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Mastercard demands US cannabis shops stop accepting debit cards (www.bbc.com)

My favorite tech joke (discussion.fedoraproject.org)

Ghana parliament votes to abolish death penalty (www.bbc.co.uk)

Poultry plant blames staffing company for hiring 16-year-old who was killed in workplace accident (www.nbcnews.com)

“The company is undertaking a thorough audit with the staffing companies to ensure that this kind of error never happens again,” Mar-Jac Poultry said in a statement.

Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)

'All cost, no benefit': Victoria cancels 2026 Commonwealth Games (www.forbes.com.au)

Japan Still Has Ninjas — But They’re About to Go Extinct (psnaudus.medium.com)

In 2012, Jinichi Kawakami emerged as the last surviving ninja grandmaster. Kawakami believed that the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age, as we have better weapons, the internet, and better medicines. Masaaki Hatsumi, another surviving ninja grandmaster, has not appointed an heir. Once Kawakami and Hatsumi pass away,...

TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral. (www.bbc.com)

Disney is asked to show some compassion over the use of Spider-Man’s image on a child’s grave.

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users (apnews.com)

A Moscow court on Tuesday fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of fines on the U.S. tech giant amid tensions between the Kremlin and the West over the fighting in Ukraine....

Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies (www.theguardian.com)

When will people learn, don’t trust any company with your data…

Pet food recall grows: Babies sickened by salmonella in tainted kibble, officials say (thehill.com)

They got sick from touching it, but the headline sounds like they’re eating it

Airstrike Decimates U.S.-Funded Children’s Hospital in Gaza (www.thedailybeast.com)

An Israeli airstrike on Sunday caused “significant damage” to a pediatric hospital in Gaza City, wounding an unknown number of people and killing at least eight, authorities in the enclave said.

Tamimi: 'We will drink your blood; what Hitler did to you was a joke' (www.jpost.com)

Her Instagram post, translated in the link:...

Can you spot the difference? (lemmy.zip)

Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief | AP News (apnews.com)

U.S. economy glows red hot with a 4.9% GDP reading for the third quarter (fortune.com)

The nation’s economy expanded at a robust 4.9% annual rate from July through September as Americans defied higher prices, rising interest rates and widespread forecasts of a recession to spend at a brisk pace....

Mike Johnson picked as new GOP speaker nominee just hours after Tom Emmer drops bid (www.cnn.com)

The House GOP picked Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest speaker nominee Tuesday evening, though the Louisiana Republican so far lacks the 217 votes needed to win the gavel – the latest sign that Republicans are still no closer to electing a new speaker three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster....

Taliban says plans to formally join China's Belt and Road Initiative (www.reuters.com)

Babou lounging (lemmy.world)

#caturday

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time (www.nature.com)

A student, as part of a contest, used a machine-learning algorithm and CT scans to analyse on closed scrolls, buried by Mount Vesuvius in October AD 79. The breakthrough could unlock the contents of hundreds of never-before-seen writings.

Nobel Prize awarded for discovery of quantum dots that changed everything from TV displays to cancer imaging (www.cnn.com)

The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who worked to discover and develop quantum dots, used in LED lights and TV screens, as well as by surgeons when removing cancer tissue....