Vatican confirms ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons (www.reuters.com)
Global heat deaths could quadruple if action is not taken on climate change, study finds (www.nbcnews.com)
Global heat deaths are projected to increase by 370% if action is not taken to limit the effects of global warming, according to a study published Tuesday in The Lancet, a medical journal....
Miez makes WFH so much more enjoyable (imgur.com)
We were interviewing a Palestinian farmer. Then the drone and soldiers appeared (www.npr.org)
There are days when you head out to report a story, and you think you know where it's going. And then it spins in an entirely different direction. This is the story of one such day.
Funeral home of horrors: Owners arrested after 190 rotting corpses found (arstechnica.com)
Owners charged with abuse of a corpse, theft, money laundering, and forgery.
Justice Dept. Watchdog Describes Unsanitary Conditions at Florida Prison (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/justice-department-florida-pris…
Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (therecord.media)
Hibakusha condemn Israeli minister's remarks suggesting use of nuclear weapons against Gaza - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
Microsoft Launches Fresh Cybersecurity Strategy After New Attacks (tech.co)
New research is changing our understanding of cat emotions, from purring to their facial expressions (www.salon.com)
Dozens killed, wounded as Israel bombs school housing displaced people in northern Gaza (via Palestinian media) (www.aa.com.tr)
Boris Johnson asked scientists if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose (www.mirror.co.uk)
Kim Kardashian’s next trick? A bra to make you look turned on by absolutely everything (www.theguardian.com)
Highlights: The new bra in Kim Kardashian’s lingerie range, with its “daring” raised nipple detail, goes on sale on Halloween, but not, I think, because the effect she’s going for is “scary”. The sales pitch is “No matter how hot it is, you will always look cold”, but I’m not sure “cold” is the look she’s...
Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says (www.reuters.com)
Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday.
What type of piracy do you use the most? (strawpoll.com)
Personally I use public trackers the most and only recently private trackers for stuff in my native language....
Valve: "We don't know enough about NFTs to weigh in on that conversation" (web.archive.org)
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Where are they supposed to go to be safe?
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred (apnews.com)
Suspected gunman in Maine shootings found dead (www.wcvb.com)
Fitting end for human trash. Too bad he didn’t think of it sooner
Russia Says Israel's Gaza Bombardment Is Against International Law (www.usnews.com)
USNews.com
Skull and Bones Has Yet Another New Release Window (www.ign.com)
It is a marvel this game hasn’t been cancelled yet.