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Portal 64 dev says “don’t be mad at Valve” for the project’s shutdown (www.pcgamesn.com)

Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists (www.theguardian.com)

Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gay’s use – and potential misuse – of data in her PhD thesis” in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal website last Friday....

3 migrants, including 2 kids, drowned in Eagle Pass days after Texas blocked Border Patrol from area, congressman says (www.cnn.com)

Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar....

Could we add "Distrochooser" to the sidebar? (distrochooser.de)

Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?

Tachiyomi War begins (twitter.com)

iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop from Alaska Airlines flight where panel ripped off (www.independent.co.uk)

Two cell phones were recovered from the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 jet that had an inflight explosive episode as it flew across Oregon over the weekend....

Thank you all so much for keeping me on the Linux train! (lemmy.zip)

Well after spending all afternoon with this new Dell XPS 13 9315 I absolutely love it. The fit and finish feels exactly like a Macbook Air....

A Black woman in Ohio was charged after miscarrying in her bathroom. Experts warn of the dangerous precedent. (www.nbcnews.com)

Brittany Watts, 33, was charged after police searched her toilet following her miscarriage in September....

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email (www.usatoday.com)

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email::Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent a year-end note to employees, suggesting they work longer hours and do better at mixing work with their personal lives.

Police fatally shoot Black woman who called 911 for domestic violence (www.theguardian.com)

A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, police officials and lawyers for the victim’s family said on Thursday. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances three years ago....

Bar owner is arrested after St. Louis police officer crashes into his business (www.seattletimes.com)

Sorry folks, this didn't look paywalled for me when I posted it....

Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby' (www.bbc.co.uk)

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED (www.wired.com)

A WIRED investigation just revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s years-long construction of a lavish, bunker-equipped sprawling compound in Hawaii....

Hannah Payne murder trial: Guilty on all counts (www.fox5atlanta.com)

Hannah Payne has been convicted on all charges in the death of 62-year-old Kenneth Herring.

We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle (literature.cafe)

Most people are killing their selves with third jobs to share apartments.

Bethesda is once again adding support for paid mods to Skyrim (steamcommunity.com)

Seems like Bethesda wants another go at this

Robert de Niro accuses Apple of censoring Awards Speech (www.theverge.com)

X may lose up to $75 mln by year-end on advertiser exodus - NYT (www.reuters.com)

NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer (www.goldmansachs.com)

Here comes the push.

Tesla's problems in Sweden are getting worse as dockworkers refuse to unload its EVs from ships (www.businessinsider.com)

The labor dispute over Tesla’s refusal to sign a collective wage agreement in Sweden has escalated into a dramatic labor battle....