Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report (www.theguardian.com)
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found...
Trump-linked dark-money group spent $90m on racist and transphobic ads in 2022, records show (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
Aid for Gaza will soon flow from pier project just finished by US military, Pentagon says (apnews.com)
The Linux kernel is a CNA - so what? (www.codethink.co.uk)
Save 100% on 100% Orange Juice on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Teen claims he killed his trans friend by "accident." Police think it was intentional. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Ghost of Tsushima runs well on Steam Deck, making its PSN nonsense all the more annoying (web.archive.org)
'Massive' French police deployment arrives to fight liberation forces in the colony in New Caledonia (www.euractiv.com)
US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden (www.reuters.com)
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....
#148 Variable Styles · This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
ENDLESS Legend is Currently Free to Claim on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Offer ends on May 23rd.
Modi’s anti-Muslim rhetoric taps into Hindu replacement fears that trace back to colonial India (theconversation.com)
Syrians Facing Expulsions at Home and Abroad (unicornriot.ninja)
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
Texas governor pardons man who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 (www.theguardian.com)
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas issued a full pardon on Thursday to a former US army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice....
The Motorola Razr+ is about to get a sequel, but still hasn’t gotten an Android 14 update (9to5google.com)
everything zen (friendica.myportal.social)
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It's International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (www.advocate.com)
Intelligence chief warns Canadians that China can use TikTok to spy on them (www.cbc.ca)
Battle of Antonov Airport (sh.itjust.works)
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Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5 (kotaku.com)
Ubisoft insists yet again that its uncanny AI-generated 'NEO-NPCs' will make games 'more alive and richer', whatever that means (www.pcgamer.com)
[US] Rep. Robert Garcia calls out Peru for classifying trans, intersex & nonbinary people as mentally ill (www.advocate.com)
Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B (www.tomshardware.com)
Liechtenstein legalizes same-sex marriage in near-unanimous vote (www.politico.eu)
