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Academia Was Built on White Theft

Academia Was Built on White Theft

Last week, a white professor at George Washington University outed herself in a years-long charade in which she told people she was Black and built an academic career around this lie. Jessica Krug, who is from a white Jewish family in the Kansas City suburbs, affected an accent and an evolving set of backstories, eventually…

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The End of the University

The End of the University

Since coming down south to be closer to family, I’ve taken many walks around the University of North Carolina’s Greensboro campus, where my father works as a professor of chemistry. I arrived not long before spring classes were moved online and the vast majority of students decamped for home. The spacious campus turned desolate, bicycles…

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J.K. Rowling Not Directly Involved With Hogwarts Legacy

J.K. Rowling Not Directly Involved With Hogwarts Legacy

by William D'Angelo , posted 2 days ago / 1,278 ViewsPublisher Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and developers Avalanche Software and Portkey Games this week announced Hogwarts Legacy for the Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It will launch in 2021. In an FAQ released by the publisher, it was…

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WikiLeaks partners developed software to redact 400,000 Iraq War Logs

WikiLeaks partners developed software to redact 400,000 Iraq War Logs

Psychologist and co-founder of NGO the Iraq Body Count told a court that Julian Assange insisted on stringent redaction of hundreds of thousands of documents which revealed civilian deaths in the Iraq war By Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly Published: 17 Sep 2020 15:08 WikiLeaks and its media partners used software developed by an independent non-government…

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Kindred Capital, a European tech investor which shares profits with founders, has raised a $105 million second fund

Kindred Capital, a European tech investor which shares profits with founders, has raised a $105 million second fund

London-based early stage fund Kindred Capital has closed its second fund at £81 million ($105 million). The fund has a novel model which shares profits with founders who it has previously invested in called Equitable Ventures. "We're a very founder-led firm, we focus on people," Leila Zegna, general partner at Kindred, told Business Insider in…

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The Community Spotlight 2020.09.19

The Community Spotlight 2020.09.19

All credit to Fobwaashed for this amazing work of "edited" art.Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host as we look back at the best creative offerings form the Giant Bomb Community! Alright, so, the CNET sale news certainly…

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The New York Times Discovers a Manhattan Makeover for Nu-Tenant Farming

It all starts out harmless enough: A Manhattan couple, after years spent frequenting the city’s farmers markets, became increasingly focused on eating local and understanding where their food came from. They had visions of leaving behind their towering steel surroundings and starting their own farm upstate. Problem was, neither of them—one an architect and the…

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