Activision Blizzard workers speak out after Bobby Kotick’s CEO exit (www.pcgamesn.com)
Diversity offices on college campuses will soon be illegal in Texas, as 30 new laws go into effect (www.texastribune.org)
When Texas college students return to their campuses after the winter break, they’ll discover the lights are still off in their campuses’ diversity offices....
Friendica (open source facebook alternative) releases version 2023.12 with the ability to curate feeds and more (github.com)
Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub (www.theguardian.com)
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China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping? (hackaday.com)
China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping?::Since China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) unveiled its KUN-24AP containership at the Marintec China Expo in Shanghai in early December of 2023, the internet has been abuzz about it. Not jus…
Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI (redshirtsalwaysdie.com)
Right to protest is under threat in Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy (m.timesofindia.com)
U.S. Faces Second-Worst Year On Record For Mass Shootings—Nearly 650 Incidents (www.forbes.com)
Covid: It's That Bad (www.okdoomer.io)
I hadn’t broken Poland’s abortion laws – so why did the police raid my flat? (www.theguardian.com)
Artist was humiliated by the authorities and lambasted by the press after terminating a pregnancy, but refuses to be silenced...
China sanctions a US research firm and 2 individuals over reports on human rights abuses in Xinjiang (apnews.com)
China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s far northwestern region of Xinjiang....
Illegal West Bank outpost demolished, the second in 48 hours (www.timesofisrael.com)
The small illegal West Bank outpost of Sde Yonatan was evacuated and demolished Tuesday morning by Border Police and Civil Administration forces, the second such demolition of an illegal outpost in the territory in less than 48 hours....
Pope decries ‘appalling harvest’ of civilian deaths in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
CIA Loses Bid to Throw Out Lawsuit for Violating Rights of Julian Assange’s Visitors at Ecuadorean Embassy: Case Sets Stage for Exposing CIA Clandestine Surveillance of Attorneys and Journalists (www.laprogressive.com)
The judge’s ruling can be read here: cryptome.org/2023/12/kunstler-v-cia-077.pdf
Japan-owned tanker attacked by drone fired from Iran in Indian Ocean (english.kyodonews.net)
Multiple people injured in shooting at Florida mall, police say (abcnews.go.com)
U.S. Govt and researchers seemingly discover new type of superconductivity in an exotic, crystal-like material — controllable variation breaks temperature records (www.tomshardware.com)
Intel Core Ultra performance in Linux is 15% higher than in Windows (gadgettendency.com)
Putin ally 'behind bomb' that killed Wagner boss, new report alleges (i.stuff.co.nz)
Untangling Threads | Erin Kissane (erinkissane.com)
This is by far the most comprehensive analysis of the Threads situation that I have seen. I recommend giving it a read.
Poland’s new government sacks state TV, radio and news bosses (www.theguardian.com)
The new Polish government has gutted the top management of public television, making good on a campaign promise to reform a broadcaster that functioned as a mouthpiece of its rightwing populist predecessor, but also prompting criticism of their methods from some quarters....
Israel Gaza: What Gaza's death toll says about the war - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
South Korea: Students sue after teacher ends exam 90 seconds early (www.bbc.com)
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)
Why are the graphs for the distribution of light from the Sun as a function of (a) frequency and (b) wavelength not exactly reversed? (www.wtamu.edu)
I thought that the frequency of light was directly inverse to the wavelength by a constant. In other words, I assumed that graphing the frequency of light as a function of wavelength would be a straight inverse line. Because of that, the graphs for the distribution of light from the sun as functions of frequency and wavelength...
