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A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe (www.nature.com)
Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules (apnews.com)
A longshot Missouri gubernatorial candidat e with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled Friday....
Voyager 1 (mander.xyz)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)
Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.
Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls (www.theatlantic.com)
Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” (arstechnica.com)
Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com....
Gorgeous too (lemmy.world)
wait what (pawb.social)
Former NRA chief Wayne LaPierre misspent gun rights group's money and owes more than $4M, jury finds (apnews.com)
The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, misspent millions of dollars of the organization’s money, using the funds to pay for an extravagant lifestyle that included exotic getaways and trips on private planes and superyachts, a New York jury determined Friday....
Florida gets closer to banning social media for kids under 16 (abcnews.go.com)
Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media after the state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval....
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...
Texas will build camp for National Guard members in border city of Eagle Pass (apnews.com)
Texas will build an operations base for up to 1,800 National Guard members in Eagle Pass, expanding the presence of soldiers in the border city where the state has clashed with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced Friday....
Man dies mid-flight after breaking out in 'cold sweats' and losing 'liters of blood,' scaring his fellow passengers (www.businessinsider.com)
A 63-year-old man died on a Lufthansa flight on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick....
Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)
OTTAWA (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....
Outrage over Bigotry, Islamophobia in Wall Street Journal and New York Times (www.commondreams.org)
The nation’s leading newspapers were under fire this weekend after publishing opinion pieces seen as “Bigoted,” “Islamophobic,” “Racist,” and “Reckless.”...
Texas Border Convoy Descends into Antisemitism (www.newsweek.com)
The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called “terrorists coming across the border being funded by Jewish money.” Yon was speaking at a “Take Back Our Border” convoy in Texas....
Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech (www.theguardian.com)
Tennessee bill targets adults who take minors out of state for abortion (thehill.com)
The Tennessee legislature introduced a bill on Monday that targets adults who take minors out of the state to have an abortion....
Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage (nypost.com)
this country is so fucking cool
Top hedge funds make record $67bn in profits for 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
Profits boom at top 20 funds including TCI, Citadel, Viking and Pershing Square thanks to rebound in stock markets...
Russian aircraft begin patrolling Syria-Israel disengagement line — military (tass.com)
Almost 25% of American hiring managers don’t want to advance Jewish people in hiring processes, alarming survey on workplace antisemitism finds (fortune.com)
Across American culture, politics, and even business, expressions of antisemitism have grown louder in recent years. It’s not just high profile statements made by the rapper Ye and basketball star Kyrie Irving or politicians increasingly cozying up to White supremacist groups. Incidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and...
Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused (truthout.org)
“I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.
Infinite Loop (programming.dev)
Programming: The Horror Game (programming.dev)
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
ifn't (programming.dev)
Obscure button tier list (sh.itjust.works)
If you have “Help” instead of “Ins”, replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come....
George Carlin AI comedy special is 'ghoulish' and 'creepy,' his daughter says (www.cbc.ca)
A new comedy special starts with the quote, “I’m sorry it took me so long to come out with new material, but I do have a pretty good excuse. I was dead.”...
Feds say Texas is blocking Border Patrol from a section of the border, ask U.S. Supreme Court to intervene (www.texastribune.org)
The Justice Department says agents can’t access 2.5 miles of the border and a boat ramp in Eagle Pass....
Appeals court allows California law to go into effect, restricting concealed carry in public places (www.cnn.com)
A US appeals court Saturday paved the way for a California law banning the concealed carry of firearms in “sensitive places” to go into effect January 1, despite a federal judge’s ruling that it is “repugnant to the Second Amendment.”...
It's not just you: Christmas lights look different now, and can give you headaches — NPR (apple.news)
That story explains why I dislike led lights
More than 1,100 officers under investigation for sexual or domestic abuse in England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
As one in seven accused of offences keep working, Lib Dems call on home secretary James Cleverly for ‘radical overhaul’ of vetting
Putin ally 'behind bomb' that killed Wagner boss, new report alleges (i.stuff.co.nz)
GOP senator says Biden ‘may not be’ impeachable since he wasn’t in office during accused actions (www.washingtontimes.com)
It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic
Donald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer says (www.newsweek.com)