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"At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, 'Don't eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'" says Colin Domnauer, a doctoral candidate in biology at the University of Utah and the Natural History Museum of Utah, who is studying L. asiatica. "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there."

Domnauer is on a quest to solve the decades-old mysteries about this fungi species and identify the unknown compound responsible for its unusually similar hallucinations – as well as what it can potentially teach us about the human brain.

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The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of Cuba News, a daily . . .

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The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.

“We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the open source app cURL, said Thursday. “It is not in our power to change how all these people and their slop machines work. We need to make moves to ensure our survival and intact mental health.”

MANILA – Alternative media groups and allied organizations held an indignation rally in front of the Commission of Human Rights on Thursday, January 22, 2026, hours after community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and lay worker Marielle Domequil were convicted for terror financing. They renewed their calls to end impunity and to free all political prisoners.

The court dismissed other charges against Cumpio and Domequil in November 2025. The illegal possession of firearms and explosives were also dismissed by the court January 22, 2026. But they were convicted for terror financing and were sentenced to 12-18 years of prison.

The conviction went against a previous decision in October 2025 by the Court of Appeals which voided the civil forfeiture case against Cumpio and Domequil. According to the CA, the Anti-Money Laundering Council failed to establish the connection between Cumpio and Domequil to the revolutionary groups. To recall, the police requested that the P557,360 ($9,444) amount of cash seized during the raid last February 7, 2020 be forfeited in favor of the government.

Groups said that Cumpio’s case reflects culture of impunity and incessant red-tagging exacerbated by the Anti-Terror Law and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) that continues to target people critical of the government.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) expressed hope to reverse the decision. “Even when courts later reverse or dismiss these legal actions, the punishment has already been inflicted and the damage irreparable…This conviction, with due respect, therefore demands the highest level of public scrutiny. What is at stake is not only the liberty of Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Marielle Domequil, but the safety of civil society actors whose work depends on the freedom to speak, associate, and serve without fear of criminalization.” NUPL said in a statement.

The media members tore copies of the court decision as they denounced the guilty verdict. (AMU, DAA)

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Trump launched the new initiative at the World Economic Forum earlier this week

U.S. President Donald Trump said late Thursday that he is withdrawing an invitation for Prime Minister Mark Carney to join his "Board of Peace" initiative for Gaza.

Trump launched the new initiative at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland. Its stated aim is to rebuild the war-ravaged territory.

Some 35 countries have signed up to join the board, but Carney had not yet said if Canada would accept Trump's invitation. The prime minister was not at the official launch in Davos and instead was attending the first day of a cabinet retreat in Quebec City.

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After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can't prove their citizenship, Trump on Wednesday told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that "sometimes you need a dictator."

The offhanded comment came in the middle of a rambling speech at the reception dinner for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, in which Trump congratulated himself on a different rambling speech he'd given earlier that day at the summit.

“We had a good speech, we got great reviews. I can’t believe it, we got good reviews on that speech,” Trump said of the widely mocked address in which he continued to demand the US take over Greenland (which he repeatedly referred to as "Iceland") and made new tariff threats against Canada and Europe if they resist the annexation.

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