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Rubio Dismisses Project 2025 as 'Think Tank Stuff' Despite Trump Allies Authoring Parts of It (www.rollingstone.com)

Top Of The Mountain: David Ellison’s Skydance Taking Over Paramount After $8 Billion Investment (deadline.com)

Looks like it’s a done deal (serious this time), though there’s technically a 45-day window for someone to make a better offer.

Warp Five: Prodigy Showrunners Are a New Generation of Star Trek Fans' Caretakers (S2 spoilers) (www.startrek.com)

Friday Facts #418 - Space Age release date | Factorio (www.factorio.com)

BlackRock and Wall Street Banks are Profiting from Israel's Crimes in Gaza, UN Experts Say (geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com)

Maharashtra: How fetching water is holding back India's women (www.bbc.com)

Fetching drinking water is a gruelling daily routine for millions of women in India....

A company called GamesCare has created their own version of the Sega Neptune called the GF1 Neptune (retrododo.com)

/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It (www.wired.com)

Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body (www.theguardian.com)

US study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat

"Prodigy" artist Dominique Rossier on Artstation (www.artstation.com)

Genesis Virtua Racing Port Almost Cost As Much As The Console Itself, Thanks To The SVP Chip | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)

When Sega decided to release the Virtua Processor (SVP) chip for its Mega Drive/Genesis cartridges in response to Nintendo’s success with the Super FX chip in Star Fox, it aimed to bring fast and convincing 3D visuals. However, the high cost of production became evident when only a single game utilized this technology: the...

Dozens are killed as Russia bombards Ukraine. Among the buildings hit was a Kyiv children’s hospital (apnews.com)

TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials | Announce Trailer (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Ukraine war: Russian air strike leaves 100,000 with no power (www.bbc.com)

A Russian attack on a power facility in Ukraine has left 100,000 people without power in the north-eastern region of Sumy....

S. Korea resumes border artillery drills on land for 1st time in 6 years (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)

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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)

The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour,...

Russian teen sentenced to 5 years for anti-Putin flyers (www.msn.com)

A Russian court sentenced a 15-year-old student to five years in a juvenile detention centre. Arseniy Turbin was accused of participating in a terrorist organization. According to investigators, he wanted to be a member of the Freedom of Russia Legion and distributed flyers containing criticism of President Vladimir Putin to his...

Teenager killed in food court gunfight in Washington shopping mall (www.independent.co.uk)

Rare Fr*nch W. France’s left-wing parties projected to finish first in parliamentary elections, keep far right at bay. (www.nbcnews.com)

Against all odds, the socdems beat the liberals and reduced a surging far-right to an embarrassing third place. French fascists are stomping on their berets and cartoonishly snapping baguettes in half.