Tractor-trailers with no one aboard? The future is near for self-driving trucks on US roads (apnews.com)
I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night (slrpnk.net)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in U.S. if legal options fail, Reuters sources say (www.ctvnews.ca)
Team Trump Is Ready to Lose the Supreme Court Immunity Case. They're Celebrating (www.rollingstone.com)
Donald Trump‘s inner circle doesn’t expect the Supreme Court to go along with his extreme arguments about executive power in the immunity case before the justices. But what the high court does now is almost beside the point: Trump already won....
Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content (kotaku.com)
Louisiana tells schools to just ignore Joe Biden’s new trans-inclusive Title IX rules (www.lgbtqnation.com)
US preparing $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine, officials say (gazette.com)
The United States is preparing a $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the first to be sourced from the yet to be signed Ukraine-Israel bill, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday....
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published (www.theguardian.com)
Stanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films....
MPs to vote on smoking ban for those born after 2009 (www.bbc.com)
Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later....
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps like ReVanced (www.androidpolice.com)
I’m sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.
Truth Social Investors Try to Keep Hope Alive as Stock Tanks (www.thedailybeast.com)
Congressman rebuked for call to bomb Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’ (www.theguardian.com)
Israel cancels diplomatic visit to U.S. after U.N. vote demanding cease-fire (www.washingtonpost.com)
Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation (fossforce.com)
TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test. (abcnews.go.com)
Sept. 8, 2000 – A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
Man finds out migraines caused by brain tapeworms; undercooked bacon may be culprit (www.nbcnews.com)
A man was hospitalized with worsening migraines only to find out they were caused by parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain — and researchers believe he was infected by eating undercooked bacon....
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’ (www.theguardian.com)
Gov. Gavin Newsom's campaign donor says his Panera Bread restaurants will follow new minimum wage law after backlash (abcnews.go.com)
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (www.bbc.com)
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president....
Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can't sue, company points to cardboard box (www.nbcbayarea.com)
Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can’t sue, company points to cardboard box::NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems…
Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice? (www.nytimes.com)
Scientists warn that a crucial ocean current could collapse, altering global weather (www.latimes.com)
Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of the planet’s climate system is in gradual decline and could one day reach a tipping point that would radically alter global weather patterns....
Hackers Leak 2.5M Private Plane Owners’ Data Linked to LA Intl. Airport Breach (www.hackread.com)
Louisiana governor declares state of emergency due to police shortage (abcnews.go.com)
Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage....
Average French launguage learner (sopuli.xyz)
