Disneyland evacuates restaurants, rides, Paradise Pier amid Tropical Storm Hilary, earthquake (www.sfgate.com)
Warning sirens blared Sunday afternoon as guests were evacuated from rides, restaurants and the entirety of DCA’s Paradise Pier
London's clean-air zone expansion hit by camera vandalism (www.reuters.com)
The Occidental at Xcaret, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico (lemmy.world)
‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Producers Talk Janeway/Chakotay, Season 2 Legacy Connections, And Season 3 Hopes (trekmovie.com)
Doing things in games because it simple felt good.
I’ve been thinking about the PS1 game ‘Driver’ a lot recently. It’s a game I spent a lot of time on during my youth, and whilst I’m sure it doesn’t hold up some 20 years later, it was still a highlight from my ‘gaming youth’....
Khannnnn (www2.b3ta.com)
Shamelessly taken from b3ta
What are some good dystopian novels?
I’m nearly finished rereading 1984 and my appetite for dystopian books is whetted. What are some other great ones I should check out?
GTA 5 AI mod taken down by Take-Two lawyers (www.eurogamer.net)
The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
I can’t imagine the PS3 will last much longer than this. Truly the end of an era. :(
Google is getting ready for the ‘quantum apocalypse’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Klingon Music (lemmy.world)
A very NCD childhood (lemmy.world)
Longterm use of Proton Pump Inhibiters linked to dementia (newatlas.com)
Link to study: American Academy of Neurology...
Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice (apnews.com)
As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity....
What happens to the ampersand on the internet?
I feel like whenever I see the ampersand on this website, it’s followed with “amp;”. I’ve noticed it other places on the internet also. Why does this happen? Is it some programming thing?...
Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk (archive.today)
China a ‘ticking time bomb’ because of economic woes, Joe Biden warns (www.theguardian.com)
At Utah fundraiser, US president says China’s employment and workforce issues pose a risk, because ‘when bad folks have problems, they do bad things’
JCPS parents frustrated with new bus routes as some kids get home at almost 10 p.m. on the first day (www.wdrb.com)
They cancelled school Thursday and Friday after this…
Content! (aussie.zone)
Why shouldn't electric plugs screw in?
I just watched a TikTok about how people used to plug in things to their light sockets when electricity was first becoming popular. And they kept calling the plug a light socket, what rule says it’s not a plug that screws in? And why shouldn’t plugs screw in? We have material science to make plugs and cables hard enough that...
What’s a painful experience you haven’t had in years?
Question inspired by a Charley horse that hit in the middle of the night.
Reviewing *ALL 71* Atari Lynx Games!!! (youtu.be)
PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency. (www.paypal.com)
PayPal is Introducing a new crypto currency and you’ll be able to buy, sell, hold, and transfer it in the app. 1 USD : 1 PYUSD on PayPal
Romance Novel Fans Are Under Fire for Being Too Horny for Hockey Players (www.rollingstone.com)
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
