Yumyumyumyum (i.imgur.com)
We Have Here, in Africa, Everything Necessary to Become a Powerful, Modern, and Industrialised Continent: The Fortieth Newsletter (2023) (thetricontinental.org)
China's Declining Birth Rates: Maternity Wards Are Closing (stoppopulationdecline.org)
Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for world solidarity with Israel (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on world leaders on Saturday to show solidarity and unity in supporting Israel and condemning the “terrorist attack” by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas....
Obesity treatments cutting into grocery profits, sez Walton clan. Stay hungry, stay profitable, or you're of no use to them. (fortune.com)
Peasants with aeroplanes. - Lemmit (lemmit.online)
Raids on Indian media 'aim to muzzle free speech' (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nonunion autoworkers are watching the UAW — and deciding whether they want in (www.nbcnews.com)
China produces 80% of the world’s solar panels, and Europe is now buying over half of the panels it exports (www.canarymedia.com)
Google's Android Earthquake Alert failed' to detect north India tremors today. Why? (www.hindustantimes.com)
The Android Earthquake Alert system failed to detect recent tremors in north India, possibly due to its recent launch and gradual rollout to Android 5+ users in the country....
Pope Says There Could Be Ways to Bless Same-Sex Unions (time.com)
Pope Says There Could Be Ways to Bless Same-Sex Unions...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg honored on new postage stamp (www.cnn.com)
The United States Postal Service on Monday released its postage stamp honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist icon who served for years as the senior-most member of the court’s liberal wing....
Japan government plans to seek court order to dissolve Unification Church (english.kyodonews.net)
French authorities raid Nvidia office in antitrust investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
NATO's secretary-general meets with Zelenskyy to discuss battlefield and ammunition needs in Ukraine (apnews.com)
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean...
Bloomberg Lazily Helps Telecom Lobby Seed The Press With Bullshit Claims About Net Neutrality (www.techdirt.com)
With the Biden FCC now having a voting majority, the telecom industry is clearly worried about the agency’s plans to restore popular net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration....
Fire at wedding in Iraq kills at least 100, injures 150 (english.alarabiya.net)
More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq’s Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday.
Modern fashion (i.imgur.com)
Postal worker accused of stealing $1.7M in checks arrested trying to board flight at Dulles (www.nbcwashington.com)
September 21st, Starlink loses another 26 Satellites in one day. NOAA data from Goes Satellite missing (tiblur.com)
What is going on guys?
AI sexbots: "Women in relationships already complain about partners addicted to porn and dissatisfied with actual intimacy" - the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female (goodinternet.substack.com)
Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US (www.cnn.com)
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades....