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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class (www.theguardian.com)
Board of education replaces course at 12 public universities with own US history curriculum, in latest ‘anti-woke’ attack...
Companies — profitable or not — make 2024 the year of cost cuts (www.cnbc.com)
Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear. They said she was ‘cop shopping’ (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021
facts jack (media.kbin.social)
Fani Willis: Defiant Georgia prosecutor fights to stay on Trump case (www.bbc.com)
Let's talk about free/FOSS routing platforms for the homelab
I am going to intentionally exclude Unifi and Mikrotik along with the vendors like Cisco, Juniper, Aruba etc from this discussion as I don’t think they are relevant (especially since you can’t run them on your hardware)....
Companies forcing workers to come back to the office are creating a 'massive disruption' in their lives, workplace expert says (www.businessinsider.com)
Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?
Musicians walk out after London orchestra leaves them unpaid for months (www.theguardian.com)
Gen Z is recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend (www.cbsnews.com)
Parents fuming after Montreal-area teacher allegedly lists students' art for sale online (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
The weirdest part of this is it isn’t even good art. It’s the sort of art you would expect from 12-year-old junior high students....
How should I host Handbrake?
I’m currently using Handbrake on a windows 11 installation of a desktop computer. I am planning on turning this desktop computer into a NAS and media server to replace my current raspberry pi 4 system. Handbrake works great on this computer, but I was wondering how I could use Handbrake on this system after I convert it into a...
Wells Fargo District Manager arrested for Target shoplifting spree across at least three cities (alachuachronicle.com)
FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters (www.pbs.org)
Viral videos of Tesla drivers using VR headsets prompt US government alarm (www.theguardian.com)
US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas....
Texas Dairy Queen workers were selling meth with soft serves, police say (www.usatoday.com)
Federal appeals court narrowly blocks controversial Florida law barring Chinese land ownership (www.politico.com)
“This prohibition blatantly violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection against discrimination,” Judge Nancy Abudu wrote....
Texas AG Paxton sues five cities, including Austin and San Marcos, over marijuana policies (cbsaustin.com)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against five cities – Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Denton and Elgin – ordinances that aim to eliminate enforcement of low-level marijuana possession offenses....
Israeli army occupies Gaza homes – then burns them down (www.haaretz.com)
Israeli soldiers have begun in recent weeks to set fire to homes in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their commanders, without the necessary legal permission to do so, according to information obtained by Haaretz....
Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6302705
Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA Meltdown (www.nytimes.com)
The fulminations surrounding the world’s biggest pop icon — and girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — reached the stratosphere after Kansas City made it to the Super Bowl....
On Air (lemmy.world)
Chromecast with Google TV is now serving full-screen, auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads (www.androidauthority.com)
Reddit users thevincentasteroid and MMD3_ posted about an auto-playing video ad (with sound) on the home screen. The ad is for Chicken Tender Wraps from Carl’s Jr. When it begins auto-playing, it pushes all the other UI elements out of focus and goes almost full-screen, returning to the home screen after it has played through...
A portrait of America's young adults: More debt burdened and financially dependent on their parents (www.cbsnews.com)
Young adults in the U.S. are experiencing a very different trajectory than their parents, with more of them hitting key milestones later in life and also taking on more debt, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center....
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Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage (nypost.com)
this country is so fucking cool
Amazon clearly lying about "ownership" on Prime. (lemmy.world)
You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?
Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity' (themessenger.com)
A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
Bill Gates thinks the super-wealthy should pay more tax – and plenty of rich people agree (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates wants ultra-wealthy individuals to pay more tax — and now a growing chorus of billionaires agree....
It's just a prank bro (lemmy.world)
Russian roulette brownies (lemmy.today)
Infertility: Chemical substances omnipresent in everyday life are among the causes (www.lemonde.fr)
YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)
Users of those services will be steered toward the web...
Far-right extremism is thriving in rural areas. Here's what it looks like in Upstate NY (www.northcountrypublicradio.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/far-right-extremism-is-thriving…
How do you discover new content?
I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don’t have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?
Overdraft fees could drop to as low as $3 under new Biden proposal (apnews.com)
The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House, the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat fees it says pose an unnecessary burden on American consumers, particularly those living paycheck to paycheck....
Parents want district to improve security more after deadly Iowa school shooting (www.pbs.org)
Several parents in an Iowa town where a deadly school shooting took place earlier this month told school officials on Monday they want more preventative measures and transparency as the school board plans for students’ return....
In his closing pitch to Iowa Republicans, Trump says their votes can help him punish his enemies (apnews.com)
The former president has set sky-high expectations for his own performance in the first contest of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He spent the day before the caucuses trying to ensure he meets them. His main GOP rivals all spent Sunday in Iowa as well, making last-minute appeals to Iowans open to hearing...
Texas National Guard Blocking Feds From Getting to Border, US DOJ Alleges (www.businessinsider.com)
Why can’t today’s young adults leave the nest? Blame high housing costs (www.cnbc.com)
These days, housing affordability is a struggle for nearly everyone....
Fox News stops running MyPillow commercials in a payment dispute with election denier Mike Lindell (apnews.com)
Lindell went public by tweeting that that Fox, which had been one of MyPillow’s biggest advertising outlets, had canceled him. He said in his tweet that he didn’t know why but that he suspected that the network was trying to silence him. Fox denied that....
EPA sets out rules for proposed 'methane fee' for waste generated by oil and natural gas companies (apnews.com)
Oil and natural gas companies for the first time would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a rule proposed Friday by the Biden administration....
Norway to allow mining waste to be dumped in fjords (www.theguardian.com)
IRS has already collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionaires (www.marketwatch.com)
St. Paul makes history with all-female city council, a rarity among large US cities (apnews.com)
St. Paul, Minnesota, has an all-woman city council for the first time in its history — and experts say it may be the largest U.S. city to ever have an all-woman council.