Parents offered class photo version with no 'complex needs' pupils (www.bbc.com)
A council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them....
Trial starts for Arizona border rancher charged with killing migrant on his property (apnews.com)
An Arizona rancher went on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico, with his defense attorney maintaining his innocence as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election....
Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)
Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Pitch Musical Episode And Another ‘Strange New Worlds’ Crossover (trekmovie.com)
New Star Trek Movie by 'ANDOR' Director – Trek Central (trekcentral.net)
India moves to implement controversial citizenship bill that excludes Muslims (www.cnn.com)
Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text (theluddite.org)
I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I’m wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?
Kentucky: New bill eliminating work break rights rings alarm bells (www.newsweek.com)
Say goodbye to breaks and lunch when working > 6 hours a day! Kentucky says just let the feds set the rules.
Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat shortage (www.newsweek.com)
Legislators in Florida are considering a bill that would help retired teachers return to the workforce....
Chief enforcer of US gun laws fears Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting (apnews.com)
The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the United States could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act....
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)
West Virginia House OKs bill to allow teachers with training to carry guns, other weapons in schools (apnews.com)
West Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow teachers and other school staff who undergo training to carry guns in K-12 public schools....
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants::As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.
Download lossless quality music without paying corps. that stream it (doubledouble.top)
Saw this on mastodon and thought I’d share it here.
Putin says Russia is close to creating cancer vaccines (www.reuters.com)
Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? (www.engadget.com)
A New Chapter For Mozilla (blog.mozilla.org)
Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?
Sweden Closes Investigation of Pipeline Blasts, but Stays Silent on Cause (www.nytimes.com)
Death of baby decapitated in metro Atlanta hospital ruled homicide, ME confirms (www.wsbtv.com)
According to a lawsuit filed by the parents, the baby became stuck during labor and the doctor began pulling.
Apple Vision Pro Not The ‘New Frontier For Masturbatory Technology’ After All (kotaku.com)
Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech (www.theregister.com)
Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we’re closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech’s power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.
Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds (www.spokesman.com)
Office mandates don’t help companies make more money, study finds::Three years after the coronavirus pandemic sent people to work from home in record numbers, U.S. employers are still struggling to get people back to the office.
Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over (www.theverge.com)
