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The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked (www.vox.com)

Stonehenge Sprayed With Orange Paint One Day Before Solstice (www.forbes.com)

Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

South Korean and US air forces hold joint drills, as tensions on Korean Peninsula highest in years (apnews.com)

Scientists enlist AI to interpret meaning of barks (www.bbc.com)

Let Readers Read | Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

Death Road to Canada gets a major 2024 upgrade with new events, characters, perks and more (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI in the Hamptons (abcnews.go.com)

Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang (www.theverge.com)

1 month of Linux Mint and some thoughts. (kbin.social)

About a month ago I switched to Linux mint from windows 11....

Supreme Court Allows Suit Over Arrest Said to Be Politically Motivated (www.nytimes.com)

Amy Coney Barrett may be poised to split conservatives on the Supreme Court... (www.politico.com)

A rift is emerging among the Supreme Court’s conservatives — and it could thwart the court’s recent march to expand gun rights....

As Starfield Steam Reviews Plunge to ‘Mostly Negative,’ Todd Howard Responds to Paid Mods Backlash - IGN (web.archive.org)

Chat control vote postponed (www.patrick-breyer.de)

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company (techcrunch.com)

Let's discuss: The Sims (beehaw.org)

The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...

Gatwick: Council calls for crackdown on Uber drivers at airport (www.bbc.com)

Jeff Landry signs education bills that promise to bring 'drastic change.' See the list. (www.nola.com)

Ruining public schools is their favorite pastime.

Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test (bgr.com)

"He couldn't even remember me": Trump has "severe memory issues," says author who interviewed him (www.salon.com)

Biden allies raising $10 million to challenge Trump social media machine (www.reuters.com)

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Coke—and Dozens of Others—Pledged to Quit Russia. They’re Still There. (www.bloomberg.com)

After Vladimir Putin’s troops surged over the Ukrainian border in February 2022, the Coca-Cola Co. was among the first multinationals to pledge it would quit Russia in protest. Aiming to avoid the inevitable headaches of complying with expected Western sanctions on the Kremlin, Coke asked its partners there to pull its cans...