So when the mod of r/WorldPolitics gave up and stopped moderating, the sub got flooded with nsfw posts, especially those with actual anime titties. So actual members of r/WorldPolitics started a new sub for world news and politics and ironically named it 'anime_titties'. This magazine/community is the spiritual successor to the subreddit in the fediverse. Ironically the person who started this community also went inactive and stopped moderating, leaving this place abandoned, before I took over the ownership.
Google and the federal government have reached an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act that would see Google continue to share Canadian news online in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the range of $100 million.
Once it was China, not Saudi Arabia, on a multi-million pound recruitment drive to buy in the world's best football talent. In just a few years though, the Chinese Super League's big-money plans have imploded.
Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation's first same-sex marriage on Wednesday, officials and activists said, five months after the Supreme Court issued an interim order clearing the way for such marriages in the largely conservative country.
Yeah, most articles you read were just written to get more click and making it sound apocalyptic/disastrous drives clicks. They are focusing more on the worst possible outcome and less on previous instances.
Why COP28 Could Be the Most Contentious in Years (foreignpolicy.com)
Prepare for the first real global debate on the future of fossil fuels.
Substack Has a Nazi Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.
Canadian government reaches deal with Google on Online News Act (www.cbc.ca)
Google and the federal government have reached an agreement in their dispute over the Online News Act that would see Google continue to share Canadian news online in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the range of $100 million.
BBC Newsnight to Undergo Layoffs, Drop Investigative Films (www.thewrap.com)
Programming will be cut down to 30 minutes as part of broader network plans to reduce costs and restructure
From bidding for Bale to selling team bus - the fall of Chinese Super League (www.bbc.com)
Once it was China, not Saudi Arabia, on a multi-million pound recruitment drive to buy in the world's best football talent. In just a few years though, the Chinese Super League's big-money plans have imploded.
Five Mexican journalists shot and injured in one day as violence deepens (www.theguardian.com)
Four photojournalists shot in Guerrero state and reporter in Michoacán, where battles between cartels and local gangs rage
Nepal registers first same-sex marriage; 'historic', say activists (www.reuters.com)
Local authorities in a village in Nepal registered the Himalayan nation's first same-sex marriage on Wednesday, officials and activists said, five months after the Supreme Court issued an interim order clearing the way for such marriages in the largely conservative country.
Amazon joins AI image creation fray with new model (www.theverge.com)
The Titan Image Generator includes automatic invisible watermarking.
Google DeepMind’s new AI tool helped create more than 700 new materials (www.technologyreview.com)
Newly discovered materials can be used to make better solar cells, batteries, computer chips, and more.
Solar storm to hit Earth on November 30, will disrupt mobile communication (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
US accuses Indian agent of directing plot to assassinate American citizen (www.theguardian.com)
Indictment released by DoJ also provides new evidence unnamed agent ordered murder of activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Officer acquitted in Elijah McClain death gets job back and $200,000 in back pay (www.theguardian.com)
Nathan Woodyard was suspended for two years until jury found him not guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide