Americans take the least vacations globally. We also get the least amount of time off. (ca.style.yahoo.com)
From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)
At least 34 dead, dozen hospitalized after drinking illegally brewed liquor in southern India (www.pbs.org)
Taiwan to acquire more than 1,000 armed drones in new US arms sale (www.cnn.com)
The United States has approved the $360 million sale of more than 1,000 small armed drones to Taiwan, as the self-ruled island claimed by China aims to strengthen its asymmetrical warfare abilities with an eye on successful tactics used on the battlefield in Ukraine....
Palmer Luckey's FPGA Game Boy clone lands just in time for the holidays | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
Former Oculus designer and founder of ModRetro, Palmer Luckey, is set to release a new retro handheld gaming device later this year, aiming to compete with the Analogue Pocket. This comes as great news for tech enthusiasts, as it adds another option in the FPGA-based market....
More countries to reach NATO's 2% defense spending goal (www.dw.com)
A guide to passing GPUs through to Proxmox, XCP-ng VMs (www.theregister.com)
Philippines accuses Chinese Coast Guard of boarding boats (www.dw.com)
Chinese Coast Guard rammed and boarded Philippine naval boats and confiscated their weapons in the South China Sea, injuring a Filipino soldier, the Philippine military said on Wednesday....
Introducing "Wave Music," for all things synthwave, chillwave, vaporwave, retrowave, darkwave... (lemmy.world)
For fans of '80s-inspired contemporary beats. Share artists, albums, compilations, -wave channels, and vibe art....
Pixelix: Alternative Android Client for Pixelfed (github.com)
Not yet on F-droid, but looks pretty cool.
Thailand to be first Southeast Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage (www.reuters.com)
Global leader of ISIS targeted and possibly killed in U.S. airstrike (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.S. announced May 31 that it killed three militants in a Somalia airstrike. Officials now say the target was ISIS leader Abdulqadir Mumin, but also say they aren’t certain he is dead....
Habbo Hotel going vintage with original game rerelease (www.polygon.com)
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered | CNN (www.cnn.com)
In 2007, Britain’s Ministry of Defense dismissed claims of rape brought by 2,187 women, Lenkanan and Noltwalal among them, saying “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.”...
Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)
Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.
China should pay for propping up Putin's war, Nato chief says (www.bbc.com)
Here’s Mr. Stoltenberg’s statement in a video (1 min)...
US soldier detained in Russia pleads partially guilty in court, local media reports - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
He did not admit to the charges of assault or threat to kill, reports said.
Daniel Radcliffe Conjures Up His First Tony (www.nytimes.com)
Israeli strike on central Gaza school reportedly kills 22 (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (arstechnica.com)
‘Forever chemicals’ used in lithium ion batteries threaten environment, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
A subclass of PFAS has been found near manufacturing plants and landfills, and in remote regions of the world...
Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say (www.theguardian.com)
After Trump Shooting, America Reverts to Blaming the Other Side (www.politico.com)
Even before the most basic details of the shooting at Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally yesterday had emerged, the ceaseless, grating background noise of American political life had cranked itself up once again....
Libreoffice released an Android version! (www.libreoffice.org)
Currently it is a “viewer” (renderer with usable UI) and editing features are experimental....
‘Children in pieces’: Israeli raids on Gaza ‘safe zone’ kill 71, wound 289 (www.aljazeera.com)
