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OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050 (nypost.com)

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)

Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

Hello fellow travelors in the high seas (lemmus.org)

What is your EDC (Every Day Carry) for pirating? You can be as specific or as general as you want....

Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident (www.theroot.com)

The officer claims she didn't realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.

If only we could know! (lemm.ee)

France Descends into Authoritarianism Following Protests (scheerpost.com)

Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least (insideevs.com)

Firefox outperforms Chrome in speed for the first time according to a Speedometer assessment (alternativeto.net)

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Hakeem Jeffries says he met with president; big Democratic donors reportedly freeze money in objection to Biden candidacy – live (www.theguardian.com)

The House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said he shared lawmakers’ “insight, heartfelt perspectives and conclusions about the path forward” in a private meeting with Joe Biden yesterday....

‘Bob’s Burgers’ & ‘Anchorman’ Actor Jay Johnston Pleads Guilty To Felony Charge Related To January 6 Capitol Siege – Update (deadline.com)

… sentencing guidelines suggest a from eight to 14 months in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 7....

An $18 Big Mac meal sparked a revolt against high prices. Companies are finally listening (www.cnn.com)

Many people believe it’s an astounding $18 after a post on X of McDonald’s menu prices at a rest stop in Connecticut went viral and made national headlines. (Narrator voice: It’s not.)...

My Health Insurance Company Is Trying To Kill Me (www.huffpost.com)

One such encounter went like this:...

How Sweden's youth homes nurtured killers, creating Europe's gun crime capital (www.reuters.com)

The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight....

Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’ (www.theguardian.com)

Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries...

Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...

President Biden hilariously sports Chiefs helmet during team's White House visit (www.nbcnewyork.com)

Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive (www.theregister.com)

In case you ever wondered the M1 is safe to operate in a school zone (lemm.ee)

What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? (kbin.social)

As I've gotten older as a player, I have found myself dropping some eras of gaming that I used to be nostalgic for. One of them is the 8-bit era, the NES days. I have played some of the best that system had to offer and I will never say that system didn't have any good games....