Disney World sued over 'painful wedgie' caused by Typhoon Lagoon slide (ew.com)
Russians queue up to see Barbie film despite sanctions (www.bbc.com)
Officially, the Barbie movie isn’t showing in Russia....
Iran stops families marking anniversaries of protesters' deaths (www.bbc.com)
Relatives say they are being forced to cancel anniversary memorials for those killed last year.
Mao Mi: I Heard There's a Bleptember (monyet.cc)
All over the world, including Australia, Airbnb rentals are in the firing line (thenewdaily.com.au)
All over the world, including Australia, Airbnb rentals are in the firing line::Short stay rental regulations won’t solve the rental crisis, but getting houses back into the residential market is a “positive.”
At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the AIDS pandemic ending? (www.freethink.com)
At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the AIDS pandemic ending?::undefined
Apartment rents are on the verge of declining due to massive new supply (www.cnbc.com)
Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced | Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for th... (www.theguardian.com)
Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced | Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for th…::Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the...
Musk threatens Anti-Defamation League with defamation lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy (www.wired.com)
Court Tosses Arkansas Age Verification Law For Violating The 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
Just after a judge granted an injunction against Texas’ adult content age verification law on 1st Amendment grounds, a judge in Arkansas did the same to that state’s social media age verification law. Trade organization NetChoice had challenged the law, and the court basically gave them a complete and total victory....
Takeshi’s Castle is back! UK television gets its best ever version of the Japanese gameshow (www.theguardian.com)
Category 4 Hurricane Idalia projected to hit Florida with 'catastrophic' storm surge (apnews.com)
Hurricane Idalia strengthened to a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday morning as it steamed toward Florida’s Big Bend region and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall....
Let's not get crazy here (sh.itjust.works)
Armored Core VI Review Thread (85/100) (opencritic.com)
Game Information...
Period poverty: In Africa, women are being priced out of buying sanitary ware (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1305190...
How WeWork is nearing failure after a valuation of $47 billion in 2019 (www.foxbusiness.com)
Ancient Peruvian whale may be most massive creature recorded (www.dw.com)
Scientists have described fossils that are believed to have belonged to an extinct whale that may have been heavier than any other creature, including the largest dinosaurs....
South Korean dog meat farmers push back against growing moves to outlaw their industry (abcnews.go.com)
Dog meat consumption, a centuries-old practice on the Korean Peninsula, isn’t explicitly prohibited or legalized in South Korea
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data (www.reuters.com)
To the surprise of no one, California cops spend most of their time harassing taxpayers via traffic stops instead of work on solving actual crimes.
Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike (www.engadget.com)
Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers continue to strike::Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever end? It looks like the big corporations are digging in for a long battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine learning platform product manager.
RISC-V is now has offical Debian supprt (lists.debian.org)
Some of you have been following on IRC, some of you have noticed the ACCEPTED mails from dak on the mailing list, some of you may have noticed the recent closure of bug #1033658. For all the others, I am happy to share the good news:...
[Fortune] Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (archive.ph)
Researchers found that ChatGPT’s performance varied significantly over time, showing “wild fluctuations” in its ability to solve math problems, answer questions, generate code, and do visual reasoning between March and June 2022. In particular, ChatGPT’s accuracy in solving math problems dropped drastically from over 97%...
How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels (www.propublica.org)
There's a user on /r/Noncredibledefense with a theory that Lukashenko is actually pretty clever and cunning and he just plays the fool and I was pretty convinced. (sh.itjust.works)
