New 'joint employer' rule could make it easier for millions to unionize - if it survives challenges (apnews.com)
The rule — announced late last month by the National Labor Relations Board –- sets new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act....
Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote (insideclimatenews.org)
Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 (ghacks.net)
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status (techcrunch.com)
Home heating from datacentres - good use of waste energy or a waste of money? | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate (www.politico.eu)
‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny....
Psychedelic treatments are speeding towards approval — but no one knows how they work (www.nature.com)
Macron opposes gender-inclusive spelling as he inaugurates language museum (www.france24.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....
Russians storm airport in attempt to attack passengers of Israeli flight (www.jpost.com)
Footage reportedly from the scene shared on local Telegram channels showed rioters chanting “Allahu Akbar” and stopping cars in order to check the documents of passengers to ensure they were not Israeli or Jewish. The Russian state-owned RIA Novosti outlet reported that police officers and the National Guard were present at...
White House opens $45 billion in federal funds to developers to convert offices to homes (www.marketwatch.com)
The White House kicked off a multiagency push on Friday to help finance real-estate developers convert more office buildings in big cities emptied by the pandemic into affordable housing, taking aim at the nation’s housing crisis....
How I messed up by accidentally replaying all my keystrokes from the last few days (github.com)
After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I’d also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I’d appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it’s a weird feeling to know that some stuff...
Cities Skylines 2 dev stuck to launch date despite “potential kicking” (www.pcgamesn.com)
Florida man sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for trying to run over 6 Black men (apnews.com)
A 62-year-old white man convicted of attempting to run down six Black men at the site of the Rosewood massacre has been sentenced to a single year in prison....
Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice? (www.latimes.com)
Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
Federal agents found more than two dozen minors working in Ohio poultry plant (www.nbcnews.com)
Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity....
IRS plans to launch free tax filing pilot program in 13 states next year (www.cnn.com)
The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a plan to build its own free tax filing program, known as Direct File, announcing Tuesday that a pilot version will be available to some taxpayers in 13 states next year....
Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of 'additional facts' (www.bbc.com)
New Mexico prosecutors plan to recharge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal on-set shooting in October 2021....
The People Cheering for Humanity's End (www.theatlantic.com)
I found this essay about differing viewpoints on where Homo sapiens is headed to be very interesting.
A Supreme Court dispute over a $15,000 IRS bill may be aimed at a never-enacted tax on billionaires (apnews.com)
Charles and Kathleen Moore are about to have their day in the Supreme Court over a $15,000 tax bill they contend is unconstitutional....
Births in China slide 10% to hit their lowest on record (www.nbcnews.com)
The number of births in China tumbled 10% last year to hit their lowest level on record, a drop that comes despite a slew of government efforts to support parents and amid increasing alarm that the country has become demographically imbalanced....
‘It was a plague’: Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cups (www.theguardian.com)
Killarney used to accept it as a price of being a tourist town: ubiquitous disposable coffee cups spilling from bins, littering roads and blighting the area’s national park....
… da fuck? (sh.itjust.works)
Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
Celeste: GUI file synchronization client that can sync with any cloud provider (github.com)
Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider....