Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
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Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....
Baldur’s Gate 3's Patch 7 Will Add New Endings (kotaku.com)
Kansas prosecutor who framed innocent man surrenders law license, will soon be disbarred (kansaspublicradio.org)
Terra Morehead, a longtime county and federal prosecutor who helped police frame at least one innocent man, has agreed to surrender her law license and faces disbarment....
California won't prosecute LAPD officer who shot teenage girl in store's dressing room (calmatters.org)
The California Justice Department announced today that it has found no cause to file chargesagainst a Los Angeles police officer who, while aiming at a suspect, shot and killed a 14-year-old girl hiding in a department store fitting room....
Bondi Junction mall attack: 'Obvious' killer targeted women, Sydney police say (www.bbc.com)
Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex into panic on Saturday when he began stabbing people with a long blade....
The Attacks on HBCUs Extend Beyond Tennessee (www.themarysue.com)
We know Republicans hate diversity. We see attacks on everything from voting rights to DEI initiatives to teaching accurate American history in schools. Education is, of course, a favorite target for the GOP. In the state of Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee just dissolved the board at the state’s only HBCU, Tennessee State...
Search continues in Maine as officer is charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital (apnews.com)
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence, and unsworn falsification, according to court records. He was arrested on March 29....
After Dobbs, twice as many women sought tubal ligation than men turned to vasectomies (www.salon.com)
Published today in a JAMA Health Forum research letter, policy researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and Boston University show how the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling affected preferences for permanent contraception among males and females between the ages of 18 to 30. It’s the first study to...
Japanese indie dev tells randoms begging for keys and offering exposure to 'buy it, you piece of garbage' (www.pcgamer.com)
In a recent FAQ spotted by Automaton, Housenka responded to a hypothetical of “I’ll promote you, give me a Steam key” with a delightfully blunt: “Buy it, you piece of garbage.” Or, as Automaton translates it from the original Japanese, “Buy the game, you piece of sh*t.” I can’t decide which I like better,...
Dallas anesthesiologist Raynaldo Ortiz found guilty on all counts (www.cbsnews.com)
A federal jury has convicted Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz on all 10 counts he faces connected to tampering with IV bags....
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is "underperforming", says industry analyst (www.eurogamer.net)
Georgia father sentenced to 50 years for poisoning his newborn's breastmilk with antifreeze (www.nbcnews.com)
Police say Curtis Jack admitted that he added antifreeze to his newborn daughter’s milk to avoid paying child support....
Former Blizzard President Thinks Tipping Game Creators Is Great Idea (80.lv)
By now, everyone in the world knows that American tipping culture is getting out of hand. That doesn’t mean you can’t introduce another way of “supporting” creators. Mike Ybarra, the former president of Blizzard, shared his desire to tip developers of especially enjoyable games....
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
Original Fallout lead Tim Cain loves the new show, but remains baffled by how 'destructive' fans can act toward 'people who are trying to create things' (www.pcgamer.com)
Cain appreciated the performances and storytelling, but singled out how the show nailed the Fallout “vibe” as its biggest achievement. “I was just looking at all the props,” he said of one scene. “I realized after a few minutes went by that I had not followed the dialogue at all, because I was so engrossed by it...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Becomes First Game To Win Every Major GOTY Award (kotaku.com)
OJ Simpson, fallen football hero acquitted of murder in ‘trial of the century,’ dies at 76 (www.13abc.com)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson, the decorated football superstar and Hollywood actor who was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but later found liable in a separate civil trial, has died. He was 76....
Hormel settles pork price-fixing lawsuits for $11 million (www.startribune.com)
Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records....
Elon Musk accused of profiting from tragedy as study finds X rewards hate targeting Israel-Gaza war | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The CCDH studied the growth rates of 10 influential accounts that pay for X Premium and have posted anti-Jewish and/or anti-Muslim hate speech since October 7, 2023, when Hamas’ attack on Israel sparked the Israel-Gaza conflict. Some of these accounts had previously posted conspiracy theory content related to COVID-19, per the...
Mother who pushed kids from moving car, killed partner was astrology influencer disturbed by eclipse (www.latimes.com)
Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse....
Speed of AI development is outpacing risk assessment (arstechnica.com)
The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....