French election descends into madcap reality TV (www.politico.eu)
The French political class is tearing itself apart with feuding and backbiting ahead of this month’s vote....
A new challenger has appeared to challenge Soviet tanks for the title of The worst tank (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Meta to pause plans to use personal data to train AI models (www.rte.ie)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is to pause plans to use personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models after concerns were raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
Earth's core slows down rotation and reverses direction, effects of this phenomenal change on the planet (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/26714541
You shall be remembered
"Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy (www.atlanticcouncil.org)
Archived link...
Almost forgot to wish Donald a Happy Birthday.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/594caaef-1558-4abc-bb46-6caa5b5f56ad.jpeg...
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre (apnews.com)
Supreme Court rules gun 'bump stocks’ ban is unlawful (www.cnbc.com)
what foss phone OS do you use and why?
I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company)....
Flux of Pink Indians - Neu Smell [1981, United Kingdom, Anarcho-Punk] (www.youtube.com)
MusicBrainz: musicbrainz.org/…/8acd25b8-04ab-4916-b73a-c658145…
Accurate (lemmy.world)
What does your booger feel like rn?
Vladimir Putin issues fresh demands to Ukraine to end war (www.theguardian.com)
Vladimir Putin has demanded that Kyiv cede more land, withdraw troops deeper inside its own country, and drop its Nato bid in order for him to end Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity (www.bbc.com)
US banking giant Wells Fargo has sacked a number of employees following claims that staff were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not....
Like family (i.imgur.com)
Protesters all around Brazil call against the 'Child Pregnancy Bill' (www.brasildefato.com.br)
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
How can I fix this rotation issue? (lemdro.id)
I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE....
Just the little things
Former head of the NSA joins OpenAI board of directors (engineering.vanderbilt.edu)
Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit Australia today for the first time in seven years (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Chinese Premier Li Qiang is set to land in Australia on Saturday for the first visit by a Chinese premier in seven years....