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September 22 - 24, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) (i.imgur.com)

Ukraine claims Sevastopol strike hit navy commanders (www.bbc.com)

Ukraine says Friday’s missile strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea fleet in Crimea was timed to coincide with a meeting of naval officials....

Neelix putting Vulcan restraint to the test (startrek.website)

A climate scientist on how to recognize the new climate change denial (www.vox.com)

Delay, deflect, downplay, and other ways fossil fuel companies block climate action.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink begins accepting human patients for trials of its brain implant (venturebeat.com)

Solidarity Ale! SF's Anchor Brewing workers plan to turn closed company into a co-op (therealnews.com)

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT (lithub.com)

Why Human Writing Is Worth Defending In the Age of ChatGPT::A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: So…

India could be behind killing of Canadian Sikh - Trudeau (www.bbc.co.uk)

Do other people ever have the experience of simulating yourself doing something in your head, and then doing it in real life exactly how you imagined it?

I’m thinking about sports as an example. I used to do fencing, and sometimes we would learn a new technique or I would imagine one to do, and I would imagine myself doing it, then it was almost like autopilot where my body would do it just how I imagined, like it was easy. It didn’t happen very often but when it did it felt...

Terraforming Mars team defends AI use as Kickstarter hits $1.3 million (www.polygon.com)

‘It’s too powerful a technology’

The Whitest Kids U' Know: Moon Bears (youtu.be)

For sale: Sooty and Sweep puppets (b.l3n.co)

Putin signals potential willingness to assist Kim as two leaders meet for expected weapons talks (www.cnn.com)

Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled a potential willingness to assist North Korea in developing its space and satellite program Wednesday, as he gave Kim Jong Un a tour of Russia’s vast Vostochny space launch site ahead of expected arms talks....

Ford, Honda, and BMW create a new vehicle-to-grid company to help EV owners save money (www.theverge.com)

The new company, ChargeScape, will create a platform that can be used by both utilities and EV owners to benefit from the expected surge in mobile batteries plugged into the grid.

Only half of required number of trainee secondary teachers in England recruited (www.theguardian.com)

Figures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retention

[repost] Want an empty omelette? Sure

So it was my first job was a server at a very popular 24 hour breakfast diner/chain. We had lots of colorful customers....

Star Trek: Infinite could be the grand strategy game Trekkies need (www.polygon.com)

X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors (www.socialmediatoday.com)

black hole goes brrrr (cloud.tilde.team)

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This is what Earth's hottest summer on record looks like (www.sbs.com.au)

Graphs show the dire reality of spiking temperatures around the world, in what is quickly shaping up to be Earth's hottest year since records began.

"why is everyone who immigrated from a communist country to the us a fucking chud?" -- "they moved for a reason. in their home country they (thankfully) cannot spread their reactionary beliefs there" (sh.itjust.works)