Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).
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Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism (www.lgbtqnation.com)
James Somerton was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until...
Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah killed by Israeli tank, investigation finds (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found....
US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza (thehill.com)
Screaming children to amputations: Inside a southern Gaza hospital (www.independent.co.uk)
As Israel expands its ground assault into Khan Younis, a surgeon at the European Hospital in the city describes desperately trying to treat a relentless stream of wounded children as critical supplies run out
UNLV gunman was unemployed professor who had 150 rounds of ammunition and a target list, police say (apnews.com)
After police killed him in a shootout, Anthony Polito was found to be carrying nine magazines for a 9mm handgun he’d legally purchased last year.
High-profile attacks on Derek Chauvin and Larry Nassar put spotlight on violence in federal prisons (apnews.com)
Recent assaults on two notorious, high-profile federal prisoners have renewed concerns about whether the federal Bureau of Prisons is capable of keeping people in its custody safe.
Baldur's Gate 3 out now on Xbox (www.eurogamer.net)
The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners
Here’s the full list of winners at TGA:...
Facebook and Instagram content enabled child sexual abuse, trafficking: New Mexico lawsuit (www.cnbc.com)
Meta enabled child sexual abuse, served up explicit content, and failed to disrupt trafficking on its platforms, New Mexico's attorney general said in a suit.
Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables (www.tomshardware.com)
Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
Venice gondola capsizes after tourists refuse to sit down and stop taking selfies (www.theguardian.com)
Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared online
IDF appears to push back on ‘irresponsible’ US claim Hamas refusing to release raped hostages (www.timesofisrael.com)
The Israel Defense Forces says public discussions about the state of captives held in Gaza has moved into reckless territory, urging those responsible to knock it off....
Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple and Google had been told to keep the practice secret until Sen. Ron Wyden revealed it in a letter Wednesday.
Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens (www.propublica.org)
The Medical University of South Carolina initially said it wouldn’t be affected by a law banning use of state funds for treatment “furthering the gender transition” of children under 16. Months later, it cut off that care to all trans minors.
Nevada GOP ‘fake electors’ indicted for falsely claiming Trump won state’s 2020 election (thenevadaindependent.com)
The six Republicans are accused of falsifying records and each face two felony charges.
Israeli police greenlight march rallying for 'full Jewish control' over Temple Mount (www.haaretz.com)
Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)
The Reform police officer is on leave while authorities investigate the weekend arrest.
Trump: I won't be a dictator if I become U.S. president again (www.reuters.com)
Republican presidential candidate Trump had to be asked twice during a televised town hall event in Iowa to deny that he would abuse power to seek revenge on political opponents if re-elected to the White House....
Jake Tapper Shocked When Israeli Official Blames CNN Producer’s Family Killed in Israeli Bombing: ‘You Can’t Blame Them’ (www.mediaite.com)
Tapper was visibly disgusted after ex-Israeli ambassador Mark Regev victim-blamed nine members of a CNN producer's family who were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
New Zealand: thousands protest against new government policies that unravel Māori gains (www.theguardian.com)
The new government recently announced it would dial back use of Māori language in government organisations, and scrap Māori Health Authority
Think of Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says (www.japantimes.co.jp)
'Look at Hong Kong and think of Taiwan,' Tsai Ing-wen said. 'We don't want Hong Kong-style peace. We want dignified peace.'
Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert (news.un.org)
A UN poverty expert called on the CEOs of Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart on Tuesday to address allegations that wages at the US-based corporations are trapping workers in poverty, forcing them to rely on US Government benefits to survive.
Lacking counselors, US schools turn to the booming business of online therapy (apnews.com)
As schools across the U.S. grapple with the student mental health crisis, the use of telehealth therapy for students has skyrocketed.
Inmate who stabbed Derek Chauvin 22 times is charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say (www.politico.com)
Derek Chauvin was stabbed in prison 22 times by a former gang leader and one-time FBI informant who told investigators he targeted the ex-Minneapolis police officer because of his notoriety for killing George Floyd, federal prosecutors said Friday....
Is Israel criminalising Palestinian thoughts too, amid Gaza war? (www.aljazeera.com)
Israel is taking a variety of actions to crack down on any form of support for the Palestinian cause.
Protester sets themself on fire outside Israel consulate in Atlanta, Georgia (www.bbc.com)
A security guard who attempted to intervene was also injured in the incident and taken to hospital.
Walmart is the latest advertiser to pull ads from Elon Musk’s X (www.cnn.com)
YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)
Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
Meta’s “overpriced” ad-free subscriptions make privacy a “luxury good”: EU suit (arstechnica.com)
'Make uniforms genderless': LGBTQ group calls for freedom of choice in Japan schools - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.