Leftovers

• Science

  • New York Times ☛ A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge

    In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Massive Volcano Destroyed Methane in The Sky, And Scientists Are Stunned

    Wait, what?

  • Science Alert ☛ 400,000-Year-Old Proteins Reveal a Surprise Twist in The Human Family Tree

    It just got even more tangled.

  • Science Alert ☛ The Earliest Known Dentistry Wasn't Done By Our Species

    "A novel, highly specialized task."

  • Science Alert ☛ A 481-Meter Tsunami Struck Alaska, And It Was a Terrifying Near Miss

    "If the landslide had occurred five or six hours later than it did..."

  • Science Alert ☛ JWST Reveals a Hidden Structure in The Heart of The Squid Galaxy

    This telescope peers in light that brings out secrets.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Silent Bone Condition Affects 40% of Adults. It May Warn of Osteoporosis.

    It can hide until you experience a fracture.

• Hardware

  • CNX Software ☛ DEEPX DX-AIPlayer N97 mini PC combines defective chip maker Intel N97 SoC and 25 TOPS DX-M1 Hey Hi (AI) accelerator

    DEEPX has just launched the DX-AIPlayer, an ultra-compact edge Hey Hi (AI) mini PC with an defective chip maker Intel Processor “Alder Lake-N” N97 SoC and the company’s DX-M1 M.2 Hey Hi (AI) accelerator module. The system is designed for real-time vision Hey Hi (AI) applications in robotics, smart cities, and factory automation. We’ve seen plenty of Alder Lake-N mini PCs like the Jetway B420UADN1, the Avalue EPC-ASL, the AAEON UP 710S, and various others, but the DX-AIPlayer N97 is different as it integrates the DX-M1 module via an M.2 2280 M-Key (PCIe Gen 3 x4) slot.

  • CNX Software ☛ NextPCB Officially Launches Rev 0 PCBA — An Automated, No-Touch Prototype Assembly Service Built for Speed and Predictability (Sponsored)

    NextPCB today announced the official launch of Rev 0 PCBA, a fully automated, no-touch prototype assembly workflow engineered to eliminate traditional manufacturing obstacles and dramatically accelerate early hardware development. Rev 0 PCBA introduces a new era of rapid prototyping by automating the entire front‑end workflow – from file upload to assembly – without engineering queries, manual intervention, or unpredictable delays or costs.

  • CNX Software ☛ Broadcom BCM67142, BCM67192, and BCM68565 chips target low-cost WiFi 8 10 Gbps fiber access points

    Broadcom has recently announced the BCM67142 and BCM67192 WiFi 8 (802.11bn) chips for low-cost residential access points, and the BCM68565 PON Gateway SoC with 10 Gbps Fiber support to enable complete broadband access points. The announcement follows the launch of the company’s flagship residential (BCM6718) and enterprise (BCM43840/BCM43820) platforms last year, with the new chips aiming to provide value-focused residential Wi-Fi 8 and 10G PON gateway solutions.

  • CNX Software ☛ SONOFF Hydro DUO – A dual-channel Zigbee 3.0 smart water valve with flow meter

    SONOFF Hydro DUO is a dual-channel Zigbee 3.0 and Bluetooth 5 LE smart water valve with up to 12 customized watering schedules, a flow meter, and alerts for frost risk, leakage, low battery, and water shortages. Paisit previously reviewed the SONOFF SWV smart water valve, but the company has now launched the Hydro series with various improvements, including a brass inlet instead of a plastic one, weather-based skipping, real-time alerts, flow metering, and dual Zigbee + BLE so it can work even without a Zigbee gateway.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Digital Camera World ☛ 70% of photos on your camera roll are forgotten – and many photographers will relate to "digital photo overload"

      A new report suggests that about 70% of the photos taken on camera phones are never looked at again, highlighting a growing disconnect between how much we shoot and how little we actually appreciate the images.

      While the research focuses on smartphone photography, the behaviour will feel familiar to many mirrorless or DSLR photographers as well, where shoots often result in hundreds of images that are only partially reviewed or edited.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • CS Monitor ☛ In Louisiana primary, a senator-physician tries to survive Convicted Felon’s ire

    GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy voted to convict The Insurrectionist in the 2021 impeachment trial and has pushed back on public health matters. His fate on Saturday will signal the clout of the Make America Healthy Again movement, as well as the president’s hold on his party.

  • The Straits Times ☛ From health emergency to financial trouble: Measles’ unseen toll on Bangladesh’s poor

    For poor households, the health emergency quickly turns into financial trouble.

