How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade? (i.imgur.com)
Dragon’s Lair
Exit polls show Swiss anti-immigrant party on track for record election showing (www.politico.eu)
The Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which centered its campaign on anti-immigrant rhetoric, is projected to win 29 percent of the vote, up from 25.6 percent four years ago and higher than pre-election polls. It has been the country’s largest party since 2003.
X illegally fired worker over return to office protest, US labor agency says (www.cnn.com)
Elon Musk’s social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), broke the law when it fired one of its employees for “exercising their right to protected concerted activity” following X’s return-to-office mandate, according to a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board....
Stunning State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza 'De-Escalation' Talk (www.huffpost.com)
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”...
Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
Lemmygrad tankies react very sanely to Lemmy.world's defederation (sh.itjust.works)
LW Announcement...
White House walks back Biden comments that he had seen pictures of beheaded Israeli children (news.yahoo.com)
The White House was forced to walk back on president Joe Biden’s claim to have seen “confirmed pictures” of “terrorists beheading children” in Israel....
EU warns Musk that X spreading ‘illegal content’ after Hamas attacks on Israel (thehill.com)
The European Union (EU) sent a letter to Elon Musk Tuesday warning that his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was spreading illegal content and disinformation after the Hamas attacks on Israel....
Isreal's Security cabinet approves declaration of war (www.jpost.com)
sass overload (lemmy.world)
I did not make this
Country sourdough (lemmy.world)
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Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 900 employees | Said to be roughly 16% of its workforce. (www.eurogamer.net)
Epic Games is reportedly laying off around 900 employees | Said to be roughly 16% of its workforce.::UPDATE 4.54pm: Epic has confirmed reports of widespread layoffs at the company, saying the move will affect "around 830…
They thirst for wolf tit (lemmy.ca)
TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)
Earth is outside its 'safe operating space for humanity' on most key measurements, study says (apnews.com)
Coming back to a side quest you missed (lemmy.world)
NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals (www.insider.com)
NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.
It be like that (lemmy.ml)
My self-hosted home setup (programming.dev)
Dedicated wifi for automation allows me to have devices such as Xiaomi Vaccuum, or security camera not phoning home. OpenWRT with good firewall rules completely isolate my “public” containers/VMs from my lan....
Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says (www.latimes.com)
“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states
Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets (www.hrw.org)
TIL The first air conditioner was created not for cooling a room but to prevent humidity causing swelling pages and blurry prints in a printing press (www.smithsonianmag.com)
At the turn of the 20th century, humidity threatened the reputation of Brooklyn’s Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographic and Publishing Company’s high-quality color printing. After two summers of extreme heat disrupted business and caused swelling pages and blurry prints, the printing company found that a nascent cooling industry...