and accessible to anyone with a camera on their phone. What's more, this new model features polarization, allowing you to see (and photograph) incredible detail in the structures of materials such as crystals and minerals – all for less than 1% of the cost of the equipment normally required to view these structures…

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Climate Hustle: EPA Advisor Admits Sending Billions to Climate Groups Before Trump Takes Office

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisor has been caught on hidden camera admitting that the outgoing Biden administration is funneling billions of taxpayer dollars

By AG Staff, amgreatness

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisor has been caught on hidden camera admitting that the outgoing Biden administration is funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to climate organizations as a hedge against the incoming Trump administration.

Brent Efron who is a special advisor for implementation for the EPA, was recorded by Project Veritas bragging about sending tens of billions of dollars in grants to climate nonprofits as “an insurance policy” against Trump’s promises to rein in government spending…

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Starbucks pulls back access for people who don't pay

Starbucks is rolling back a policy that allows people to hang out there or use the bathroom without buying anything.

The green Starbucks logo attached to a building

by Nathan Bomey

Starbucks is rolling back a policy that allows people to hang out there or use the bathroom without buying anything.

Why it matters: The chain implemented the policy in 2018, following a national uproar when two Black men who hadn't purchased anything were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia…

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Ceasefire Deal Reportedly Reached in Gaza, as Both Biden and Trump Take Credit

The big news of the day: Israel has officially announced a ceasefire and potential end to the Gaza war. Hamas will be releasing 33 hostages

by Simplicius

The big news of the day: Israel has officially announced a ceasefire and potential end to the Gaza war. Hamas will be releasing 33 hostages—interesting numerology, as always—and Israel will reportedly withdraw its military forces from Gaza…

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'I Felt Like A Nazi': Zionists Admit Genocide

On December 23rd 2024, Israel’s Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality”

by Kit Klarenberg

On December 23rd 2024, Israel’s Haaretz published an extraordinary investigation into the “impact” of Zionist Occupation Force “brutality” on the “mental health” of its own militants. Specifically, “moral injury” incurred by Tel Aviv’s soldiers while perpetrating unabashed genocide in Gaza. While at significant pains throughout to paint Israelis as the ultimate victims of the 21st century Holocaust they are committing, the outlet’s little-noticed reporting offered extensive, unprecedented insight into routine horrors casually meted out to Palestinians by the entity, before and after October 7th 2023…

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