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‘Bulldozer politics’: Modi’s demolition drive fuels Muslims’ fears in Kashmir (www.theguardian.com)

Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets (apnews.com)

Ecuador was one of the calmest countries in Latin America until about three years ago. Today, criminals prowl relatively wealthy and working-class neighborhoods alike: professional hitmen, kidnappers, extortionists and thousands of thieves and robbers. Mexican and Colombian cartels have settled into coastal cities like Guayaquil...

San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)

Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.

Everyone's favorite shaft-like Wiglett is getting the plush treatment (www.destructoid.com)

Google is working on letting you cast media to your Pixel Tablet just by holding your phone in front of it (twitter.com)

China property giant Country Garden warns of up to $7.6bn loss (www.bbc.com)

Country Garden, which is one of China’s biggest property developers, has warned that it could see a loss of up to $7.6bn (£6bn) for the first six months of the year.

Keith David Is Zavala's New VA Following Lance Reddick's Death - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)

Bungie has revealed that Keith David is stepping into the late Lance Reddick's shoes and assuming the role of Commander Zavala.

Kenyan govt suspends use of worldcoin over security, privacy concerns (www.msn.com)

This is apparently the same story in UK....

Overwatch 2 retail patchnotes 10.8.2023 (Steam release patch) (overwatch.blizzard.com)

And yes as expected you don’t need bnet installed to play, just need to link your Steam and Blizzard accounts....

In the face of player backlash, Dark and Darker developers say they may stop selling character classes (www.pcgamer.com)

Yea… buying a $35 “early access” title, to have a large amount of the content locked behind a pay wall… that kills any interest in the game for me....

App to schedule posts on Lemmy (schedule.lemmings.world)

I’ve made an app that makes it possible to schedule a post in Lemmy at an arbitrary time. It’s available at schedule.lemmings.world and can be used by people from any instance....

Are there foundations similar to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but with more international focus? (www.eff.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/1819391...

These two were caught putting bricks of ERA on everything (media.kbin.social)

tired boy (pixelfed.social)

Chaos in the aisles: has cinema etiquette reached an all-time low? (www.theguardian.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/zDSbp...

Good source for linux native games ? (beehaw.org)

I ran a quick search in this community and couldn’t find anything on this topic....

How to Short-Circuit the Outrage Machine (slate.com)

Any citizen of the social internet knows the feeling: that irritable contentiousness, that desire to get into it that seems almost impossible to resist, even though you know you’ve already squandered too many hours and too much emotional energy on pointless internet disputes. If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that at...

[hyprland] simple catppuccin rice (sh.itjust.works)

distro: arch...

TIL of Mustatils; over 1000 walled courtyards spanning hundreds of meters were built at least 7000 years ago. Their function in unknown. (en.wikipedia.org)