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We’ve reached the next stage of internet-stalking the pope.
Stage one is mining Pope Leo XIV’s social media history. Stage two is his relatives posting screenshots of the family group chats.
Tina Nguyen
Senior Reporter, Washington
Senior Reporter, Washington
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Ripping off content to train AI wasn’t going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media.
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Leo XIV is the first pope with an online footprint, and it’s already defining his papacy… which is weird.
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Mine Free or Die.
New Hampshire just passed a law establishing its own “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve,” paving the way for the state to start investing in digital assets such as Bitcoin. It’s the first state in the country to do so, beating several other states to the punch.
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Well, definitionally...
Overheard on a CBS panel discussing how the cardinals participating in the papal conclave won’t have access to their phones, computers, or the internet, possibly for weeks:
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Not even fancy D.C. lobbyists could save Shein from the tariffs.
As Donald Trump eliminates the exemption for shipments valued at $800 or less, Wired published a closer look at how Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion retailer that relied on that exemption to keep their prices dirt-cheap, tried to lobby their way out of it: spending millions of dollars on Washington lobbyists, hiring Trump administration alumni, and even sending their president, Donald Tang, to schmooze with the China hawks at the MAGA think tanks. (It didn’t work.)
