US says Wagner coup is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ as White House consults allies (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Joe Biden has been briefed on the chaotic situation in Russia with US officials describing it as “serious”....
Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
A Tesla software hacker has found an ‘Elon Mode’ driving feature that seems to allow Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving to operate without any driver monitoring....
I grew up in the Satanic Panic — and it’s happening again (www.salon.com)
Amazon Delivery Drivers Walk Out in First-Ever Driver Strike | Vice (www.vice.com)
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reddit removing mods from subreddits (www.macrumors.com)
Shell plans to increase fossil fuel production despite its net-zero pledge (www.npr.org)
Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die” (www.bbc.co.uk)
For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country. They expose, for the first time, the disaster unfolding there since the government sealed the borders more than three years ago....
Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority (newrepublic.com)
Guatemalan journalist faces decades in prison (www.ft.com)
One of Guatemala’s best known journalists is facing up to 40 years in prison on Wednesday in a case that has raised alarm about a squeeze on democracy in Central America’s largest economy....
Fox News chryon text called Biden a 'wannabe dictator' who got 'his political rival arrested' during broadcast of Trump's post-courtroom speech (www.businessinsider.com)
WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye (climatecasino.net)
Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
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If we all cycled like the Dutch, CO2 emissions would drop by 690 million tonnes (www.euronews.com)
Big Oil lobbyist tells Fox viewers in the US that wildfire smoke is safe to breathe [video, 1:24 min] (nitter.net)
While smoke from devastating wildfires in Canada blanketed much of the US, forcing millions to stay indoors, lobbyist Steve Milloy told Fox News there is “no health risk” associated with inhaling such polluted air. “We have this kind of air in India and China all the time—no public health emergency,” he said. " This is...
My life was turned upside down by Beijing threats, wife of Chinese ex-official tells US court (web.archive.org)
'Operation Fox Hunt’ trial started in New York City.
Residents in Russia's Belgorod region say authorities are charging 3,000 rubles for evacuation of their children (web.archive.org)
"Everyone knows what day is today:" Hong Kong police arrest pro-democracy activist on Tiananmen Square anniversary (web.archive.org)
Scores of police were stopping people to search their belongings and question them. By late afternoon local time, reporters witnessed at least eight people taken away by police in vans – including Alexandra Wong, a well-known pro-democracy activist better known as Grandma Wong. The 67-year-old was carrying flowers as police...
Saudi Arabian woman detained over Twitter and Snapchat posts promoting reform (web.archive.org)
Manahel al-Otaibi, a 29-year-old certified fitness instructor and artist who frequently promoted female empowerment on her social media accounts, was accused by Saudi authorities of using a hashtag – translated to #societyisready – to call for an end to male guardianship rules.She has not yet been convicted or sentenced and...
Russian hypersonic scientist accused of betraying secrets to China (web.archive.org)
Alexander Shiplyuk, head of Siberia’s Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), is suspected of handing over classified material at a scientific conference in China in 2017. The 56-year-old maintains his innocence and insists the information in question wasn’t classified and was freely available...
Beijing's crackdown on global advisory firms will hinder international investments in China, experts say (hongkongfp.com)
Chinese authorities raided three advisory firms over the past few months which offered investigative and strategic analysis for the Chinese market to foreign investors. Their staff -all Chinese nationals- were detained, one of them was sentenced to six years in prison for “stealing national secrets”. Alfred Wu, a researcher...