Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus (www.latimes.com)
NYT awarded Pulitzer for Oct. 7 Al-Aqsa Flood coverage at Columbia University today (www.msn.com)
www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2024...
Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly (www.newsweek.com)
Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not baking (finance.yahoo.com)
But the Supreme Court’s April 12 ruling that they are in the transportation business opens the door for them to take the dispute to court....
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members (futurism.com)
College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor (nypost.com)
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)
Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested....
NYT Opinion: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe (www.nytimes.com)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Maybe bullshit doesn’t make the art grow profounder after all (www.psypost.org)
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14043072...
Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games (insider-gaming.com)
Finally, after a long blockage, it's now legal in Western Australia to take a plunger to a toilet or change a showerhead (www.abc.net.au)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/8582419...
Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot (inews.co.uk)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/9814842...
SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street (www.riverfronttimes.com)
NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected (www.cnn.com)
Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says (www.latimes.com)
Boeing whistleblower found dead in US (www.bbc.co.uk)
Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)
German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times (www.bbc.com)
Epstein offered a reward for whoever could prove Stephen Hawking didn't participate in an underage orgy (www.theguardian.com)
The name of the late Cambridge physicist was included in a 2015 email in which Epstein told Maxwell to offer a reward to any of Giuffre’s “friends acquaitonts [sic] family” who could prove false an allegation that Hawking had participated in an “underage orgy” in the Virgin Islands. Hawking, who died in 2018, has not...
German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishap (www.9news.com.au)
Customs and Border Protection's top doctor tried to order fentanyl lollipops for helicopter trip to U.N (www.cbsnews.com)
The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project....
The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competition (sifted.eu)
Mike 'Holmes Approved Homes' demolished due to alleged defects (www.cbc.ca)
Some homeowners say they’re disappointed that Holmes, whose motto is to “make it right,” never returned to TerraceWood to help make things right in this case....