Fun fact: If you use your bank to threaten adobe, they will waive the cancellation fee (imgur.com)
Not mine but this is actually what I did too....
Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
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Gang violence in Haiti has displaced 300,000 children, the United Nations says (www.npr.org)
Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months. The spike in violence began in late February after a series of coordinated attacks on key government infrastructure eventually led Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign in April....
Man accused of attempted murder in hammer attack over online gaming argument (www.nbcnews.com)
Edward Kang, 20, flew from Newark, New Jersey, to Jacksonville, Florida, to confront someone he had an online dispute with, Nassau County, New Jersey, Sheriff Bill Leeper said. Court records show he was charged Monday with second-degree attempted murder and attempted burglary....
7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll (apnews.com)
A solid majority of Americans say Supreme Court justices are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority, a new poll finds, as the high court is poised to rule on major cases involving former President Donald Trump and other divisive issues....
Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch (massivelyop.com)
File this one under “did not see this coming in a million years but also not sad about it whatsoever”: Daybreak has acquired Palia studio Singularity 6....
Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl (arstechnica.com)
No, It's My Turn! (i.imgur.com)
China’s online ultranationalists feel the heat over Japanese school bus attack (www.scmp.com)
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3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks (arstechnica.com)
Microdosing and tripping on mushrooms is on the rise in U.S. (www.npr.org)
Ukraine is releasing thousands of prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia (apnews.com)
16-year-old Quincy Wilson now the youngest-ever male US track Olympian (www.independent.co.uk)
Taiwan raises travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau over Beijing's new judicial guidelines introducing death penalty for supporters of Taiwanese independence (www.jurist.org)
Taiwan’s government raised the travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to “orange” level and advised people to avoid non-essential travelling. The Council claimed that because the Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau have continued to amend or issue legal documents relating to national security in recent years,...
Saudi Arabia announces discovery of seven oil, gas deposits (www.reuters.com)
Scorchlands leaving early access on the 25th of July (www.gog.com)
GOG link posted, Steam link is here. I tried a demo what feels like forever ago, neat little colony builder.
Under pressure on plane safety, Boeing is buying stressed supplier Spirit for $4.7 billion (apnews.com)
Boeing announced plans to acquire key supplier Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion, a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the Department of Justice....
Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers (www.theguardian.com)
Armed with rhetoric about the “deep state”, a conservative-backed group is planning to publicly name and shame career government employees that they consider hostile to Donald Trump....
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The US has sent at least 14,000 of its massive, highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs to Israel since October 7, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
A teen tech whiz nicknamed 'God's influencer' will become the first millennial saint (www.npr.org)
Enter London’s Counter Terror Expo – a hotbed of pro-Israel paranoia (www.declassifieduk.org)
How Ukraine shattered Europe's balance of power (www.newstatesman.com)
Behind the ‘last firewall’: Hill Democrats scramble to save themselves (www.politico.com)
As President Joe Biden’s campaign scrambles to calm nerves about the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democrats on Capitol Hill are growing increasingly furious at those around him and increasingly despondent about his prospects for re-election — and their own chances of winning House and Senate majorities....
This came to me in a vision. (sh.itjust.works)
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