  • Digital Music News ☛ UMG Unlocks 24/7 Mental Health Support for Artists and Songwriters

    UMG announces a partnership with Amber Health to deliver 24/7, industry-specific mental health support for artists and songwriters. The move aims to advance industry well-being as a founding member of Project Healthy Minds’ workforce mental health research initiative.

  • Bridge Michigan ☛ Opinion | Mental health is health: Make annual screenings standard for Michigan K–12

    Michigan should establish annual behavioral health assessments for every K-12 student, just as we require annual physical health evaluations.

  • Futurism ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man Says a New Drug Can Bring Dead People Back to Life

    "We've taken people that were dead.... and the person became better. It works."

  • Federal News Network ☛ FDA chief’s resignation widens a leadership gap at the nation’s health department

    Dr. Marty Makary's resignation from his post atop the FDA is widening a leadership gap that already existed at the Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Latvia ☛ Doctors push for simpler disability status procedure in Latvia

    Inconvenience for the patient and their loved ones, and a waste of the doctor’s time – this is what family doctors face daily when, for example, a patient is diagnosed with a chronic, incurable illness and should almost automatically be granted disability benefits. Red tape must be reduced, they believe.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Common Vitamin Has a Complicated Link to Cancer, Experts Reveal

    Let's look at the evidence.

  • Science Alert ☛ PCOS Is Officially Renamed, After Decades of Misinformation

    "Those of us living with this condition have had to 'fight' for diagnosis."

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Forever Chemicals' Found in 98.8% of Human Blood Samples Tested

    "PFAS exposure rarely occurs as isolated compounds."

• Proprietary / SaaS

  • So-Called 'Artificial Intelligence' ('AI') / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Futurism ☛ Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That Hey Hi (AI) Does It for Them [Ed: The dumb bosses or employers force them to do this, it is not the right decision and it'll cost a lot]

      "It's making me dumber for sure."

    • Futurism ☛ The Hey Hi (AI) Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People

      Companies like Mercor are ushering in a new Wild West with no standards.

    • Futurism ☛ Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason

      Anthropic would rather blame the internet than its poor training.

  • Social Control Media

    • The Straits Times ☛ From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social control media access

      Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social control media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook.

  • Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets

    • SANS ☛ Proxying the Unproxyable: Sending EXE traffic to a Proxy, (Wed, May 13th)

    • Security Week ☛ Microsoft Patches Critical Zero-Click Outlook Vulnerability Threatening Enterprises

      CVE-2026-40361 is similar to a vulnerability found a decade ago, BadWinmail, which at the time was dubbed an “enterprise killer”.

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ Microsoft BitLocker-protected [sic] drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

      Microsoft Bitlocker-protected drives can be opened with just some files on a stick

• Pseudo-Open Source

  • Openwashing

    • Open Source Initiative ☛ Listening, Learning, and Building Together at OSI

      OSI Executive Director Duane O'Brien: I expect my listening tour will continue for a little while as I make the rounds to meet as many of our stakeholders as I can. If you’ve got something to say, grab a slot in my office hours.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • OpenRightsGroup ☛ ORG response to Consultation on the ICO’s approach to data protection complaint handling

      ORG response to the ICO consultation on a new approach to complaints handling Your views on our approach 7 To what extent to do you agree that ‘our proposed approach to complaint handling’ clearly explains how we’ll handle complaints?

    • OpenRightsGroup ☛ ORG response to ICO call for views on our approach to regulating online advertising

      Open Rights Group response to the ICO call for views on their new approach to regulating online advertising 6 Targeting What features within targeting are the minimum requirements for a commercially viable advertising model, and why?

    • EDRI ☛ Ireland investigates Meta for breaching the DSA – a year on from our complaint

      The Irish Digital Services Coordinator Coimisiún na Meán (CnaM) has announced a formal investigation last week into whether Meta breaches the DSA’s obligation to offer users access to alternative news feeds without profiling – a promising step towards tackling toxic platform design. The investigation comes after Bits of Freedom, EDRi, GFF and Convocation Research + Design filed a complaint about the issue.

  • Confidentiality

    • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese hacker suspect extradited to South Korea over $32m theft targeting BTS’ Jungkook and others

      The man is accused of hacking into multiple websites to get potential victims' personal information.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ Xi warns Convicted Felon mishandling of Taiwan issue will push bilateral ties to ‘dangerous place’

    Mr Pooh-tin called Taiwan the most important issue in China-US relations in his meeting with Mr Convicted Felon.

  • New York Times ☛ Why Does China Want Taiwan?

    There are few issues in diplomacy more complicated than the status of the self-governing island, which China claims as its own. It is almost certain to come up when Hell Toupée meets China’s leader.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ GlobalGiving to change Taiwan’s name to ‘Chinese Taipei’ on its funding platform, citing China ‘requirements’

    A US fundraising platform and a coffee association are switching Taiwan’s designation to “Chinese Taipei,” in line with Beijing’s preferred naming convention for the self-ruled island it claims as its own. GlobalGiving offers fundraising tools in over 175 countries, including China. It has over 20 nonprofit partners in Taiwan.

  • New York Times ☛ Chinese Firms Plot Secret Arms Sales to Iran, U.S. Officials Say

    The effort involves plans to send weapons through other countries in an effort to hide the origins of the shipments.

  • New York Times ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s China Policy Has Weakened America

    In Beijing this week, Convicted Felon should not hand China more victories.

  • France24 ☛ Dihydroxyacetone Man shares fake quotes, falsely accuses Obama of treason in late-night rant

    In a late-night social control media blitz before his high-stakes China visit, The Insurrectionist unleashed a string of debunked conspiracy theories, AI-generated images and attacks on his political rivals. Posting 55 times in a span of 3 hours, Convicted Felon tore into former President Barack Obama, accusing him - without evidence - of treason and espionage during Convicted Felon’s 2016 election campaign. He also revived falsehoods that the election was “stolen” from him in 2020, and attacked the New York Times.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ Mexico rejects CNN report accusing CIA of orchestrating cartel assassination on Mexican soil

    CNN's report, published on Tuesday, said that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) "facilitated" a car bomb that killed two people traveling on a México state highway on March 28, to the knowledge of the state Attorney General's Office.

  • Mexico News Daily ☛ In video message, Chihuahua governor insists she did not know of CIA’s presence in her state

    Governor Maru Campos has been framed as a traitor by the Morena party after her state government apparently failed to follow the law regarding foreign involvement in domestic security tasks. She claims she had nothing to do with it.

  • The Strategist ☛ For Indo-Pacific states, the Arctic’s security importance is rising

    The Arctic is no longer a distant sideshow. It is becoming a contested strategic arena, and Indo-Pacific states should start treating it that way.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • LRT ☛ Lithuania will not allow foreign powers to use its airspace for drone strikes – president

      President Gitanas Nausėda said Wednesday that no foreign power involved in armed conflict in Europe will be allowed to use Lithuanian territory or airspace to launch drone strikes against another state, warning such actions would constitute a serious breach of sovereignty and international law.

    • New Yorker ☛ The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin”

      Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of a novel about a fictionalized adviser to Vladimir Putin reduces politics to personalities and atrocities to anecdotes.

    • New Yorker ☛ Olivier Assayas’s Coming of Political Age

      The director—whose newest film, “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” examines the ascent of Vladimir Putin—discusses a few of the books that have helped to shape his ideals.

    • France24 ☛ Russia unleashes deadly daylight drone blitz across Ukraine

      A sweeping daytime Russian drone assault killed at least six people and wounded dozens across Ukraine on Wednesday, marking a shift in Moscow’s bombardment tactics. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said more than 800 drones were launched, accusing Russia of timing the attack to coincide with US President The Insurrectionist’s visit to China.

    • France24 ☛ No, two French soldiers have not been killed in a Russian attack in Ukraine

      Pro-Russian accounts are claiming that Sergeant Bin Chen and Corporal Axel Delplanque "vanished" in Odesa, Ukraine, during an underwater mission. While it is true that these two French service members recently lost their lives, the circumstances of their deaths have no connection to any Russian attack.

    • RFERL ☛ Zelenskyy's Ex-Chief Of Staff Consulted Fortune-Teller For Top Posts, Prosecutor Says

      Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's former chief of staff and a suspect in a major corruption scandal, Andriy Yermak, have consulted a fortune-teller when deciding on top government appointments, an anti-graft agency prosecutor said.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine War Shows Cease-Fires Have Lost Meaning Under Convicted Felon

      Temporary truces have become a tool of performative diplomacy, an end in themselves rather than a prelude to a lasting settlement, analysts say.

    • LRT ☛ Lithuanian leaders clash over possible dialogue with Belarus

      Lithuanian Social Democratic Party leader Mindaugas Sinkevičius has indicated that the country’s president and government should agree on a future strategy toward Belarus and suggested dialogue with Minsk could be considered if initiated by the United States. A radical – if cautious – shift in the rhetoric coming from a top politician has ruffled some feathers.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • American Oversight ☛ Statement from American Oversight and Historians On Today’s Hearing to Block Convicted Felon’s Efforts to Evade Presidential Records Law

    We are in court today, arguing for an emergency order to block the Convicted Felon administration from disregarding the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and to prevent the destruction or loss of presidential records.

