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Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’ [140d]
How camping bans − like the one the Supreme Court just upheld − can fit into ‘hostile design’: Strategies to push out homeless people [140d]
Supreme Court makes prosecution of Trump on obstruction charge more difficult, with ruling to narrowly define law used against him and Jan. 6 rioters [140d]
ICE detainees suffer preventable deaths − Q&A with a medical researcher about systemic failures [140d]
Federal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low [140d]
‘Authentic’ ayahuasca rituals sought by tourists often ignore Indigenous practices and spiritual grounding [140d]
Western interest in ayahuasca is creating challenges for local Indigenous communities and raising issues of cultural appropriation [140d]
Global interest in ayahuasca is leading to spiritual tourism and creating challenges for local communities [140d]
ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ [140d]