kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Gaza war: blaming Israel for October 7 Hamas attack makes peace less – not more – likely (theconversation.com)

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Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (yt.artemislena.eu)

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‘Highway to horror’: 14 wrecked slavers’ ships are identified in Bahamas (www.theguardian.com)

Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past...

Officials warn of environmental disaster after attack on cargo ship in Red Sea causes oil slick (www.pbs.org)

An attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused an 18-mile (29-kilometer) oil slick, the U.S. military said Saturday....

TIL A Car Sponsored by Durex Condoms Kept F1 off British TV for much of 1976 (www.bbc.com)

It was arguably the most famous season in Formula 1 history, featuring thrilling racing, off-track controversies and the near-death of the sport’s most famous driver, Niki Lauda, as he battled James Hunt for the world championship....

Mexican church officials have helped arrange a truce between 2 warring drug cartels (apnews.com)

Roman Catholic churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, a priest said Thursday....

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity (apnews.com)

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity::Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make...

Ukraine war: Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed since Russia's full-scale invasion (www.bbc.com)

Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion....

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)

Pentagon Has Opened Over 50 Criminal Probes on US Aid to Ukraine (archive.ph)

Grab these essential Steam boomer shooters at discounts up to 75% off right now (www.pcgamesn.com)

Old xkcd, I can't see it ever not being relevant (xkcd.com)

How your sensitive data can be sold after a data broker goes bankrupt (arstechnica.com)

TIL The term "joystick" does not originate from video games, and was first coined in 1909 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

The origin of the term is contested, but may be derived from “George Stick”, named for a possible inventor....

Video and Blog post: Molly White shows how to start editing Wikipedia (blog.mollywhite.net)

I started editing Wikipedia more seriously over the last couple of months, and this video has a bunch of useful information and how-tos that I wish I had then, and some stuff that I still didn’t know. I really like contributing to such a useful resource, and knowing that every little edit I make helps everybody who wants to...

Antarctica sea ice reaches alarming low for third year in a row (www.theguardian.com)

The extent of ice floating around the continent has contracted to below 2m sq km for three years in a row, indicating an ‘abrupt critical transition’...

It's possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it's not as easy as it sounds (privacy.thenexus.today)

There’s another wave of discourse about The Bad Space on the microblogging side of the fediverse, so here’s my article from a couple of months ago....

Serbia protests after Croatia's foreign minister calls Vučić a Russian 'satellite' in the Balkans (abcnews.go.com)

Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans...

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines (jalopnik.com)

Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines::The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal Cal/OSHA citations and $14,625 in fines.

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