New research is changing our understanding of cat emotions, from purring to their facial expressions (www.salon.com)
Dozens killed, wounded as Israel bombs school housing displaced people in northern Gaza (via Palestinian media) (www.aa.com.tr)
Boris Johnson asked scientists if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose (www.mirror.co.uk)
Kim Kardashian’s next trick? A bra to make you look turned on by absolutely everything (www.theguardian.com)
Highlights: The new bra in Kim Kardashian’s lingerie range, with its “daring” raised nipple detail, goes on sale on Halloween, but not, I think, because the effect she’s going for is “scary”. The sales pitch is “No matter how hot it is, you will always look cold”, but I’m not sure “cold” is the look she’s...
Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says (www.reuters.com)
Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday.
What type of piracy do you use the most? (strawpoll.com)
Personally I use public trackers the most and only recently private trackers for stuff in my native language....
Valve: "We don't know enough about NFTs to weigh in on that conversation" (web.archive.org)
Mob storms Dagestan airport in search of Jewish passengers from Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Where are they supposed to go to be safe?
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred (apnews.com)
Suspected gunman in Maine shootings found dead (www.wcvb.com)
Fitting end for human trash. Too bad he didn’t think of it sooner
Russia Says Israel's Gaza Bombardment Is Against International Law (www.usnews.com)
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Skull and Bones Has Yet Another New Release Window (www.ign.com)
It is a marvel this game hasn’t been cancelled yet.
Alphabet Shows the Mega-Layoff Announcements Were Just That, Headcount Dropped Far Less and is Rising Again (wolfstreet.com)
15 years of the Android Market: The app that changed the game (www.androidauthority.com)
A police dog attacked a Black trucker on his knees. An Ohio city is dealing with the aftermath (apnews.com)
Israel halts UN staff visas as officials pan Guterres’s ‘truly insane’ Hamas remarks (www.timesofisrael.com)
You anti-semites are anti-semites for calling us out as perpetrators of genocide! You can’t call Israel an apartheid state just because we sit on a people and murder them indiscriminately! We have a right to exist and a right to brutalize! You’re bad for saying that we do that! How can you call us murdering assholes when...
Propaganda War: Pro-Israel Trolls Are Mobbing Twitter's Community Notes (www.mintpressnews.com)
One of the reasons that social media companies have not cracked down on disingenuous pro-Israeli activities could be that former Israeli government and military officials hold top positions at a great number of the world’s most important platforms....
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability (www.nature.com)
Should I believe this headline?
Israel to allow aid into Gaza via Egypt border crossing (news.retiolus.net)
Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson (apnews.com)
Colorado upheld a warrant’s reverse keyword search for directions to a house. They claim the search warrant, which was overly broad and without individual probable cause, did not violate Google’s millions of US users’ fourth amendment protections, because the court said the police were acting in good faith under what was...
Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
Why the US is falling behind- a lack of R&D, particularly around computers, emerging technologies, and education. And how we are starting to reinvest in critical R&D again for things like vaccines and chips....
Used clothing from the West is a big seller in East Africa. Uganda's leader wants a ban (apnews.com)
Japan’s government to ask court to strip Unification Church of legal status (www.aljazeera.com)
South Korea-based church has come under scrutiny since the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.