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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“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
Met only authorised baton rounds for black-led events, FOI reveals (www.theguardian.com)
Metropolitan police approved their use at Notting Hill carnival and Black Lives Matter protests in 2020
The Fuss Over The Term 'JRPG' Says A Lot About The State Of The Genre (www.dualshockers.com)
JRPG or RPG didn't matter when creativity was at the forefront of the industry.
The Fuss Over The Term 'JRPG' Says A Lot About The State Of The Genre (www.dualshockers.com)
JRPG or RPG didn't matter when creativity was at the forefront of the industry.
The cage match is back: Musk says Zuck fight will ‘be live-streamed on X’ (www.theverge.com)
Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else (www.pcgamer.com)
I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?...
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Statement On Microtransactions Warms The Heart (www.forbes.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 is looking to be one of the best games of 2023 in a year already full of some of the best games of the generation. And their stance on microtransactions is great.
Services resume after over 1,000 trapped in train near Tokyo (mainichi.jp)
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Services resumed Sunday after over 1,000 passengers were trapped for nearly two hours in a train Saturday night near Tokyo, with some complaining of heatstroke and hyperventilation after it crashed into a power pole that had fallen onto the tracks, local authorities said.
Elon Musk says X will fund legal bills if users treated unfairly by bosses (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1121740...
6-year-old boy severely injured after apparent fall from Florida rollercoaster, officials say (www.cnn.com)
A 6-year-old boy in Florida was left severely injured at a theme park after apparently falling from a ride that was nearly two dozen feet above where he was found, authorities said.
Japanese life expectancy falls in 2022 for 2nd straight year - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.
The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back — with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement (www.nbcnews.com)
In 2009, Desiree Jennings went viral for saying a flu shot triggered her mysterious illness. Now she sees things differently.
Ian Watkins, singer jailed for child sex offences, ‘stabbed in prison’ (www.theguardian.com)
Former Lostprophets frontman reportedly taken to hospital after being held hostage by other inmates at HMP Wakefield
The price of rice is skyrocketing, and it's pushing millions more people towards starvation (www.abc.net.au)
The Indian rice export ban, the war in Ukraine and El Niño are combining to create a "doom loop" for the world's poorest people, as staple food prices soar.
Canada’s Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children’. It’s Already Spinning Out of Control. (pressprogress.ca)
The ‘Save the Children Convoy’ is struggling as organizers accuse one another of being ‘undercover cops’ or planning ‘violence’ and ‘terrorism’
RCMP cited Standing Rock protests as 'evidence' to create controversial B.C. unit | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
RCMP used the anti-pipeline resistance at the Standing Rock reservation in 2016 to justify creating a unit in British Columbia to police similar opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, newly released documents show.
“AI” Hurts Consumers and Workers -- and Isn’t Intelligent (techpolicy.press)
Researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender call on businesses not to succumb to this artificial “intelligence” hype.
Vermont’s flood-wracked capital city ponders a rebuild with one eye on climate change (apnews.com)
A beloved bookstore in Vermont’s small capital city moved across the street to a new spot farther from the Winooski River after an ice jam sent river water into the store in 1992.
Kai Cenat: Police plan to charge twitch streamer after PS5 giveaway mayhem (www.bbc.com)
Police say US influencer Kai Cenat could be charged with inciting a riot after chaos in Manhattan.
Antarctica Is Losing a Flabbergasting Amount of Ice (futurism.com)
Researchers are concerned about a huge chunk of ice larger than Mexico failing to refreeze as temperatures drop in Antarctica.
Google rolls out anti-stalking measures for AirTag and other Bluetooth trackers (www.engadget.com)
I do not think that somebody will track me with a physical tracker, but still nice to have some protection.
Japan swelters in its hottest July in more than a century (www.asahi.com)
Last month was the hottest July in Japan in more than a century, according to analysis by The Asahi Shimbun of average temperatures since 1898.
Prosecutors ask judge to issue protective order after Trump post appearing to promise revenge (thehill.com)
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to p…
HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …
FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX's Next Starship Orbital Launch (futurism.com)
The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.
Mexico and the U.S. are divided by guns and fentanyl (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The two neighbors see the toll taken on their citizens by violence and drugs in different ways and can’t agree on which poses the most pressing threat.
Australian Christian Lobby says plans to combat social media misinformation will ‘cancel Christian posts’ (www.theguardian.com)
Claim comes despite draft of bill explaining media regulator will not be empowered to request specific content be removed from digital platforms
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (www.platformer.news)
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Virtually Every Person Exposed Over a Lifetime (www.propublica.org)
An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable — even greater than another Chevron fuel’s sky-high risk disclosed earlier this year.
5th Circuit Strikes Down Mississippi’s Jim Crow Era Felony Disenfranchisement Provision (www.democracydocket.com)
On Friday, Aug. 4, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Jim Crow-era provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently disenfranchised Mississippians with certain felony convictions. The opinion held that the provision violates the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The...
Kerala lottery: Indian women sanitation workers hit jackpot (www.bbc.com)
Eleven women from India's Kerala state win a 100m rupee ($1.2m) lottery after pooling their money.