Starcade - A show from 1982 where people compete against each other playing arcade games to see who gets the most points within a time limit (www.youtube.com)
I used to watch this show religiously as a kid. This is episode one. It’s kind of weird. A guy too old to be on a show like that is competing against a little girl.
“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children (video) (www.democracynow.org)
Tax preparers that shared private data with Meta, Google could be fined billions (arstechnica.com)
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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.5 Release Candidate (9to5linux.com)
Google originally did not want to make any money from Android's app store (www.androidauthority.com)
Deaths in Pa. jails are undercounted. Our investigation found dozens of hidden cases (www.pennlive.com)
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Indy police arrest ‘terrorist’ for purposely driving her car into what she thought was a Jewish schoo (fox59.com)
Japan Ranks Last in Global Survey of Employees’ Well Being (www.bloomberg.com)
Japan came in last in a global ranking of employees’ well being, measured by assessing physical, mental, social and spiritual health, the results of a survey conducted by McKinsey Health Institute showed.
Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s class to protest Columbia ‘shaming’ pro-Palestinian demonstrators (www.theguardian.com)
Health misinformation and lack of confidence in vaccines continue to grow, years after the Covid-19 pandemic, survey shows (www.cnn.com)
Vaccine misinformation, which first began spiraling during the Covid-19 pandemic, has grown in the United States in the years since, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania....
Trump’s son Donald Jr to testify at real estate fraud trial in New York (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump’s eldest son will take the stand today at the New York civil fraud trial surrounding the former president’s business empire....
IDF reveals Hamas command posts in and beneath Gaza hospital (www.ynetnews.com)
The IDF revealed on Friday, what it described as intelligence showing a Hamas command center located under a the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In a briefing, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told members of the foreign press corps that there are areas in the hospitals that are used by Hamas to direct its military operations.
GitHub - awesome-lists/awesome-bash: A curated list of delightful Bash scripts and resources. (github.com)
Va. police investigate after pig mask, 'I Can't Breathe' shirt found in police car (www.npr.org)
The three words "I Can't Breathe" refer to what some police brutality victims, like George Floyd, Eric Garner and Manuel Ellis, said before their untimely deaths at the hands of law enforcement.
This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment? (apnews.com)
In ads, debates and public statements, the opposition campaign and top Republicans have increasingly been referencing “partial-birth abortions” as an imminent threat if voters approve the constitutional amendment on Nov. 7. “Partial-birth abortion” is a non-medical term for a procedure known as dilation and extraction,...
At least seven injured as Israeli tank ‘accidentally’ hits Egyptian border (www.aljazeera.com)
Ukrainian parliament votes to ban Orthodox Church over alleged links with Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Signal: No Evidence of Zero-Day Flaw in Encrypted Messaging App (www.pcmag.com)
It’s official: The era of China’s global dominance is over (www.businessinsider.com)
China has reached the end of its economic boom. What comes next should worry every American business — and the rest of the world.
Half a million children die of malaria every year. Finally we can change that (www.nature.com)
With two vaccines available, this killer disease could now be eliminated — but will the world pull together to make it happen?
England’s Jewish schools heighten security as antisemitic incidents quadruple (www.theguardian.com)
Jewish schools across England are taking extra precautions to protect their staff and students after the attack on Israel, as the body that provides security advice to Jewish communities in the UK said it had recorded 89 antisemitic incidents between Saturday and Tuesday....
Antarctic sea ice melts to all-time record low for winter. Here's why that's concerning. (www.usatoday.com)
Desert horror: Music festival goers first took cover from rockets, then Gaza militants began firing on them (www.cnn.com)
The rockets began around 6:30 a.m., Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending a music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them....