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Nearly all Chinese banks are refusing to process payments from Russia, report says (www.businessinsider.com)

The impact of the West’s sanctions just seems to be getting worse and worse for Russia....

Google gives Meet some overdue attention with fresh interface and lots of new features (www.androidauthority.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18661137...

Doing my part to send minivans to the top (lemmy.world)

STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems (en.wikipedia.org)

A paper[1] presented in June at the NAACL 2024 conference describes "how to apply large language models to write grounded and organized long-form articles from scratch, with comparable breadth and depth to Wikipedia pages." A "research prototype" version of the resulting "STORM" system is available online and has already...

Anon needs help reading a social situation (sh.itjust.works)

American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn (www.scientificamerican.com)

After weeks healing from foot injuries, finally allowed back in the hot tub tonight. [OC] (lemmy.world)

Don't use any clicking scripts. (www.4242.pro)

use firefox to avoid being sus

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Willow before the first vet trip. [OC] (lemmy.world)

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Harris to call for federal ban on price-gouging in Friday speech (thehill.com)

Dessert? Pizza

Saw a recipe for Grilled Peach pizza and made my own rendition with the White Nectarines I already had. So here is my- Nectarine prosciutto pizza with Swiss, Gruyère and Brie cheese and a balsamic/honey drizzle.

[JunsKitchen] How I Trained My Cats (www.youtube.com)

I really like rewatching this every now and then♥️

How America's Farmworkers Risk Their Lives To Pick Your Food (www.youtube.com)

It's a damned shame (lemmy.world)

Anon tries to be ethical (sh.itjust.works)

Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech (www.wired.com)

Out transgender woman athlete will make history as she competes in Paralympic Games (www.advocate.com)

Gay man freed from Qatar after being "honey-trapped" by police in Grindr plot (www.lgbtqnation.com)

New York county signs first mask ban into US law, sparking controversy (www.theguardian.com)

Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’ (www.independent.co.uk)

Vance also seemed to agree when a podcast host suggested that having grandparents help raise children was a ‘weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman’...

Ukraine's Ministry of Reintegration of Occupied Territories offers residents of Kursk Oblast to evacuate to Ukraine (www.pravda.com.ua)

The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine has opened a 24/7 hotline for the residents of Russia’s Kursk Oblast who need humanitarian aid or want to evacuate to Ukraine....