The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines (forum.paradoxplaza.com)
TL;DR:...
And then you get hooked on it and start using it for real (sh.itjust.works)
Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? (www.nytimes.com)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/924278bf-d525-4611-85a6-467f376cbbab.webp...
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14100831...
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
Jails banned in-person visits in order to maximize revenue from voice and video calls as part of a "quid pro quo kickback scheme" with prison phone companies (arstechnica.com)
Across the United States, hundreds of jails have eliminated in-person family visits over the last decade. Why has this happened? The answer highlights a profound flaw in how decisions too often get made in our legal system: for-profit jail telecom companies realized that they could earn more profit from phone and video calls if...
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
Israel again massacres Palestinian civilians who had gathered to obtain humanitarian aid in Gaza (euromedmonitor.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/17439723...
Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)
It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....
As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter (www.jsonline.com)
Whose responsibility is it to protect unhoused when it's freezing outside? An Ohio pastor opened his church to the homeless and was charged by city.
US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn’t yet stopped ship attacks (apnews.com)
The rich now own a record share of stocks, about 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10% (www.axios.com)
New York governor vetoes bill that would ban noncompete agreements (apnews.com)
New York’s governor vetoed a bill days before Christmas that would have banned noncompete agreements, which restrict workers’ ability to leave their job for a role with a rival business....
Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International (e.vnexpress.net)
Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)
Edit: final round is live now mastodon.online/
Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)
Jake Tapper Shocked When Israeli Official Blames CNN Producer’s Family Killed in Israeli Bombing: ‘You Can’t Blame Them’ (www.mediaite.com)
Tapper was visibly disgusted after ex-Israeli ambassador Mark Regev victim-blamed nine members of a CNN producer's family who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete (www.techradar.com)
Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete::Ceramics-based storage medium consumes very little energy and lasts more than 5,000 years, creators say
Japan automakers play catch-up in EV race (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says (www.aljazeera.com)
First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths.
Old Manifest V2 Chrome extensions will be disabled in 2024 (9to5google.com)
Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted (www.businessinsider.com)
Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, approval to launch human trials of its device that Musk has described as a “Fitbit in your skull.” The FDA had previously rejected Neuralink’s bid for human testing in March over safety concerns, Reuters reported, including...
Why Was This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Put in Solitary For Three Days? (www.texasobserver.org)
A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.
Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship (www.insider.com)
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
