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šŸ“š You shouldn’t buy a colour e-reader (yet)

As long as colour electronic paper is as grainy as Kaleido and as slow as Gallery, you should stick with black-and-white E Ink displays (or go with colour LCD/OLED). If and when colour e-paper improves enough to be worth it, you’ll still have to think long and hard about how and why you’ll use your device, and choose its size and shape accordingly.

This was interesting and informative. I’ve been looking at another e-ink device since my Kindle seemed to go kaput last week. I use it more for reading longer submissions to Foofaraw as I’m all-in on print again, but haven’t figured out what device would work best for that and reading articles.

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šŸ’ø Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time

In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence. Rather than taking advantage of that second chance, prosecutors said, Ms. Camberos returned to crime. She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud.

Imaginary fraud for 100 bucks by poor people: straight to jail. Real fraud for millions of dollars by people in power: come on in, the water’s lovely. Oh wait, I forgot, they are ā€œeliminating fraud and waste.ā€ Weird.

šŸˆ Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Giving Army-Navy Football Game an Exclusive TV Window

It is not clear what the executive order will say, or what legal mechanism there is to enforce an exclusive broadcast window. FCC chairman Brendan Carr reposted Trump on Sunday, which is suggestive of the order being directed at his agency, which regulates broadcast TV stations.

So much for the free market. We already have state run media with Fox and CBS, might as well tell us what we can and can’t watch at this point.

Week 03—2026 For Members

Week 03—2026

šŸ«€ A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion.

She wouldn’t. In a region that had legislated its commitment to life, she would spend her final days struggling to find anyone to save hers.

I admit, I’m a bit heated right now, and there are obviously a lot of parties at fault in the way this all went down, but if you voted for Donald Trump, you voted for a system that allowed/caused Ciji Graham and women like her to die.

Deaths that would be preventable in any country without barbaric laws that control women’s bodies. It feels like these people would rather let both the woman and fetus die than save the life of the woman. It’s fucked up.