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Democratic National Convention will open media credentials to influencers ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )
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Canvas in 30 days 👀 ( canvas.fediverse.events )
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Chiquita found liable by U.S. jury for killings by Colombian terrorists ( www.msn.com )
Chiquita Brands was ordered Monday by a Florida jury to pay $38.3 million to the families of eight people killed by a right-wing paramilitary group in Colombia, which the banana grower had funded for years during that country's violent civil war....
Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images | Science ( www.science.org )
The hottest place on Earth is cracking from the stress of extreme heat ( www.vox.com )
3 Stocks Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Loaded Up On ( markets.businessinsider.com )
Business Insider
Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall ( www.bbc.com )
A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....
Could spraying sea salt into the clouds cool the planet? An experiment in Alameda, Calif. highlights the controversy surrounding research on altering the environment to cool the planet. ( wapo.st )
Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn't Actually Understand How Its AI Works ( futurism.com )
Bizarre armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective ( arstechnica.com )
Netanyahu and Putin are both waiting for Trump ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Netanyahu reportedly met this month with three foreign policy envoys working with former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump — who could yet win the election despite being convicted Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York state hush money case....
For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can. ( slate.com )
Bill Pruitt, a former producer for The Apprentice whose NDA just expired after 20 years, writes in Slate that Donald Trump used the n-word during the production of the show — and there are tapes of him doing it.
Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” ( www.neowin.net )
"No code" databases
I've been seeing easy ways to store and view tabular data. I'm aware of tools like nocodb, baserow, and mathesar. I'm currently playtesting nocodb. But I wanted to start a discussion on what everyone uses for easily storing tabular data, and if anyone uses these tools....
The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. ( sopuli.xyz )
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st ( arstechnica.com )
476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history ( www.earth.com )
Bernie Sanders to run for fourth term in US Senate ( www.theguardian.com )
Independent senator, 82, stresses need to improve healthcare and protect abortion rights – and condemns ‘extremist’ Netanyahu...
How rich is too rich? ( www.nature.com )
BOOK REVIEW...
What should I run and why?
I am in the process of setting up a home server, and I am struggling to decide. I have previously used yunohost but in the meantime, freedom box has matured quite a bit. I have also looked at Tipi....
Biden condemns university antiwar protests, says 'Order must prevail' ( www.nbcnews.com )
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2442782...
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Trump Lawyer Says Having Political Rival Killed Could Constitute 'Official' Presidential Act ( www.rollingstone.com )
Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?...
US Navy to Turn Pacific Oil Rigs Into Mobile Military Bases to Counter China ( www.thedefensepost.com )
62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: Poll ( www.thehill.com )
Same species, different sizes: Rare evolution in action spotted in island bats ( phys.org )
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List of Martin Scorsese's unrealized projects ( en.wikipedia.org )
Professors, students say ‘no’ to Florida as new law targets Chinese ( www.scmp.com )
The law requires colleges and universities to get approval before hiring or working with Chinese people who aren’t US citizens or green card holders...
Chickadees Have Unique Neural Barcodes for Episodic Memories, Researchers Say ( www.sci.news )
Rainbow-like pattern found on planet outside solar system ( www.bbc.com )
Chinese signatures on graduation certificates upset northern Virginia police chief ( apnews.com )
A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates....
1,700-year-old Roman fort discovered in Germany was built to keep out barbarians ( www.livescience.com )
Endangered Greek dialect is ‘living bridge’ to ancient world, researchers say ( www.theguardian.com )
Romeyka descended from ancient Greek but may die out as it has no written form and is spoken by only a few thousand people...
If you make a grammar/spelling mistake in your comment and realize later will you edit it to fix it?
I know I will, but it also leaves an edited mark on the comments so I'm curious about your thoughts
For years tourists have ridden boats through this sacred Australian natural wonder. A new ban will stop them in their tracks ( www.cnn.com )
The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography and powerful tidal forces that visitors pay big money to see up close....