The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise (sopuli.xyz)
Todd produced something that’s actually good‽...
'Panama Papers' trial starts. 27 people charged in the worldwide money laundering case (apnews.com)
Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X (www.reuters.com)
A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X that the judge had ordered blocked....
Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany (www.bbc.com)
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Tennessee passes 'chemtrail' bill banning airborne chemicals (www.bbc.com)
New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza (mondoweiss.net)
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Cocoa Is More Expensive Than Copper as It Tops $9,000 (www.bloomberg.com)
Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run (www.theguardian.com)
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Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race (www.bbc.co.uk)
She was so exhausted she slumped to the ground after finishing the race which is inspired by a famous prison escape....
Using AI to spot edible mushrooms could kill you | AI tools are good for some things, but don’t trust your health to apps that make frequent mistakes (wapo.st)
In particular, know how to identify the common and deadly species (eg: much of the genus Amanita) yourself, and get multiple trustworthy field guides for your part of the world.
S&P 500 is 'bizarrely overvalued' and could crash 49% as recession sets in, elite strategist says (markets.businessinsider.com)
Nearly half of young adults have 'money dysmorphia,' survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
The economy is fine! We just have… money dysmorphia. /s...
Somehow even worse than construction work in Qatar (sh.itjust.works)
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Investigators say they confirmed pilots' account of a rudder-control failure on a Boeing Max jet (apnews.com)
United Airlines pilots said pedals that control rudder movement on the plane were stuck as they tried to keep the plane in the center of the runway during the Feb. 6 landing....
US to set up temporary port on Gaza coast for aid delivery (www.bbc.com)
Partitioning Your Linux Drives: Does It Provide Any Benefits? (odysee.com)
Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused” (theintercept.com)
Two of the three victims specifically singled out by the New York Times in a marquee exposé published in December, which alleged that Hamas had deliberately weaponized sexual violence during the October 7 attacks, were not in fact victims of sexual assault, according to the spokesperson for the Kibbutz Be’eri, which the Times...
Study: Fasting Triggers Body-Wide Changes After 3 Days (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border (www.nbcnews.com)
“You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen,” Biden said. “So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”...
White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.
US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes (www.theregister.com)
The US Department of Defense has deployed machine learning algorithms to identify targets in over 85 air strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria this year....
Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people (www.fastcompany.com)
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You aren’t imagining things — drivers are more distracted by their phones than ever (www.vox.com)
During the pandemic, distracted driving increased, and it hasn’t gone down since....
Russian troops raped and tortured children in Ukraine, U.N. panel says (www.nbcnews.com)
The findings by the United Nations experts are the latest allegations of war crimes against Russia since its invasion of Ukraine....