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Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says (www.latimes.com)

“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states

Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets (www.hrw.org)

TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press (www.smithsonianmag.com)

At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry...

Barbie earns $1 billion at the box office worldwide (www.theverge.com)

This got me thinking which button to click (lemm.ee)

Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (www.theverge.com)

Nature is weird (lemmy.zip)

In case you want to know what platypus noises sound like

Slightly skanky (beehaw.org)

CCleaner says hackers stole users' personal data during MOVEit mass-hack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA (www.jpost.com)

While the asteroid is traveling too far to pose any risk to the Earth, a possible impact event with it could become a worldwide catastrophe.

Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)

Auto loans could pose a bigger threat to young Americans than student loans. For the first time, the outstanding volume of auto loan debt just surpassed student loan debt. (creditnews.com)

X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models (techcrunch.com)

X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models::X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job and education history, Bloomberg spotted

The price gap between renting and buying has hit the widest point since 2000 (www.marketwatch.com)

Lab-grown meat can be halal and kosher (www.axios.com)

Islamic scholars consulted by a leading producer of cultivated meat say that the newfangled protein — which is grown from animal cells and doesn't require animals to be slaughtered — can be halal, or permissible under Muslim law....

Durham Public Works Employees “Illegally” Strike for 1st Time (paydayreport.com)

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA – In late June, I attended a meeting of public works employees in Durham, who were planning the first strike of public works employees in the rapidly gentrifying city, where many city workers can’t afford to live....

Federal judge rejects bids to halt Georgia prosecution of Trump aides over 2020 election (www.politico.com)

Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark had both pleaded with the judge to prohibit District Attorney Fani Willis from arresting them by a Friday deadline.

Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July (ieefa.org)

Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July::Germany connected solar systems with a combined capacity of almost 1.2 GW to the power grid in July, hitting a new monthly record and bringing the total solar capacity in operation to 75.1 GW

nice try (kbin.social)

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TIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Just came across a mention of this in the toldinstone video How Dangerous Was the Front Row of the Colosseum?.