More kids are working dangerous jobs amid weaker labor laws, child migration (www.cbsnews.com) Japanese
In the last 10 months, the government has found almost 4,500 children working in illegal situations — a 44% increase in one year.
Happy National Dog Photography Day! (lemmy.world)
Caterpillar Came to Visit 'round Sunset (lemmy.world)
The Cola Cow (lem.clinicians-exchange.org)
This gem courtesy Rite Aid Pharmacy.
Are there any dyslexic unfriendly fonts?
Let’s say I REALLY don’t want dyslexic people reading my post. What font would be the most troublesome font for them to read?
FedEx pilots reject 30% pay hike proposal, but a strike isn't imminent | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Pilots for FedEx have rejected a tentative labor deal. But that doesn’t mean they’re about to walk off the job just as UPS is threatened with its own strike by 340,000 drivers and other hourly ground workers.
Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years (www.bbc.co.uk)
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer (time.com)
Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book read (joinbookwyrm.com)
BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. Federation allows BookWyrm users to join small, trusted communities that can connect with one another, and with other ActivityPub services like Mastodon and Pleroma.
Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires. (doctorow.medium.com)
Archive link: archive.ph/obQRa
Someone Used ChatGPT to Finish the Game of Thrones Book Series - IGN (www.ign.com)
One developer asked ChatGPT to finish George R.R. Martin's long-stalled book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, upon which the Game of Thrones TV show is based. And the AI did...well, not too bad. But don't expect it to replace Martin anytime soon, either.
Fresh caught (startrek.website)
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
Archive.org link
Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence (www.freethink.com)
It could be the key to making tomorrow’s smart tech sustainable.
Danica Roem breaks through in Virginia Senate by focusing on road rage and not only anti-trans hate (apnews.com)
“Picture it,” Roem, now a groundbreaking politician who also was a journalist back then, wrote later about that time: “a five-foot- eleven, long-haired brunette metal-head trans lady reporter wearing a rainbow bandana, an A-line skirt, and a black hoodie … screaming obscenities behind the wheel of her four-door ’92...
Marine Le Pen and her far-right RN party say they will attend Sunday's march against antisemitism in the French capital. But other parties say they refuse to march alongside a party founded by antisem (www.dw.com)
Shadow Cast: GPU accelerated screen and audio recording for Linux (github.com)
I created Shadow Cast after becoming disillusioned with the lack of simple, performant display recording utilities for X11. All feedback welcome.
Solar panel world record smashed with ‘miracle material’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Omegle Shut Down After 14 Years. Read Founder Leif K-Brooks' Full Statement (www.timesnownews.com)
Omegle Shut Down After 14 Years. Read Founder Leif K-Brooks’ Full Statement::Omegle has shut down after 14 years, the founder Leif K-Brooks announced in a statement on Wednesday. He explained that the costs of managing the platform and combating its misuse have become overwhelming, making it financially and emotionally...
Signal is now beta testing a new username feature. (mastodon.world)
Democrats see abortion wins as a springboard for 2024 as GOP struggles to find a winning message (apnews.com)
Voters threw their support behind abortion rights in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere as Democrats look to springboard off those wins by using the issue to drive turnout and shape next year’s races for the White House, Congress and other elections....
Lobbyist says Right to Repair is bad for black people | Louis Rossmann (www.youtube.com)
How can you explain the Fediverse to someone? (kbin.run)
If you where to try and explain the Fediverse to someone, how would you explain it with it's different instances? As well as explain why it is better in some ways for the future of the Internet?
Israel arrests Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi in occupied West Bank raids (www.aljazeera.com)
The 22-year-old Palestinian icon is arrested on another night of Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.