After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians (apnews.com)
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers (www.theguardian.com)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court [ BRIAN MELLEY | May 18, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)
“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”
Indian students in Canadian province take to the streets over tightening immigration rules (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
Taiwan's new president calls on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy (www.bbc.com)
- Beijing dislikes Taiwan’s new President William Lai and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which they see as pro-independence. It has ramped up military incursions around Taiwan’s waters and airspace since his election win in January....
🦋 To infinity... (lemmy.world)
And beyond?
$400 for one pineapple: The rise of luxury fruit (www.cnn.com)
TIL John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set. (www.huffpost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21555777...
What happens when councils take control of buses? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Some clouds and trees (discuss.tchncs.de)
Absolute legend (lemmy.today)
US Senator Rubio says he won't accept election results if 'unfair' (www.reuters.com)
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, an ally of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, will not accept the results of the Nov. 5 election if they are “unfair,” he said on Sunday....
Dungeon Meshi (by Namiki Kazama) (files.catbox.moe)
Artist: Namiki Kazama | twitter | danbooru
people added "reversism" to things like descimination & racism just because it's harder for them to recognize it when it's the other way around
I think I’ll just call it decrimination, because it can happen to anyone regardless of who they are… these extra words just makes matters unnecessarily confusing
‘Only Hamas can defend us’: Israeli raids and Fatah failures boost support in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Khalil, a shy 21-year-old whose name has been changed, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid last October for his allegiance to Hamas. But when Israeli forces smashed through the door of his family home, they didn’t tell him why they were detaining him. He was imprisoned for six months without charge, in conditions he described as...
Pinkertons Visit Home of Man Who Remembers Announcement of Magic: The Gathering TV Show (Satire) (commandersherald.com)
Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years (www.theguardian.com)
More than 216,000 fish died in 2022-2023, when England recorded a 54% increase in sewage spills...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits he beat ex-girlfriend Cassie: ‘I take full responsibility’ (www.theguardian.com)
The rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted in a video apology that he punched and kicked his ex-girlfriend in 2016 in the hallway of a hotel after CNN released footage of the attack, saying he was “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable”....
The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? (www.theguardian.com)
But privately in the climate and biodiversity sector, the mood around the Bezos Earth Fund has turned to one of growing unease. Researchers, climate policy advisers and NGO staff voiced concerns about the level of influence the organisation holds over critical environmental institutions for halting climate change and...
The Doug wiki has been DEFACED (lemmy.world)
Absurdity is cruel, and cruelty is absurd.
Rudy Giuliani is served indictment papers at his own birthday party after mocking Arizona attorney general (www.nbcnews.com)
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....
Debugging (discuss.tchncs.de)
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