Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Things Unexpectedly Named After People (notes.rolandcrosby.com)

An incomplete and infuriating list

Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading. (www.propublica.org)

Last June, Pfizer, the lone U.S. manufacturer of the injections, notified the Food and Drug Administration of an “impending stock out” that it anticipated would last a year. The company blamed “an increase in syphilis infection rates as well as competitive shortages.”...

Spare me these twisted visions! (sopuli.xyz)

There wolf. There castle. (slrpnk.net)

Grab this strategic space sim while it’s a free game on Steam, you don’t have long (www.pcgamesn.com)

Jury convicts first rioter to enter Capitol building during Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)

The first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol building during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was convicted on Friday of charges that he interfered with police and obstructed Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory....

Navalny buried in Moscow as thousands chant his name (www.reuters.com)

Mourners chant ‘Navalny’ as coffin carried past...

Look at this shit post. (lemmus.org)

Pro-Palestinian firebrand Galloway wins Rochdale by-election in blow for UK Labour (www.politico.eu)

What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone (www.theverge.com)

Texas battles second-biggest wildfire in US history - BBC (www.bbc.com)

Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)

Helldivers 2 has a Dungeons and Dragons-style GM behind the scenes (www.eurogamer.net)

Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses (www.theguardian.com)

New York Times: "Could Trekkies Decide the Election?" (www.nytimes.com)

Lets just hope they don’t mean the “I liked it before it got woke” jerkwads.

Nvidia is “the GPU cartel” according to former head of AMD Radeon (www.pcgamesn.com)

Japan hit a record low for the eighth consecutive year in 2023 (open.substack.com)

Find anything you need with fzf, the Linux fuzzy finder tool (redhat.com)

Btw there is skim, a Rust fzf replacement that is in most repos!

Texas’s San Antonio airport will get a 420lb autonomous security robot (www.theguardian.com)

Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive” (www.theregister.com)

Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive”::Use of AI to calculate legal bill ‘utterly and unusually unpersuasive’

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity (apnews.com)

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity::Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make...

Navalny's body returned to mother, spokeswoman says (www.bbc.com)

The body of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been returned to his mother, his spokesperson says....

Amid Florida’s Measles Outbreak, Surgeon General Goes Against Medical Guidance - The New York Times (Free article) (www.nytimes.com)

China demands the US stop any official contact with Taiwan following a congressional visit (apnews.com)

China is responding sternly to a U.S. congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan, demanding the U.S. stop any official contact with the self-governing island.