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Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to drugging, sexually abusing multiple women during overseas posts (www.cnn.com)

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues (www.theregister.com)

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues::Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness

A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry (theconversation.com)

We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.

Jeff Bezos Is Moving to Miami After 29 Years in Seattle (www.businessinsider.com)

Trump calls for the return of mental institutions (www.axios.com)

If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft seeks EU Digital Market Acts exemption for underdog apps like Edge | Vivaldi boss calls for browser choice and warns that Redmond might be deflating usage figures (www.theregister.com)

Throwback to the time my 7 y/o nephew called Kira "the angry clown lady" (dubvee.org)

Thanks, little dude. I can’t unsee it now. Glad they updated her look after the pilot.

Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries (archive.ph)

Egyptian queen tomb discovery yields sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years ago, plus 'exciting information' (www.foxnews.com)

Scientists have discovered sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years ago in an Egyptian queen’s tomb.The find, one of the oldest ever, was among the “grave goods” for Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos, from 3,000 BC, according to SWNS, the British news service.

Israeli rabbis work around the clock -- even on the Sabbath -- to count the dead from Hamas attack (apnews.com)

New Zealand shifts right as voters punish ruling party (www.cnn.com)

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has conceded his Labour party lost Saturday’s election, as voters punished the government and took the country rightwards nine months after his predecessor Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned....

Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her (www.theregister.com)

Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes (www.wsj.com)

Unity announces its revamped pricing model | After outcry from the gaming community, Unity revealed a new plan that’s a drastic departure from what was initially announced. (www.theverge.com)

Unity announces its revamped pricing model | After outcry from the gaming community, Unity revealed a new plan that’s a drastic departure from what was initially announced.::Unity has introduced a revamped version of its new pricing model. The updated pricing scheme arrives a little more than a week after the disastrous...

A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail (www.theguardian.com)

How we all feel coming here to /c/risa (i.postimg.cc)

Does it matter if I skip sponsored ad segments in YouTube videos? (kbin.social)

As in, would the channel be losing out on money? Because I don't want to take away from small creators if there is a retention rate for viewership of that exact segment, but I would prefer to skip any of the "but first check out this shitty mobile game".

Elon Musk’s Tweet Criticizing Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Sparks Outrage (www.kyivpost.com)

Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders (www.theverge.com)

Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated (www.phoronix.com)

The Xfce Wayland road-map on the project’s Wiki has been updated a few times over the past two weeks, namely around the desktop panel plug-ins and applications support for Wayland. There still isn’t a firm timeline or release where they expect to have a complete Xfce Wayland transition complete, but ultimately are aiming to...