Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
This is my lemmy account because I got sick of how unstable kbin dot social was.
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Hotly anticipated 'Black Myth: Wukong' is delayed on Xbox Series X|S — and now, Microsoft has responded (www.windowscentral.com)
Genovese mobster ‘Tony Cakes’ ID’d as NYC pedestrian, 86, decapitated by DOT truck (nypost.com)
“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source said.
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries (www.cbsnews.com)
A journalist shot by police during the 2020 Minneapolis unrest following the murder of George Floyd is dying from her injuries, friends say....
Jeff Landry signs bill allowing surgical castration of some sex offenders (www.nola.com)
Louisiana judges can now sentence certain sex offenders to surgical castration, after Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed a bill into law that creates that penalty....
'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning (www.newschannel5.com)
Despite how hot it is, landlords in Tennessee are not required to keep the air conditioning running....
New Yorker describes how she tackled child rape suspect after recognizing him (www.independent.co.uk)
During the apprehension of Inga-Landi on Tuesday, Sauretti further explained that the man then kept on resisting and protested....
Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
A WIRED analysis and one carried out by developer Robb Knight suggest that Perplexity is able to achieve this partly through apparently ignoring a widely accepted web standard known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to surreptitiously scrape areas of websites that operators do not want accessed by bots, despite claiming that it...
The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law (apnews.com)
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday....
New study highlights stark racial wealth gap in the New Orleans area (www.nola.com)
A new report from the Data Center is shedding disturbing light on income and wealth disparities in the New Orleans metro area, showing that on average white households have an astounding 13 times more net worth than their Black counterparts and nine times that of Latinx households....
McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors (www.bbc.com)
McDonald’s is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online....
US acknowledges Northwest dams have devastated the region's Native tribes (apnews.com)
The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes....
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered | CNN (www.cnn.com)
In 2007, Britain’s Ministry of Defense dismissed claims of rape brought by 2,187 women, Lenkanan and Noltwalal among them, saying “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.”...
Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? (kbin.social)
Link to a list of mbin instances: fedidb.org/software/mbin
Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say (www.bbc.com)
The Greek coastguard has caused the deaths of dozens of migrants in the Mediterranean over a three-year period, witnesses say, including nine who were deliberately thrown into the water....
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human (www.bbc.com)
If you’re worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future....
Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)
Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...
CDC warns of disruptions to ADHD meds after $100M fraud arrest (thehill.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning those who take medication for ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could face a disruption in accessing care after two executives were arrested for a $100 million fraud scheme....
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Alex Jones’ personal assets to be sold to pay $1.5B Sandy Hook debt. Company bankruptcy is dismissed (apnews.com)
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the future of his Infowars media platform uncertain as he owes $1.5 billion for his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax....
Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity (appleinsider.com)
A British man is ridiculously attempting to sue Apple following a divorce, caused by his wife finding messages to a prostitute he deleted from his iPhone that were still accessible on an iMac....
Japanese band pulls 'Columbus' video after slavery backlash (www.bbc.com)
A Japanese rock band has pulled the music video for its new song “Columbus” after drawing flak for scenes that depicted Christopher Columbus with ape-like men....
Elon Musk wins back his $44.9 billion Tesla pay package in shareholder vote (apnews.com)
Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to restore CEO Elon Musk’s record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier this year, sending a strong vote of confidence in his leadership of the electric vehicle maker....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”...
White Dad Apologized to the Black Superintendent He Pushed On Stage, But It Didn't Go As He Expected (www.theroot.com)
“The outreach was really to indicate that he, Matthew, understands his mishap in terms of what he did, what he’s caused. He’s remorseful,” Briggs continued. “I took that as some form of apology, but that’s not something I think at this time amounts to a solid apology, from my perspective....
Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County (ktla.com)
A Tesla was in its self-driving mode when it crashed into a parked patrol vehicle responding to a fatal crash in Orange County Thursday morning, police said....
Phoenix police have pattern of violating civil rights and using excessive force, Justice Dept. says (apnews.com)
Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday....
Samyang: Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy (www.bbc.com)
Three fiery flavours of the Samyang instant ramen line are being withdrawn: Buldak 3x Spicy & Hot Chicken, 2x Spicy & Hot Chicken and Hot Chicken Stew....
Oregon man who drugged daughter's friends with insomnia medication at sleepover gets prison term (apnews.com)
An Oregon man who drugged his daughter and her friends with fruit smoothies laced with a sleeping medication after they didn’t go to bed during a sleepover was sentenced to two years in prison....
Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup....
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
A group of hackers that says it believes “AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged” is hacking people who are trying to use a popular interface for the AI image generation software Stable Diffusion with a malicious extension for the image generator interface shared on Github....
Seoul will restart anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker broadcasts in retaliation against trash balloons (apnews.com)
South Korea says it will restart anti-North Korean propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts in border areas in response to continuing North Korean campaigns to drop trash on the South with balloons....
18+ Mexico’s elite struggles to comprehend left’s landslide election win (www.ft.com)
The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader...
210 Palestinians reportedly killed during Israeli hostage recovery operation (thehill.com)
The bodies of 109 Palestinians including 23 children and 11 women were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and spokesperson Khalil Degran told the Associated Press that more than 100 wounded also arrived to the hospital. In addition, he said the rest of the 210 Palestinians killed were taken to Al-Awda Hospital after the...
Japanese hospitality wears thin as overtourism takes toll (www.thetimes.com)
From one point of view, it is a remarkable success story. In 2000 Japan had 4.7 million foreign tourists a year. The government of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe set an ambitious goal of 20 million foreign visitors a year by 2020, and achieved it five years ahead of schedule....
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them on the...
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Wisconsin warden and 8 staff members charged following probes into inmate deaths (apnews.com)
Guards at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum-security prison failed to provide basic care for inmates who died on their watch, including one who died of dehydration and another who wasn’t found for at least 12 hours after he died of a stroke, authorities said Wednesday in announcing charges against the warden and eight members of...
Gilgo Beach killings suspect expected to be indicted in killings of 2 additional women, sources say | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Rex Heuermann, the suspect in the Gilgo Beach killings, is expected to be indicted Thursday on new murder charges in the killings of two additional women, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN....
Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand (www.rawstory.com)
The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows....
Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content (www.reuters.com)
A former Meta engineer on Tuesday accused the company of bias in its handling of content related to the war in Gaza, claiming in a lawsuit that Meta fired him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts....