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Even after ABC/Disney reversed course on Kimmel, Sinclair says it will pre-empt the show’s return on its 38 ABC stations. / The Hollywood Reporter

For Disney and other power players to survive the next three years, they’re going to have to understand just how unpopular Trump is. / Strength in Numbers

The USDA is canceling a longstanding survey that tracks how many Americans are going hungry each year. / NPR

The Heritage Foundation wants the FBI to classify “violent transgender ideology” as a new domestic terror threat. / The Independent

See also: What to know about “transmaxxing,” the alt-right ideology that recommends incels transition to enjoy the advantages of a society that they believe benefits women. / them

Silicon Valley has played an outsized role in severing the ties that bind us as a society—and with AI, it seems more than happy to exploit the problem it helped create. / The Atlantic [$]

“The extremes were new and unspeakable. The ideas were not.” The forgotten history of disabled children under Nazism. / Mother Jones

See also: How today’s “womanosphere” influencers, who “often post nonchalantly misogynistic content,” are playing to the same fantasies favored by fascist regimes. / The Guardian

Related: Young women report feeling pressure to be silent among boys emboldened by the White House to make sexist, racist jokes. / The Guardian

“Sneering” artificial intelligence billboards are popping up around San Francisco. / SFGate

So how much energy does AI eat up? It depends on the task it’s performing, but here are some attempts at making sense of the latest data. / It’s Nice That

See also: Music labels have added fuel to their lawsuit against Suno, alleging the company unlawfully ripped tracks off YouTube. / The Verge

Recent protests in Nepal had less to do with social media, more with corruption, inequality, and a lack of economic opportunity. / Columbia Journalism Review

Brian Stelter on social media: If we only concentrate on the arsonists and don't recognize the firefighters, we just contribute to the firestorm. / Reliable Sources

A pair of 7,000-year-old mummies discovered in the Sahara are found to be part of a lineage that diverged from Sub-Saharan populations, and share no DNA with modern humans. / Popular Mechanics

See also: “Archaeologists claim they've found the oldest evidence of deliberate human mummification from a series of burial sites across southern China and South-East Asia.” / ABC

Unrelated: The trampoline on the Great Pyramid. / Ironic Sans

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