NATO official gives Ukraine "unacceptable" conditions for joining (www.newsweek.com)
Suspected spies for Russia held in major UK security investigation (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Fears UK’s cashless society will leave more than just the vulnerable behind (www.theguardian.com)
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The German AfD's Constant Drift Toward Extremism (www.spiegel.de)
Take it easy #catsofmastodon its #caturday for #cats (urda.social)
cross-posted from: lebowski.social/post/38597...
Maui wildfires: Extra logistical challenges hinder government's initial response when disasters strike islands (theconversation.com)
An expert on Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria explains why it’s hard for the US to deliver disaster aid in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
‘Barbie’ Banned in Kuwait, Accused of “Promoting Homosexuality” in Lebanon (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
While Warner Bros' hit movie may — finally — be coming out in Saudi Arabia, it faces a different fate in other Middle East countries.
Wildfire decimates Lahaina, once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom (www.nbcnews.com)
For centuries, Lahaina has been a significant economic, political and cultural center for Native Hawaiian communities.
AP: US Navy sailor's mom encouraged him to pass military details to China, prosecutor says (apnews.com)
Gizmodo editor-in-chief sues Apple, alleging ‘Tetris’ movie on TV+ rips off his book - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
As reported by Reuters, the lawsuit was filed by Dan Ackerman against Apple, screenwriter Noah Pink, Marv Studios, the Tetris Company, and others. The lawsuit alleges that “Tetris” is “substantially similar in almost all material respects” to his book published in 2016 entitled “The Tetris Effect.”...
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place (canvas.toast.ooo)
Spez has been stripped of it’s most powerfull communication tool because now we have an open source decentralized version of it :)
Webmesh: Now with the ability to peer independent meshes (github.com)
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Galveston Beach fecal matter — how bad is it actually? (www.axios.com)
A recent study by Environment Texas found that almost every Texas beach tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria in 2022.
What? (pixelfed.social)
Nose-picking health workers more likely to get Covid, study shows (www.bbc.com)
Spacehost fediverse hosting platform is offering to share revenue with the platforms it hosts ... starting with Lemmy (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2665269...
Four Nigerians, rescued in Brazil, survived 14 days on a ship's rudder (www.reuters.com)
Their remarkable, death-defying journey across some 5,600 kilometers (3,500 miles) of ocean underlines the risks some migrants are prepared to take for a shot at a better life.
Afghanistan: Taliban burn ‘immoral’ musical instruments (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/899780...
Sunak’s new oil and gas licences are ‘moral and economic madness’ (www.theguardian.com)
PM becomes ‘dangerous radical’, in words of UN chief, by backing fossil fuels incompatible with net zero goals
For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic (www.wired.com)
Google Fiber: Summer is “Just Speeding Up,” NC Gets 5 Gbps (www.telecompetitor.com)
Ukraine to start talks with US on security guarantees – senior official (www.scmp.com)
The Western Alliance’s Vilnius summit offered support to Ukraine in countering Russia’s 17-month-old invasion and individual countries pledged new weapons, but no date for Ukrainian membership was set as long as the war continues....
Japan remains in the grip of heat wave | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News (www3.nhk.or.jp)
The mercury in many areas of eastern and western Japan topped 38 degrees Celsius on Saturday....
