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Never return to the scene of your crime (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)

Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.

‘Orphaned by decree’: Italy’s same-sex parents react to losing their rights (www.theguardian.com)

Rightwing PM Giorgia Meloni has demanded councils register only biological parents on birth certificates, leaving partners in legal limbo

'We are not imperial': Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and balances (www.cnn.com)

Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court....

‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants (www.theguardian.com)

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy (www.eff.org)

Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.”...

'Amtrak Joe' Biden is off to Delaware to give out $16 billion for passenger rail projects (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden — perhaps the nation’s biggest Amtrak fan — is set to promote new federal investments for trains on the heavily trafficked Northeast Corridor....

Gotta date yourself sometimes (lemmy.zip)

UAW president says he won't meet with Trump (www.axios.com)

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said Tuesday that he won't meet with former President Trump during his upcoming visit to Detroit....

Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find (www.theguardian.com)

FYI: Ed Sheeran is a scab. (jezebel.com)

Moscow was again forced to shut down its major airports after Ukraine drones again targeted Russia's capital (www.businessinsider.com)

Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent (techcrunch.com)

The Mod Helper Program is a tiered system that awards helpful moderators with trophies and flairs. Reddit users accrue karma by receiving upvotes and awards, and lose karma if they receive downvotes. The program rewards moderators who receive upvotes on comments in r/ModSupport....

NCD is a pathway to abilities some consider to be...unnatural (media.kbin.social)

Belgium Considers Recognizing State of Palestine, Vows Sanctions Against Israel (www.moroccoworldnews.com)

Belgium announced that it is considering recognizing the state of Palestine, vowing to impose sanctions against Israeli occupation forces due to its genocidal war on Gaza.

Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies (techxplore.com)

Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies::In pursuit of the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero emissions, nations worldwide must expand their use of clean energy sources. In the case of solar energy, this change may already be upon us.

Air Canada changed my flight for the 3rd time, I'm now landing in Toronto 1 hour AFTER my next flight departure. (slrpnk.net)

SAG-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry (www.eurogamer.net)

Key issues up for negotiation include pay and conditions, but also “protections against unrestrained use of artificial intelligence”, specifically the impact upon performance capture artists....