• Environment

  • The Straits Times ☛ Nearly 90 people killed as storm lashes India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh

    Television images showed trees and billboards uprooted by gusts of wind in the storm on May 13.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Strategist ☛ No solidarity: Southeast Asian countries split as each seeks Iranian oil

      Southeast Asian governments are failing to respond as a bloc to the severe disruption in oil, gas and commercial shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.

    • France24 ☛ Price shocks from the Iran war power solar sales in energy-hungry Asia

      Soaring costs for fuel due to the Iran war are leading consumers in hard-hit Asia toward rooftop solar power, a likely windfall for China as the world's largest provider of solar technology. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Maria-Eugenia Sanin, Economics Professor at Université Paris-Est Créteil, about reliance on China for renewables. She says that countries "don't need to be independent in the whole value chain".

  • Overpopulation

    • LRT ☛ Abortion ban to free meals – Lithuanian parties diverge on how to boost birth rates

      Lithuanian politicians are weighing the possibility of a cross-party agreement on demographic policy, but divisions over how to address the country’s declining birth rate could make consensus difficult.

• Finance

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australian court finds grocery chain Coles misled shoppers in discount lawsuit

    The Coles lawsuit focused on some 245 products advertised as being on discount.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New Yorker ☛ Hungary Avoided Democratic Collapse. Can We?

    After years of corruption and democratic erosion under Viktor Orbán, Hungary must rebuild its institutions. Its new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, faces questions about how he’ll do it.

  • New York Times ☛ King’s Speech Comes at an Awkward Time for Starmer

    King Charles III read out Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda in the traditional manner, even as the British prime minister’s leadership remained under pressure.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Why Macron is struggling to rebuild France’s ties with Africa

    France is trying to bolster its fading influence in Africa, with promises of big investment and equal partnership. But its colonial history continues to create road bumps.

  • Green Party UK ☛ Green Party MPs seek to amend King’s Speech to include measures to tackle the cost-of-living, climate change and inequality

    Hannah Spencer MP said:  My Green colleagues and I are so incredibly disappointed in this King’s Speech, but it’s not a surprise.

  • New York Times ☛ Justice Dept. Sues D.C. Bar Over Efforts to Discipline Government Lawyers

    The move escalates the administration’s feud with legal disciplinary bodies over the ethical conduct of government lawyers.

  • CS Monitor ☛ Brazilian law takes racism seriously. Why does extreme racial inequality persist?

    Brazil has some of the toughest racism laws in the world, which an Argentine tourist found out the hard way, as she awaits a court sentence.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Thai registry listing of disputed border temples draws Cambodia ire

    Cambodia has called on Thailand to withdraw its “unlawful registration” of the temples.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • Futurism ☛ New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of Hey Hi (AI) Hallucinations

      An entire "universe" of nonsensical information that somehow all still fits together.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Stanford University ☛ Strawser | Dear ASSU: Were you elected to serve Student Affairs or your fellow students?

    Sebastian Strawser argues that ASSU leaders should freeze student panelist confirmations to back their commitment to free speech.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • LRT ☛ ‘There are no perfect laws’: Parliament committee approves changes to LRT

    Lithuania’s parliamentary Committee on Culture on Wednesday approved proposed amendments to the LRT law. This comes amid objections from the opposition and international organisations, as well as widespread protests.

  • Futurism ☛ Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

    Oops!

  • Press Gazette ☛ Staffordshire Signal local news magazine aims to counter ‘clickbait negativity’

    Title is covering costs one year on and plans to pay staff £45,000 a year.

  • New York Times ☛ Activists, Lawmakers Urge Convicted Felon to Call for Release of Jimmy Lai and Dong Yuyu [Ed: Convicted Felon Hell Toupée is himself attacking the media (in his country)]

    Supporters of Mr. Lai, a Hong Kong dissident, and Mr. Dong, a Chinese journalist, hope Hell Toupée will raise their cases with President Pooh-tin Jinping.

• Civil Rights / Policing / Accessibility

  • Citizen Lab ☛ Ron Deibert Speaks at the OSCE: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting II

    Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert recently spoke at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting II on Safeguarding Civil Space in the Digital Age.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Internet Society ☛ Community Snapshot — April

    Around the world, our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. Here is an overview of just some of their activities over the last few weeks.

