Tom Waits - "Road To Peace" (2006, alternative folk rock) (yewtu.be)
Tom Waits is not afraid of going dark places with his song writing, but it hardly gets darker than this....
Huawei flagship store surge in China signals showdown with Apple | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain (www.cnn.com)
Biden's new China tariff wall faces leakage via Mexico, Vietnam | Reuters (www.reuters.com)
Let's discuss: Half-Life (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Concerns grow about the wellbeing of Chinese journalists Zhang Zhan after supposed jail release as she failed to make contact with the outside world (www.theguardian.com)
Zhang Zhan, 40, a lawyer turned citizen journalist, was detained in May 2020 after she travelled to Wuhan to report on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her videos and social media posts drew attention to the government’s stifling of information about the spread of the disease and the harsh lockdowns that were being...
'Irate male' assaulted Newfoundland officers with block of cheese, police say (www.ctvnews.ca)
...The RNC did not say if the officers were injured or what kind of cheese was used.
Crew stuck on Baltimore ship, seven weeks after bridge collapse (www.bbc.com)
Chinese doctors treated an end-stage type 2 diabetic patient by implanting islet tissue derived in vitro from his own endoderm stem cells. The patient has been insulin-independent for 33 months. (www.nature.com)
The Philharmonik "What's It All Mean?" (2024 NPR Tiny Desk Winning Entry) (piped.video)
Related, web.archive.org/…/tiny-desk-contest-2024-winner-a…
Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach (arstechnica.com)
Medvechuk's yacht officially transferred to Ukrainian state (kyivindependent.com)
A luxury yacht belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on May 15, said Ukraine’s Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets, known by its Ukrainian acronym ARMA....
According to the Federal Reserve Americans owe over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, with the average borrower owing $37,667 (medium.com)
How big is this dog? (slrpnk.net)
Ukraine’s troops withdraw from parts of north-east as pressure mounts (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s troops withdrew from several areas of the country’s north-east amid mounting pressure from a new Russian offensive, as the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, postponed all foreign trips underscoring the seriousness of the threat....
Crying RN (slrpnk.net)
UN says it has no more food or tents for nearly 2m people in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
The UN has run out of tents and food to distribute to almost 2 million people in Gaza, the majority displaced from their homes and dependent on aid to stave off looming famine....
Perpetual Motion finally achieved! (lemmy.zip)
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (finance.yahoo.com)
Archive.org link...
US jamming technology is significantly worse than Russia's, ex-Pentagon officials warn (www.businessinsider.com)
10 updates coming to the Android ecosystem (blog.google)
Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)
Barge hits a bridge in Galveston, Texas, damaging the structure and causing an oil spill (apnews.com)
Announcing Wayfinder Echoes - Forging Our Own Path (online-only game soon to be playable offline) (steamcommunity.com)
Huge W. Maybe the Stop Killing Games campaign, combined with some very real market realities, will save more games like this from companies with the liberty to do so. Unfortunately, it sounds like multiplayer will likely still depend on Steam servers rather than supporting LAN (I’d be happy to be proven wrong), but this is way...
