Right-wingers claim trans women have unfair advantage in hot dog-eating contests (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Japan is giving Washington 250 new cherry trees to replace those to be lost in construction work (apnews.com)
Japan is giving the United States 250 new cherry trees to help replace the hundreds that are being ripped out this summer as construction crews work to repair the crumbling seawall around the capital’s Tidal Basin....
GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls (www.eurogamer.net)
Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)
In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...
Iran offers no response to Damascus strike if US secures Gaza ceasefire - report (m.jpost.com)
Iran informed the US that it would refrain from responding to the airstrike in which senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders were killed in Damascus if a ceasefire in Gaza is reached, Jadeh Iran reported on Sunday....
Elderly Oklahoma Man Dies After Igniting Himself On Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice (www.news9.com)
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? (www.nytimes.com)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli and foreign human rights groups have documented a long history of snipers firing on unarmed Palestinians, including children, in Gaza and the West Bank....
Donald Trump has posted a $175 million bond to avert asset seizure as he appeals NY fraud penalty (apnews.com)
Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according to a court filing....
Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study (www.theguardian.com)
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Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD - might be a reason to defederate from Threads (glaad.org)
Censorship of Palestine: Is Tiktok paying the price for surge in pro-Palestinian content? (www.tbsnews.net)
'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits (fortune.com)
GitHub Copilot will respect your privacy! (sopuli.xyz)
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)
From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...
Long Lost Star Trek: The Next Generation Captain's Chair Will No Longer Go Up For Auction (gizmodo.com)
New Zealand to seize black boxes from LATAM Boeing 787 as passengers recount incident (www.reuters.com)
Firefighters booed New York attorney general who sued Trump for fraud. Officials are investigating (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns about possible disciplinary action against its members after state Attorney General Letitia James was booed and a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week....
U.S. ‘prepper’ culture diversifies amid fear of disaster and political unrest (www.nbcnews.com)
Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine (www.cnn.com)
Russia appears on track to produce nearly three times more artillery munitions than the US and Europe, a key advantage ahead of what is expected to be another Russian offensive in Ukraine later this year....
Trump tightens grip on US Republican Party as daughter-in-law takes key post (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills....
