If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? (kbin.social)
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‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.
Mercedes-Benz boss urges Brussels to cut tariffs on Chinese EVs (www.ft.com)
Union leader endorsing Biden: ‘We’re not gonna waste a lot of time’ on Trump supporters (thehill.com)
AI Can Tell Your Political Affiliation Just by Looking at Your Face, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software (www.reuters.com)
Founders And CEO Of Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Arrested And Charged With Money Laundering And Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses (www.justice.gov)
Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
Michigan father 1st charged under new safe gun storage law after son shoots himself in the face (abcnews.go.com)
Missouri House backs legal shield for weedkiller maker facing thousands of cancer-related lawsuits (apnews.com)
Airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights (apnews.com)
'Discriminatory' North Carolina Law Criminalizing Felon Voting Struck Down (www.commondreams.org)
Playing Space Invaders on my Atari 2600. (lemmus.org)
Atari's Black Beauty (lemmus.org)
The French Wikipedia uses the Thin Red Line flag in the legend for a map (fr.wikipedia.org)
Context: the Thin Blue Line is symbolism for the role of police in maintaining public order. It has been co-opted by the alt-right. There is also a Thin Red Line to represent nurses. The French Wikipedia happened to use it in a legend to explain what the red lines on a map mean.
Russia vetoes a UN resolution calling for prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space (apnews.com)
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. (en.wikipedia.org)
LW_m0ds_are_autistic RETARDs (autism.help)
Retards
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
‘Can you catch it as well?’: bird stunt causes flap in European parliament (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14652477...
average militant Palestinian (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? (lemm.ee)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....