Reminiscing about the "Reddit migration"
Seeing more “cake days” pop up lately, it seems we’re approaching (or in) the 1 yr anniversary of the Reddit migration....
OK which one of you drew this? (sh.itjust.works)
Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting (www.npr.org)
ST. LOUIS — Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10....
Rooster in the mirror: these birds may be smarter than we thought (www.cbc.ca)
TL;DR: New method of the mirror test shows self awareness in roosters. General suggestion that the mirror tests that have done in the past may have been misleading/not getting the right picture
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...
France will send Mirage fighter jets to Ukraine, Macron says (www.politico.eu)
President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Ukraine, in what would appear to be a significant increase in his country’s direct military support to Kyiv....
Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial (www.theguardian.com)
Humane warns AI Pin owners to “immediately” stop using its charging case (www.theverge.com)
Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to potential fire safety risk from certain battery cells....
LibreOffice 24.2.4 Community available for download - The Document Foundation Blog (9to5linux.com)
The page for my local "currency exchange" is just a lorum ipsum a doesn't give any info on services at all. (midwest.social)
Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week | Half as Interesting (8:17) (www.youtube.com)
When fusion hits, what will the fuel supply-chain most likely be like?
Will we mine He3 on the moon?...
NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...
Who have you known that was extremely good at a job no one wants?
Who would win? (sh.itjust.works)
Walmart...
Two cats and one beam of sunlight (imgur.com)
Expand for all images+text. English/German as always....
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
IFTAS Launches Moderator Resource Portal (wedistribute.org)
IFTAS, the Trust and Safety organization for the #Fediverse, launched a new community portal full of guides, resources, discussion groups, and tools for community moderators and instance admins. We take a look at what it does.
Peace Activists Assaulted and Forcibly Removed From Jimmy Kimmel Live Taping With Vice President Kamala Harris (www.commondreams.org)
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...
Taliban publicly flogs 63 people accused of crimes, including women (www.nbcnews.com)
The U.N. office condemned corporal punishment and called for respect for international human rights obligations....