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Enough Doomscrolling for today (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

libmem_cpy-strnrrn-std-clib_Cmvaeffc_ld-TWA_nif.aarch64(32bit)2-0.13.2-23.2.so.7(3).1.1.gz.conf (programming.dev)

“It’s just easier to type” and other lies you believe

Doing My Duty for all Linux Gamers (lemmy.fwgx.uk)

I thought I’d never see the day....

Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) (www.youtube.com)

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate (www.cnbc.com)

Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate::As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs

TIL researchers at a base in Antarctica started to develop a new accent (pubs.aip.org)

"Wind and solar power pollute the Earth and make life miserable:" DeSantis's Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools (www.scientificamerican.com)

Only a few weeks until he's back (feddit.de)

Meme wars explained (startrek.website)

Russia hikes interest rates to 15% as inflation soars (www.bbc.com)

when someone starts reminding me how old some of my favorite things from when I was younger are (slrpnk.net)

Historic change for tipped workers: Subminimum wage to end in Chicago restaurants, bars [USA] (www.usatoday.com)

Alabama inmate opposes being ‘test subject’ for new nitrogen execution method (apnews.com)

An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method....

Dwarf Fortress on Steam now officially available for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ (nypost.com)

Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple’s new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

It will pass (i.imgur.com)

Its much more fun to bully yourself than others. (lemmy.letthewookiee.win)

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores (gizmodo.com)

Gizmodo's tests find the College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other information with Facebook and TikTok via tracking pixels. The College Board has a years-long history of sharing and selling student data.

Help back up the Great 78 Collections before the Record Companies force The Internet Archive to take them down! (yiffit.net)

See linked posting. I’ve commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I’ve submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it’s easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work....

why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

I have posted this on Reddit (askeconomics) a while back but got no good replies. Copying it here because I don’t want to send traffic to Reddit....

Iran protests: Teen girl Sonia Sharifi 'abducted' and 'tortured' by Iranian forces for second time (news.sky.com)

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)

A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potatoes....

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.