Japan's real wages fall for record 25th straight month in April (japantoday.com)
Russia Destroys Over Half of Ukraine’s Power Generation – FT Reports (www.kyivpost.com)
The prospect of Ukraine suffering severe power cuts this winter is looming over the whole country in the wake of a Russian campaign to target thermal and hydroelectric plants....
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....
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...
WHO confirms first death in Mexico from bird flu never seen in humans (www.nbcnews.com)
The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....
How the super rich ship their luxury cars around the world (www.cnn.com)
Valve Let Team Fortress 2 Rot And They Should Feel Bad About It - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Report: Employers Spend $340 Million per Year on “Union Avoidance” Consultants Who Teach Tactics to Discourage Unionization (medium.com)
Just got an operating system update for my Galaxy S10 phone (fedia.io)
haven't gotten one of these in years, can't find any press about it, which i'm surprised by...
Europe Has Fallen Behind the U.S. and China. Can It Catch Up? (www.nytimes.com)
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging....
TIL: About Foxfire a Bioluminescent Fungus (en.m.wikipedia.org)
I first heard about it as being used to mark gauges on a 1770s submersible so the operator could read them in the dark....
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....
Person with bird flu died in Mexico, WHO says (www.reuters.com)
The New ‘White Fortress’ Cities of the American South (www.bloomberg.com)
A. B. Abrams - Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order (archive.org)
Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert (ca.news.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/91685...