John Zitzner, Founder of Breakthrough Charter Schools, Arrested in Human Trafficking Sting (www.clevescene.com)
We Added 690 New Words to the Dictionary for September 2023 | merriam-webster.com (www.merriam-webster.com)
America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways That May Never Be Cleaned Up (insideclimatenews.org)
Bark more (sh.itjust.works)
Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students (slate.com)
Tech disrupts the school bus — A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students::When disruption is just disruptive.
Have any of you used Tailscale's AirDrop alternative Taildrop? (tailscale.com)
I just discovered it today and I’m considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don’t use TailScale so I’m not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to...
Gotta date yourself sometimes (lemmy.zip)
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses” (arstechnica.com)
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses”::“I saw KKK epithets, a swastika, and the N-word," Black worker says.
Google is shutting down its Jamboard whiteboarding app (www.theverge.com)
BookWyrm.world (bookwyrm.world)
I did it again… started another Fediverse service, this time a Bookwyrm instance....
Groovy (lemmy.world)
Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard (apnews.com)
Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a rail yard originally owned by Southern Pacific and later bought by Union Pacific near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The wood preservative creosote, which has been associated with an...
Spotify is launching an eerie new AI-led feature that mimics podcasters' voices and translates them into different languages (www.businessinsider.com)
I'm a night owl, I'll be fine (lemmus.org)
When Zionists redefine ‘antisemitism’ into a political cudgel (therealnews.com)
Sony asking Gaming Heads to destroy all Playstation merchandises, including those have been paid and ready to be shipped (which Sony has received royalty payment for) (www.resetera.com)
Here's the screenshot of the letter from Gaming Heads to the communityimage...
What set off the latest South China Sea row between China and Philippines? (www.aljazeera.com)
Beijing has warned Manila not to “stir up trouble” after the Philippine coastguard removed a floating barrier at a disputed reef that was deployed by China to block Filipinos from the traditional fishing ground within their country’s own exclusive economic zone (EEZ)....
utterly Deranged (lemmy.ml)
Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack (apnews.com)
Genuinely curious and ignorant about restitution from inmates who spend the read of their lives in prison....
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5 (apnews.com)
It’s a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano....
Canada has evidence linking Indian diplomats to killing of Sikh activist, media reports (www.theguardian.com)
The Canadian Broadcasting Company revealed communications gathered about murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar
China sentences Uyghur scholar to life in jail (www.bbc.com)
A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”....
They Gossiped At Brunch. Now There’s a Mob After Them | People are sharing other people's gossip on TikTok, and experts say that it could have IRL effects (www.rollingstone.com)
They Gossiped At Brunch. Now There’s a Mob After Them | People are sharing other people’s gossip on TikTok, and experts say that it could have IRL effects::The growing trend of gossip TikTok is putting people’s personal lives on blast — and it risks setting up a self-imposed surveillance state.
A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic (apnews.com)
Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own...
