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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Elon’s Censorial Lawsuit Against Media Matters Inspiring Many More People To Find ExTwitter Ads On Awful Content (www.techdirt.com)
Tesla sues Swedish agency as striking workers stop delivering license plates for its new vehicles (abcnews.go.com)
Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the Swedish state via Sweden’s Transport Agency after striking postal workers in the Scandinavian country stopped delivering license plates for new vehicles manufactured by the Texas-based automaker
US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas (www.gamesindustry.biz)
China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas (www.hrw.org)
The Chinese government is significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia and Gansu provinces under its “consolidating mosques” policy, in violation of the right to freedom of religion.
Thailand's Cabinet approves a marriage equality bill to grant same-sex couples equal rights (apnews.com)
Thailand’s Cabinet has approved an amendment to its civil code to allow same-sex marriage, with an expectation for the draft to be proposed to Parliament next month.
Samuel Paty: Six French teenagers on trial over teacher's murder (www.bbc.com)
The suspects are accused of inciting the murder and pointing out the teacher to the killer.
Israel, Hamas raise concerns over lists of people due to be freed, says official (www.reuters.com)
Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas have raised concerns over the lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners due to be released on Monday, the final day of an agreed four-day pause in the fighting, an official briefed on the matter said.
Trial Opens for Beheading of French Teacher Samuel Paty (www.wsj.com)
Six teenagers are accused of helping the man who killed Paty after he showed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a class on free speech.
Israel-Lebanon border: The Irish troops watching Israel’s hidden conflict (www.bbc.com)
As one of the region's most dangerous borders hots up, peacekeepers have an ever more perilous job.
Boston man arrested after vandalism spree that included Holocaust Memorial, Paul Revere's tombstone (www.nbcboston.com)
46-year-old Lawrence Hawkins has been charged with multiple counts of destruction of property, destruction of a place of worship and defacing a burial site, Boston police say.
Shaming and pressuring donors: Israel's strategy against antisemitism on US campuses (www.ynetnews.com)
Following the surge in incidents of hatred on campuses across the United States, the Foreign Ministry along with the Diaspora Affairs Ministry will establish a task force; On the agenda: Deeming antisemitic students ineligible for employment, outlawing antisemitic organizations.
Post-affirmative action, Asian American families are more stressed than ever about college admissions (www.latimes.com)
Parents who didn't grow up in the American system, and who may have moved to the U.S. in large part for their children's education, feel desperate and in-the-dark. Some shell out tens of thousands of dollars for consultants as early as junior high.
Israel and Hamas look to extend truce after more hostages are freed (www.japantimes.co.jp)
U.S. leader Joe Biden backed prolonging the pause, saying it’s allowing for the delivery of 'critically needed” aid to Gaza and the recovery of hostages.
Another 45 people released due to high court ruling on indefinite immigration detention (www.theguardian.com)
Australian Border Force alleges four people previously released have breached their visa conditions
Home affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo sacked for breaching government code of conduct (www.theguardian.com)
Termination comes days after salary umpire quietly revokes requirement that secretaries receive payout if they’re sacked for breaching rules
New Zealand scraps world-first smoking ‘generation ban’ to fund tax cuts (www.theguardian.com)
Health experts say axing plan to block sales of tobacco products to next generation will cost thousands of lives
Delhi pollution: Indian Supreme Court's 40-year quest to clean foul air (www.bbc.com)
The Supreme Court has a mixed record in cleaning up pollution in India's capital.
Powerful Lords committee damns Bank of England over inflation forecasts (www.theguardian.com)
Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence
Older single women face growing risk of poverty in Japan (asia.nikkei.com)
Over 30% of those 65 or older fall below poverty line after death of spouses
Two teenagers arrested for ‘misogynistic chanting’ at female referee (www.independent.co.uk)
Burlington, Vermont, shooting live updates: 3 Palestinian U.S. college students shot on their way to dinner (www.nbcnews.com)
Over £280,000 raised for Deliveroo hero who stopped Dublin child knife attack (www.independent.co.uk)
The father-of-two said he ‘didn’t have time to be afraid’
Reports: China's Alibaba Shuts Down Quantum Lab (thequantuminsider.com)
Chinese media and industry insiders are reporting that Alibaba has closed down the company's quantum laboratory.
Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views (boingboing.net)
New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) misuse research and concepts from evolutionary psychology to bolster their own misogynistic views.
Woman punches Husband to death for not taking her to Dubai on Birthday (www.ndtv.com)
Israel's Palestinian prisoner release a 'window of hope' in West Bank (www.bbc.com)
The return of 39 women and teenagers is being seen by some as a symbolic victory over Israel.
Korean true crime fan murdered stranger 'out of curiosity' (www.bbc.com)
A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger “out of curiosity”....
Outgoing Netherlands PM’s party rules out Geert Wilders coalition (www.theguardian.com)
Talks begin with liberal leader warning people not to be fooled by Wilders’ ‘Mother Teresa’ act
Exposure to widely used insecticides decreases sperm concentration, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Study’s author says ‘we need to reduce exposure in order to ensure men who want to conceive are able to without interference’
They were prosecuted for using drugs while pregnant. But it may not have been a crime. (19thnews.org)
Dozens of women in Mississippi have faced child abuse crimes that, based on existing state law, they may not have committed.
Backlash to affirmative action hits pioneering maternal health program for Black women (19thnews.org)
Conservative groups have sued to shut down the Abundant Birth Project, part of a national backlash against affirmative action in health care.
Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green (futurism.com)
The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!
Harvard under fire for helping elite skip the queue (www.bbc.com)
Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.
U.S. spy drones relocated to Okinawa despite local objection (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The shift is part of moves to strengthen surveillance of Chinese activities in nearby waters following a temporary deployment to the Kyushu region.
The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths (www.bloomberg.com)
In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.
Estonia to stop Russian-created migration flux at border, says minister (www.euractiv.com)
In the wake of the migrant crisis at the Finnish-Russian border, neighbouring Estonia said it will not let migrants sent by Russia onto its soil but will stop them at the border, Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets said on Thursday.
The Pentagon is moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously decide to kill humans (www.businessinsider.com)
Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: Machine repairs prolong ordeal for trapped Indians (www.bbc.co.uk)
Forty-one workers have been trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand state for the past 12 days.
California jogger charged over killing of homeless man blocking sidewalk (www.theguardian.com)
Craig Sumner Elliott, 68, allegedly shot Antonio Garcia Avalos, 40, in incident in Orange county...
Hotel still 'hostile and unwelcoming' to Native Americans despite DOJ order: lawsuit (www.rawstory.com)
A South Dakota hotel at the heart of a Justice Department case that forced the owner to resign for discriminating against Native Americans is accused of going back to its old tricks in a new lawsuit, reported The Daily Beast."The Department of Justice reached an agreement with South Dakota’s Grand ...
Gaza workers stranded in Israel were tortured, interrogated (mondoweiss.net)
Workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel after October 7 were summarily arrested, interrogated, beaten, and tortured, before being declared illegal by Israeli authorities.
Zimbabwe's wildlife in crisis due to extreme drought (www.africanews.com)
In a remote southeastern corner of Zimbabwe, about 140 volunteers slept in shifts through a 24-hour annual wildlife census - a valuable indicator of the status of the southern African nation's wildlife resources during a worrying regional drought.
Dublin riot live updates: Clashes after earlier knife attack - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Irish police chief blames the unrest on a "hooligan faction" which gathered after the earlier incident.