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Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit (blog.joinmastodon.org)

We’re excited to announce the Board of Directors governing this newly formed entity:...

A DayZ Steam price change [...] Livonia DLC will be integrated into the base game and given to current owners for free. (www.pcgamesn.com)

Bernie Sanders issues scathing statement directed at Netanyahu (www.independent.co.uk)

Canada's British Columbia makes U-turn over hard drugs (www.dw.com)

Last year, a pilot program was launched in a Canadian province allowing adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs for personal use. Soaring drug use in public spaces has raised concerns over public safety....

Joint FAO/WHO/WOAH preliminary assessment of recent influenza A(H5N1) viruses (www.who.int)

Judge sentences Jan. 6 ‘chaos agent’ to 6 years in jail (www.politico.com)

Emergency Exit Slide Detaches As Delta Flight Takes Off, Forces Return to New York JFK (headtopics.com)

USS Eisenhower and Carrier Strike Group, and Gravely are now in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to a news release from U.S. Naval Forces (news.usni.org)

Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa (arstechnica.com)

Trendy, unproven “vampire facials” performed at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico left at least three women with HIV infections. This marks the first time that cosmetic procedures have been associated with an HIV outbreak, according to a detailed report of the outbreak investigation published today....

Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers (arstechnica.com)

Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

A Normal Life - Marianas Trench (fanlink.tv)

New single

The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist (nautil.us)

NBC News investigation reveals Israel strikes on Gaza areas it said were safe (www.nbcnews.com)

Ansar Allah fight extracts heavy cost from Pentagon (thehill.com)

Why Iran and Russia can dodge Western sanctions (www.dw.com)

Iran has been living with Western sanctions for almost 40 years, and never have so many sanctions been imposed so quickly as against Russia. Although their effect is limited, there is little alternative....

A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)

“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...

Found some really beautiful penguin photos (davidcschultz.com)

AIPAC is spending millions to take down the Squad. The Working Families Party is fighting back. (www.motherjones.com)

Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)

Alabama lawmakers advance bill that could lead to prosecution of librarians (apnews.com)

Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions....

Police arrest [far-right] Finns Party MP over nightclub shooting [in Helsinki, Finland] (yle.fi)

Edited a shorter ChatGPT summary due comment:...

Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/