Idaho Law Criminalizes Librarians Who Allow LGBTQ Books to Stay on Their Shelves (truthout.org)
Biden’s Call With Hispanic Lawmakers Goes Off the Rails (www.notus.org)
Lithium metal battery with over 500 Wh/kg developed (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17926125
The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads (www.youtube.com)
Private prison behemoth GEO Group is first corporation to max out donations to Trump Campaign (www.citizensforethics.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/private-prison-behemoth-is-firs…
Kroger and Albertsons to close these 63 grocery stores in California under proposed merger (www.foxla.com)
Hamas is losing the backing of ordinary people in Gaza who are paying the human price of its war (www.nbcnews.com)
The app that promised to ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down (www.theverge.com)
Why are there "driveway connections by permit only" signs on roads?
I get signs telling you there’s a bump ahead, or deer might run out in front of you, but I’ve never understood why there are signs telling people not to build unlawful driveways. Are that many people doing it on a daily basis in that area that they need a fully visible sign? Surely it’s just an ordinance, why does it need...
All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. (www.popularmechanics.com)
Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
“In the largest public sector trial of the four-day week in Britain, fewer refuse collectors quit,” reports the Guardian, “and there were faster planning decisions, more rapid benefits processing and quicker call answering, independent research has found.” South Cambridgeshire district council’s controversial...
German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign (www.theguardian.com)
A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture....
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17528189
Anon has a German girlfriend (sh.itjust.works)
DEFEND THE FLAG!
Democratic billboards stress Trump link to rightwing Project 2025 manifesto (www.theguardian.com)
Billboards will go up in seven swing states as campaign seeks to publicize manifesto and tie it to ex-president...
DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE (sh.itjust.works)
Join the fun! canvas.fediverse.events
"You got your aliens in my angels!" "You got your angels in my aliens!" (lemmy.world)
Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved (www.cnn.com)
Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House....
Top 5 Linux Apps - July 2024 (youtu.be)
I know most of you already know these apps or need something more advanced but I found them interesting so I thought I might as well share it here for those not familiar with them....
Biden backs Starmer’s bid to renegotiate Brexit and bring UK closer to EU (www.independent.co.uk)
brewing tea with space vacuum?
If i had access to an airlock that could depressurize to ~0 bar could i brew a cup of tea with it?
Zebra optical illusion (National Geographic photo of the year in 2018) (lemmy.world)
How do you rank sums of single-digit numbers ?
tiermaker.com/…/sums-of-single-digit-numbers-2-9-…...
Would it count as cheating if you tatooed the answers to an exam on your body?
Looking for both philosophical and real world examples including situation-specific ones like one field of study that it would versus another where it wouldn’t. Idk I’m bored as shit and wanna discuss something.