Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban (www.theguardian.com)
State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library
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State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library
The sight of scurrying looters and widespread rioting across multiple English cities may be an unusual one. But the disorder has a 21st-century precedent in another overheated August....
Counter-protesters have turned out in UK cities amid warnings of at least 100 far-right marches being planned for Wednesday night....
Elon Musk could be summoned for a grilling by British MPs over X’s role in race riots that have rocked the U.K. over the last week, as well as his own incendiary comments about the violence....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18399462
I’m leaving the hed as-is per protocol, but the larger story here seems to be we’ve already hit the point where LLMs produce better prompts for other LLMs than human prompt engineers do....
archived 8 Aug 2024 01:21:23 UTC....
I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource....
A social media trend, dubbed the “Kia Challenge,” has appeared to compound the automakers’ problems in recent years, with people posting videos showing how to steal Hyundai and Kia cars. At its height, the Kia Challenge was linked to at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities, according to figures from the National...
Two men were arrested in what police said were terrorist plots at major events in Vienna. One was a 19-year-old who authorities said pledged his allegiance to ISIS.
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/25439437
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39052186