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I no longer like jazz (startrek.website)

Philippino Journalist shot dead during live broadcast (www.theguardian.com)

A radio anchor in the southern Philippines has been fatally shot in his studio in a brazen attack witnessed by people watching the programme live on Facebook....

Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? (garymarcus.substack.com)

Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ (www.theguardian.com)

Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry

In a different timeline (startrek.website)

(not mine - this and some of the others I’ve posted here recently have been from cursedtrekedits on tumblr)

OED update (startrek.website)

FDA warns consumers against using 26 eye drop products because of infection risk (www.cbsnews.com)

he finished Paper Mario 64 (lemmy.world)

I helped for the battles and reading the dialogues but he did all the exploring by himself. He’s so thrilled, but also sad it’s over. Now I’m hesitant between Pokemon FireRed (he loves Pokemon but that a lot more text to read) or PaperMario TTYD (but we don’t have a switch for the remaster version). Any other ideas for...

What is going to happen when people realize the true consequences of climate change?

I often wonder how the general population will react when they truly realize the impacts of climate change. I’d imagine there could be three reactions:...

States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health (apnews.com)

Seeing people realize they cant openly criticize a certain group committing genocide or they may lose their jobs (lemmy.ml)

if youre am*rican its illegal to boycott them.

Cryptocurrency's popularity in the U.S. tied to conservative moral foundations (www.psypost.org)

Israeli settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory (www.theguardian.com)

New antiviral pill helps COVID smell and taste loss fade quickly (www.nature.com)

The antiviral drug ensitrelvir, which shortens sensory problems, is one of the few COVID-19 drugs available to people not at high risk of grave illness.

Please bro? (startrek.website)

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....