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The world’s top 1% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the bottom 1% – Analysis - IEA (www.iea.org)

Tropical Storm Franklin nears Haiti and the Dominican Republic bringing fears of floods, landslides (apnews.com)

Second US tropical storm in a week drenches Texas (www.bbc.com)

American dad and son flooded with ketchup chips after Niagara Falls hunt now donating the crunchy snacks (www.cbc.ca)

There were 40 bags of ketchup chips in the back of Rich Lieberman’s vintage army jeep when he left Niagara Falls, Ont., with his son Jacob in July....

US grows doubtful Ukraine counteroffensive can quickly succeed. Criticism of Kyiv’s strategy from American officials widens rift between allies at crucial time. (www.ft.com)

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Monday briefing: Are the vanished British Museum relics the tip of the iceberg? (www.theguardian.com) Japanese

In today’s newsletter: As police in the UK launch an investigation into what happened to missing artefacts, an art detective explains why such thefts are so difficult to prevent

GE-Proton8-13 Released (github.com)

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I saw how Samsung’s robots make the Galaxy Z Fold 5 (www.androidcentral.com)

Counter-Strike 2 Makes Significant Development Towards Release (www.gamescensor.com)

Compulsory Sterilization in Japan: Censorship Casts Doubt on Landmark Report (unseen-japan.com)

For many decades, Japan had an inhumane forced sterilization law on the books. Much information on the infamous program remains censored.

Pooling Data to Make Diabetes Research More Representative (foundation.mozilla.org)

Containers from Scratch (ericchiang.github.io)

StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon (streetpass.social)

Pentagon review calls for reforms to reverse spike in sexual misconduct at military academies (www.news4jax.com)

Biden will use Camp David backdrop hoping to broker a breakthrough in Japan-South Korea relations (apnews.com)

Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, has been a backdrop for signal moments in U.S. foreign policy, perhaps none more notable than the peace accord President Jimmy Carter brokered between Egypt and Israel in 1978....

Plane crashes into Malaysia road, killing 10; vehicle parts strewn across the ground (www.straitstimes.com)

How To Write Unmaintainable Code (github.com)

[Shower Thought] I was never "good" at Linux CLI, ChatGPT has helped tremendously (kbin.social)

I'll be honest, I've always tinkered with ubuntu and even older versions of linux (Anyone remember Mandrake? Yeah I'm old lol), I had even built my own HTPC at one point many many years ago....

Former Mississippi officers expected to plead guilty to state charges for racist assault (apnews.com)

Cambodia: Thousands of war-era explosives found buried at high school (www.bbc.com)

RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)

China is threatening Uyghurs in Türkiye to spy on diaspora, human rights activists say (safeguarddefenders.com)

The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...

Russian warship fires warning shots on cargo ship in Black Sea (www.reuters.com)

Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)

For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.