New game announced: Orcs Must Die: Deathtrap (robotentertainment.com)
From Robot Entertainment, of course....
Eulogy for a cactus: Sea level rise has eradicated a U.S. species for the first time. What's next? (grist.org)
Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environment (fortune.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18186772
Blinken Says Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Is ‘Inside the 10-Yard Line’ (www.nytimes.com)
Jan. 6 defendant, who also attended 2017 Unite the Right rally, sentenced to 5 years (www.politico.com)
Disneyland workers say they live in cars, motels due to low pay (www.bbc.com)
Missouri woman who served 43 years in prison is free after her murder conviction was overturned (apnews.com)
A woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years of a life sentence was released Friday, despite attempts in the last month by Missouri’s attorney general to keep her behind bars....
Death of 40 Haitians in Boat Fire Shows 'Crucial Need' for Safe, Legal Migration: UN (www.commondreams.org)
Judge throws out rightwing affirmative action lawsuit against Texas university (www.theguardian.com)
Christina Sandera, Clint Eastwood's longtime partner, dies at 61 (www.usatoday.com)
Trans woman falsely identified as Trump shooter in far-right smear (www.salon.com)
[FoAR] Foundations of Amateur Radio - Being a Maverick is part of the deal #podcast (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
The story goes that the name of our hobby, at least in some parts of the world, ham radio, stems from the notion that we as a community were perceived as being ham-fisted in our ability to operate a Morse key. We apparently claimed that slur and made it our own. I’ve never actually been able to verify this narrative, but it...
"We're never gonna let that happen again": Trump's RNC speech confirms plans for a Big Lie 2.0 (www.salon.com)
Inside the Risky U.S. Probe of Allegations That Drug Mafias Financed a Campaign of Mexico’s President López Obrador (www.propublica.org)
Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)
Will Ohio strike down its draconian gender-affirming care ban? (www.motherjones.com)
Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)
Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....
Pelosi voiced support for an open nomination process if Biden drops out (www.politico.com)
Some California House Democrats don’t want the process to replace the president on the ticket to seem like a Kamala Harris coronation.
Soldier With Big Feet (1950s) (crazyturtleblog.blogspot.com)
old newsreel clip
Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West - High Country News (www.hcn.org)
If Donald Trump is re-elected president in November, a coalition of more than 50 right-wing organizations known as Project 2025 will be ready with a plug-and-play plan for him to follow, starting with a database of potential administration appointees carefully vetted by coalition members; an online “Presidential Administration...
Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! (x.com)
no official CWA press release yet, but here’s the union’s:...