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....
Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake (www.tomshardware.com)
The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety (privacy.thenexus.today)
New Florida law requires city officials to disclose net worth; some are resigning instead (www.usatoday.com)
Two Daytona Beach Shores city commissioners have resigned as the latest in a wave of local elected officials leaving before Jan. 1, when they face more stringent financial disclosure requirements....
Biden admin again bypasses Congress to sell military equipment to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
The Biden administration for the second time this month has bypassed Congress to approve the transfer of nearly $150 million in military equipment to Israel...
Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules (www.sciencealert.com)
Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox (soapbox.pub)
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.
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts (www.theguardian.com)
UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years
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.
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....
Forty-six million Americans are drinking "forever chemicals" in their tap water, report finds (www.salon.com)
IDF: We supplied 300 liters of fuel to Shifa, Hamas barred hospital from getting it (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it....