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ICE partnerships with local law enforcement triple as Trump continues deportation crackdown

Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump's promise to hold "the worst" there

At least in the U.S. and Canada, that is.

This was brought to my attention thanks to a Reddit post where a user (presumably a resident of Canada), had posted how Lenovo was shipping laptops with Fedora and Ubuntu at a cheaper price compared to their Windows-equipped counterparts.

Others then chimed in, saying that Lenovo has been doing this since at least 2020 and that the big price difference shows how ridiculous Windows' pricing is.

When I dug in further, I found out that the US and Canadian websites for Lenovo offered U.S. $140 and CAD $211 off on the same ThinkPad X1 Carbon model when choosing any one of the Linux-based alternatives.

I think these manufacturers could do a better job in marketing these Linux-based alternative operating systems to general consumers, showing them how they can save big when opting for these instead of the pricey and bloated Windows.

Welcome to !crossword@lemmy.world! Instead of the daily post focusing solely on the NYT crossword like at /r/crossword, we at Lemmy are open to discussion for all daily crosswords.

For those checking the comments, some spoilers to answers may be present, so please proceed into the comments with caution.

Link to all the daily crosswords:

• New York Times (paid): https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords/game/daily
• LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword
• Telegraph Cross Atlantic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cross-atlantic-crossword/
• Stan Newman's Daily Crossword, Newsday: https://games.washingtonpost.com/games/stans-daily-crossword
• The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/free-daily-crossword-puzzle/
• New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/crossword
• USA Today: https://puzzles.usatoday.com/
• Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/news/puzzle
• Washington Times: https://www.washingtontimes.com/puzzles/crossword/
• Universal Crossword: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/universal-crossword/
• Vox: https://www.vox.com/pages/crossword-puzzles-free-archive
• The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/crossword-puzzles
• Daily Commuter: https://www.arkadium.com/games/daily-crossword-commuter/
• Crossword Club: https://crosswordclub.com/todays-puzzle/
• Premier Crossword: https://games.ajc.com/games/premier-crossword
• Slate: https://slate.com/life/crossword
• Puzzmo: https://www.puzzmo.com/today
• Your Puzzle Source: https://yourpuzzlesource.com/puzzles/daily-crossword/
• Lex Games Crossword (paid): https://lex.games/crossword
• New York Sun Crossword (paid): https://www.nysun.com/crosswords
• Puzzle Society Modern Crossword (paid): https://www.puzzlesociety.com/crossword-puzzles/modern-crossword
• The Globe & Mail Cryptic: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puzzles-and-crosswords/cryptic-crossword/
• The Guardian Cryptic: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords
• Telegraph Cryptic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/puzzles/

If there are any other crosswords you would like to see added to this list, please let us know and we will add it in a future post.

Thank you for being a part of this community!

From their own internal metrics, tech giants have long known what independent research now continuously validates: that the content that is most likely to go viral is that which induces strong feelings such as outrage and disgust, regardless of its underlying veracity. Moreover, they also know that such content is heavily engaged with and most profitable. Far from acting against false, harmful content, they placed profits above its staggering—and damaging—social impact to implicitly encourage it while downplaying the massive costs.

Social media titans embrace essentially the same hypocrisy the tobacco industry embodied when they feigned concern over harm reduction while covertly pushing their product ever more aggressively. With the reelection of Trump, our tech giants now no longer even pretend to care.

Engagement is their business model, and doubt about the harms they cause is their product. Tobacco executives, and their bought-off scientists, once proclaimed uncertainty over links between cigarettes and lung cancer. Zuckerberg has likewise testified to Congress, “The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health, ” even while studies find self-harm, eating disorder and misogynistic material spreads on these platform unimpeded. This equivocation echoes protestations of tobacco companies that there was no causal evidence of smoking harms, even as incontrovertible evidence to the contrary rapidly amassed.

(Cinabrio) (2025)

Image description: A winged woman with short white hair, golden eyes, and a red gem centered on her forehead. Large white feathered wings spread out behind her as she kneels low to the ground, extending her right hand forward in an inviting gesture towards the viewer with a gentle, knowing smile. Her feet are birdlike talons. In contrast to these fantastical features, she wears contemporary casual clothing: a white long-sleeved top with a keyhole neckline and distressed blue jeans.

website to create songs from meme sounds and emoji on pad

it looked something like this

transcription: dude 1: "this female character was so evil" dude 2: "shes believable" dude 3: "wow... this character sounds like shes insufferable!!!" dude 3 watching episode 1: "i wonder what she'll do wrong" dude 3 watching episode 40: "based" :3

id like to just hang out. like on mumble. but I'm using matrix now... anyone know of an active room or willing to join one?