Author of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, an adoptee's memoir on US adoption, adoptee rights, & the public health impacts of adoption. Focus: Adoptee rights, adoption reform, all issues re rights to one's identity/bio-kin connections. All views my own.
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This is a Finnish-American family sauna that's been used since 1915 near Houghton, Michigan. I didn't even know I was part Finnish until 1989, when I found my birth family in Michigan. It was great to finally connect with this part of my past, hidden from me by the broken, inhumane adoption system.
I'm sadly not surprised this is what passes as U.S. broadcast journalism. They're acting as if this will happen.
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Cleaning up pics from last week trip to Michigan's "mining country" (Keweenaw Peninsula), where immigrants from all over Europe arrived to do horrific jobs below the earth that killed/injured many. The look on some of these faces haunts me. Immigrants always do the horrific work Americans won't do.
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
The murderous Putin opens up a another round of attacks, targeting a site of global cultural heritage in Kyiv on the eve of the G7 summit in France on June 15.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Seriously, does anyone believe this?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
This image was copied from the photos archives that I went through at the Finnish American Heritage Center, in Hancock--the images they had there were incredible! My ancestors from Finland came to this area, like so many Finns, to find work and new life: A bitter pill! fahc.finlandiafoundation.org
I'm not really a sports fan, and I'm more interested how NCAA/professional sports are welfare recipients and simultaneously distract people from issues that matter in their lives. This was about Saudi Arabia's use of sports. Thinking a lot about this today in USA. A LOT.
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Officials in the Congo now say the number of confirmed Ebola cases has risen to 710 www.reuters.com/business/hea...
President Donald Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.), a vehement election denier and Jan. 6 riot defender, in the Georgia Republican U.S. Senate runoff taking place on June 16. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
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Trump endorses Rep. Mike Collins, a vehement election denier and Jan. 6 riot defender, in the Ga. GOP U.S. Senate runoff.
In late 2024, the international football association (FIFA) announced that Saudi Arabia would host the 2034 World Cup. This means the world’s largest sporting event will be taking place in a country w...
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 710, including 149 deaths, government data showed on Saturday.
The Finnish American Heritage Center is home to the Finnish American Historical Archive, the Finnish American Reporter, and the Finnish American Folk School
