Belarus increasingly isolated as tensions rise at EU border – DW – 08/22/2023 (www.dw.com)
Travel to Belarus is not recommended.
Nothing OS 2.0 rolling out for the Phone (1) next week (twitter.com)
nitter.net/nothing/status/1694012474054308289
China urges Brics to become geopolitical rival to G7 (archive.ph)
original ft.com/…/40f7cd4d-66f2-4e4d-876d-a0c7aa7097e1
UK microchip giant Arm files to sell shares in US (www.bbc.com)
British microchip designing giant Arm has announced it has filed paperwork to sell its shares in the US....
11 killed in explosion at coal mine in northern China (apnews.com)
Authorities say 11 people have been killed in a coal mine explosion in northern China, in a reminder of the country’s continued dependence on the energy source.
Georgia sheriff pleads guilty to groping prominent TV judge (www.fox5atlanta.com)
The Georgia sheriff has resigned after pleading guilty to groping prominent TV Judge Glenda Hatchett in a Cobb County hotel bar during a reception for the Georgia Sheriff's Association.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule (www.newyorker.com)
Anticorruption Crusader Presidential Candidate Wins Runoff Election in Guatemala, in Rebuke to Establishment (archive.ph)
Focus: Historic drought, hot seas slow Panama Canal shipping (www.reuters.com)
The Panama Canal Authority has reduced maximum ship weights and daily ship crossings in a bid to conserve water. Maritime transportation experts fear such events could become the new normal as rainfall deficits in the world’s fifth-wettest country spotlight climate risks affecting the ocean shipping industry that moves 80% of...
SimpleSecretsManager: A python library to manage encrypted secrets (github.com)
Not your typical self-hosted kind of project, but useful for other self-hosted projects...
India, China, and Iran set up pavilions at Army 2023 in Moscow (www.thehindu.com)
A little RSS site for Tech News (technewshub.net)
I built this little RSS reading site for tech news and thought I’d share it....
Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer (github.com)
[…] hopefully this thread would shed some light on what kind of pressure is put on extension developers.
Dozens of Hungarian women travel to Austria for abortions every week, amid tightening laws (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1521422...
Couch 2 5k - A Community for beginner runners (lemmy.capebreton.social)
New to running? Decided you want to tackle the C25k program that’s been popular the past few years?...
Poland holds huge military parade as voters focus on defence (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1476984...
Save Right Whale Coalition Sickened Over Government Response to Deaths of Whales in NY, NJ (www.shorenewsnetwork.com)
Rising with the Hill Talking with Michael Shellenberger, journalist and founder of Public Documentary film, Thrown To The Wind m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZYkWtARR5k...
HTA: Visitors urged to forego travel plans to West Maui (mauinow.com)
The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority reports that vacation travel to West Maui is strongly discouraged for the near future. Visitors in West Maui have largely heeded the call to leave the island. About 46,000 people have flown out of Kahului Airport since Wednesday.
Pakistan: Convoy of 23 Chinese engineers attacked in Balochistan (www.businesstoday.in)
Miss Universe Organisation cuts Indonesia ties over sex abuse claims (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1425034...
Canadians returning home from Maui tell stories of ‘war zone’ horror (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Gift link...
Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan (theintercept.com)
The Intercept has made extensive efforts to authenticate the document. Given the security climate in Pakistan, independent confirmation from sources in the Pakistani government was not possible. The Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment....
It looks like cross-device integration is coming to Android (www.theverge.com)
Google is reportedly planning to introduce a new Android feature that will let users link their various Android devices together, similar to Continuity features across the Apple ecosystem. Android expert Mishaal Rahman posted about the potential feature, noting that it could allow Android devices that are signed into the same...
‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot and Jamie Dornan Tangle in Familiar but Diverting Netflix Spy Thriller (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Sophie Okonedo, Matthias Schweighöfer and Alia Bhatt also star in this race to save the crucial asset of a secret global peacekeeping agency.
Myanmar Generals’ Favorite Overseas Bank to Cut Ties Next Month: Report (www.irrawaddy.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/3114002...
