Jaahnavi Kandula: US police officer who joked about woman's death fired (www.bbc.com)
A US police officer has been fired for making “vile” and “callous” comments about an Indian student’s death last year....
Trump Blows a Kiss as Hulk Hogan Rips His Shirt Onstage in Surreal RNC Scene (www.thedailybeast.com)
NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog (developer.nvidia.com)
We’re now at a point where transitioning fully to the open-source GPU kernel modules is the right move, and we’re making that change in the upcoming R560 driver release.
Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End (www.wired.com)
Death of 40 Haitians in Boat Fire Shows 'Crucial Need' for Safe, Legal Migration: UN. (www.commondreams.org)
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Harris to address major Democratic donors on Friday, source says (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will talk to major Democratic donors on Friday, according to a source familiar with the call, after President Joe Biden said he planned to return to the campaign trail next week even as more lawmakers called for him to step aside....
[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Being a Maverick is part of the deal #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
The story goes that the name of our hobby, at least in some parts of the world, ham radio, stems from the notion that we as a community were perceived as being ham-fisted in our ability to operate a Morse key. We apparently claimed that slur and made it our own. I’ve never actually been able to verify this narrative, but it...
The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose (www.economist.com)
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WSJ report alleges potential Russian arms transfer to Yemen (english.almayadeen.net)
Israeli PM blocks hospital for sick Gaza children in Israel (www.bbc.com)
Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons (www.retbit.com)
Russian missile attack on Mykolaiv injures at least 14, kills 3, including child (kyivindependent.com)
Russian forces attacked the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv with a missile on July 19, killing at least three people, including a child, and injuring 14, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said....
DNC officials defend virtual roll call vote (www.politico.com)
The Democratic National Committee is forging ahead with a virtual roll call to pick the party’s presidential nominee, even as a steady stream of congressional Democrats called for Joe Biden to exit the race....
Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling (theconversation.com)
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Soldier With Big Feet (1950s) (crazyturtleblog.blogspot.com)
old newsreel clip
Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (www.salon.com)
X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content....
UK Urged to Cut Off Arms Sales to Israel After Restoring UNRWA Funds. (www.commondreams.org)
UK Climate Campaigners Get 'Utterly Disproportionate' Sentences (www.commondreams.org)
Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
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Secret Service decries rightwing blame on female agents over Trump shooting (www.theguardian.com)
nut_webgui v0.3.1, Light-weight NUT web GUI (github.com)
I want to share a self-hosted tool I developed. It’s a NUT monitoring tool similar to webNUT but it has some additional features like:...
World Court Finds Israel Responsible for Apartheid (www.hrw.org)
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