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😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)

Cuba's president blasts 'interventionist' U.S. amid protests over shortages (www.nbcnews.com)

AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)

“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”

Yep, defintely not a bad person (sh.itjust.works)

A Democratic senator needs an abortion. She told her colleagues about Arizona's 'cruel' laws. (azmirror.com)

While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do

MacKenzie Scott donates $640M -- more than double her initial plan -- to nonprofits (abcnews.go.com)

Billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott announced Tuesday she is giving $640 million to 361 small nonprofits that responded to an open call for applications....

How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing (www.nytimes.com)

The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros a month, is a steal....

Peter Navarro is 1st Trump White House official to serve prison time related to Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)

Former White House adviser Peter Navarro reported to prison Tuesday for a contempt of Congress conviction, becoming the first senior Trump administration official to be locked up for a crime related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack....

Chinese scientists build prototype engine for nuclear-powered spaceship to Mars (www.scmp.com)

Cyberattacks are hitting water systems throughout US, Biden officials warn governors (www.cnn.com)

Landmark Ruling: The Peruvian Court of Nauta Recognizes the Rights of the Marañón River and the Indigenous Communities as its Guardians (www.commondreams.org)

The case for the 32-hour work week with no loss in pay w/ Bernie Sanders and Shawn Fain (www.washingtonpost.com)

"The United States is willing to engage in bilateral arms control discussions with Russia and China right now, without preconditions" - US Ambassador to UN (usun.usmission.gov)

U.S. Withdraws From Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty...

Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’ (www.theguardian.com)

How to write a QML effect for KWin, KDE's window manager (blog.vladzahorodnii.com)

Since the dawn of the times, the only way to implement any effect that has fancy user interface used to be in C++. It would be rather an understatement to say that the C++ API is difficult to use or get it right so there are no glitches. On the other hand, it would be really nice to be able to implement dashboard-like effects...

Schools should prep students for war, German minister says (www.dw.com)

The minister also called for developing a “relaxed” relationship between school students and the armed forces. She suggested that military officers visit schools to explain what “the Bundeswehr does for our security.”

How Biden became embroiled in a Gaza conflict with no end in sight (www.washingtonpost.com)

On Oct. 27, three weeks into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets....