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If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? (techxplore.com)

The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909....

US campuses in uproar as Israel-Palestine conflict exposes divide (www.theguardian.com)

Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust...

WATCH: U.S. announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers (www.pbs.org)

In one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.

Bacteria found in bento box lunches in Japan that poisoned nearly 400 people (www.thesundaily.my)

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Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)

Report comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman blamed 'bad laws' for death sentence against a Saudi man over social media posts

AI sexbots: "Women in relationships already complain about partners addicted to porn and dissatisfied with actual intimacy" - the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female (goodinternet.substack.com)

Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Marvel Visual Effects Workers Unanimously Vote “Yes” to Unionize (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

IATSE aims to form a national VFX Local by year's end....

Elon Musk blames ADL for lost revenue, says he's 'against anti-Semitism of any kind' (www.nbcnews.com)

Mabel says hi! (lemmy.team)

Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberal majority of staging a 'coup' (apnews.com)

The conservative chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday told the new liberal majority in a scathing email that they had staged a “coup” and conducted an “illegal experiment” when they voted to weaken her powers and fire the director of state courts....

How Many Star Trek Episodes Pass the Bechdel Test? (TOS to ENT) | The Mary Sue (www.themarysue.com)

I found this after reading and responding to this post here about early Trek fans’ prejudicial negative reaction to TNG. One of my responses (see here) was to point out that any fans of the progressiveness of Trek ought to have been mindful of the room for improvement over TOS, with female representation being an obvious...

Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Calls Out Hollywood For Output Of “Garbage” Content (deadline.com)

Bram Moolenaar, the father of VIM has died (groups.google.com)

Thank you Bram for the great text editor you brought to this world and the many carreers you changed by it.

TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU (www.theguardian.com)

TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU::Action by regulator follows £12.7m fine by UK for illegally processing data of 1.4m children under 13

James Cameron on AI: "I warned you guys in 1984 and you didn't listen" (www.joblo.com)

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Ukraine’s top general: War with Russia has reached stalemate (www.politico.eu)

‘There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough,’ says Valery Zaluzhny....

Toyota raises worker wages after UAW strike settlement (www.axios.com)

Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say (www.vice.com)

Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe’s Growth, Scientists Say::The unexplained cause of the slowed growth of the cosmic web that connects galaxies could hint at new physics.

‘There’s Such a Slaughter!’ – Russian Soldier Reveals Horrific Losses Near Ivanivka (www.kyivpost.com)

Gaza authorities say 700 Palestinians killed in overnight strikes as Israel intensifies bombing campaign (www.reuters.com)

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes, Gaza’s health ministry said on Tuesday, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began a bombing campaign to crush Hamas militants who stunned the country with a deadly Oct. 7 attack....

8 officers involved in Jayland Walker's shooting death are back on active duty, officials say (apnews.com)

The eight Ohio police officers who fired scores of shots that killed Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, after a car and foot chase last year are back on active duty, officials said....

One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection (www.cnn.com)

One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection::One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.