Help with repasting laptop (sh.itjust.works)
(Couldn’t find the most appropriate lemmy community to post due to lack of activity.)...
As Amazon Eliminates Plastic Packaging Abroad, It’s Using Even More in the US (scheerpost.com)
Delay ‘not credible any longer’: Recognition of state of Palestine by Ireland and some EU states expected in coming weeks (www.irishtimes.com)
It is understood that Ireland and some other EU states will announce formal recognition of Palestine once a peace initiative – expected in the coming weeks – is under way. Sources were reluctant to put a date on this but said it would be “sooner rather than later”, and was a matter of weeks rather than months....
Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop (apnews.com)
Plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 gunshots over 41 seconds during a traffic stop that left one man dead and one officer injured, according to graphic video footage a police oversight agency released Tuesday....
Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law (www.aljazeera.com)
Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the...
Who wants to be a trillionaire? Don’t laugh. That’s exactly where America’s oligarchic policies are taking us. (www.motherjones.com)
EA Play Subscription Price Being Hiked By 80% in Some Regions (insider-gaming.com)
Finance guru Dave Ramsey slams 'awful' Gen Zers and millennials who live with their parents: 'They suck. They can't buy a house because they don't work' (fortune.com)
Who Wrote That? Evaluating Tools to Detect AI-Generated Text (foundation.mozilla.org)
Mozilla research found that detection tools aren’t always as reliable as they say. Further, researchers found that large language models like ChatGPT can be successfully prompted to create more ‘human-sounding’ text...
Post office operator wrongly jailed while pregnant rejects executive’s apology | Post Office Horizon scandal | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Vietnam tycoon given death for $12.5bn fraud (www.bangkokpost.com)
European Parliament Ploughs Ahead with Environmentally Destructive Agricultural Reforms (www.thecanary.co)
Israel counting half-full trucks of aid in 'boost' to Gaza (today.lorientlejour.com)
The UN is disputing Israeli figures regarding aid truck deliveries into the besieged Gaza Strip, saying the trucks Israel is including in its tally are only half full, as per Israeli delivery regulations....
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI (www.wired.com)
Moshidon, fork of Mastodon app with advanced features (lucasggamerm.github.io)
Especially nice in combination with Akkoma instances as it supports:...
Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Fashion giants linked to deforestation in Brazil (www.dw.com)
Major brands like Zara and H&M sell garments produced with cotton from Brazilian farms. These have been linked to deforestation and land grabbing, according to a new investigation...
Russian Attacks on Ukraine Stoke Fears Army Near Breaking Point (www.bloomberg.com)
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Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China (emacs.ch)
Funny if true.
Slay the Spire 2 announced, using Godot as its engine (store.steampowered.com)
X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
What the U.S. really means by overcapacity (news.cgtn.com)
Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration (techcrunch.com)
Lyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators.
A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state (apnews.com)
Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground....
