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SoundCloud Acquires What’s Left of Nina Protocol Soundcloud

SoundCloud Acquires What’s Left of Nina Protocol

Nearly two months after Nina Protocol announced it was shutting down, the free, independent music platform has been acquired by SoundCloud. The agreement allows SoundCloud to inherent Nina Protocol’s editorial archive, genre map, and—if artists choose to opt into SoundCloud’s “creator ecosystem”—their music catalogues. Musicians who take SoundCloud up on…
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July 22, 2026
Sophie Thatcher Is Ready to Move Beyond ‘Yellowjackets’ and Step Out of the Darkness Moravec‘s Paradox

Sophie Thatcher Is Ready to Move Beyond ‘Yellowjackets’ and Step Out of the Darkness

Sophie Thatcher knows what you think about her. She’s seen the headlines and social media posts. She’s dark. Maybe it’s the acting choices, like Natalie, her tortured teen on “Yellowjackets,” or an abducted missionary in “Heretic,” or the enslaved robot girlfriend in “Companion.” Perhaps it’s her Mormon upbringing, which she…
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July 22, 2026
Homeless man who killed pensioner in south London market on Remembrance Sunday given hospital order Homeless

Homeless man who killed pensioner in south London market on Remembrance Sunday given hospital order

A homeless man who fatally stabbed a grandfather and injured two others in a random knife attack at a market on Remembrance Sunday morning has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Musse Ali, 67, killed Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, and wounded Ho Man Yau and Baheru Nadew Bartura in East…
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July 22, 2026
Slavery’s Musical Threads Slavery Abolition

Slavery’s Musical Threads

As ICE violence resurges in the US, the musical history of black Brazil offers lessons in resistance. Samba first emerged in the plantations of Salvador’s surrounding province of Bahia.(Wikipedia Commons / Brazillian National Archive) In Salvador, the capital city of Black Brazil, they call it a baculejo. The term is…
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July 22, 2026
French-language Express Entry draw sees CRS cutoff dip below 400 Refugees

French-language Express Entry draw sees CRS cutoff dip below 400

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has issued more invitations to apply (ITA) through the Express Entry system. The immigration department issued 5,000 ITAs in a draw for candidates with French-language abilities. To be considered in this draw, candidates needed to have: A minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of…
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July 22, 2026