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Wikileaks' Julian Assange given permission to appeal against U.S. extradition, UK court rules (www.reuters.com)

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s battle to avoid extradition to the United States received a huge boost on Monday when London’s High Court ruled that U.S. assurances over his case were unsatisfactory and he would get a full appeal hearing....

Norway has some surprising stats (lemmy.world)

Nine people arrested in Poland over alleged Russian sabotage plot (kyivindependent.com)

The Polish government arrested nine people from a Russian spy ring in connection to alleged sabotage plots, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told Polish media outlet TVN24....

Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)

Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)

Last week in fediverse - Ep 69 (fediversereport.com)

Like you never forgot a platoon in a foreign country (sopuli.xyz)

Full story is even wilder and includes an army of gangsta rap fanatics...

Iran hangs at least seven people, including two women, as surge in executions intensifies, rights group says (www.al-monitor.com)

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[hyprland] notch apple (rework) (feddit.nl)

WM?...

Got thrown out of her GP's office for antivax nonsense. (lemmy.world)

Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored (www.propublica.org)

Minimum effort. Stolen from comments. Too low, terrain (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

I was reminded of this after my phone autocorrected "honestly" into Throckmorton. (lemmy.world)

And before anyone complains about the ifunny watermark this picture was taken from Google.

Whatever happened to lemmy.film?

It had a few niche communities I would occasionally post to after the Reddit exodus but a couple months later I would post there and get no responses or votes. Going to lemmy.film now gives me an error message. Did they decide to shut it down or combine with another instance similar to FMHY? I am curious if they gave some kind...

"Mario? Heh-heh. Sure you are! And I'm William Shakespeare." (lemm.ee)

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)

how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?

I see people sleeping on concrete, in cramped plane seats etc How do y’all do it?

[OC] It’s looking a little October 23, 2077 out there (lemmy.world)

If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?

I’ve been playing through all the numbered games and its been great. I could write an essay or two on any of them. In general I’m only including base games and no expansions or DLC so it wouldn’t be a huge undertaking to beat 11, but I’m trying to see if it’s worth it from others who have done the marathon....

I Couldn’t Escape Poison Oak. So I Started Eating It. (www.wsj.com)

TIL that credit card numbers are validated using Luhn's algorithm. If it doesn't work with Luhn's algorithm, it's not a valid card number.

You can read about Luhn’s algorithm here