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US dog breeder fined $35m after 4,000 beagles rescued (www.bbc.com)
A company that breeds animals for medical testing has been fined a record $35m (£27m) after 4,000 beagles were rescued from its facility in Virginia in 2022....
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
Toxic linux communities moment:
Original Comic: thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com
Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
U.S. student shortage, falling birth rates threaten school closures (www.axios.com)
Large U.S. cities are grappling with too many underpopulated schools, forcing school districts to make difficult decisions on closures....
‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old (www.theguardian.com)
When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men....
Huge invasive carp species pulled from a small Colorado pond (lemmy.world)
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
After years of scandal, Boy Scouts of America changes its name to Scouting America (www.npr.org)
Israel-Hamas war protesters defy Columbia University's deadline to disband camp or face suspension (apnews.com)
As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk (www.reuters.com)
Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April 2019 Duttlinger leased to Dunns Bridge...
Owner of exploding building arrested at airport while trying to leave: Authorities (abcnews.go.com)
Pew: Asian Americans fastest growing group of US voters (www.voanews.com)
Airlines will now be required to give automatic cash refunds for canceled and delayed flights (apnews.com)
Kroger, Albertsons to sell 166 more stores seeking approval of $25 billion merger
reuters.com/…/kroger-albertsons-amend-asset-sale-…
Freedom Caucus' new 'FART' team sparks avalanche of jokes, memes (www.newsweek.com)
The House Freedom Caucus has reportedly deployed its Floor Action Response Team (FART), triggering a wave of jokes and memes online.
Trump hush-money trial: Juror excused over concerns identity made public - BBC News (www.bbc.com)
Jury is shrinking, not growing...
Win 11 PC "Critical Process Error" BSOD on every startup attempt
I leave my computer running for long stretches because it also acts as a plex server. I turned my monitor on last night to open steam, and the window didn’t render in; I didn’t think much of it, but before I could restart my PC, I got a “memory management” BSOD. I turned off XMP, as well as taking out each RAM stick, but...
Trump gripes he can't reject 'unlimited' jurors in New York hush money trial (www.cnbc.com)
Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose (www.businessinsider.com)
Alcohol consumption lowering each decade in the EU (www.euronews.com)
Clyburn hits Johnson, Trump after joint meeting: ‘Outright lies’ (thehill.com)
Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay (fortune.com)
Fox News now accusing Scrabble of being too “woke” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Elon Musk’s X to stop allowing users to hide their blue checks (arstechnica.com)
No coherent strategy. X circles the drain. You gotta love it. Oh, Lonnie…
Property owner stunned after $500,000 house built on wrong lot: ‘Are you kidding me?’ (www.fox19.com)
Who played on linux before proton? (lemmy.world)
Russian delete (feddit.de)
First Human Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Implant Used it to Stay Up All Night Playing Civilization 6 (www.ign.com)
‘Worst' NYC landlord attacked upon arrival at Rikers, may have broken bones in face: source (www.nbcnewyork.com)
Reddit Opens Up 38%, as Shares Begin Trading (www.nytimes.com)
Reddit shares opened up about 38 percent on Thursday in their first day of trading, in a sign of investor eagerness that set the stage for more tech companies to reach the stock market this year....
Newly Discovered Fossil from the Smithsonian’s Collection Named After Kermit the Frog (www.smithsonianmag.com)
In a paper published today in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, museum paleontologist Arjan Mann and Calvin So, a doctoral researcher at George Washington University, describe a new species of proto-amphibian that they recently discovered in the museum’s fossil collection. They identified several unique features...
Shared folder between Mac and Win11
Hi, the issue I’m having is pretty straightforward and I don’t want to bore you:...
Man devoted to eliminating squatters taking over Southern California homes (ktla.com)
Suggestions for cheap enterprise grade hardware to run linux headless.
Basically what it says in the title. I did a lot of searching in Internet. I think small form factor computers are mt best bet. But I still feel they are costly for my purpose....
Trump tightens grip on US Republican Party as daughter-in-law takes key post (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump cemented his grip on the Republican National Committee on Friday after his daughter-in-law and another ally assumed top leadership posts amid a debate among members over whether the organization should help pay his legal bills....
The late Mojo Nixon had an appropriately amusing tour rider. (boingboing.net)
Excerpts quoted in the article:...