Positive ‘Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League’ User Reviews Split Unusually From Critics (www.forbes.com)
Ukraine-Israel Aid Bill Clears Critical Hurdle in the Senate (www.nytimes.com)
The Senate on Sunday pushed a $95 billion emergency aid bill for Ukraine and Israel past a critical hurdle, with a bipartisan vote that kept it on track for passage within days....
Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little (www.theguardian.com)
Sweden Democrats threaten to quit right-wing EU group if Orbán joins (www.politico.eu)
MEP Charlie Weimers says his party has had to consider ‘other options’ in light of Orbán’s stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
Vision Pro EyeSight feature doesn't really work, argues Macworld (9to5mac.com)
Vision Pro EyeSight feature doesn’t really work, argues Macworld::Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature is something Apple has stressed as a key product differentiator over rival headsets, and as a…
Now it looks like Facebook is fighting ad blockers (galaxycow.com)
Palestinians abused, forced to chant anti-Hamas slogans in ‘safe corridor’ (www.972mag.com)
Israeli tanks have besieged two of the most important hospitals still partially functioning in southern Gaza: Nasser and Al-Amal. Both are located in the western part of Khan Younis, and have been overwhelmed since the war began not only with the influx of patients but also with families seeking shelter after having been...
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)
Note: Xface wiki doesn’t explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support....
Kangaroo caught hopping around Florida apartment complex (www.nbcnews.com)
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office reunited the kangaroo with its owner after its proper registration was verified....
Imran Khan allies win shock victory in Pakistan election despite crackdown (www.theguardian.com)
Politicians allied with the former prime minister Imran Khan’s party have defied a military-led crackdown and alleged widespread rigging to win the most seats in Pakistan’s election, but opponent Nawaz Sharif claimed victory and said he would form a coalition government....
Noisy fish sex keeping Florida residents up all night with bass-heavy groans (nypost.com)
Unnerved residents of Tampa Bay, Florida, are scrambling to explain mysterious rolling bass tones that vibrate their walls at night and rob their kids of sleep....
Culkin (slrpnk.net)
New Manjaro Linux Gaming Handheld from OrangePi (neo.manjaro.org)
This is exciting! A gaming handheld from a great open source hardware company that makes SBCs like the RP5. It looks to have all the quality features and combines the best of all the handhelds I’ve seen. This has me really excited....
2024 Begins With More Record Heat Worldwide | On the heels of Earth’s warmest year, January was the eighth month in a row in which global temperatures blew past previous records. (www.nytimes.com)
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/022b4096-b1b1-4a43-bf4e-8d7e83826e8b.webp...
Almost every Gaza home has tunnel shafts, IDF commander says (m.jpost.com)
I see no god up here (sopuli.xyz)
The Quack post reminded me of this classic
Bees are majestic creatures (i.imgur.com)
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TIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Tennessee Man Plotted to Bring Guns and Explosives to the Border, FBI Says (www.vice.com)
The grievances and conspiracy theories that motivated the man’s violent plot are the same ones that brought the “God’s Amy” convoy to the southern border last week.
YSK: There is a firefox extension that redirects Youtube videos to Peertube (addons.mozilla.org)
At least 32 of remaining hostages in Gaza are dead, report says (www.theguardian.com)
More than a fifth of the remaining hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza are dead, according to available intelligence collated by the Israeli military....
🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC (mastodon.world)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Angry Chinese take to US Embassy’s social media account to vent about plunging stock market (www.cnn.com)
Tens of thousands of people in China are flocking to an unusual venue to vent their outrage about the continuing meltdown in the country’s stock market....
