pinky swear? (fedia.io)
Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (apnews.com)
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic....
Suspect detained in Romania after throwing petrol bomb outside Israeli embassy (www.reuters.com)
A foreign citizen was detained in Romania’s capital Bucharest on Monday after throwing a Molotov cocktail outside the Israeli embassy, causing no damage or casualties, police said....
India Election Results Live: Modi ahead but markets plunge as landslide predictions fade (www.reuters.com)
"BJP and NDA’s seat share is lower-than-expected. There is only one state that has gone completely off the charts in our data: Uttar Pradesh. And that has pulled down the BJP’s own tally as well and this is the reason they are unable to touch the majority mark on their own at this point of time....
Fires set off by Hezbollah rockets spread through northern Israel (www.reuters.com)
Israel’s parks authority said earlier on Monday that fires had already covered hundreds of acres. The national fire service said its firefighters were operating late into the night in several spots, including in the town of Kiryat Shmona, where they were trying to protect a line of houses.
"A Nerdy Dystopia", the fediverse community for cyberpunk-like things/actions/people from real life, is up for adoption. (sh.itjust.works)
I can’t take reading about how the world is collapsing every fucking day, if anyone wants a mod position and has experience, DM me and I’ll give you free reign with an exception for banning me from A Nerdy Dystopia (I will keep the main moderator position to prevent this). Shouldn’t be that hard to run a community like...
Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere (apnews.com)
The Democratic National Committee was watching earlier this year as campaigns nationwide were experimenting with artificial intelligence. So the organization approached a handful of influential party campaign committees with a request: Sign onto guidelines that would commit them to use the technology in a “responsible” way....
45% of business leaders admitted they were making major business decisions with ChatGPT. 😂️️ (futurism.com)
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL (awesomekling.substack.com)
For those who don’t know, Ladybird is a new open-source browser not based on Chromium or Gecko. It started as part of the SerenityOS project. Since then it’s taken on a life of its own with lots of contributors and some pretty cool progress. I’ve been watching the updates on Andreas’s YouTube channel and it really gives...
Human culture is changing too fast for evolution to catch up – here’s how it may affect you (www.alternet.org)
Psychedelics Are Challenging the Scientific Gold Standard (www.theatlantic.com)
Qualcomm says it's tested 1,200 x86 Windows games on its new X Elite Arm chip but won't say how well they actually run (www.pcgamer.com)
China doesn’t need to invade to achieve Taiwanese unification (thehill.com)
Anouar Brahem "Houdouth" Live at Acropolis , Athens - 2021 (www.youtube.com)
Salman Rushdie’s alleged assailant seeks plea deal with US (www.semafor.com)
Hadi Matar, the man accused of nearly fatally stabbing British-American writer Salman Rushdie, is negotiating a plea agreement with both US state and federal prosecutors that could shed light on whether a foreign government or terrorist organization was involved in the attack, officials involved in the case told Semafor....
€5.3m Pirate IPTV Network 'Dismantled' By Spanish Police is Still Streaming * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5bn carbon scam (www.theguardian.com)
Daphne and other scammers’ pillaging of Europe’s carbon market constitutes what the media have called “the fraud of the century” – billions of euros were stolen in a matter of months. The shadowy scheme attracted established crime rings and amateur hucksters alike, many of whom knew one another. Its web reached the...
Don't Stand in Line - Pailhead (youtu.be)
Wax Trax! rules.
Repaired and repainted a curbside CRT to match my NES. (lemmy.ca)
Repaired some broken solder joints, sanded out the biggest scuffs and polished most of the scratches out of the screen. Oh yeah, and the paint job.
Protesting is getting weird... (lemmy.world)
Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Now with Firefox support) (github.com)
steve albini being chaotic for two minutes (www.youtube.com)
This 'AI' Interpreter Is A Game Changer Among Translation Gadgets (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
In a world that’s now more connected than ever, we must be able to communicate our ideas and words to various audiences and the people we interact with. But for the most part, the one thing that hinders us from communicating well with our global peers is the language barrier. While this puts perspective on international...
Shinto priest blessing first Japan domestically produced F-35 at Mitsubishi facility, Nagoya in 2017
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