Russian Troops Likely Suffering From Lack Of Drinking Water In Ukraine, British Intel Says. (www.rferl.org)
Moldova Suspends Companies That Brokered Airplane-Parts Sales To Russia. (www.rferl.org)
Sudan’s army has been battling to keep Darfur’s El Fasher from paramilitary forces – why the city’s so important. (theconversation.com)
Star Trek’s Ronny Cox Shares How Captain Jellico Memes Encouraged Him To Reprise The Next Generation Role For Prodigy (www.cinemablend.com)
A Wisconsin Tribe Built a Lending Empire Charging 600% Annual Rates to Borrowers (www.propublica.org)
In bankruptcy filings and consumer complaints, thousands of people across the country make pleas for relief from high-interest loans with punishing annual rates that often exceed 600%....
Are all FRU for a particular Lenovo Marketing part number compatible/identical?
I’m asking here since I assume a lot of you guys are running homelabs on Lenovo hardware....
Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)
Historic Gun Suit Survives Serious Legal Threat Engineered by Indiana Republicans (www.propublica.org)
Republicans in Indiana’s legislature passed a bill this year intended as the final blow to a long-running lawsuit filed by the city of Gary against gun manufacturers seeking to hold them accountable for local illegal gun sales....
Is it possible to run linux on a pixel phone?
I’d like to use my Google Pixel 8 as a light desktop pc, via a USB-C Dock....
The Untold Hunt for a Sex Trafficker (www.404media.co)
Charles DeBarber, Brian Holm, Ben Owen, Danni Brooke, and her teenage daughter Amelia were gathered there to follow the trail of a man who authorities had not been able to capture in the three years since he fled the U.S. This library would become the group’s unofficial war room for a three-day mission to find Michael James...
Announcing Lix 2.91 "Dragon's Breath" (lix.systems)
Lix is a Nix implementation focused on reliability, predictability, friendliness, developed by a community of people from around the world. We have long term plans to incrementally evolve Nix to work in more places, to make it more reliable and secure, and to update the language and semantics to correct past mistakes and reduce...
[Edited]Do you noticed when someone write or work with the left hand?
Who is your favorite character from The Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)?
Former Kansas police chief formally charged over Marion newspaper raid (www.nbcnews.com)
Cancer-Causing Benzene Is Used to Make Store-Brand Cold Relief Medicine (www.bloomberg.com)
Disaster strikes (lemmy.world)
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)
Do we really want a leader who celebrates firing people?
Direct link...
Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses election [Newsweek] (www.newsweek.com)
Headline slightly sensationalised compared to article content. But he did say he’d go to Venezuela if he loses.
#StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25%
I’m not going to post an update every time a (small) milestone is reached, but i felt this time it was warranted....
Settler Leader Daniella Weiss explains the history of israel in 42 seconds (streamable.com)
Credit israel channel 14
UK charges pro-Palestine group members under terrorism law (www.aljazeera.com)
Conservationists try to protect ecologically rich Alabama delta from development, climate change (apnews.com)
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Starbucks’ CEO is out. Chipotle’s Brian Niccol is taking over (www.cnn.com)
The struggling coffee chain has tapped Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol to be its new chairman and CEO, effective September 9. Starbucks’ stock soared more than 13% in premarket trading, while Chipotle’s dipped 8%....
How X owner Elon Musk uses his 'free speech' platform to amplify his views worldwide (apnews.com)
As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a microphone to amplify his political views and, lately, those of right-wing figures he’s aligned with. There are few modern parallels to his antics, but then again there are few modern parallels to Elon Musk himself....
