HELLDIVERS 2 Steam Account Linking Update [link to PlayStation Network mandatory] (store.steampowered.com)
KFC Malaysia temporarily closes outlets amid Gaza boycott [03 May 2024 | Al Jazeera] (www.aljazeera.com)
KFC is among a number of Western brands in Malaysia, where more than 60 percent of the population is Muslim, that have been subject to boycott calls over their perceived links to Israel....
The U.S. video game industry's unemployment rate is likely far higher than the national average (www.gamefile.news)
University of Vermont cancels UN ambassador’s address amid Gaza protests [Tara Suter | 05/03/24 | The Hill] (thehill.com)
The University of Vermont (UVM) has canceled United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement speech amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus as protests sweep colleges across the nation....
The unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza hasn't been seen since World War II, the UN says (apnews.com)
This Week in Self-Hosted (3 May 2024) (selfh.st)
Not my newsletter, just a good community share. Authors are on Mastodon at @selfhst
‘Huge win’: Brown University protesters reach an agreement to dismantle encampment (forward.com)
This article describes the little-reported on success that Brown University had in disbanding student protest… by conceding to let activists present a case for divestment at an upcoming hearing before the university’s investment board....
Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis (news.un.org)
The longshot plan to end the war in Gaza and bring peace to the Middle East (www.vox.com)
It started with a tweet. What if Harry Potter attended an HBCU? Now it's a book series (apnews.com)
(HBCU - historically black college/university)...
Google's plan is to annoy you relentlessly until you update Messages (www.androidauthority.com)
There’s a new Google Messages update page that takes up your phone’s entire display every time you open the app....
In 1st Sit-Down, Brittney Griner Talks Suicidal Ideations in Russian Detainment (www.jezebel.com)
Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? (ipv6.rs)
From their site:...
[\#StarTrekIRL](https://jorts.horse/tags/StarTrekIRL) (christiemed.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/79634...
Government Response - Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state (petition.parliament.uk)
tl;dr: we will do nothing about it...
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records (www.404media.co)
The First Solidarity Camp for Gaza has Gone Up in a Latin American (Mexican) Campus (english.elpais.com)
NYPD officer fired gun while clearing protesters at Columbia: Live (www.independent.co.uk)
'Qatar targeted my brother on Grindr - I want him home’ (www.bbc.com)
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a “honeytrap” operation using the gay dating app, Grindr....
Arizona governor signs into law measure to repeal 1864 abortion ban (www.theguardian.com)
State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage...
New Hampshire jury finds state liable for abuse at youth detention center and awards victim $38M (apnews.com)
A New Hampshire jury awarded $38 million to the man who blew the lid off abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center Friday, in a landmark case finding the state’s negligence allowed him to be beaten, raped and held in solitary confinement as a teen....
Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts political firestorm in 2016 over 'Access Hollywood' tape (apnews.com)
Hope Hicks, a former adviser to Donald Trump, took the stand Friday at the former president’s hush money trial and recounted how his 2016 campaign became embroiled in a political firestorm over a recording in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission....
At least 42 die from measles outbreak in northeast Nigeria (www.reuters.com)
At least 42 deaths have been recorded from a measles outbreak in just over a week in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa, the state’s health commissioner said on Friday....
‘Seize all cannabis’: Inside the surprising federal crackdown on New Mexico weed farmers (www.politico.com)
… U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than $300,000 of state-licensed cannabis in New Mexico in the last two months. These seizures occurred at border patrol checkpoints, some of which lie as far as 80 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border....