This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins (www.theatlantic.com)
This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins::The global town square is in ruins.
PipeWire 1.0 RC released (Final release expected end 2023) (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
**PipeWire 0.3.81 (2023-10-06)**This is the first 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases....
Somewhere in the Borg collective is an evermore better recipe for fudge brownie. (files.catbox.moe)
Comedian Rita Rudner...
Fedia.io is shutting down (and re-opening as a Lemmy instance)
cross-posted from: fedia.io/m/fedia/t/349909...
Yes they're real, and they're spectacular. (lemmy.world)
A mom shielding her son from gunmen and a ‘pro-peace’ academic are among the Americans killed in Israel (www.cnn.com)
Deborah Matias, an American citizen who lived in Israel, was shot and killed by Hamas gunmen while shielding her teenage son from their bullets, her father told CNN....
Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks (www.wsj.com)
Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group....
The ECH: Emergency Commando Hologram (lemmy.world)
Steal What Is Stolen (kerala.party)
If C++ has undefined behavior, Rust has childish behavior (lemmy.world)
(joke in the title stolen from a redditor)...
New study uncovers a "vicious cycle" between feeling less socially connected and increased smartphone use (www.psypost.org)
New study uncovers a “vicious cycle” between feeling less socially connected and increased smartphone use::Using smartphones for extended periods could negatively impact mental well-being and social connectedness, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of British Columbia and a media lab in Germany....
If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
Would they have all still fought against him?
Meta Adopted Policy to Censor Canadian Facebook Posts About Assassinated Sikh Leader, Emails Show (pressprogress.ca)
Meta Adopted Policy to Censor Canadian Facebook Posts About Assassinated Sikh Leader, Emails Show::Emails show Meta executives confirmed company-wide policy to take down posts mentioning assassination of Canadian Sikh leader
Brazil’s Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Land Protections in Win for Lula (www.bloomberg.com)
Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
In the latest unredacted document oopsie stemming from the US Federal Trade Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft acqu…
Fairphone 5 review (www.gsmarena.com)
Hunting greebles (lemmy.ninja)
Scooter has a good eye for them… And shadows.
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too (www.thedrive.com)
Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too::The country will need to increase its charging footprint by more than ten-fold if it hopes to reach its end-of-decade target.
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts (www.theverge.com)
X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.
How I feel when the main instance is down and I have to shitpost from an alt (sh.itjust.works)
US expects to upgrade Vietnam ties, risks China anger (www.reuters.com)
The United States expects to elevate its diplomatic relations with former foe Vietnam to the top level as President Joe Biden travels to Hanoi in a week, in a move that may irk China and with unclear business implications....