The Israel-Hamas war is becoming a virtue signaling competition online (www.msnbc.com)
Real life dystopia has become so boring, people not directly involved intensify drama online to bring the conflict into their online lives....
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried testifies outside jury's presence (www.reuters.com)
The judge released the jurors for the rest of the day following a lunch break and instructed them to return on Friday morning. The unusual move came after Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said they planned to elicit testimony about the involvement of FTX lawyers in key company decisions like document retention and in crafting of loans...
Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware' (www.theregister.com)
[South Carolina] State investigation reveals shortcomings in Department of Disability and Special Needs (www.foxcarolina.com)
Report details inadequate handling of possible abuse and years-long wait times for consumers
Google Keep rolls out text formatting on Android [U: Old notes] (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2548743 (!googlepixel)
Lords of the Fallen reaches 1m sold in 10 days (www.eurogamer.net)
Scholz says that Germany needs to expand deportations of rejected asylum-seekers (apnews.com)
Lutris - Release v0.5.14 (github.com)
Add Steam account switcher to handle multiple Steam accounts on the same device....
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (bfi.uchicago.edu)
Those findings are crazy. I’ve never been social media addicted, been into luxury or general show-off brands (I pay extra to not look like I’m an advertisement… for anything but metal bands), so I don’t really know much about those issues.
Google is rolling out Wear OS 4 to the original Pixel Watch (news.retiolus.net)
Supreme Court of India rules that it cannot legalise marriage equality, asks Parliament and state legislatures to amend or frame laws to address discrimination faced by same-gender couples (www.thehindu.com)
A 3-2 majority of the Supreme Court of India refused to legalise marriage equality, holding that marriage was a statutory, and not constitutional, right. However, it unanimously urged Parliament and state legislatures to look into concerns faced by same-gender partners, such as in matters of inheritance, employment benefits, and...
France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmus.org/post/1165004...
YouTube is Autogenerating Videos for Songs Advocating the Expulsion of Muslims from India (www.bellingcat.com)
YouTube is autogenerating videos for “Hindutva Pop” songs, a genre affiliated anti-Muslim, right-wing Hindu extremism.
Special wheelchair gets users standing and climbing stairs (newatlas.com)
Philippines Hits Back at China's 'Propaganda' in South China Sea Dispute (www.newsweek.com)
China’s claim that it chased off a Philippine gunboat in the South China Sea is mere propaganda, a Philippine official has said....
Galaxy S24 series: Turning Galaxy into Android’s iPhone - the worst and best thing Samsung did (www.phonearena.com)
6000 Bombs in Six Days (bracingviews.substack.com)
Canon challenges ASML supremacy in chip manufacturing with a new nanoimprint lithography system (www.techspot.com)
Witchfire Development Roadmap (www.theastronauts.com)
Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com (wordpress.com)
First Look: The Evil AIs Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Return This Week In “A Few Badgeys More” (trekmovie.com)
US shoots down Turkish drone as Turkey bombs Kurdish forces in Syria, Iraq (www.wsws.org)
The sooner Android accepts RCS is dead, the sooner we can choose the next messaging platform that matters (www.androidpolice.com)
I’m just sitting here frustrated because I’m wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google’s RCS really doesn’t look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they...
Automatically publish .local addresses from Docker Compose labels (github.com)
Inspired by everyone here, I’ve spent the past few months playing with hosting my own instances of various open source projects. I just use them on my local network, and love the automatic mDNS my_machine_name.local addresses....
Dungeons & Dragons Will No Longer Be Distributed Through Penguin Random House (gizmodo.com)
Starting January 1, 2024, Penguin Random House will no longer be distributing Wizards of the Coast’s seminal TTRPG product, Dungeons & Dragons. The announcement was made via email to various retailers. io9 obtained a copy of this email for confirmation. There is currently a distributor portal live on Wizards’ site.
