Jewish US Army Major Explains Why He Resigned Over Gaza | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
After Harrison Mann’s resignation from the U.S. military was finalized on Monday, the Jewish U.S. Army major who worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency gave a pair of interviews this week explaining his decision to resign over American support for Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip....
Are you a 'tankie'
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Russian adult content provider forced to entrap gay men online by Dagestan police (novayagazeta.eu)
A Russian male adult content provider was detained in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan for the second time in two weeks on Wednesday after reportedly being forced to entrap gay men online by the republic’s police....
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/wUSey
Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop (www.bloomberg.com)
Archive link in case the original link doesn’t work: archive.is/5mnQ4
Octopath Traveler Now Available On PlayStation; Octopath Traveler II Now Available On Xbox (noisypixel.net)
Seems like it’s part of Square’s new strategy to make their games more cross-platform
Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps (www.phoronix.com)
USAID says it will send $90 million in aid to Gaza (www.npr.org)
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....