The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict (www.nytimes.com)
Sheep munch 100 kilos of medical cannabis in flood-hit Thessaly (www.ekathimerini.com)
“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry”
daily goals (lemmy.ml)
from Sam & Max: Hit the Road...
UAW justifies wage demands by pointing to CEO pay raises. So how high were they? (apnews.com)
It’s been a central argument for the United Auto Workers union: If Detroit’s three automakers raised CEO pay by 40% over the past four years, workers should get similar raises....
did someone say its bleptember? (files.catbox.moe)
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing (www.theverge.com)
Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company (torrentfreak.com)
Taiwan tells Elon Musk it is ‘not for sale’ after latest China comments (www.theguardian.com)
Reproach comes as Taiwan says it has detected a large number of Chinese aircraft crossing into its air defence identification zone...
Escaped Pennsylvania killer captured after nearly 2 weeks on the run (www.nbcnews.com)
I F-ING LOVE CLIMATE TOWN (lemmy.world)
AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1. (www.businessinsider.com)
Venus flytrap flowers [OC] (pixelfed.crimedad.work)
cross-posted from: pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/…/606456587991694683...
An iPhone belonging to a staffer at a Washington-based civil society organization was hacked remotely with spyware created by Israel’s NSO Group. (financialpost.com)
China orders government workers to stop using iPhones amid heightened tensions with US (www.scmp.com)
A handful of Chinese ministries have told employees to stop using Apple’s iPhones at work, citing national security risks amid heightened geopolitical tensions with the United States, according to several people familiar with the matter....
Through the Mist, by Teruo Araya, National Geographic [Japan] (i.natgeofe.com)
The Tadami Line is a train route that stretches for 84 miles in Japan. “The view from the train is stunning,” says Your Shot photographer Teruo Araya. “The train goes over a number of bridges passing cherry blossoms in spring, greenery in summer, colored leaves in autumn, and snow in winter.”...
I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format
I recently tried to join Mastodon, and like Twitter before it, I don’t understand the premise. You follow individuals instead of topics, and if you try to follow hashtags they change on a whim all the time so you’re unlikely to get relevant posts....
Loafin (lemmy.ninja)
Noki, just being an extra good boy
Danish cloud host says customers 'lost all data' after ransomware attack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Both CloudNordic and Azero said that they were working to rebuild customers’ web and email systems from scratch, albeit without their data....
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te... (newrepublic.com)
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te…::Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and...
Shows like Master Chef and Hell's Kitchen are designed to glamorize low-paying, labor intensive restaurant jobs and recruit people into the field.
The best decision YouTube ever did. (lemm.ee)
‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say (www.vice.com)
Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents (www.nytimes.com)
As part of a state takeover plan, libraries in underperforming schools are becoming spaces for disruptive students to watch lessons on computers.