Paris wants an AC-free Olympic Village. Team USA and others aren't so chill with it (www.npr.org)
‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec (www.theguardian.com)
It's weird that we enjoy stimulating our fear response
What would aliens think if they leaned we evolved fear as a survival mechanism, but we intentionally seek out situations that trigger our fear response, for fun?...
New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals" (www.cbsnews.com)
Your favorite clothes, cookware, and even dental floss may contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to human health. Now, a new Colorado law is aiming to make those products safer....
Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives (gizmodo.com)
X will soon limit the ability to livestream to Premium subscribers (9to5mac.com)
Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Article textNewly-restructured Swedish conglomerate, Embracer Group, will leverage AI models to bolster game production. As noted in Embracer’s annual report, the company has adopted a new AI policy package it claims has the capability to “massively enhance” its production process by “increasing resource efficiency,...
It's not that serious. (lemmy.world)
Inspired by a recent post about fork types. Stuff always seemed unnecessarily complicated.
It's been 16 days since Ukraine began striking targets in Russia with Western weapons and nuclear war still hasn't broken out yet (sh.itjust.works)
This person's grandfather is WILD (lemmy.world)
This week in KDE: Final Plasma 6.1 polishing and new features for 6.2 (pointieststick.com)
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to help pay Sandy Hook debt as judge decides Infowars’ fate (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company’s separate bankruptcy case. The decision could determine the future of his Infowars media platform, as Jones owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School...
Anon entertains himself while his parents are gone (sh.itjust.works)
Israel’s imminent fate
What is your favorite season?
Double question time!
Framework open sources the 3D CAD design files for its modular 16 inch laptop (liliputing.com)
DeSantis ‘freedom fund’ Pac targets abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives (www.theguardian.com)
Group, known as Florida Freedom Fund, launched in May and will also be involved in school board races...
Washington man allegedly kills teen because he mistook an airsoft gun for a real firearm - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
If the teens had real guns, peace would have erupted, instead....
King Charles portrait turned into Wallace and Gromit character by animal activists (inews.co.uk)
Headset recommendation
TL:DR; What wireless headset do you recommend (obviously works well with Linux)?...
Al Jazeera denies rumor that hostage was held at employee’s home (www.timesofisrael.com)
Qatari news network Al Jazeera is stridently denying any link to Gaza-based journalist Abdallah Aljamal, amid unverified rumors that hostage Noa Argamani had been held at his home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat....
We’ve just had a year in which every month was a record-setter (arstechnica.com)
what would a queen bee be called if queens never existed?
like what if the first person to coin the phrase, for the one bee that lays around just producing offspring, lived in a world that had no monarchies? or, were radically opposed to the concept....
How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?
I saw people complaining the companies are yet to find the next big thing with AI, but I am already seeing countless offer good solutions for almost every field imaginable. What is this thing the tech industry is waiting for and what are all these current products if not what they had in mind?...
Hitting your mid 40s (lemmy.world)
