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UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)

If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts?

I have old Facebook and Twitter accounts, maybe some others. I’m old so there’s a MySpace account out there. But I’ve mostly been using reddit the last decade or so, and have migrated to Lemmy. Now, Lemmy is the only social media i use. Recent news got me thinking about this question.

House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

China’s Xi Jinping says ‘no force’ can stop ‘reunion’ with Taiwan (globalnews.ca)

Amid heightened tensions between China and Taiwan, Chinese President Xi Jinping told a former Taiwanese president who supports unification that the countries “belong” together....

Biden told Bibi U.S. won't support an Israeli counterattack on Iran (www.axios.com)

Samba vs NFS vs SSHFS ?

Hi everyone !...

US has seen no evidence that Israel has committed genocide, Defense Secretary says (www.politico.com)

Half of America Makes Less Than 35k (lemmy.world)

Any good Linux Tablet recommendations?

Been trying to find a good tablet for productivity and recreation. Something that can be used for programming (Not web), and something that can play DRM content....

You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.

Parents offered class photo version with no 'complex needs' pupils (www.bbc.com)

A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them....

Trial starts for Arizona border rancher charged with killing migrant on his property (apnews.com)

An Arizona rancher went on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico, with his defense attorney maintaining his innocence as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election....

How capitalism works (media.mas.to)

Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)

Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)

Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Pitch Musical Episode And Another ‘Strange New Worlds’ Crossover (trekmovie.com)

New Star Trek Movie by 'ANDOR' Director – Trek Central (trekcentral.net)

India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims (www.cnn.com)

[Rant] A few days ago, I asked if Mint would run okay on a Lenovo T460 (I appreciate all the advice). I got it working, but the installation was a big pain and I totally blame Lenovo.

I got the T460 refurbished and I really didn’t want to run Windows 10 on it. I last used Linux for any real length of time a good 20 years ago, so I’m pretty inexperienced with it at this point and I had to figure out how to install it myself....

Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text (theluddite.org)

I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I’m wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?

Kentucky: New bill eliminating work break rights rings alarm bells (www.newsweek.com)

Say goodbye to breaks and lunch when working > 6 hours a day! Kentucky says just let the feds set the rules.

Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat shortage (www.newsweek.com)

Legislators in Florida are considering a bill that would help retired teachers return to the workforce....

But will they call you dada? (lemmy.world)

I do not apologize for the joke in the title....

Chief enforcer of US gun laws fears Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting (apnews.com)

The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the United States could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act....