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Yotor and his countrymen are among 260 people, most of them human-trafficking victims, who were sent from Myanmar to Thailand last week as a multinational crackdown on scam centers along the border between the two countries gathers pace.

For years, according to the United Nations, criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people to scam compounds across Southeast Asia, including along the Thai-Myanmar frontier, where victims have been forced to work in illegal online operations.

Since November 2023, when Russia’s Supreme Court designated the non-existent “international LGBT social movement” as an “extremist organization,” police departments across the country have executed a full-scale crackdown on the queer community. Officers have raided clubs and parties and placed LGBTQ+ people under surveillance while bigots harass queer community members and try to expose them to employers and parents. Wherever the authorities go, they collect evidence that facilitates monitoring, from video footage and business records to fingerprints and even mouth swabs. Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova has learned that Russian officials are also discussing overhauling the country’s data-collection practices to create a single electronic registry for monitoring LGBTQ+ individuals — a database that would make blackmailing and persecuting queer people vastly easier.

Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos.

My poor cat scratched his head by accident and won't leave the cut alone, so it's cone time. Unfortunately, every cone we've tried had been incredibly disruptive to his life. The newest one is at least lighter and he eats okay wearing it, but he's still miserable.

I'm willing to even make one if someone has a pattern they've used. I tried a hat, but he gets it off right away. I clip his claws shorter already, and it's not quite enough to keep him from reinjuring himself.

Any suggestions? He has allergies, so this is going to be an occasional problem.

Game #273
Shortest path: 8 (Avg. 6.1)
Total words: 27 (Avg. 19.4)
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Game #271
Shortest path: 4 (Avg. 5.9)
Total words: 9 (Avg. 19.4)
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Primer is a music podcast about translation and illumination. In its first season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic) joins Christian Dueñas to explore Japanese City Pop.

Primer invites both newcomers and crate diggers alike to find their next favorite album and learn more about the music they already love.

Daily Duotrigordle #955
Guesses: 35/37
1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣
1️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣
1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣
1️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣
1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣
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Strained my ankle so duotrigordle time

Game #233
Shortest path: 7 (Avg. 6.4)
Total words: 40 (Avg. 19.8)
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I had one connection early on that was .1 from linking everything. Obviously it took a lot more guesses.

The model for this game seems weird, but I like how it makes me think about the different meanings of words. Probably any model that does this will seem wrong, since word meanings are so dependent on region, dialect, age, etc etc.

Shortest path: 7 (Avg. 6.8)
Total words: 10 (Avg. 20.1)
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