TIL about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect; when experts find articles published within their field to be full of errors, but trust articles about other fields in the same publication (en.m.wikipedia.org)
The man behind Australia's most viral meme dies at 82 (www.bbc.com)
The prison escapee and on-again off-again petty criminal – whose best-known alias was Jack Karlson – shot to fame in 2009, after a clip of his dramatic 1991 arrest outside of a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane was uploaded to the internet and enthralled the nation....
Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reports (kyivindependent.com)
Estonia Starts Full Customs Controls At Border With Russia (www.rferl.org)
China’s C919 jet takes step closer EU approval (www.airport-technology.com)
uBlock Origin developer recommends switching to Firefox as Chrome flags the extension (www.neowin.net)
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Flooding from the remnants of Debby leads to high water rescues in New York, Pennsylvania (apnews.com)
Brazil plane crash in Sao Paulo state kills all 61 aboard, airline says | AP News (apnews.com)
What I Learned at the Police Academy: Officers are trained to see the world as a violent place—and then to act accordingly. (www.theatlantic.com)
No survivors from plane that crashed in Brazil with 61 people on board, officials say (www.theguardian.com)
The price of European natural gas is at its highest this year. (energywatch.com)
Developers Halt Louisiana Grain Elevator Project That Would Disrupt Black Historic Sites (www.propublica.org)
Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down (www.phoronix.com)
One of Ukraine’s toughest and fastest Brigades has joined the invasion of Russia (www.forbes.com)
A column of armored vehicles rolling into southern Russia’s Kursk Oblast on the third day of Ukraine’s surprise attack into Russia confirms the involvement of one of Ukraine’s best-equipped and fastest-moving brigades: the 80th Air Assault Brigade....
Aleppo | Turkish forces and their proxies attack 15 villages and vicinity of two camps in northern countryside (www.syriahr.com)
Laura Ingraham claims Milwaukee is in Minnesota and is roasted online for the gaffe (www.independent.co.uk)
British man caught carving initials on ancient wall in Pompeii (www.thetimes.com)
Google Play Store requesting location permission to show 'local recommendations' (9to5google.com)
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31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent (arstechnica.com)
Try COSMIC Epoch 1 (alpha 1) on the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha. (system76.com)
The isos with Cosmic alpha are now downloadable from system76’s site!
The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality (trekmovie.com)
How a mylar balloon left New Orleans without clean water for days (www.salon.com)
That's it hooman! You pushed me too far! No morning mousey!?! The bathroom hand towel must die!!! (files.catbox.moe)
Thailand's disbanded opposition regroups in new party (www.reuters.com)
Thailand’s disbanded opposition Move Forward unveiled a new political vehicle on Friday that will be the biggest party in parliament, promising to advance reforms and a controversial plan to amend a law that protects the monarchy from criticism.