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US says sanctions possible after India-Iran port deal (www.bbc.com)

DOJ requests judge order Steve Bannon to begin prison sentence (abcnews.go.com)

Today was another vet visit. I think Miez already forgave me (imgur.com)

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It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) (privacy.thenexus.today)

Release v1.104.0 · immich-app/immich · GitHub (github.com)

cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/13527347...

Mother identified as person killed in fall at daughter’s Ohio State graduation ceremony (www.today.com)

The authorities think it was an apparent suicide. At her daughter’s graduation ceremony. Seriously WTF?!

AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines (apnews.com)

In hundreds of deaths where police used force meant to stop someone without killing them, officers violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining and subduing people — not simply once or twice, but multiple times....

‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks (www.theguardian.com)

Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road....

Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio (store.steampowered.com)

Really weird thing to happen before the game is even released. The game previously got delayed and is now being moved to a different team.

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)

What I have Learned from Two Years of Running a Small Social Media Website (cheapskatesguide.org)

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Trapped in Rafah, U.S. medical volunteers say they can't save lives and can't evacuate (www.npr.org)

Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted (kbin.social)

Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....

France imposes curfew in New Caledonia after unrest by people who have long sought independence (apnews.com)

Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest on the archipelago with decades of tensions between indigenous Kanaks seeking independence and colonizers’ descendants who want to remain part of France.

tood (lemmy.world)

My mind was blown today when I learned the female part of this song is just positive k with the pitch adjusted (piped.video)

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard this song and never new. Soon as someone pointed it out all I can here is positive k’s voice.

Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)

India's Hindu nationalist regime is a threat to Muslims — and bad news for the U.S. (www.salon.com)

Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with improved AI options (arstechnica.com)

Google’s Gemini AI wants to help you plan, brainstorm, and shop inside Search....

Eric Trump Tweets From Dad’s Trial Despite Electronics Ban (www.thedailybeast.com)

‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families (www.theguardian.com)

A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...

'Like the war's first days': Israel unleashes heaviest Gaza bombing in months (www.middleeasteye.net)

The Israeli military has launched a new wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip, similar in intensity to the peak of its seven-month war on the besieged Palestinian enclave....

UN says Gaza death toll still over 35,000 but not all bodies identified (www.reuters.com)

UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave’s Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities, the United Nations said on Monday after Israel questioned a sudden change in numbers....