Happy Birthday James Clerk Maxwell! (en.wikipedia.org)
Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register (www.theregister.com)
The US can't keep getting away with this! (they can) (sh.itjust.works)
I stole another gallery post from [REDDacted]...
French left agrees to form new 'Popular Front' in parliamentary elections (www.lemonde.fr)
List of the coalition’s members on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Popular_Front#Members
Saudi Arabia's petro-dollar exit: A global finance paradigm shift (www.tbsnews.net)
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (www.bloomberg.com)
The iPhone maker isn’t paying OpenAI to use the chatbot...
Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says (www.reuters.com)
An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of 2024 trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands, according to a report released by migration rights group Walking Borders on Wednesday....
Texas immigrants’ rights groups sue Biden administration over asylum restrictions (www.texastribune.org)
President Joe Biden’s order, issued a week ago, largely suspends noncitizens’ entry into the country whenever the number of migrants entering the country illegally is high....
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency warns against apathy and inaction, amid spike forced displacement. (www.unhcr.org)
The rise in overall forced displacement – to 120 million by May 2024 – was the 12th consecutive annual increase and reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises. The figure would make the global displaced population equivalent to the 12th largest country in the world, around the size...
Cases of deadly disease caused by ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria hit record high in Japan (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16815561
Watch ‘Discovery’ and ‘Strange New Worlds’ EP Alex Kurtzman Explain Why ‘Star Trek Will Go on Forever’ (www.indiewire.com)
Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal (truthout.org)
Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...
The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake (www.yahoo.com)
At least 41 dead as fire engulfs building housing migrant workers in Kuwait (www.independent.co.uk)
At least 41 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a high-rise building housing migrant workers in the city of Mangaf in southern Kuwait on Wednesday....
Meta tried to discredit researchers who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms (nucleo.jor.br)
Netanyahu warns Israel 'prepared for very intense action' as IDF weighs Lebanon offensive (www.nbcnews.com)
Bird flu detected in Houston-area wastewater (www.click2houston.com)
Who’s ready for Pandemic 2?
Japan Runs on Vending Machines. It’s About to Break Millions of Them. (www.nytimes.com)
Lauren Boebert complains media attention is turning public against her (www.rawstory.com)
House GOP gets a political win for Trump — which might be its last of the year (www.politico.com)
Hell awaits the PLAN (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Retired firefighter and veteran comes out as gay — in his obituary (www.advocate.com)
Lynn Conway, revolutionary trans computer scientist & activist, dies at 86 (www.lgbtqnation.com)
