kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

25% of Housing Purchases in 2023 were Private Investors (youtu.be)

AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)

‘Call the police, he’s on drugs': But the worker was dying from heatstroke. (www.politico.com)

Reformist Pezeshkian elected president of Iran in runoff vote, defeating hard-liner Jalili (www.pbs.org)

Supporters of Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and longtime lawmaker, entered the streets of Tehran and other cities before dawn to celebrate as his lead grew over Jalili, a hard-line former nuclear negotiator....

Growing number of ‘unemployables’ frustrated by the job market (www.theglobeandmail.com)

Archive link: archive.ph/HzalS

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour (www.theguardian.com)

Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...

Ukraine war: Russian air strike leaves 100,000 with no power (www.bbc.com)

The ‘tricky balancing act’: Jordan’s dilemma on Israel and Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

Are people excited for Age of Mythology: Retold? Release date: 4th of September (store.steampowered.com)

Suddenly fading out of existence (lemmy.world)

Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso junta chiefs 'turn their backs' on West Africa bloc Ecowas (www.bbc.com)

9 year hardware upgrade, running arch 😱

I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go… except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn’t let my...

transition to her evening nap next to the fireplace (mastodon.social)

A gorgeous grey cat yawning on a windowsill. Her tongue is bright pink and curled up at the end like a slide at the playground....

Summer grasshopper on the wall [OC] (lemmy.world)

No zoom, it let me get that close. Xperia 5v.

Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bullets (gizmodo.com)

France asks two Chinese spies to leave the country after attempt to forcibly repatriate exiled Chinese dissident (www.lemonde.fr)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/509234...

After Deadly Protests, Kenyans Tell of Brutal Abductions (www.nytimes.com)

After a 10-Year Wait, Mt. Gox Bitcoin Is Finally Being Returned (www.wired.com)

China-U.S. Electronic Warfare Erupts, Seen as China’s GPS Interference Rehearsal to Counter Land-Based Missiles (www.china-arms.com)

These queer farmers and ranchers are boycotting Tractor Supply and want you to join them (www.advocate.com)

Video playback in mastodon mobile app (lemmy.world)

I mocked up a better workflow for video in a mastodon mobile app. I’m not a developer, just a mobile user who wants to stay in their fedi app of choice (currently Moshidon) while enjoying multimedia content and not get booted out to a web browser every time I want to watch a video or listen to a podcast. I still have no idea...