China: Video Exposes Chinese authorities’ Forceful Seizure of Farmers’ Land owned by the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region (uyghurtimes.com)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13043786...
Michigan school shooter's parents sentenced to at least 10 years in prison (apnews.com)
NOTE: article updated....
The Latest | Netanyahu vows to carry out Rafah invasion, which US says would be a mistake (apnews.com)
“It will happen. There is a date,” Netanyahu said in a video statement Monday, without elaborating....
Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system (www.theguardian.com)
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies...
Nicaragua’s case may or may not prevail. We already know it was brilliantly argued and it will put Germany to shame forever. (tarikcyrilamar.substack.com)
International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in landmark climate case brought by 2,000 women (www.cnn.com)
An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe....
Ohio to purchase mobile homes to train public school staff in firearms (www.theguardian.com)
In a first, the state has purchased shoot houses designed for indoor gun training to help school staff ‘respond to active shooter’...
Swiss women win landmark climate victory at human rights court (www.reuters.com)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves....
Australia among hotspots for toxic ‘forever chemicals’, study of PFAS levels finds (www.theguardian.com)
Australian limits on acceptable levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water ‘orders of magnitude’ higher than in US...
Taiwan quake led to traffic jam of Japanese air power (www.cnn.com)
Fighter pilots practice scrambling their jets so they can take off in minutes should a military threat arise. But what do they do when Mother Nature is the enemy?...
Can somebody help me launch The Rage (2001)? (www.myabandonware.com)
This is my childhood game and I can’t make it work on Linux. The menu starts fine and the character selection screen as well, but once I select a character, it crashes. I tried running it with different renderers and different Wine/Proton versions, and it’s always the same result....
Remember kids, nuking biggots is always morally correct (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Turkey moves to restrict key exports to Israel under domestic pressure (www.ft.com)
The country’s trade ministry said on Tuesday that it would curb exports of 54 goods, including metals products, fuels and oils, and construction machinery, a day after Turkey’s foreign minister accused Israel of impeding attempts to airlift aid to “starving Gazans”. ⠀...
Israel says ‘date set’ for Rafah invasion amid ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a date has been set to invade Rafah in southern Gaza as truce talks with Hamas in Cairo are ongoing but do not appear close to the finish line....
US pushes ASML to deny maintenance in China (asiatimes.com)
Alan Estavez, US undersecretary of commerce for industry and security, will meet with officials and ASML executives in the Netherlands on Monday and raise the servicing contract matter with them, according to a Reuters report....
Vidalista 40 mg Pill (medzsite.com)
Introducing the Vidalista 40 mg pill, a breakthrough solution for individuals grappling with erectile dysfunction (ED). With its active ingredient, Tadalafil, Vidalista 60 mg offers a potent remedy to restore confidence and vitality in intimate encounters. By promoting increased blood flow to the penile region, Vidalista 40 mg...
Ecuador ex-VP Jorge Glas hospitalised after capture from Mexico embassy (www.aljazeera.com)
I wouldn't ever run into this situation because I would never leave my basement (lemmy.world)
Alright, it’s true… I leave the basement sometimes for food and bush light....
Bloomberg: Republican Senators Poised to Kill $78 Billion Tax-Cut Deal (www.bloomberg.com)
I’m so confused as to what Republicans stand for that is legit and can be worked into a compromise....
International court rules Switzerland violated human rights in a landmark climate judgment (edition.cnn.com)
Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)
In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...
I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. (www.telly.com)
Edit: I guess this post is free advertising for these shitters, so I will describe what I previously linked....
Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter (www.rollingstone.com)
Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...
