A Space and Time Traveler's Guide to Star Trek (www.startrek.com)
The official Doctor Who website has a companion piece, which has been shared here.
Posting the song that is in my head when I wake up #2: Close 2 You, by Engelwood and Never Dull (www.youtube.com)
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Catalan separatists vote on far-reaching government deal (www.reuters.com)
BARCELONA, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Grassroots members of Catalonia’s separatist ERC party were voting on Friday on a regional government deal with Spain’s ruling Socialists that could patch up Madrid’s uneasy relations with the region but also impact Spain’s entire fiscal system....
Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight, Kremlin says (www.reuters.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian nationals, including Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, following a prisoner exchange between Russia with Western countries, during a ceremony at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia August 1, 2024...
Congratulations to WhatsHerBucket for their Photo of the Week! (lemmy.world)
@WhatsHerBucket original post may be found here Sunset through the pier.
Sports Leagues See 'X' as the 'Home of Social Media Piracy'. (torrentfreak.com)
Revealed: Corporate lobbyists were at heart of Labour’s election campaign [Ethan Shone | 1 August 2024 | OpenDemocracy.net] (www.opendemocracy.net)
Lobbyists described work for Labour – which was not declared to authorities – as ‘great for future relationships’...
Republicans want someone younger than Donald Trump as president: new poll (www.newsweek.com)
In a YouGov poll conducted between July 25-29, 59 percent of Republicans surveyed said they would prefer a president under the age of 75. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday in June. Forty percent said they had no preference, and just two percent said they would prefer a president over the age of 75....
The West Bank: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (www.youtube.com)
Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs get two additional years of warranty coverage (www.theverge.com)
The Paris Olympics may look fair and inclusive on TV. The truth is much darker | Rokhaya Diallo (www.theguardian.com)
this unifying narrative introduced an Olympic and Paralympic Games that in reality are not all that inclusive. (…) To make these Games happen, Paris had to undertake a programme of intense social cleansing....
Which one would you choose? (Updated version)
A murderer goes free: Germany blanches at grim moral calculus (www.reuters.com)
BERLIN, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Relatives of the man murdered by a Russian hitman in a Berlin park have voiced disappointment at the killer’s release, reflecting unease in Germany at the moral equation that secured freedom for 16 political prisoners in Russian and Belarusian jails....
Sonya Massey, mother called 911 multiple times in days before her death to report mental health crises (www.wcbu.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/sonya-massey-mother-called-911-…
Why Most People Are Actually "Too Good" For Their Job. (youtu.be)
He has a badge and a gun — and he investigates school truancy (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/school-truancy-law-enforcement
National Women's Defense League to Harris: Dump Shapiro Over Sex Case Failings (www.thedailybeast.com)
Shapiro, 51, is the chief executive of a crucial battleground state rich with electoral votes, where Harris is set to campaign with her yet-to-be-named running mate on Tuesday. Speculation had mounted that based on the location of Tuesday’s rally, in Philadelphia, that it may just be Shapiro....
Super Mario 64 On Dreamcast (www.retronews.com)
There has been a recent increase in community-driven ports of popular games to new platforms, aided by skilled hackers who have dissected source code. Notable titles like Zelda, GTA III, and DOOM 64 have seen native versions emerge, and now the Dreamcast is set to receive a port of Super Mario 64....
Sometimes compression is too good... (lemmy.world)
Source...
I'd rather be doing anything else, which is why I'm here, doing nothing
New York parents who report abuse to protect themselves and their families often become the targets of child welfare investigators. A lawsuit is trying to change that. (www.nytimes.com)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/I6FpG
Vance’s links to the Project 2025 leader complicate Trump’s attempts at distance (www.nytimes.com)
Donald Trump disavowed the set of conservative plans after it became a popular target for Democrats, but his running mate, JD Vance, wrote a foreword for a forthcoming book by its principal architect....
Senate unanimously approves bill adding dozens of new federal judgeships (www.courthousenews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/senate-unanimously-approves-bil…
Israel should apologise and consider compensation over killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza, report says [Daniel Hurst | 2 Aug 2024 | The Guardian] (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-Australian military chief finds IDF made ‘errors’ before strikes on World Central Kitchen and says families want Israeli apology from ‘appropriate level’...
