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San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave (www.siliconrepublic.com)
"REM sleep is the next AI"
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19628702...
Daww, it just wants scritchies
Missouri Outlawed Abortion, and Now It’s Funding an Anti-Abortion Group That Works in Other States (www.propublica.org)
Since abortion became illegal in Missouri two years ago, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Coalition Life has fine-tuned its strategy. Because there are no abortion clinics in Missouri, Coalition Life operates largely outside clinics in other states where the procedure is still legal. The group’s website says it...
What games popularized certain mechanics?
I was trying to think of which games created certain mechanics that became popular and copied by future games in the industry....
Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60 (www.theguardian.com)
If you have noticed a sudden accumulation of wrinkles, aches and pains or a general sensation of having grown older almost overnight, there may be a scientific explanation. Research suggests that rather than being a slow and steady process, aging occurs in at least two accelerated bursts....
Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption,...
Russians watching a combined arms/maneuver campaign supported by coordinated air & recon assets unfold on their own soil (sh.itjust.works)
Stolen from x.com/Havoc_Six/status/1823847321425338514
JUST EJECT FASTER (sh.itjust.works)
Nearly all Chinese banks are refusing to process payments from Russia, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
The impact of the West’s sanctions just seems to be getting worse and worse for Russia....
Vance agrees that raising grandchildren is ‘whole purpose of postmenopausal female’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Vance also seemed to agree when a podcast host suggested that having grandparents help raise children was a ‘weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman’...
Biggest US grocery chain investigated over Uber-style surge pricing (www.msn.com)
Kroger, America’s biggest supermarket chain, is being investigated over its use of electronic price labels on store shelves nationwide. US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bob Casey announced they were looking into the practice to see if the chain was engaging in surge pricing. So-called ‘dynamic pricing’ is common in other...
Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem
More info about it here: ghacks.net/…/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-n…...
The Dukes of Luhansk (sh.itjust.works)
Toyota Mirai Turned Into Hydrogen Bomb By Ukrainian Forces Explodes With The Force Of 400 Pounds Of TNT (autos.yahoo.com)
J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit (variety.com)
J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif....
FTC head wants investigation into grocery stores over inflated prices (www.independent.co.uk)
DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again (arstechnica.com)
It’s sensible for businesses to shift from physical media sales. Per CNBC’s calculations, DVD sales fell over 86 percent between 2008 and 2019. Research from the Motion Picture Association in 2021 found that physical media represented 8 percent of the home/mobile entertainment market in the US, falling behind digital (80...
IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent (edition.cnn.com)
Brace for whole new levels of noncredibleness - this is not a drill! (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
AITA? Its like really loud (lemm.ee)
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says (www.cbsnews.com)
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances (www.cnbc.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations (fortune.com)
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....
Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing....
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
Wife of Judge on Mifepristone Case Was Paid by Anti-Abortion Group (www.thedailybeast.com)
The fate of the abortion pill mifepristone is now before the Supreme Court, after a fifth-circuit appeals panel of three judges ruled against its distribution last summer....
New York man sentenced to 25 years to life for fatally shooting woman who pulled into wrong driveway (abcnews.go.com)
The Starbucks Workers’ Union Has Finally Broken Through (jacobin.com)
Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability (spectrum.ieee.org)
I'm trying to sneak around the battlefield but I'm dummy thicc and the clap from my ass cheeks keeps alerting the enemy (files.catbox.moe)
A staggering 80% of American households are financially worse off than they were before COVID-19 (finance.yahoo.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off (www.theverge.com)
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off::Unity has announced that starting on January 1st, 2024, it will implement a new pricing model that will charge developers based on how many times a game was installed.
An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)
Location on a map: www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-…
US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say (arstechnica.com)
The biggest Internet service providers will dominate a $42.45 billion broadband grant program unless the Biden administration changes a rule requiring grant recipients to obtain a letter of credit from a bank, according to a joint statement from consumer advocacy groups, local government officials, and advocates for small ISPs....
DOOM Eternal removed Denuvo and it plays great on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Mexico set for first female president in 2024 election (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico will almost certainly have its first female president in 2024, after the governing Morena party and the opposition coalition both chose women as their candidates....