The Matrix review – barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question (www.theguardian.com)
The Matrix 25th Anniversary re-release...
Dangerous heatwave hits US from Texas to California with grim records expected (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of Americans are sweltering as experts warn early heat could herald next record-smashing summer...
Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)
From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....
Revealed: the carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza after months of Israeli bombing (www.theguardian.com)
The carbon cost of rebuilding Gaza will be greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 135 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the unprecedented death toll, new research reveals....
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....
Leading UK cyclist out of Tour of Britain after being struck at ‘high speed’ by 4x4 (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16227155...
Campaign launched to save ‘boringly ugly’ 1980s BT phone boxes (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico man dies from first human case of bird flu strain H5N2 (www.theguardian.com)
Scientists are on alert for signs the virus is adapting to spread more easily among humans, after the WHO announced the death from April...
Hundreds of CSIRO jobs under threat as union warns against ‘gutting’ of Australia’s science agency (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia, where unions banned, set to host FIFA 2034, faces human rights challenge for forced labor, debt bondage, denying migrants access to their own documents (www.theguardian.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s George Floyd rant condemned by Congressional Black Caucus (www.theguardian.com)
Nvidia hits $3tn and surpasses Apple as world’s second most valuable company (www.theguardian.com)
Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes (www.theguardian.com)
Putin says Trump conviction ‘burns’ idea of US as leading democracy (www.theguardian.com)
New York City postpones controversial, first-in-the-US congestion pricing plan (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s Georgia election interference case paused as court considers disqualifying lead prosecutor (www.theguardian.com)
To quote the related NYT article, “The order means the prosecution of Donald J. Trump in Georgia is effectively frozen, at least through the presidential election.”
Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says (www.theguardian.com)
It is really hard to grasp, we understand it, Elon.
Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border: ‘It will only cause suffering’ (www.theguardian.com)
To suspend the number of people who can apply for asylum, Biden is relying on the same mechanism Donald Trump turned to during his presidency: section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act....
Columbia Law Review board shutters website over article critical of Israel (www.theguardian.com)
Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime....
Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say (www.theguardian.com)
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward over safety concerns (www.theguardian.com)
archive.org link...
Owner of UK national lottery operator to sever ties with Gazprom (www.theguardian.com)
