"On September 29, the Fulton County Clerk’s office scanned and uploaded the signatures, names, and full legal addresses of 116,000 civilians. These are the identities of a large number of people who signed a petition to convene a referendum on the future of Cop City. This process is being illegally suppressed by the...
Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...
After the interview aired, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent, but the trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct and not revived due to fears about Higgins’ mental health....
“Angeles Bejar said her strike would last “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, according to EFE news agency.”...
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The...
As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...
"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506....
If I have the right zoom level to make the text in the feed a sensible size, the font size in the threads is too small to read easily. Correct the zoom level in the thread and the font size in the feed becomes way too large....
Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (pubpeer.com/…/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication…...
These periodic episodes of killing and destruction, which Israeli commentators and politicians cynically call “mowing the lawn,” have been a price Israel was willing to pay to avoid being pushed toward a two-state solution. We chose to “manage” the conflict through a combination of brute force and economic incentives,...
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200m during the Covid pandemic....
I don’t believe that our coverage of the Marion County raid or Kansas Legislature led to the digital purge of Kansas Reflector content. But I can’t say that for certain, because Facebook has been maddeningly opaque about the entire situation. Stone outright denied that the likeliest target — a column from documentary...
Google search is over (mastodon.social)
Via @rodhilton...
First (I repeat, first) test of menstrual products using actual blood published last week (I repeat, last week) (mastodon.social)
Archive link to story here: archive.ph/HVNLH...
They Doxxed Us, We Dox Them – Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (web.archive.org)
"On September 29, the Fulton County Clerk’s office scanned and uploaded the signatures, names, and full legal addresses of 116,000 civilians. These are the identities of a large number of people who signed a petition to convene a referendum on the future of Cop City. This process is being illegally suppressed by the...
‘Knowledge is power’: new app helps US teens read books banned in school (archive.ph)
The Streisand Effect is a wonderful thing....
On Being an Outlier (www.goethe.de)
Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...
Accused rapist who tried to clear his name loses blockbuster defamation trial against TV network | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
After the interview aired, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent, but the trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct and not revived due to fears about Higgins’ mental health....
Luis Rubiales’s mother goes on hunger strike over ‘inhumane’ treatment of son (www.msn.com)
“Angeles Bejar said her strike would last “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve”, according to EFE news agency.”...
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker (www.wired.com)
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The...
New footage disproves Spanish FA president's World Cup kiss claims (metro.co.uk)
Claudine Gay’s ousting reveals that the messenger is still an easier target than the message | Kenan Malik (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context (www.972mag.com)
As I write these words, I am sitting at home in Tel Aviv, trying to figure out how to protect my family in a house with no shelter or safe room, following with growing panic the reports and rumors of horrible events taking place in the Israeli towns near Gaza which are under attack. I see people, some of them my friends, calling...
Bibby Stockholm: Migrant barge faces legal challenge over fire safety (www.bbc.co.uk)
"In their letter to the Home Office, lawyers for the FBU cited media reports which said the Bibby Stockholm had only 222 single-occupancy rooms, but that additional beds had been placed in each in order to to increase the capacity to 506....
‘A better church is possible:’ Methodists celebrate as the church embraces the LGBTQ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Keir Starmer urged to defend lawyers after Tories’ ‘targeted campaign’ (www.theguardian.com)
Liberals ushering in fascism. Again....
Font sizes on Lemmy: they vary too much?
If I have the right zoom level to make the text in the feed a sensible size, the font size in the threads is too small to read easily. Correct the zoom level in the thread and the font size in the feed becomes way too large....
Is there anyone moderating this community?
No mods listed and the place is getting overrun by drug spam. Is there anyone there?
Fujitsu will never be held accountable for the Post Office scandal. It is too important to this government | Sam Fowles (www.theguardian.com)
Good bit of science detective work (image manipulation, paper now retracted) (www.pnas.org)
Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (pubpeer.com/…/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication…...
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged (www.wired.com)
Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
The mobile game funding a revolution in Myanmar (www.bbc.co.uk)
Sevilla stars wear t-shirts in solidarity as Iniesta joins support of Jenni Hermoso (talksport.com)
I Fought for the I.D.F. in Gaza. It Made Me Fight for Peace. (archive.ph)
These periodic episodes of killing and destruction, which Israeli commentators and politicians cynically call “mowing the lawn,” have been a price Israel was willing to pay to avoid being pushed toward a two-state solution. We chose to “manage” the conflict through a combination of brute force and economic incentives,...
Michelle Mone admits involvement with ‘VIP lane’ PPE company (www.theguardian.com)
The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200m during the Covid pandemic....
'Facebook has nuked our page': Inside Kansas Reflector's clash with the social media Goliath • Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
I don’t believe that our coverage of the Marion County raid or Kansas Legislature led to the digital purge of Kansas Reflector content. But I can’t say that for certain, because Facebook has been maddeningly opaque about the entire situation. Stone outright denied that the likeliest target — a column from documentary...