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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 2 – December 2, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 337 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Trump’s School-Choice Agenda Hits Pushback From Red-State Voters

Defeat of state ballot measures suggests a divide between Republican lawmakers and voters.

WSJ · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google banned me from Google Voice

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Borgo Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Data Engineering Handbook

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 6 stories

  1. The Sand Wars Dividing Cranberry Growers and Their Neighbors

    WSJ · 1 outlets

    Growers dig up local sand for their bogs. Neighbors say they have gone too far.

  2. Top Colleges by Size in the Western U.S.

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  3. Pentagon solves 1 UFO mystery but still probing case of "large orange orb"

    CBS · 1 outlets

  4. Texts reveal efforts to bribe juror in pandemic fraud case, prosecutors say

    CBS · 1 outlets

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  1. Ex-boyfriend and fiancée behind fatal stabbing, shooting of Texas mom

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. Family of teen killed in hate crime attack stand up for their son

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 19 stories

  1. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

    news.alvaroduran.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  4. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

    axios.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

    mercurynews.com · 1 outlets

  2. I tried every top email marketing tool

    sitebuilderreport.com · 1 outlets

  3. Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  4. The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

  5. Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  6. Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

  7. Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

    deno.com · 1 outlets

  8. Computer Networking Fundamentals – Learning Series (2023)

    iximiuz.com · 1 outlets

  9. Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price

    coinbase.com · 1 outlets

  10. Adventures in Probability

    buttondown.com · 1 outlets

Sports 40 stories

  1. Trump wins presidency for second time

    thehill.com · 1 outlets

  2. Passport Photos

    maxsiedentopf.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Frosted glass from games to the web

    tyleo.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

    pikuma.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

    5-million-devs.netlify · 2 outlets

  4. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

    firehose3d.theo.io · 1 outlets

  5. Teen mathematicians tie knots through a mind-blowing fractal

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

  6. London's 850-year-old food markets to close

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Technology 610 stories

  1. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State

    wral.com · 2 outlets

  2. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

    dynomight.substack.com · 3 outlets

  3. Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

    labs.ripe.net · 2 outlets

  2. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. IMG_0416

    ben-mini.com · 1 outlets

  4. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

    jan.miksovsky.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Onion buys Infowars

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. How I ship projects at big tech companies

    seangoedecke.com · 1 outlets

  7. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

    continueandpersist.org · 1 outlets

  8. Advent of Code 2024

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

  9. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 60 stories

  1. Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes

    lanparty.house · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

    play.google.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I am Building a Producthunt alternative

    jamcorder.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Convert any website into a React component

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. Title drops in movies

    titledrops.net · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE

    github.com · 3 outlets

  5. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

    sportingnews.com · 1 outlets

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