Given the circumstances, Janeway also would have sold you for a keg of coffee (startrek.website)
Yes, This Is Israel’s 9/11 (theintercept.com)
Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others....
Latino, Black enrollment in advanced math shot up after this simple change. (www.nbcnews.com)
Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students....
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11… This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988....
Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)
A 9/11 defendant is ruled unfit for trial after a medical panel finds torture left him psychotic (apnews.com)
Brett Eagleson, whose father, Bruce Eagleson, was killed when one of the hijacked planes destroyed the south tower of the World Trade Center, called the events that forced the sidelining of al-Shibh’s prosecution “another example of the lack of justice that the 9/11 community has received at the hands of our own...
She stretched and forgot to put it away (lemmy.ml)
PragerU: Oops, I did it again (lemmygrad.ml)
"Water Buffalo" just doesn't have the same ring (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Are Internet boards and Forums dead
i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...
Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple (www.theguardian.com)
Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple::The move suggests that China, which is one of Apple’s biggest markets, is unwilling to spare any US company in fight to boost homegrown technology
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Court Says Texas’ Adult Content Age Verification Law Clearly Violates The 1st Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
We’ve been talking a lot by the rush of states to push for age verification laws all over the world, despite basically every expert noting that age verification technology is inherently a problem for privacy and security, and the laws mandating it are terrible. So far, it seems that only the Australian government has decided...
Police arrest pastor accused of molesting 8 North Korean defector children (www.nknews.org)
South Korean police on Tuesday arrested a pastor who is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting North Korean defector children, according to investigators.
Has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture?
When I first started using Lemmy it seemed like such a nice place with interesting discussions. It seemed like the first group of people to join after the app exodus were being quite careful to be respectful of the existing culture....
Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)
Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.
Compared to fountain pens and ballpoints, "Sharpies" are actually the least sharp pen type.
German Cabinet set to approve plans to liberalise cannabis rules (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1520149...
Man of culture (lemm.ee)
US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago (www.cnn.com)
Most of that increase in spending is driven by housing costs, which have surged, Zandi told CNN in an email on Friday. He added that families are also spending more at the grocery store; on buying, maintaining and insuring vehicles and on recreational services like cable....
Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared (abcnews.go.com)
As the heat rises in Texas, law enforcement is working to untangle a mystery involving the disappearance of a life-saving measure for migrants traveling through an arid region
Innocent pregnant woman jailed amid faulty facial recognition trend (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1174411...
Cleric arrested for blasphemy after allowing women to preach in world's largest Muslim-majority country | CNN (www.cnn.com)
A Muslim cleric has been arrested on charges of blasphemy and hate speech in Indonesia after his decision to allow women to preach and pray beside men sparked a backlash in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.
This is Doc (lemmy.world)
His formal name is Doctor Henry Killinger. Doc for short.
