New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows (www.theguardian.com)
Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home (www.bostonglobe.com)
Major homebuilders are prioritizing narrower houses with fewer doors, windows and cabinets. Median homes sizes are at a 13-year low....
America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation (unherd.com)
The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....
Linux Kernel 6.8 Officially Released, Here's What's New (9to5linux.com)
9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island (apnews.com)
Niri release 0.1.3 - the horizontally scrolling tiling wayland WM (github.com)
Plasma 6 may arrive next week in openSUSE (lists.opensuse.org)
From Dominique Leuenberger at Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2024/10...
Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done (www.pcgamer.com)
My Sega Saturn still doesn't read memory cartridges. (lemmus.org)
I just opened the console and cleaned the port and memory cartridges and it still won’t read....
Up to 60 days for US to establish Gaza port, Pentagon says (www.al-monitor.com)
Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company....
TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason) (www.imdb.com)
Dragon Ball: Japan manga creator Akira Toriyama dies (www.bbc.com)
The creator of Dragon Ball, one of the most influential and best-selling Japanese comics of all time, has died at 68....
Ground cinnamon sold at discount stores is tainted with lead, FDA warns (apnews.com)
EU reaches deal on forced labour ban, with China’s Xinjiang in its sights (www.scmp.com)
US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence (www.theguardian.com)
In a suspicious act of generosity, EA quietly slashes the Steam price on 4 Command and Conquer games to nearly nothing (www.pcgamer.com)
Girl Scouts were told to stop bracelet-making fundraiser for kids in Gaza. Now they can't keep up (apnews.com)
Missouri Girl Scout leaders threatened legal action against a troop that made bracelets to raise funds for starving children in Gaza, provoking outrage and ridicule from the girls’ supporters and advocates for people trapped in the Palestinian territory by the latest humanitarian crisis....
Following “flour massacre,” hundreds of thousands around the world protest Gaza genocide (www.wsws.org)
We all knew it be him (sh.itjust.works)
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North Korea stops sending shells to Russia, Seoul claims (www.telegraph.co.uk)
3 trains involved in collision, derailment in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley: NTSB (abcnews.go.com)
X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering (thehill.com)
Talks on an Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal appear on track after killings at Gaza aid site, officials say | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
FR F2 looks even worse (sh.itjust.works)
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