French woman hit by apparent meteorite while relaxing on her terrace (gizmodo.com)
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday after reports that telcoms will need to cleanup the lead pollution they made (arstechnica.com)
Poor Ma Bell. /s
China youth unemployment hits high as recovery falters (www.bbc.co.uk)
A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats. (www.npr.org)
Archived at ghostarchive.org/archive/nDPXm?wr=true
Transgender people can be baptized Catholic, serve as godparents, Vatican says (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey (www.nytimes.com)
Federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. are conducting a broad public corruption investigation into whether Mayor Eric Adams’s 2021 election campaign conspired with the Turkish government to receive illegal foreign donations, according to a search warrant obtained by The New York Times....
The death toll in Gaza surpasses 10,000 as the conflict enters a second month (www.npr.org)
Israeli forces have reached the coast of Gaza, splitting the besieged area in half and essentially cutting off the north from the south.
In rare announcement, US says guided missile sub has arrived in Middle East, a message of deterrence to adversaries (www.cnn.com)
In a rare announcement, the US military said a guided missile submarine has arrived in the Middle East, a message of deterrence clearly directed at regional adversaries as the Biden administration tries to avoid a broader conflict amid the Israel-Hamas war....
Family Burns Down House While Trying To Get Rid Of Snake (www.indiatimes.com)
Cats have 276 different facial expressions, study finds (www.cnn.com)
Ears flattened, constricted pupils, a lick of the lips. If you’ve ever wondered if your feline friends’ furry faces were saying something whenever they got together, chances are they were....
Google Fiber is increasingly going by ‘GFiber’ (9to5google.com)
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
Palestinian said shot dead by settler while harvesting olives in West Bank (www.timesofisrael.com)
Bilal Muhammed Saleh, 40, was reportedly part of a group working outside their village near Nablus; IDF says combat soldier on leave was involved in incident, it is investigating
Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair (www.theguardian.com)
Airline was forced to apologize to Rodney Hodgins who flew to Las Vegas with his wife to celebrate their anniversary in August
Israel war: Israeli foreign minister says Gaza territory will shrink after war (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
The Meta glassholes have arrived (www.theverge.com)
Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ (comicbook.com)
A Gargoyles reboot is officially on the way. Months after a report suggested Kenneth Branagh could be helming a live-action reboot of the cult classic animated series, a new trade report says a live-action series is, in fact, in development at Disney+. While it doesn’t appear that Branagh is working on it, the series has a...
When you fall asleep on the way into bed (campfyre.nickwebster.dev)
Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Non-stop Rocket Barrage on Israel: Woman killed, terrorist infiltration from Gaza, strike on Tel Aviv (www.haaretz.com)
US expands probe into Ford engine failures to include two motors and nearly 709,000 vehicles (apnews.com)
U.S. auto safety investigators have expanded a probe into Ford Motor Co. engine failures to include nearly 709,000 vehicles....
A self-hosted wiki that can integrate with a fediverse instance (wiki.dbzer0.com)
Two days ago, I deployed the official wiki for lemmy.dbzer0.com. It’s using django-wiki as a software, which other than being markdown-based and therefore helping lemmings easily migrate documentation over, provides python hooks for doing some really cool stuff....
Psychedelic mushrooms and quiet quitting: Psilocybin use tied to working fewer overtime hours (www.psypost.org)
SQUISH THAT CAT (i.imgur.com)
New Images of Elijah Wood, Peter Dinklage, and Kevin Bacon in 'The Toxic Avenger' Reboot (imgur.com)
Missing kayaker faked his own death ahead of court date: Sheriff (abcnews.go.com)
A missing kayaker from Louisiana has been arrested for faking his own death by drowning in an apparent bid to dodge rape charges, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office....
