Active

CNN reported that “at least one US-manufactured precision-guided bomb” was used in the strike on the Gaza City school on Saturday....

Boots need shining, and Dessalines is positively salivating at the thought

Interesting essay looking at the role of friction in human development, and how a particular vision of technology’s function in society - one that seeks to eliminate friction - paradoxically reduces our autonomy, rather than enhancing it....

Heard great things about the game, never played it though.

People (including me) complain about monopolies all the time for various reasons. At the same time, I’ve noticed a ton of complaints about the existence of multiple streaming platforms. But isn’t that a good thing at the end of the day? If streaming platforms consolidated into 2-3 companies, there wouldn’t be much stopping...

Hundreds of firefighters were dispatched north of the capital as black smoke could be seen rising over Athens. A children’s hospital and military clinic were also evacuated....

I liked the contrast between the yellow bedspread and the black cat.

https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0c5c0de3-55ae-4635-b070-0c25a7181dab.jpeg

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/956608...

Changes to the curriculum could mean schoolchildren analyse articles in English lessons to weed out fabricated stories, learn how to identify fake news in computer classes and analyse statistics in maths....

Yu Suzuki's classic returns to online play, allowing players to upload scores and compete globally once again.

Children will be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online under planned changes to the school curriculum....

Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark...