Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)
Sen. Bernie Sanders's office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear (apnews.com)
TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh (slrpnk.net)
Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. (www.marginalia.nu)
'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)
US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS (www.theguardian.com)
Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound...
California set to hike wages for fast-food workers to industry-leading $20 per hour (www.cbsnews.com)
Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry. Yet the pay hike is sparking furious debate, with some restaurant owners warning of job losses and higher prices for customers, while labor advocates tout the benefits of higher...
Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens [Kotaku got you covered on the issue] (kotaku.com)
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)
The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: gofetch.fail
Yep, defintely not a bad person (sh.itjust.works)
Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)
EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com)
There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....
Uvalde schoolchildren were massacred under a sheriff’s watch. He was still undefeated on Super Tuesday (www.independent.co.uk)
Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day...
New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games (kotaku.com)
Rice covered in cow cells aims to provide nutritious, sustainable food (www.science.org)
Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' (www.thecooldown.com)
Scientists develop game-changing ‘glass brick’ that could revolutionize construction: ‘The highest insulating performance’::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists (theregister.com)
X is just better! (beehaw.org)
Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in California (news.yahoo.com)
FULLERTON, California (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school....
ASUS now actively sabotaging attempts to unlock Zenfone 9 bootloader (xdaforums.com)
Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage (nypost.com)
A bill set to be introduced next month would ban consuming or producing sexual content and punish offenders with prison sentences of up to 20 years and $25,000 fines.
You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.
Final Fantasy 17 needs "a younger generation" of lead developers, suggests FF16 producer (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
St. Paul makes history with all-female city council, a rarity among large US cities (apnews.com)
St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.
