Rev. Barber speaks out for ADA rights after theater calls police on him; he brought his own chair (www.wral.com)
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China deletes leaked stats showing plunging birth rate for 2023 (www.rfa.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/12196937...
The Late Tommy Smothers Was Canceled Back When That Meant Something (lemmy.ca)
On another episode, the show welcomed blacklisted folk singer Pete Seeger — he’d been banned from television for years. He sang his “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” a song widely understood to ridicule President Lyndon Johnson for the Vietnam War. CBS refused to air the segment, but Tom and Dick brought Seeger back and he...
Indian journalists targeted by Israeli spyware again: What do we know? (www.aljazeera.com)
Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation (streaming.media.ccc.de)
They had a talk space yesterday night at Chaos Communication Congress. These three guys are modern heroes....
Gaston Glock: Inventor of popular handgun dies aged 94 (www.bbc.com)
Gaston Glock, the Austrian engineer who invented the Glock handgun, has died aged 94....
Putin promises Xi to 'fight for five years' in Ukraine (asia.nikkei.com)
Japan poised to send Patriot missiles owned by its Self-Defense Forces to US (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (locusmag.com)
Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
Israel bombards urban refugee camps in central Gaza (apnews.com)
Downfall (Steam Standalone) was Breached. Please read. (steamcommunity.com)
Netanyahu pushes for 'voluntary migration' for Palestinians in Gaza: Israeli media (www.aa.com.tr)
From Israel Hayom: www.israelhayom.co.il/news/…/15002089 (in Hebrew)
‘You won’t take my son’ | Fort Wayne mom fights to keep disabled adopted son from being deported (www.21alivenews.com)
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant (www.reuters.com)
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant::undefined
A look back at every Google Nexus phone ever made (www.androidpolice.com)
• Google Nexus phones had a rich history, with different manufacturers bringing Google’s vision to life....
Could we ban clickbait titles in posts? (kbin.social)
I feel like there's been a glut of clickbait articles being submitted lately. It would be nice if these posts could be taken down and allow the user to resubmit it with a more accurate title?
TIL that in a few areas of battle in WWI, the 1914 Christmas Truce lasted all the way until New Year's (www.bbc.com)
The following Christmas, machine gun barrages were deliberately timed to drown out any sound of carol singing to prevent spontaneous truces happening again.
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)
In the remote desert where China detonated its first atom bomb nearly 60 years ago, a drilling rig recently bored a deep vertical shaft that is estimated to plunge down at least a third of a mile. It is the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing whether to test a new generation of nuclear arms that could increase the...
Putin could attack Baltics and Moldova next, says Belgian army chief (www.politico.eu)
After Ukraine, the Kremlin’s next targets could be Moldova and the Baltic countries, Belgian army chief Michel Hofman has warned....
On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem resembles a ghost town. Celebrations are halted due to Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)
The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war....
IKEA has all your holiday needs met (lemmus.org)
The perfect gift for a relative. Some assembly required.
Nomic, one of the best concepts of a game I've seen (en.wikipedia.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/7647192...
Netherlands to supply Ukraine with 18 F-16 fighter jets (nltimes.nl)
The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with eighteen F-16 fighter jets, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte confirmed on Friday. He wrote on social media that he notified his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of the caretaker Cabinet’s decision during a phone call on Friday morning....
It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. (www.cinemablend.com)
I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....
