Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season (www.engadget.com)
Millions can no longer afford their rent (mynorthwest.com)
Ukraine-born Miss Japan winner relinquishes crown following affair (www.bbc.com)
The Ukraine-born winner of the Miss Japan beauty pageant has given up her crown after a tabloid report revealed her affair with a married man....
Worth it (lemmy.world)
Hmmm... (files.catbox.moe)
Can Trump be on the ballot? It's the Supreme Court's biggest election test since Bush v. Gore (apnews.com)
In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from reclaiming power....
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)
I find it pretty interesting that kagi is rated as Terrible search engine, even ChatGPT preforms better.
Steam Hardware survey for January 2024 (lemmy.ml)
Windows 96.52%...
Texas AG Paxton sues five cities, including Austin and San Marcos, over marijuana policies (cbsaustin.com)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against five cities – Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Denton and Elgin – ordinances that aim to eliminate enforcement of low-level marijuana possession offenses....
It's disturbing how we as a society are okay with ad companies weaponsing psychology
So many people that take psychology courses end up working in the advertisement industry because that’s where the jobs are if you have a psychology degree. Very few people sit back and think about the implications of the scientific study of the mind being used by companies to distort peoples perceptions and make them buy...
Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping, snaring some with harsh punishments (apnews.com)
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her....
My move to wayland: it's finally ready (www.edu4rdshl.dev)
Let’s talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.
Families of hostages storm Knesset meeting after Netanyahu rejects Hamas offer (www.theguardian.com)
Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip have stormed a parliamentary meeting in Jerusalem to demand that Israel’s government does more to return their loved ones, as fighting in Khan Younis reached unprecedented levels....
Cast out from the jungle / With no rations or canteen (slrpnk.net)
Lenovo bets its Motorola smartphone brand will be the third-biggest globally in 3 years (www.cnbc.com)
‘Gas-Station Heroin’ Sold as Dietary Supplement Alarms Health Officials (www.nytimes.com)
Tianeptine, found at convenience stores, at smoke shops and online, can mimic an opioid. It is among a growing class of substances that are difficult to control....
Movie (feddit.de)
Programming: The Horror Game (programming.dev)
Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so?
GrapheneOS: Frequent Android auto-reboots block firmware exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
'Return to the right track' - Taiwan tells China to 'face reality' and respect election results (www.france24.com)
Voters spurned Beijing’s repeated calls not to vote for Lai, delivering a comfortable victory for a man China’s ruling Communist Party sees as a dangerous separatist....
Is it okay to wash hands with body soap?
I finished pooping and realised my liquid hand soap had run out, so I used a body soap bar to wash them. I had to go outside and use the hand soap in another bathroom to make sure my hands were clean....
Mississippi quits child food program amid Republican ‘welfare state’ attack (www.theguardian.com)
Critics condemn ‘cruelty’ of state opting out of federal problem to feed children from low-income families during summer break...
If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country
making me enter a special code and fill out forms and pay for the ‘deLuXe’ tax software because only that can handle the right forms...