Kim Jong Un 'to visit Putin for weapons talks' (www.bbc.com)
Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons (www.sacurrent.com)
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern (www.theverge.com)
Pro-China influence campaign pushed talking points across more than 50 websites (www.nbcnews.com)
Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites....
My PSP with 11 years of use, still strong today! (apollo.town)
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 27th
New thread! Whatch’a all playing!...
Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv (www.spiegel.de)
only a handful of investigators at most have been assigned to work on the Nord Stream case on a full-time basis....
Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact (arstechnica.com)
Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.
K-9s will be used in random classroom screenings, Florida school district officials announce (www.clickorlando.com)
You can be banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone for calling out transphobia
I recently made a new account on lemmy.blahaj.zone, because I’ve been harassed and doxxed on my old account and I wanted a fresh start with a more lighthearted online identity that I could be more open about my gender identity on. I’d heard blahaj zone was good for trans people, so I made my account there. And yeah,...
Half-Life 2 RTX, An RTX Remix Project - Announce Trailer (www.youtube.com)
What would you do with an extra 1000€ a month?
understanding games is a form of systemic analysis (lemmy.ml)
many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects
Doing things in games because it simple felt good.
I’ve been thinking about the PS1 game ‘Driver’ a lot recently. It’s a game I spent a lot of time on during my youth, and whilst I’m sure it doesn’t hold up some 20 years later, it was still a highlight from my ‘gaming youth’....
One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)
Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public (abcnews.go.com)
A Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public, and that the only way to wear the hijab, or the Islamic headscarf, is if the face is hidden
Pet owners with talkative pets, what will they talk about?
Shots fired (infosec.pub)
Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office. They blamed it on not having enough data (fortune.com)
Ukraine adds Bacardi to its list of international war sponsors (thehill.com)
Ukraine’s national anti-corruption agency added Bacardi Limited to its list of international war sponsors, citing the company’s continued business and tax payments in Russia.
in a general sense, how would you feel about people having their pet dog(s) in the workplace?
Would you steal if theft was not a crime? Why or why not?
Any Books like The Martian by Andy Weir
I really enjoyed that book and the whole “alone in space” vibe it gives off. Are there any more like it?...
Treat yo self (lemmy.ml)
All 50 states with the same naming convention as West Virginia (lemmy.world)
