When Apple announced the iPhone 16, social media lit up with calls for a boycott. Activists highlighted the device’s connection to conflict minerals sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where mining often involves…
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Paul Allen’s Living Computers Museum remains closed after years, despite lifted COVID restrictions
Kayvon BumpusThe museum, a pet project brought to life by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2006, stayed open for more than a year after Allen’s death in 2018. But it remains in question whether his business associates and family share the late philanthropist’s interest in preserving and showcasing the museum’s historic technology.
Some may argue that fishing as an industry is dying, but not on the shores of Knutson. “When I started fishing in 1972, I've heard that my whole life. People told me ‘hey that’s a dying industry', and I usually respond with ‘if you think that the fishing [industry] is dying, then I guess you’re saying that the planet is dying.’”
Nowadays, the way you speak and the words you use can be used to identify which side of the political spectrum you are on. As a queer immigrant living in Seattle, I personally identify with…