‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier. (Paywall) (www.nytimes.com)
A Times analysis shows that increasingly complex oil and gas wells now require astonishing volumes of water to fracture the bedrock and release fossil fuels, threatening America’s fragile aquifers....
KDE: A bit on sponsorship and money (pointieststick.com)
Ukraine claims Sevastopol strike hit navy commanders (www.bbc.com)
Ukraine says Friday’s missile strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials....
A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial (www.vox.com)
Delay, deflect, downplay, and other ways fossil fuel companies block climate action.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins accepting human patients for trials of its brain implant (venturebeat.com)
Solidarity Ale! SF's Anchor Brewing workers plan to turn closed company into a co-op (therealnews.com)
Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT (lithub.com)
Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT::A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: So…
India could be behind killing of Canadian Sikh - Trudeau (www.bbc.co.uk)
Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)
‘It’s too powerful a technology’
Putin signals potential willingness to assist Kim as two leaders meet for expected weapons talks (www.cnn.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled a potential willingness to assist North Korea in developing its space and satellite program Wednesday, as he gave Kim Jong Un a tour of Russia’s vast Vostochny space launch site ahead of expected arms talks....
Ford, Honda, and BMW create a new vehicle-to-grid company to help EV owners save money (www.theverge.com)
The new company, ChargeScape, will create a platform that can be used by both utilities and EV owners to benefit from the expected surge in mobile batteries plugged into the grid.
Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited (www.theguardian.com)
Figures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retention
Star Trek: Infinite could be the grand strategy game Trekkies need (www.polygon.com)
X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors (www.socialmediatoday.com)
black hole goes brrrr (cloud.tilde.team)
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This is what Earth's hottest summer on record looks like (www.sbs.com.au)
Graphs show the dire reality of spiking temperatures around the world, in what is quickly shaping up to be Earth's hottest year since records began.
"why is everyone who immigrated from a communist country to the us a fucking chud?" -- "they moved for a reason. in their home country they (thankfully) cannot spread their reactionary beliefs there" (sh.itjust.works)
Burning Man Ends With Hours-Long Traffic Jam (www.thewrap.com)
Thousands of stranded Burning Man attendees were finally headed home in hours-long lines on Monday and Tuesday.
N Korea stages ‘tactical nuclear attack drill’ in warning to enemies (www.aljazeera.com)
North Korea has announced that it conducted a simulated “tactical nuclear attack” drill with two long-range missiles equipped with mock atomic warheads....
China objects as US approves military aid to Taiwan under program aimed at sovereign nations (apnews.com)
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Meta takes Threads a step nearer Fediverse integration - and updates their Privacy Policy (wedistribute.org)
Threads new ‘Supplemental Privacy Policy’ (Instagram link) says they’ll collect (from fediverse users interacting with Threads users):...
Running NixOS from any Linux Distro in systemd-nspawn Containers (nixcademy.com)
When showing Nix or NixOS to newcomers, the first instinct is often to run the NixOS Docker image on Docker or Podman. This week we’re having a look at how to do the same with systemd’s systemd-nspawn facility via the machinectl command. This has huge benefits to both trying out NixOS and also professionally using it like a...
UNC-Chapel Hill faculty member killed in shooting that sent campus into lockdown (www.nbcnews.com)
A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill faculty member was killed Monday in a shooting that prompted a campuswide lockdown while officials searched for an “armed and dangerous person,” university officials said....
The top 6 best TV shows based on games (www.destructoid.com)
We're past the days when every video game to film adaptation proved a massive dud. Some TV Shows based on games are genuinely great.