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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Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
'Unprecedented heat': Iran begins two-day nationwide shutdown amid soaring temperatures (www.cnbc.com)
The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.
Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years (www.polygon.com)
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
Pro-Russian mayor of city in eastern Ukraine who welcomed Putin’s invasion is found shot dead in the street after being kidnapped from his home (www.dailymail.co.uk)
Authorities Raid Unlicensed Lab Full of Infectious Diseases (futurism.com)
A secret lab was found with 1,000 lab mice, alongside vials of human blood and diseases like malaria and HIV.
Elon Musk Will Train His AI Project Using Your Tweets (www.pcmag.com)
Musk sheds more light on his plans for xAI, a new startup to counter OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard. 'We are definitely the competition,' he says.
Japanese court sentences 'Joker' to 23 years for stabbing passenger, setting a fire on a Tokyo train (abcnews.go.com)
A Japanese court has sentenced a man to 23 years in prison for stabbing a passenger and setting a fire on a Tokyo express train while dressed in a Joker costume on Halloween two years ago
'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)
Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.
Civic groups say foreign nanny plan is ‘exploitation’ (www.koreaherald.com)
The Korean government said Monday that it will have about 100 foreign domestic helpers working in housework and child care at home in Seoul on a trial basis from as early as this year. The plan was immediately met with opposition from civic groups here, who called it “exploitation.” The Labor Ministry said at a public...
Hangzhou Zoo: Our sun bears are real, not humans in disguise (www.bbc.com)
Hangzhou Zoo denies its sun bears are people, after a video of one standing like a human went viral.
Japanese Barbie Film Account Apologizes For "Barbenheimer" Meme (unseen-japan.com)
Around the world, the Barbenheimer meme has helped launch two Hollywood films into the stratosphere. In Japan, the meme isn't going over as well.
A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea (www.nytimes.com)
Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.
Antarctica is missing an Argentina-sized amount of sea ice -- and scientists are scrambling to figure out why | CNN (www.cnn.com)
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year.
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial reaches closing arguments on potential death penalty (edition.cnn.com)
The gunman who killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 should be sentenced to death, federal prosecutors argued to a jury on Monday, specifically noting his hatred for Jews and ongoing lack of remorse.
Same methods 'used on the plantation': Black task force member scorches Florida slavery guidelines (www.rawstory.com)
Three members of Florida’s original task force on African American education are outraged over having been “purposefully kept in the dark” about the state’s new academic guidelines ascribing “benefits” to slavery, the Daily Beast reported. The guidelines, approved July 19 by the Florida Board of Edu...
Sunak’s new oil and gas licences are ‘moral and economic madness’ (www.theguardian.com)
PM becomes ‘dangerous radical’, in words of UN chief, by backing fossil fuels incompatible with net zero goals
NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine (www.forbes.com)
Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.
Opinion: Long COVID is debilitating to me and 65 million other people. Where is the urgency to treat it? (www.latimes.com)
The mobilization against COVID-19 was impressive. A similar investment is needed to understand and treat the chronic resulting illness.
Xbox Is Suspending Players Caught Using Emulators (gameranx.com)
It looks like Microsoft is cracking down hard for those found using emulators on the Xbox console lineup.
Twitter accused of bullying anti-hate campaigners (www.bbc.com)
Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets (apnews.com)
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Six migrant workers struck by SUV in intentional act, N.C. authorities say (www.nbcnews.com)
6-year-old girl dies after mother accidentally struck her with a boat propeller in Arizona (www.nbcnews.com)
The parents realized their child was in the water and that her leg had been amputated by the boat’s propeller, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Twitter neighbours complain of lit-up ‘X’ sign working at high intensity (www.theguardian.com)
New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors
Drunk Delta Passenger Sexually Assaulted Mom and Teen Daughter on 9-Hour 'Nightmare' Flight: Lawsuit (people.com)
The man verbally and sexually harassed the plaintiffs, a mother and her 16-year-old daughter, on a nine-hour flight from JFK Airport to Athens, Greece last year, according to the Tuesday filing, which accuses the airline of gross negligence.
Elderly couple found dead in Tokyo home, heatstroke suspected (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their Tokyo home Saturday, with police suspecting they may have died of heatstroke as
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who suffer without air conditioning (mainichi.jp)
DENVER (AP) -- As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself w
Family of Black mother fatally shot by neighbor urges DOJ to consider hate crime charges (abcnews.go.com)
The family of Ajike “AJ” Owens, the Black mother of four who was fatally shot by her white neighbor, is calling on the DOJ to review the case as a possible hate crime.
This land has been in her family since the Civil War. Now, she's fighting to keep it. (www.whatimreading.net)
“I wanted to leave a legacy for our family,” 93-year-old Josephine Wright said.
Residents Flood Library With New Copies of LGBTQ Books Stolen by Anti-Pride Protestors (themessenger.com)
People donated more than $15,000 to the library system, which will be matched by the city, providing $30,000 for LGBTQ programming
Assassin's Creed Mirage will take 25-30 hours to complete – and that's if you're a completionist (www.eurogamer.net)
Assassin's Creed Mirage will take just 25 hours to complete – or less, if you're not looking to do a "completioni…
Hiroshima garbage-collection firm attracts women with free day care to find success (mainichi.jp)
HIROSHIMA -- After a garbage collection company in this west Japan city made efforts to improve its working conditions and go beyond a male-oriented atmosphere, women, including many with children, now represent around 40% of its workforce.
Osaka Expo asks for overtime cap exemption as time pressure mounts (www.japantimes.co.jp)
The move comes as the expo faces mounting concerns that construction, especially of pavilions for foreign nations, will not be completed on time for the scheduled opening in April 2025.
A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district (www.theguardian.com)
After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit