US reportedly offers amnesty to Venezuela's Maduro to give up power (www.semafor.com)
This is supposed to be a joke but it's true... (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
At a Russian Border Post, Scenes of Ruin After Ukraine’s Surprise Attack (www.nytimes.com)
All that remained of a Russian border post was a tableau of destruction: Sheet metal flapped in the wind, customs declarations fluttered about, and stray dogs roamed under a road-spanning sign that said, “Russia.”...
King Charles banknotes go for 11 times face value (www.bbc.com)
Banknotes with a face value of £78,430 have raised more than 11 times that amount for charity following a series of auctions....
Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA (www.businessinsider.com)
Clarence Thomas thinks the Occupational Safety and Health Administration may be unconstitutional....
Huawei’s HarmonyOS to break the dominance of Western mobile platforms in China (www.scmp.com)
archive.ph/bQVGC
Horses Can Plan And Strategize, New Study Finds (plantbasednews.org)
Preview: Factory Entertainment's Star Trek Showcase — Part 1! (blog.trekcore.com)
Elon Musk should face arrest if he incited UK rioters, says ex-Twitter chief (www.theguardian.com)
The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster (www.theverge.com)
Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.
Paignton: Same-sex flamingos successfully hatch a chick at zoo. (www.bbc.com)
We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock (www.theverge.com)
It’s like Overwatch, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 all baked into a pie.
Israel anticipates direct attack from Iran; U.S. deploys more vessels to region (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ukraine can use German-provided weapons at its discretion – German defense ministry (www.ukrinform.net)
TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German". (en.wikipedia.org)
cliff dive into lake (clips.twitch.tv)
Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) (designingfriction.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39429322...
Barack Obama Summer 2024 Playlist: Charli XCX, Shaboozey, Beyonce (www.rollingstone.com)
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks (www.bbc.com)
Scientists have discovered a reservoir of liquid water on Mars - deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet....
Putin Cuts Off Governor Who Admitted Ukraine Advancing in Russia (www.bloomberg.com)
A controversial experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled — what we know about why (www.theverge.com)
Israel has Bombed At Least 18 Schools in Five Weeks (www.thecanary.co)
SpaceX repeatedly polluted waters in Texas this year, regulators found (www.cnbc.com)
Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated environmental regulations in releasing pollutants into or nearby bodies of water in Texas, a state environmental agency said in a notice last week....
SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years (www.popsci.com)
SpaceX’s Starship launches at the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas, have allegedly been contaminating local bodies of water with mercury for years. The news arrives in an exclusive https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-waters-in-texas-tceq-epa-found.html on August 12, which cites...