  • Internet Society ☛ How RightsCon Is an Unexpected Stress Test for the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance

    The cancellation of RightsCon 2026 is a stark reminder that when opportunities for civic engagement are neutralized, so are stakeholders’ voices.

  • Audiocasts/Shows

    • APNIC ☛ [Podcast] The socialized cost of online abuse

      In addition, Leslie has raised a concern that we need a conversation in wider civil society about the governance issues to address this problem because technology alone can’t solve what’s clearly a societal problem.

    • 404 Media ☛ At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn't Buying Views

      I did not want to make these videos but it was a newsroom-wide initiative and so I did it anyway. Thankfully and mercifully, almost no one watched any of these videos, because they were bad. Then and now, they are the opposite of what anyone watches on the internet. And yet, these videos were roughly about as good as a series of podcast videos being released by the Washington Post’s new and drastically worsened Opinion section, apparently at great expense to the outlet. They were also about as popular, with many of my videos garnering upwards of several dozen views.

    • James G ☛ Announcing Wonders of Web Weaving

      With all that in mind, a few weeks ago I had an idea: I could interview people who love the web and chat about all things indie web. This coalesced into an outline for a podcast, which then became Wonders of Web Weaving.

      Every Tuesday for the next fifteen or so weeks, I am going to be releasing an episode of the show. The first episode is with Adam, the creator of omg.lol and maintainer of many wonderful web projects.

• Monopolies/Monopsonies

  • Futurism ☛ Mark Kapo-berg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore

    "Your callousness to the concerns of your own employees is concerning."

  • Patents

    • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Twice Ambiguous: Actelion v. Mylan and the Contextual Reading of pH 13

      Federal Circuit affirms standard-temperature reading of 'pH of 13' claim term; DOE blocked by prosecution estoppel and disclosure-dedication.

    • Unified Patents ☛ Unified #1 in Reexamination Filings and Success

      Unified Patents ranks #1 in total filings and success. #2 in Success was Ropes & Gray, followed by Plumsea Law Group based on major reexam filers targeting utility patents over the previous 5 years.

    • Kangaroo Courts

      • JUVE ☛ “The UPC wants to bring ZTE and Samsung to the negotiating table” [Ed: UPC is illegal. JUVE continues to promote an illegality, as usual.]

        In its proposal, the UPC recommends that, rather than continuing the patent monopoly proceedings, the parties convene at the PMAC for mediation on the very day it begins operations. The UPC is therefore strongly encouraging the parties to come to what it describes as an “amicable solution”.

  • Trademarks

    • Digital Music News ☛ The Twigs Countersue FKA Twigs Amid Intensifying Trademark Dispute; New Claims Look to Bar the Name ‘FKA Twigs’ for LIfe

      The Twigs v. Twigs trademark showdown just got even uglier: Now, The Twigs have fired back against FKA Twigs’ lawsuit with a firmly worded countercomplaint seeking, among other things, an order barring the artist from using the contested name.

    • Right of Publicity

      • Digital Music News ☛ Coca-Cola Fires Back Against Johnny Cash Estate’s ELVIS Act Lawsuit, Denies Its Alleged ‘Soundalike’ Advert Is Infringing

        Remember the Johnny Cash estate’s ELVIS Act lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company? Nearly six months later, the beverage giant has officially fired back against the complaint. Coca-Cola just recently submitted a straightforward answer to the suit, which, we reported this past November, revolves around an August 2025 Coke and college-football advert entitled “Go the Distance.”

  • Copyrights

    • Digital Music News ☛ UK Government’s Draft Bill on ‘Ticket Touting’ Ban Included in King’s Speech As Predicted, But the Music Industry is No Less Disappointed

      As predicted, the King’s Speech on Wednesday only included the draft bill on a ticket tout ban, but the music industry is nonetheless disappointed.

    • Digital Music News ☛ Ye the Infringer Strikes Again: Kanye Slapped With a Six-Figure Fine Over ‘Donda’ Copyright Theft

      A federal jury found Kanye West liable for copyright monopoly infringement over the track “Hurricane,” first played at a listening party for his album Donda. It’s the latest in a long string of copyright monopoly infringement cases for the virulently antisemitic rapper.

    • Public Domain Review ☛ Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

      A treatise on a powder that can cure wounds at a distance.

    • Public Domain Review ☛ Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

      A Dutch physician’s encounter with acupuncture.

    • Public Domain Review ☛ Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

      Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowds in the thousands, offered huge cash prizes, and helped women "Swifts" fight for workplace equity.