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The battle over banda music heats up on the beaches of Mazatlán Mexico as protestors fight gentrification from foreigners (mexiconewsdaily.com)

Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)

The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....

Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results (electrek.co)

Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulators (www.geekwire.com)

General Electric completes split into 3 public companies Tuesday (www.axios.com)

Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week (arstechnica.com)

World Central Kitchen pauses Gaza operations, saying 7 foreign aid workers killed during IDF attack including US citizen (abcnews.go.com)

‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)

Israeli and foreign human rights groups have documented a long history of snipers firing on unarmed Palestinians, including children, in Gaza and the West Bank....

Your scrunglebop is disponscabulated (programming.dev)

Jon Stewart takes aim at his former Apple bosses on ‘The Daily Show’ (www.vanityfair.com)

This week, Jon Stewart devoted his edition of https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/jon-stewart-is-returning-as-host-of-the-daily-show-with-a-catch to tackling a topic that he claims his former bosses at Apple barred him from exploring. “I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” the late-night host...

Renting will be cheaper than buying for years, especially as home prices keep setting new all-time highs (fortune.com)

More bad news for anyone who wants to ever own a home: Home prices just went up again. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose 6% in January, data released today shows; that’s up from a 5.6% increase in the previous month, setting the fastest annual gain since 2022. “On a seasonal adjusted basis,...

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ (www.theguardian.com)

New research into the dying brain suggests the line between life and death may be less distinct than previously thought...

US aiming to ‘crack the code’ on deploying geothermal energy at scale (www.theguardian.com)

Recent $74m investment made alongside assessment that 10% of electricity could be generated by geothermal by 2050...

Paella de marisco (feddit.it)

Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor (www.theguardian.com)

TIL about the Crackpot Index, a humorous post for people who claim to have disproved Einstein's theory (math.ucr.edu)

A scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory replied to my email with a curt, please don’t waste my time again. The head of the Physics Department at the University of Miami dropped Bob’s research paper like it was radioactive. He receives one of these papers each week, he said. It turns out, there is a whole community...