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Sim-ception (lemmy.zip)

The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter is now providing key aviation intelligence to Ukraine, defense agency says (www.businessinsider.com)

X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)

Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of...

A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users (boingboing.net)

Supreme Court leans toward upholding law that bars those accused of domestic violence from having firearms (www.nbcnews.com)

The case will test how far the court’s conservative majority is willing to go in interpreting the scope of its 2022 ruling that expanded gun rights outside the home....

Lynx are cats, right? Have a photo of a lynx kitten rolling around in the summer grass. (lemmy.zip)

I took this a few years ago at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden.

Boris Johnson Suggested He Thought Covid Was ‘Nature’s Way of Dealing With Old People’ (www.bloomberg.com)

Intel indicates Putin has acquired even larger table technology (files.catbox.moe)

www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/…/ar-AA1iXmuO

The US military and gaslighting its own troops; name a more iconic duo (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Texas eliminates 'tampon tax' on menstrual products, sales tax on baby items (goodmorningamerica.com)

Shoppers in Texas no longer have to pay a sales tax on menstrual products, making the state one of the few in the nation to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax.”...

Smell their fear (sh.itjust.works)

Lemmy.world down, probably following the upgrade. A reminder to move to smaller instances for a better experience (lemmy-status.org)

Philip Morris lobbying to stop WHO ‘attack’ on vapes and similar products (www.theguardian.com)

Australian woman convicted after pretending to be doctor on social media (www.stuff.co.nz)

I HAVE TO BE SPECIAL!!! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!

I like to watch (lemmy.zip)

Donald Trump has been indicted in special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe (www.cnn.com)

Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four criminal counts in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol....

Reddit’s 2023 r/Place turned into a battleground for dunking on the CEO (www.polygon.com)

FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)

Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers (www.techspot.com)

Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers::undefined

Greta Thunberg charged with public order offense in UK after arrest outside oil industry conference (apnews.com)

Trump committed egregious intelligence breach, ex-UK spy tells court (www.reuters.com)

Steele said in a witness statement that Trump’s decision to declassify his 2017 testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was “one of the most egregious breaches of intelligence rules and protocol by the US government in recent times”....

Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality. (www.fightforthefuture.org)

Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.::undefined

FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules. (www.theverge.com)

FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules.::The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information.

TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. (www.pbs.org)

The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...