Cypress Hill announce concert with London Symphony Orchestra decades after Simpsons joke (consequence.net)
Inside The Ritzy Retreats Hosting Right-Wing Judges: During Koch-funded trips to mountain resorts, Trump judges huddled over a new strategy to advance “history and tradition” as the law of the land. (www.huffpost.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/judges-luxury-travel-corpus-lin…
The U.S. bans most common form of asbestos, after decades of pushback from industry (www.npr.org)
Israel no longer considered liberal democracy; global index cites judicial coup (www.haaretz.com)
V-Dem index cites government attacks on judiciary and ‘substantive decline’ in freedom from torture as reason Israel is now considered an ‘electoral democracy’ – in which elections are held but civil liberties and equality before the law are not safeguarded...
Worshippers of Cthulhu: city-building blends the management of Cities with Lovecraftian horror (www.pcgamesn.com)
Putin claims landslide in Russian election and scorns US democracy (www.bbc.com)
The Reddits (6 minute read) (www.ycombinator.com)
Reddit was one of the reasons Y Combinator was started. This post tells the story of how the site came to be. Despite being rejected in the first round for their food delivery app idea, Reddit’s founders were offered funding after agreeing to work on a project that would eventually become Reddit. The project was launched on a...
‘Man-made famine’ charge against Israel is backed by mounting body of evidence | Israel-Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit is going public. Will its unruly user base revolt? (www.vox.com)
Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges (apnews.com)
A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a...
Android 15 DP2 adds a new "disable default frame rate for games" setting in Developer Options (twitter.com)
GSMArena article: m.gsmarena.com/android_developer_preview_2_unlock…
Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Relief (lemmy.world)
Taiwan confirms US troops on front-line islands near China (www.newsweek.com)
U.S. Army Green Berets from the 1st Special Forces Group are now permanently stationed at a pair of bases of the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, a Taiwanese army special operations force, according to Taiwan’s United Daily News (UDN)....
iQOO Neo10/10 Pro tipped to bring flagship silicon to mid-range Android smartphone market (www.notebookcheck.net)
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Backpack Battles has sold 500,000 copies in two weeks on Steam [Godot Engine] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
$3 billion deal with the UK gets Australia closer to having a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (apnews.com)
Japan schools move to protect cheerleaders from upskirting at sporting events (www.theguardian.com)
Russia adds 'LGBT movement' to list of extremist and terrorist organisations (www.reuters.com)
Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says (www.latimes.com)
Russia says 40 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid, Islamic State group claims responsibility (apnews.com)
Security expert Chris Krebs on TikTok, AI and the key to survival (part 2) (venturebeat.com)
Part 1: venturebeat.com/…/security-expert-chris-krebs-on-…Part 2: venturebeat.com/…/security-expert-chris-krebs-on-…
Carnage on the streets of Port-au-Prince as world stalls on a promised intervention for Haiti (www.cnn.com)
A woman hustles her young child into a waiting car, half-dragging him as she shields his eyes. Other family members follow with heavy suitcases, averting their eyes too. They’re leaving the city, even though the drive through gang-controlled roads is risky....
