Kotaku: "There’s A Reason Why Sex Games Are Everywhere These Days" [sex sells] (kotaku.com)
Steam Survey for April 2024 shows a small dip for Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Turkey Halts All Trade With Israel, Officials Say (www.bloomberg.com)
Israeli forces detain wife of Middle East Eye correspondent at Gaza checkpoint (www.middleeasteye.net)
Colombia to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war, Petro says (www.aljazeera.com)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced plans to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its war in the Gaza Strip, which human rights advocates and other experts have warned could amount to genocide....
TIL 40 states in the US charge you $20-$80 a day for being incarcerated in prison. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything....
Gaza’s new terror: Booby-trapped cans of food for the unwary --- UPDATE: please see comment in the thread (news.un.org)
A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said, citing the Strip’s authorities....
House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war (apnews.com)
‘If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would broaden the legal definition of antisemitism to include the “targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.’"...
Litterbox woes - how to solve them? (mander.xyz)
I got a weird problem involving both of my cats (Siegfrieda, to the left; Kika, to the right)....
At least 2,000 people arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, AP tally shows (apnews.com)
Police shoot rubber bullets at UCLA protesters as encampment cleared (www.newsweek.com)
openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - April (news.opensuse.org)
Welcome to the monthly update for openSUSE Tumbleweed for April 2024. This month began after addressing last month’s supply chain attack against xz compression library for the rolling release. An explanation of that XZ Backdoor, how it was address and what was learned can be found on news.opensuse.org....
Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry (insideevs.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15089465...
Refreshing (slrpnk.net)
Piracy (slrpnk.net)
JPMorgan says its Russia assets may be seized after lawsuits in Russia, US (www.reuters.com)
JPMorgan Chase said in a filing on Wednesday that its assets in Russia may be seized after lawsuits in Russian and U.S. courts....
Ukraine is on the brink, says a senior general (www.economist.com)
Sports Team Owners Face New Scrutiny From IRS Over Tax Avoidance (www.propublica.org)
Union plans strike vote over crackdown on University of California Gaza protests (www.theguardian.com)
Harvey Weinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned (www.theguardian.com)
Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...
Borislav Slavov on scoring 'Baldur's Gate 3' and what's next: “We’re just warming up" (www.nme.com)
Russians Who Fled Abroad Return in Boost For Putin’s War Economy (www.bloomberg.com)
No safety in retreat: Ukrainian soldiers say rear defensive lines barely exist amid Russian advance (apnews.com)
Defending the Camp (crimethinc.com)
Starfield is finally getting a 60fps mode on Xbox (www.theverge.com)
