Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Yay… more bad news from the land of the free.
Elon Musk is making millions from verified neo-Nazi X accounts (www.lgbtqnation.com)
America’s animal shelters are overwhelmed. Pets – and staff – are at breaking point (www.theguardian.com)
Just a warning, this article has some unpleasant parts to read
Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose (www.businessinsider.com)
Mass grave found at Gaza hospital occupied by Israeli forces (www.aljazeera.com)
A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel has begun, over 100 attack drones launched (www.nbcnews.com)
Why there are 861 roguelike deckbuilders on Steam all of a sudden (arstechnica.com)
Could We Build a Decentralised Social Platform Rooted in Place? (carlnewton.github.io)
Over the past year or so I’ve been playing with the idea of a decentralised social platform based on your location. By putting physical location at the centre of the experience, such a platform could be used to bring communities together and provide a source of local information when travelling. Please let me know what you...
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/13485819...
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness (www.afterbabel.com)
Evictions skyrocket nationwide as housing costs rise (www.nbcnews.com)
Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)
They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc....
Oregon city can't limit church's homeless meal services, federal judge rules (apnews.com)
A federal judge has ruled that a southern Oregon city can’t limit a local church’s homeless meal services....
Baltimore mayor responds to racists who called him ‘DEI mayor’ (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism....
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths (en.wikipedia.org)
Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" (www.ign.com)
Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case (thehill.com)
Fikre alleges that he traveled to Sudan in late 2009 in pursuit of growing an electronics business in his native East Africa. The FBI questioned him while in Sudan, according to court filings, telling Fikre he was on the No Fly List and could be removed if he became an informant....
Republicans' Election Riddled With Errors After Hand Counting Ballots (www.newsweek.com)
Republican efforts to hand count ballots in a seemingly low-profile Texas county primary election has led to a number of errors....
Malicious KDE theme can wipe out all your data (www.reddit.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/13397700...
LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform (techcrunch.com)
Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
Interview: Sonequa Martin-Green On The “Big Thing” In ‘Discovery’ Season 5 And Her Potential Star Trek Future (trekmovie.com)
Senior IDF officer censured over demolition of Gaza university without approval (www.timesofisrael.com)
Footage widely shared on social media showed a massive blast at Israa University, prompting US President Joe Biden’s administration to ask Israel for clarification....
You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)
It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...