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Tonight TV: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells the story of her ordeal in Iranian prison | television

Tonight TV: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells the story of her ordeal in Iranian prison | television

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe,Iran,Middle East and north Africa ๐Ÿ“Œ Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Prisoner 951: The Story of the Hostages9pm on BBC Twoโ€œMy child was not even two years old when I left her...and she was almost eight when I came back.โ€ Following the excellent BBC drama about her six-year detention in Iran, prisoner 951, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, tells her remarkable story in this feature-length documentary. In addition to her personal accounts and footage filmed during her arrest and imprisonment, the film examines the broader context of what…
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You’ll soon be able to deduct donations without itemizing them โ€” and that’s where it starts

You’ll soon be able to deduct donations without itemizing them โ€” and that’s where it starts

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Personal Finance News,News ๐Ÿ“Œ Main takeaway: Key takeaways The โ€œBig Beautiful Billโ€ restores a tax rule and makes it permanent, allowing those who don't itemize their taxes to deduct up to $1,000 from their charitable contributions starting next year.Some taxpayers who donate to charity at the end of the year may want to defer their gift until next year to take advantage of the expanded deduction. The "big, beautiful bill" would allow taxpayers who don't itemize to deduct their charitable contributions starting next…
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IBM CEO Has Doubts That Big Tech’s AI Spending Spree Will Pay Off

IBM CEO Has Doubts That Big Tech’s AI Spending Spree Will Pay Off

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets.Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta's recent earnings call, words like "capacity" and AI "infrastructure" were frequently used. Google just announced that it wants to eventually build them in space. The question remains: will the revenue generated from data centers ever justify all the capital expenditure?On the "Decoder" podcast, Krishna concluded that there was likely "no…
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Watch: Trump defends boat attacks, attacks Somali immigrants in final Cabinet meeting of the year

Watch: Trump defends boat attacks, attacks Somali immigrants in final Cabinet meeting of the year

โœจ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Boat Strikes,Donald Trump news,pete hegseth,trump cabinet ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” As Tuesday's White House Cabinet meeting passed two hours later, President Donald Trump's eyes fluttered shut. His budget director was busy drawing a fluffy cloud. Defense Minister Pete Hegseth was lucky enough to speak early, but the address on his nameplate was misspelled. Watch in our video player above. However, the sleepy, and at times vulgar, gathering ended with a flurry of news. Trump declared he did not want Somalis in the United…
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HBO Max’s Mad Men vomit scene proves that ‘Remastered’ doesn’t mean ‘better’

HBO Max’s Mad Men vomit scene proves that ‘Remastered’ doesn’t mean ‘better’

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture Latest ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / TV,Gross Product ๐Ÿ’ก Main takeaway: But the problem goes beyond simply changing the aspect ratio. Re-mastering of shows originally filmed using more primitive technology sometimes goes horribly awry, e.g I love Lucy The clip that went viral last year shows a pair of actors who had a blurry background, brought into focus so much that they now resemble Picasso's surrealist drawings.I visited a group of Freezer In the late 1990s, the television industry was preparing to shift from standard to high definition. While I was admiring the…
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People in this state could see home prices rise by 9% if their property taxes were eliminated

People in this state could see home prices rise by 9% if their property taxes were eliminated

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Personal Finance News,News ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: Key takeaways Florida's governor supports a proposal to eliminate property taxes on homeowners.A Realtor.com report found that eliminating property taxes could cause home prices to rise by up to 9%. Florida homeowners have seen their property values โ€‹โ€‹rise 42% since 2019, but they have fallen 3% over the past three years. Residents of one state could see a big jump in the value of their homes if voters make a major change in property tax collections.…
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Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+

Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country's leading font licensing services raised the cost of its annual plan from around $380 to $20,500 (USD). As reported by Gamemakers and GameSpark and translated by Automaton, Fontworks LETS discontinued its game licence plan at the end of November. The expensive replacement plan โ€“ offered through Fontwork's parent company, Monotype โ€“ doesn't even provide local pricing for Japanese developers, and comes with a 25,000 user-cap, which is likely not workable for…
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Tennessee voters head to the polls in a special House election to test Trump’s strength

Tennessee voters head to the polls in a special House election to test Trump’s strength

โœจ Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: congress,Donald Trump news,Mark Green,Tennessee,vote 2025 ๐Ÿ“Œ Main takeaway: Live results: Special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) โ€” President Donald Trump and Republicans will try to recover from recent losses across the country when Tennessee voters choose the next representative for the U.S. House's conservative 7th Congressional District on Tuesday. The special election, set up after Republican Rep. Mark Green resigned this summer, has seen an unexpected surge in spending in recent weeks, flooding the airwaves and filling residents' mailboxes with campaign flyers.…
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Brian Johnson has discovered Shrooms, and he really wants you to know it

Brian Johnson has discovered Shrooms, and he really wants you to know it

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture Latest ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Ego Trip ๐Ÿ“Œ Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: โ€œCome and see me โ€œJourney balls,โ€ Brian Johnson, the entrepreneur behind the longevity podcast Don't Die, announced on Channel X two days before he livestreamed himself consuming a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms at a psilocybin center in Oregon on Sunday.This marked the second chapter of his exciting new investigation into whether psilocybin use can improve nearly 250 biomarkers of health, including various measures of brain connectivity, cortisol, and testosterone levels.โ€œThere is a possibility that drugs could play a…
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The future of deep tech will be explained to you at StrictlyVC Palo Alto on December 3

The future of deep tech will be explained to you at StrictlyVC Palo Alto on December 3

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Startups,TC,Venture,Goodwater Capital,playground global,Sandbar,Science Corporation,Scribble Ventures,StrictlyVC,True Ventures,xLight ๐Ÿ“Œ Main takeaway: Tomorrow night, at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who build things you don't understand yet will show you what's to come. This is it The final StrictlyVC event of 2025In fact, the lineup is ridiculous. Image credits:Aaron V Barrera Photography The series traveled around the world under the auspices of TechCrunch. Steve Case rented a theater in Washington, DC. We spoke with the Prime Minister of Greece in Athens. Kirsten Green hosted us at the Presidio Hotel…
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