Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats (stackdiary.com)
Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.
the debt (lemmy.world)
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
McDonald's is getting rid of self-serve drinks and some locations may charge for refills (www.cbsnews.com)
Microplastics found in every human testicle in study (www.theguardian.com)
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago (fortune.com)
Choose your difficulty (lemmy.world)
AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the “AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act” now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making...
400,000 species (lemmy.world)
What is the stupidest school rule you've ever had to deal with? (kbin.social)
Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
What is something lemmy can improve upon?
Pope criticised for saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia (www.theguardian.com)
Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says (www.theguardian.com)
The space armament treaty says: no nuclear, biological or laser weapons in space. but kinetics... (sh.itjust.works)
Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.
Just fuck me up fam (sh.itjust.works)
Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism (www.theguardian.com)
Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
400 people killed in a single day by Israeli attacks in Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
Twitter is losing daily active users. CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed it. (mashable.com)
By now, you may have heard about Elon Musk’s handpicked CEO for X, Linda Yaccarino, and her disastrous interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Vox Media’s Code 2023 event. However, somewhat overlooked amid some of the more viral moments of the discussion, Yaccarino dropped some previously unknown stats that don’t exactly...
What are some household chores people should do more often?
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate (www.theguardian.com)
Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate::Legal firm had said Real World Portal encouraged misogyny and there was evidence to suggest it is an illegal pyramid scheme
A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination (apnews.com)
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
