Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)
Always walk on the sunny side (sh.itjust.works)
Texas state police won’t punish more officers over Uvalde (apnews.com)
Texas state police will not discipline any more of its officers over the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead as heavily armed agents hesitated to confront the lone gunman, a spokesperson confirmed Friday....
[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)
It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes....
The young Honduran drowned in Greg Abbott’s Texas had a name: Norlan Bayardo Herrera (www.inquirer.com)
We need to name the refugees needlessly killed by Texas' cruel border demagoguery.
TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (www.theverge.com)
62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll (www.commondreams.org)
Biden administration begins canceling student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers (abcnews.go.com)
Starting Monday, hundreds of thousands of federal student loan borrowers will receive emails from their servicers with the subject line “Your student loans have been forgiven.”...
The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price (apnews.com)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have settled in as rulers of Afghanistan, two years after they seized power as U.S. and NATO forces withdrew from the country following two decades of war....
Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa implores public not to visit Maui as wildfire devastation rages on (www.foxnews.com)
FYI: DrunkenSlug Is Taking Registrations Again (ttrpg.network)
If you were looking for a new Indexer like I was, and were waiting for DS to open back up, head on over to drunkenslug.com/register
Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident (www.theroot.com)
The officer claims she didn't realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.
America’s nurse staffing crisis has reached the breaking point (thehill.com)
AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content (www.theverge.com)
AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content::The companies building generative AI tools like ChatGPT say updated copyright laws could interfere with their ability to train capable AI models. Here are comments from OpenAI, StabilityAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft and more.
Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long (www.nbcnews.com)
In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?
Cluck around and find out (lemmy.zip)
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? (techxplore.com)
The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909....
US campuses in uproar as Israel-Palestine conflict exposes divide (www.theguardian.com)
Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust...
WATCH: U.S. announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers (www.pbs.org)
In one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.
Bacteria found in bento box lunches in Japan that poisoned nearly 400 people (www.thesundaily.my)
Ryan (sh.itjust.works)
Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)
Report comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman blamed 'bad laws' for death sentence against a Saudi man over social media posts
AI sexbots: "Women in relationships already complain about partners addicted to porn and dissatisfied with actual intimacy" - the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female (goodinternet.substack.com)
Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Marvel Visual Effects Workers Unanimously Vote “Yes” to Unionize (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
IATSE aims to form a national VFX Local by year's end....
