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Donald Trump Jr asked courtroom sketch artist to ‘make me look sexy’ (www.the-independent.com)

‘It is not illegal to teach drunk’: Charges dropped against 2nd grade teacher accused of being intoxicated in class (lawandcrime.com)

While the District Attorney’s Office agrees that it is highly inappropriate to teach while intoxicated, it is, unfortunately, not illegal.”

Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare (fortune.com)

A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods (thespinoff.co.nz)

In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. To clear up any confusion, The Spinoff has compiled a guide to the wokeness levels of some common food items.

AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (www.newscientist.com)

Voters in 13 Oregon Counties Approve 'Greater Idaho' Measure Seeking to Secede From Liberal-Run State (www.nysun.com)

Thirteen counties in Oregon have voted in favor of measures to begin negotiations on seceding from the state and joining neighboring Idaho....

Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change (thehill.com)

Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ (lemmy.world)

Trump Said to Be Weighing White House Advisory Role for Elon Musk (www.thedailybeast.com)

RFK Jr. Swears He Wasn’t Thirsty for Fitness Influencer on TikTok (gizmodo.com)

The reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X Wednesday. The reply is now deleted, but according to saved recordings, it simply stated “Wow” and was accompanied by two smiling faces with hearts emoji. As for how you can tell it...

Harvard morgue theft ring stole body parts, sold brains and turned human flesh into leather (www.nbcnews.com)

Jan. 6 Rally Organizer Created Her Own Mugshot Because She Felt Left Out (www.vice.com)

Kim Kardashian joins Kamala Harris at White House to talk criminal justice reform (www.cnn.com)

Russia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moon (intlmonitor.com)

If you think your commute is bad now…

Man allegedly assaults woman for cutting off Wi-fi as he played Fortnite (www.northcentralpa.com)

How long have you been in there?! A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers. Reactions are mixed. (edition.cnn.com)

A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter....

Republican defends child marriage: I'm "pro-choice" (www.newsweek.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15199291...

Millionaire who made himself homeless and broke on purpose to prove he could make $1MILLION in 12 months for YouTube clicks QUITS his bizarre social experiment over health concerns (www.dailymail.co.uk)

Let them eat Flakes: Kellogg’s CEO says poor families should consider ‘cereal for dinner’ (www.theguardian.com)

Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged...

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