america (lemmy.zip)
same great taste! (slrpnk.net)
X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million....
6 year old who shot teacher bragged about it (www.bbc.com)
The six-year-old student who shot his teacher in the US earlier this year, boasted about the incident saying “I shot [her] dead”, unsealed court documents show....
TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike (www.mediamatters.org)
Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” No videos return. Users are also unable to search for the “WGA” hashtag....
Yo let me get some of that default_juice (pawb.social)
Amish men ‘shunned’ after nationwide emergency alert outs them for having phones (www.independent.co.uk)
Shouting at children can be as damaging as physical or sexual abuse, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Parents who shout at their children or call them “stupid” are leaving their offspring at greater risk of self-harm, drug use and ending up in jail, new research claims....
[Texas Tribune] “We are dying”: Houston workers protest new state law removing water break requirements (www.texastribune.org)
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TX school bans trans boy from playing "Oklahoma!" male lead, recasts with cisgender male student (www.salon.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline (www.theguardian.com)
Ohio purged 26,000 voters days before abortion referendum deadline
Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices (www.thedrive.com)
Ebay Could Owe $1.9 Billion in Fines for Allowing Sale of 343,000 Emissions Defeat Devices::The Department of Justice alleges that eBay illegally sold 343,011 emissions defeat devices, and could face billions in penalties.
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy that is preserving old cooking recipes. (lemmy.world)
Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing (www.msn.com)
No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows (gadgeteer.co.za)
Based on Ubuntu. Interface and functionality like Windows, users will not feel much difference. BRICS countries committed to their own Linux distributions. South Africa has been the exception.
simpler times (lemmy.world)
"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming (apnews.com)
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
How though? (lemmy.ml)
Explanation:...
YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer (www.androidpolice.com)
Texas power prices soar 20,000% as brutal heat wave sets off emergency (markets.businessinsider.com)
Texas power prices soared 20,000% Wednesday evening amid another brutal heat wave....
Trump expected to surrender to Fulton County jail on Thursday or Friday next week (www.cnn.com)
Former President Donald Trump is expected to surrender himself to the Fulton County jail at the end of next week – on Thursday or Friday, a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the surrender told CNN.