Two newborn twins need a one-dose treatment that would save their lives: Zolgensma, a $2.1M drug. Insurance (also the mother's employer) cut coverage of the drug the day after they were born. (www.wbtv.com)
america is so fucking based man...
German court upholds AfD 'suspected' extremist status (www.dw.com)
The designation could allow Germany’s intelligence agency to surveil and investigate members of the far-right party. The AfD says it plans to appeal the ruling....
Rise in UK knife attacks leads to a crackdown and stokes public anxiety (apnews.com)
A familiar horror reached Pooja Kanda first on social media: There had been a sword attack in London. And then Kanda, who was home alone at the time, saw a detail she dreaded and knew all too well....
She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)
Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...
More children gain hearing as gene therapy for profound deafness advances | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
There are few things more heartwarming than videos of children with deafness gaining the ability to hear, showing them happily turning their heads at the sound of their parents’ voices and joyfully bobbing to newly discovered music. Thanks to recent advances in gene therapy, more kids are getting those sweet and triumphant...
Putin Replaces Defense Minister in Rare Cabinet Shake-up (www.nytimes.com)
Corporate real estate is on a 'cliff edge' as firms race to rethink communal spaces (www.bbc.com)
As more employees work from home in the hybrid-work era, many companies are finding they need smaller offices. Compared to pre-pandemic floorplans designed to house as many workers as possible, more businesses are looking towards more compact but higher-quality spaces for the future....
vivo X100 Ultra debuts with 200MP periscope cam and SD 8 Gen 3 (m.gsmarena.com)
GOP introduces bill that would send anyone convicted of unlawful activity on a campus since Oct. 7th, 2023 to Gaza. (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Expectations Versus Reality (www.wheresyoured.at)
Release v0.52.5 · navidrome/navidrome · GitHub (github.com)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/13488135...
Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire (www.bbc.com)
Thousands of Canadians have been ordered to leave their homes in Fort Nelson, British Columbia due to the threat of a wildfire....
PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck adds easier connections, new resolution options (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Useful K-hunt-gather pattern and O-hunt-gather patterns from Erlang patterns (blog.syncpup.com)
Poco F6 and Poco F6 Pro are getting official on May 23 (m.gsmarena.com)
Steam :: Fabledom :: 🐷 Fabledom 1.0 is OUT NOW 🐷 (steamcommunity.com)
Mercedes workers in Alabama face anti-union message ‘barrage’ before election (www.theguardian.com)
United Auto Workers union sees two of German-owned carmaker’s plants as key in effort to unionize industry in southern US...
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline (abcnews.go.com)
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records...
Why Do We Grind? - Poverty and the trap of the Grindset Mindset (yewtu.be)
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Interview: Elias Toufexis On Making Star Trek History Playing L’ak And Nerding Out In ‘Discovery’ (trekmovie.com)
SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! - It's Time to Change the Narrative About SEGA Saturn... (www.segasaturnshiro.com)
Drew Barrymore Reveals She Accidentally Left Her "Sex List" at Danny DeVito's House (www.marieclaire.com)
How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israel (www.nytimes.com)
The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, traveled to Columbia University two weeks ago to decry the “virus of antisemitism” that he said pro-Palestinian protesters were spreading across the country. “They have chased down Jewish students. They have mocked them and reviled them,” he said to jeers from...
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)
