China’s energy use per person surpasses Europe’s for first time (www.straitstimes.com)
What Went Wrong: Inside Paramount’s Failed Merger Talks and the Battle to Salvage the Company (variety.com)
The Paramount Skydance merger talks have been halted by the Paramount side.
Goverlay/Mangohud issues (ibb.co)
I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay....
End Legal Slavery in the United States (www.nytimes.com)
https://archive.ph/9Mq4c
Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives accused of ramming Filipino boats in disputed South China Sea (www.bbc.com)
Philippines soldiers used their “bare hands” to fight off Chinese coast guard personnel armed with swords, spears and knives in the disputed South China Sea, the country’s top military commander has said....
ENCIRCLEMENT! (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Today in History: Senate approves Civil Rights Act (apnews.com)
Happy Juneteenth!...
TikTok faces fresh US pressure over child privacy (www.bbc.com)
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance over potential violations of children’s privacy to the Department of Justice (DOJ)....
Contra Reforged Turns Konami's '80s Classic Into A Third-Person Shooter | Time Extension (www.timeextension.com)
The iconic run-and-gun shooter, Contra, is now reimagined in a third-person perspective with the release of Contra Reforged by homebrew developer Retrolead. This modern take on the classic game retains its retro graphics and difficulty level while offering unique features such as an auto lock-on mechanism that eliminates the...
Introducing Housing_Bubble_2 : Return of the Ugly (lemmy.world)
This community is documenting the impending second collapse of the housing market with an emphasis on the US but international news is included as well....
Blinken reportedly promised Netanyahu to lift restrictions on US arms shipments (www.timesofisrael.com)
New study highlights stark racial wealth gap in the New Orleans area (www.nola.com)
A new report from the Data Center is shedding disturbing light on income and wealth disparities in the New Orleans metro area, showing that on average white households have an astounding 13 times more net worth than their Black counterparts and nine times that of Latinx households....
Running nested X11 dwm sessions (github.com)
I have been using Xephyr and dwm for a while in a nested X11 session, and I grew sick and tired of having all the weird aliases in my bashrc and decided to make a little project that handles this for me in a nicer way....
A mysterious object in the sky over Italy has baffled experts (sciinsider.com)
Researchers observe a large anomalous Hall effect triggered by spin-fluctuating devil's staircase (phys.org)
clickbait headline but interesting materials research. ‘a unique magnetic transition phenomenon known as the “spin-fluctuating devil’s staircase.”’
The world’s oldest wine discovered in liquid form was found in a Roman tomb in Spain (n24hr.com)
DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake coming on Steam 14 Nov (store.steampowered.com)
Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (www.npr.org)
We see you, hard-core NPR readers — just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it’s all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We’ve got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.
Exploring the mystery of the man embroiled in a Canadian mining company's billion-dollar gold scam (www.cbc.ca)
Anyone remember BreX? Sure happy I didn’t invest, although yours truly had considered it at the time.
Monet among paintings removed from Swiss museum over Nazi looting fears (www.bbc.com)
Proton: Surfing the Wave of Windows Compatibility (boilingsteam.com)
US avocado inspectors stop work in Mexican state over ‘security situation’ (www.theguardian.com)
Mango inspections also suspended ‘until further notice’ in state troubled by gang violence, but USDA says produce already in transit not affected...
An AMD patent shows a multi-chiplet Radeon graphics card divided into nine shader engines, much like the reportedly canceled Navi 4c chip. (www.pcgamesn.com)
Russian propagandist justifies missile strike on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital because Ukrainians 'are not people' (khpg.org)
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