Israel counting half-full trucks of aid in 'boost' to Gaza (today.lorientlejour.com)
The UN is disputing Israeli figures regarding aid truck deliveries into the besieged Gaza Strip, saying the trucks Israel is including in its tally are only half full, as per Israeli delivery regulations....
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI (www.wired.com)
Moshidon, fork of Mastodon app with advanced features (lucasggamerm.github.io)
Especially nice in combination with Akkoma instances as it supports:...
Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Fashion giants linked to deforestation in Brazil (www.dw.com)
Major brands like Zara and H&M sell garments produced with cotton from Brazilian farms. These have been linked to deforestation and land grabbing, according to a new investigation...
Russian Attacks on Ukraine Stoke Fears Army Near Breaking Point (www.bloomberg.com)
archive.ph/zBV1b
Trump bemoans lack of immigrants from majority-white countries to the US (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’...
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China (emacs.ch)
Funny if true.
Slay the Spire 2 announced, using Godot as its engine (store.steampowered.com)
X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
What the U.S. really means by overcapacity (news.cgtn.com)
Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration (techcrunch.com)
Lyrak is a new X rival that aims to differentiate itself by focusing on real-time news and monetization options for creators.
A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state (apnews.com)
Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground....
Trump and Johnson Trump build alliance on the falsehood of the stolen election (www.cnn.com)
House Speaker Mike Johnson will stand Friday with Donald Trump at an appearance that will amplify the former president’s most damaging falsehood: that America’s democratic elections are catastrophically tainted by fraud....
TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks (www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au)
The symptoms normally disappear after several days and there are no adverse health effects....
The $2bn dirty-money case that rocked Singapore (www.bbc.com)
A Singaporean court has begun handing out sentences in a sensational case, which saw 10 Chinese nationals charged for laundering $2.2bn (£1.8bn) earned from criminal activities abroad....
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)
UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created (prospect.org)
Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants (www.nytimes.com)
EA No Longer Working On Dead Space 2 Remake - Report [Update] (www.gamespot.com)
Two former execs of the company behind the Truth Social merger are caught up in a messy hacking lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
YouTube needs more potato (slrpnk.net)
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