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Waaaaah shrimp fried rice has always been celebrated for its excellence (slrpnk.net)

More top tier acting...

Retriever (sh.itjust.works)

Being Mean to Scabs Is Working (www.motherjones.com)

Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

Minneapolis mayor vetoes minimum wage bill for Lyft, Uber drivers: ‘An inexcusable betrayal of Minneapolis workers’ (fortune.com)

Minneapolis mayor vetoes minimum wage bill for Lyft, Uber drivers: ‘An inexcusable betrayal of Minneapolis workers’::The city’s mayor nixed minimum wages for ride-hailing drivers in a move one city council member called “an inexcusable betrayal of Minneapolis workers.”

Firearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study finds (www.nbcnews.com)

U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.

Proud Boy disappears ahead of sentencing in Capitol riot case (thehill.com)

A member of the Proud Boys has disappeared ahead of his sentencing on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to an arrest warrant unsealed on Friday....

Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office (arstechnica.com)

Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, report says (abc7.com)

The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States (projects.propublica.org)

CD Projekt Red devs are forming a Polish games industry union after a wave of layoffs earlier this year (www.vg247.com)

From the article:...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms (abc7news.com)

Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.

After Years of Spreading Lies, Election Deniers Face Consequences (www.nytimes.com)

Legal repercussions have arrived for the leaders of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential contest, in what could serve as a warning to those who meddle in future elections.

Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters (www.tomshardware.com)

Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!

Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD's 'stupid' fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux (www.techspot.com)

Linus Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s ‘stupid’ fTPM to solve a persistent stuttering issue | The problem affects Ryzen-based PCs running both Windows and Linux::undefined

Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20 (www.reddit.com)

Totally not suspicious timing at all....

Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)

Elon Musk says Twitter, now X, is to charge all users subscription fees (www.theguardian.com)

Elon Musk has indicated that X, formerly known as Twitter, is preparing to charge all users for accessing the platform....

Thousands sign up to experience magic mushrooms as Oregon’s novel psilocybin experiment takes off (apnews.com)

Psilocybin tea, wind chimes and a tie-dye mattress await those coming to an office suite in Eugene to trip on magic mushrooms. For roughly six hours, adults over 21 can experience what many users describe as vivid geometric shapes, a loss of identity and a oneness with the universe....

Saudi Arabia reportedly sentences man to death for criticizing government on social media (www.cbsnews.com)

Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death a government critic who denounced alleged corruption and human rights abuses on social media, his brother and others familiar with the case told AFP on Monday....

Sadistic California Cops Bragged About ‘Violating Civil Rights’ (www.rollingstone.com)

Feds allege officers collected photos of K-9 attacks and crafted an American flag with spent munitions

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Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada (arstechnica.com)

Late last week, MSN.com’s Microsoft Travel section posted an AI-generated article about the “cannot miss” attractions of Ottawa that includes the Ottawa Food Bank, a real charitable organization that feeds struggling families. In its recommendation text, Microsoft’s AI model wrote, “Consider going into it on an empty...

Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...