Georgia school board fires teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity (apnews.com)
A Georgia school board voted along party lines Thursday to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users::Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.
New price hike HuDis (lemmy.zip)
IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024::Direct File is a shot across the bows of Turbotax, H&R Block, and others who have resisted free and simple tax filing for decades.
How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 (www.wired.com)
Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country....
Uh oh! (lemmy.world)
The whole situation sickens me (slrpnk.net)
Voters in Ohio reject GOP-backed proposal that would have made it tougher to protect abortion rights (apnews.com)
Ohio voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state’s constitution, setting up a fall campaign that will become the nation’s latest referendum on abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide protections last year.
About 100,000 turn out in London for pro-Palestine rally (www.theguardian.com)
Airbnb is adding cleaning fees to a new 'total price' of bookings in search results after people complained listings were misleading (www.businessinsider.com)
Airbnb is adding cleaning fees to a new ‘total price’ of bookings in search results after people complained listings were misleading::Airbnb’s CEO said that he’s heard guests “loud and clear” that pricing on the platform isn’t transparent and “checkout tasks are a pain.”
Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard (gizmodo.com)
Climate scientists and activists have since fled the platform now known as X since the Elon Musk takeover last year....
US jail practices are racist and an 'affront to human dignity,' UN experts say (www.reuters.com)
In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said they had found practices in U.S. prisons that amounted to “an affront to human dignity” in visits in April and May....
[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…
Pls respond (lemmy.zip)
More than one-third of millennials believe they won’t get a dime of Social Security when they retire, so they’re taking matters into their own hands (creditnews.com)
Of all generational cohorts, older millennials are most likely to generate enough income to retire comfortably, according to the latest Vanguard Retirement Readiness report....
New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk)
Five years after killing a journalist in cold blood, Saudi Arabia is stronger than ever (www.theguardian.com)
Michael Gambon, 'Harry Potter' actor who played Dumbledore, dies at 82 (abcnews.go.com)
Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? (www.theatlantic.com)
Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?
Huzzah! (slrpnk.net)
No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal (www.pocketgamer.biz)
AppLovin’s attempts to acquire Unity last year turned sour when Unity opted for a merger with rivals ironSource instead . Now, in the ongoing shockwave of Unity's unpopular introductio...
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