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Ukrainian artillery operator scary (media.kbin.social)

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter. (www.nytimes.com)

Tesla’s Dieselgate (pluralistic.net)

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

IEA says coal use hit an all-time high last year — and global demand will persist near record levels (www.cnbc.com)

The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (arxiv.org)

School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution (www.wvnstv.com)

In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb and urged the mostly white Francis Howell School District to address racial discrimination. The school board responded with a resolution promising to do better. Now the...

Anybody else love Soul Reaver 2? (assets-prd.ignimgs.com)

Played this game back back in the early 2000s era. I wish they made games like this again. Combat was a bit clunky but the music, story line, and voice acting were fantastic. Obviously left an impression nearly 20 years later.

YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement (arstechnica.com)

Climate change altering U.S. in profound ways, major report finds (www.axios.com)

The Marvels, goofy and bold, shows there’s still some magic left in the MCU (www.vox.com)

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Moody's turns negative on US credit rating, draws Washington ire (www.reuters.com)

The move follows a rating downgrade of the sovereign by another ratings agency, Fitch, this year, which came after months of political brinkmanship around the U.S. debt ceiling....

Reuters denies any suggestion it had prior knowledge of Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel (www.reuters.com)

Israel arrested Ahed Tamimi based on fake social media post (www.dailysabah.com)

Israeli authorities arrested Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi based on a fake social media post, her mother said Tuesday....

US consumer finance regulator wants to extend oversight to Big Tech (www.ft.com)

Proposal would subject digital wallets and payment applications to more scrutiny

India bars protests that support the Palestinians. Analysts say a pro-Israel shift helps at home (apnews.com)

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines. But one place known for its vocal pro-Palestinian stance has been conspicuously quiet: Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Arizona man charged in threat to kill rabbi, other Jewish people (www.nbcnews.com)

New Delhi Chokes as Annual Curse of Pollution Returns With a Vengeance (www.nytimes.com)

The US sanctions more foreign firms in a bid to choke off Russia's supplies for its war in Ukraine (apnews.com)

The United States on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on 130 firms and people from Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates in an effort to choke off Russia’s access to tools and equipment that support its invasion of Ukraine....

Israel-Palestine war: Settler attacks on the rise in West Bank villages (www.middleeasteye.net)

(...) Ben Gvir and Smotrich leading the charge...

Bob Knight, Indiana’s combustible coaching giant, dies at age 83 (apnews.com)

Reporters Without Borders files complaint with International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes against journalists in Palestine and Israel (rsf.org)

According to the media NGO RSF’s tally, 34 journalists have been killed since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, of whom at least 12 were killed in the course of their work – 10 in Gaza, one in Israel and one in Lebanon....