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Making memes from every episode of DS9 [s01e02] (files.catbox.moe)

I’ve decided that I will post a meme for every episode of DS9. I am watching them for the first time, so hold on to your hats, people. I made one yesterday , so this makes day 2....

More than 750 new Texas laws go into effect Friday. Here’s a quick breakdown of the highlights (www.kut.org)

Every odd-numbered year, state lawmakers convene in Austin and debate hundreds of proposed bills with potential to affect tens of millions of Texans who call the Lone Star State home. More than 750 new laws take effect Friday. That’s on top of 321 passed this year that took effect immediately after being signed by Gov. Greg...

Build a Linux Virtual Machine for Windows Apps (www.binwang.me)

Myanmar’s Battle-Scarred Junta Replaces Five Security Ministers (www.irrawaddy.com)

Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria (www.bbc.com)

„The Algerian coastguard has shot dead two tourists holidaying in Morocco who reportedly strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis.“

Modi-linked Adani family secretly invested in own shares, documents suggest (www.theguardian.com)

Offshore records suggest associates of wealthy Indian family spent years acquiring stock during rise of founder to be worth $120bn

5 million bees fall off truck on Guelph Line in Burlington, Ontario (www.cbc.ca)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/4319858...

Social media company X to allow political ads, reversing previous ban (www.aljazeera.com)

Platform says decision builds on commitment to ‘free expression’ and pledges to prohibit promotion of misinformation.

See New Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Images From September 7’s Two-Episode Premiere (blog.trekcore.com)

Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government (www.cnn.com)

The FBI is investigating more than a dozen Uzbek nationals allowed into the US after they sought asylum at the southern border with Mexico earlier this year, a scramble set off when US intelligence officials found that the migrants traveled with the help of a smuggler with ties to ISIS, according to multiple US officials....

Pax Americana Pax Americana (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India (scroll.in)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/401046...

World of Warcraft Classic Era In the hardcore Era Realms indicates dead players stay dead (and transform into a ghost) (www.gamescensor.com)

Charles Martinet’s 6 most iconic video game performances (www.digitaltrends.com)

CIA stairwell attack among flood of sexual misconduct complaints at U.S. spy agency (apnews.com)

Living conditions in Ukraine are resembling a new slavery, a triumph of Western 'democracy' in the 21st century (english.almayadeen.net)

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)

cross-posted from !aistuff

My story-driven game Year Unknown now has a Steam page! (store.steampowered.com)

(Please let me know if this counts as advertising and I’ll remove it)...

BRICS invites six countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran to be new members (www.reuters.com)

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday....