World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days (www.bbc.com)
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found....
Terra Nil is now available on Linux (store.steampowered.com)
Just five western oil firms, including BP and Shell, set to spend $15 million every hour until 2030 producing oil and gas | Global Witness (www.globalwitness.org)
UN Global Stocktake shows countries failing Paris Agreement climate goals 2023, London – Just five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms, BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and TotalEnergies, are set to spend $15 million every single hour between now and 2030 producing more oil and gas, according to new analysis of Rystad Energy...
White House estimates 3.5M federal workers will go without pay in government shutdown (abcnews.go.com)
The White House estimates that 3.5 million federal workers will have to go without pay if the government shuts down. Roughly 2 million of them will be military....
Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable (thehill.com)
A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline....
US officials say Travis King, who crossed into North Korea, is in American custody (apnews.com)
Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope (www.nytimes.com)
The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....
Sea of Thieves adds PvE mode later this year (with 30% rewards) (store.steampowered.com)
This is actually pretty big. I never liked me and my friends getting raided by people who played for 2000 hours and memorized PvP mechanics, I might give this game another shot.
Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US (arstechnica.com)
Multiple rats in Atlanta test positive for calamitous, rapidly spreading parasite.
Ganon (ani.social)
Attorney for Alabama band director arrested after football game says tasing was unacceptable and left students traumatized (www.cnn.com)
The Alabama band director who was arrested after refusing to stop his band’s performance at a high school football game is grappling with the aftermath of being tased by police, which his attorney says was unacceptable and left students traumatized....
Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened? (apnews.com)
For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports....
China Evergrande shares sink 25% after wealth unit staff detained (www.reuters.com)
The true story of the fake unboxed aliens is wilder than actual aliens (www.vox.com)
All the greed, fraud, centuries of racism, and deteriorated llama skulls behind Mexico’s unboxed aliens.
CEOs are having their worst year in decades (www.cnn.com)
Ukraine attacks Russian air defences in western Crimea - military (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine struck Russian air defence systems near the town of Yevpatoriya in the west of occupied Crimea in a long-range overnight attack on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said....
France bans iPhone 12 after finding radiation levels are too high (www.techspot.com)
Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world (www.bbc.com)
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet....
Hilariously, Hexbear is blocked in China. (sh.itjust.works)
yas-bdsm: Yet Another Stow-Based Dotfiles System Manager (github.com)
Powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Morocco, with five believed dead (www.aljazeera.com)
Anyone know the current goats to shrooms exchange? (sh.itjust.works)
Cuba uncovers human trafficking of Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
“The Ministry of the Interior…is working on the neutralization and dismantling of a human trafficking network that operates from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban government statement said....
Tankies talking about banned topics on Chinese social media, "Well liberals call it censorship. I call it filtering" (sh.itjust.works)
The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...