Did you read the whole article? They followed up by exposing kidney cells to the extracted micro and nanoplastics and they caused significant amounts of cell death. There is definite evidence that something in these plastics is causing harm, and more study is definitely warranted.

Apparently the server’s admin was raided for completely unrelated charges, but they seized all his electronics. That means law enforcement can comb through every bit of personal data on that server to connect to any investigations that might be relevant, regardless of relation to the initial reason the admin was targeted. That’s a possibility for any instance in the Fediverse.

They aren’t going to change you view on life, but most are pretty solid. I highly recommend pretty much any books in the High Republic era, particularly “Light of the Jedi”. It’s the first of the new era and it’s a great introduction to the setting. It’s all set a few hundred years before the movies, so the Authors were able to pretty much do whatever they wanted within the basic Star Wars universe.