Trump directs federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario amid an escalating trade dispute with Canada .

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We Tested 13 Electric Scooters. We Don’t Recommend Any. - Consumer Reports

CR doesn't recommend e-scooters because of their high speeds and rising injury rates. Two of CR's testers sustained injuries while evaluating e-scooters, too.

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Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictions

The volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

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Nurses chase Cyclospora using grocery receipts, food apps and detailed interviews

Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

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🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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Two additional convictions overturned for those involved in Whitmer kidnapping plot, AG will appeal • Michigan Advance

A month after the Michigan Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the conviction of Joseph Morrison, who was convicted in 2022 of materially supporting the kidnapping plot against Gov. Gretchen Whitm...

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Opinion | If These Celebrities Are Democracy’s Last Hope, We’re in Trouble

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Workers spoke out about racism at the Detroit Club. A jury awarded them $6.25 million. - Detroit Metro Times

A federal jury has ordered the Detroit Club and its owner to pay more than $6.25 million to three former employees who said they were punished after speaking out about racist treatment of Black guests...

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Judges block Trump push for Michigan voter info, setting up possible Supreme Court fight • Michigan Advance

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled the Department of Justice isn’t entitled to access the sensitive personal data of Michigan voters, a setback in President Donald Trump’s push to assert power...

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