Top

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice has filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s judicial standards commission after the body opened an investigation into comments she made about the diversity of the state’s judicial system, court documents show....

fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30

One beekeeper who came to the rescue described a cloud of "angry, confused and homeless" bees.

A woman and her dog were swept away by flash flooding that suddenly surged through a Utah slot canyon. They were saved after the SOS emergency feature on her iPhone notified rescuers.::The woman heard flash flooding coming while in Utah’s Mary Jane Canyon and tried to reach higher ground with her dog, but the sand bank was...

A 20-year-old man has become the first Ugandan to be charged with "aggravated homosexuality", an offence punishable by death under the country's recently enacted anti-gay law, prosecutors and his lawyer said.

The parties hope to win the support of independent voters by demonstrating their commitment to increasing the number of female lawmakers.

The new Teflon don thought he was untouchable but he’s falling just like others before him by the RICO laws made famous in the 80’s by his lawyer and number 2 defendent who is in his 80’s Rudy Guliani.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is swooping toward the moon’s surface ahead of its historic landing attempt, and it’s capturing some stunning visuals on the way.

In Guatemala, a reformist candidate has beaten the odds and will become president-elect. With nearly 100% of the vote counted, the center left, anti-corruption candidate, Bernardo Arévalo leads with more than 20 percentage votes....

California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading::AI and climate change represent two ways humans may ravage life as we know it on Earth, but the former can also help with the consequences of the latter.

Different country, different culture. Anyhow, the movie is actually somewhat superficial, I understand.

China universities waste millions, fail to make real use of research, audit finds in indictment of tech-sufficiency drive::undefined

The Enshittification may have begun of this service too....

‘Stunning’ discovery: Metals can heal themselves::Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it could usher in an engineering...

The Larva: It is interesting to note that even though we’ve seen dragonflies mostly flying around us during hot summer months, they spend most of their life underwater as a larva. They can live underwater for as long as two years, and this is considered to be the longest stage in the life cycle of a dragonfly....

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/958429...