Kentucky school district cancels classes less than two weeks into year due to Covid, flu and strep (www.nbcnews.com)
Attendance in the Lee County School District dropped to 81% just nine days after the first day of school....
Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.
or maybe eX-twitter
It's actually wholesome that early internet most famous meme/ viral video is a song about "never giving someone up and never letting them down"
Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans (www.newsweek.com)
Israeli police arrest and brand Palestinian with ‘Star of David’: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
aljazeera.com/…/israeli-police-arrest-and-brand-p…...
Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood For Output Of “Garbage” Content (deadline.com)
Google are so shit (0x0.st)
A funder for 'Sound of Freedom,' a QAnon-adjacent film about child sex trafficking, has been charged with accessory to child kidnapping (www.insider.com)
Lemmy Defederation Sync (LDS) to keep your block list up to date (github.com)
Hi all, I’m a Lemmy FOSS app contributor that’s made a couple of tools for people starting small instances including Lemmy Community Seeder (LCS) for building content on new server’s All Feeds and Lemmy Post Purger (LPP) for clearing old posts on smaller instances....
Ad blockers are a must (lemmy.ml)
Mexican president urges end to 'irrational' Ukraine war, wants Russia at peace talks (www.reuters.com)
NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine (www.forbes.com)
Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.
Who else foresees environmental problems with this later down the line? (news.microsoft.com)
Microsoft are looking at putting datacenters under the ocean, which sounds like a really good idea to cool them but I can’t help but think a couple decades from now it’s going to start causing us problems
Notes taking app
I’m looking for a good notes taking app to replace The Bad Ones like Evernote....
Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/834308...
After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
The NYC subway is using AI to detect fare dodgers (www.theverge.com)
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
Apple has deployed a system called Private Access Tokens that allows web servers to verify if a device is legitimate before granting access. This works by having the browser request a signed token from Apple proving the device is approved. While this currently has limited impact due to Safari’s market share, there are concerns...
What inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?
In Phoenix, 4.5 million residents are living in hell: this is life at 113°F degrees (45 °C) for more than 20 days (english.elpais.com)
Do you store all your media? And how?
For a piracy-oriented community I’m surprised this isn’t discussed as much....