Just an old fart from down under here to read some cool content and have some laughs along the way.
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Just an old fart from down under here to read some cool content and have some laughs along the way.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.
CNN Will Buck Tradition and Put Commercial Breaks in Biden-Trump Presidential Debate ( variety.com )
Louisiana is about to force the Ten Commandments in every classroom ( www.friendlyatheist.com )
A bill sponsored by GOP State Rep. Dodie Horton would shove Christianity in students' faces...
Arizona officials say they can’t find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice ( www.cnn.com )
Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women ( www.rollingstone.com )
Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot ( arstechnica.com )
Praise Sheezus ( mander.xyz )
Anonymous donor gives over $5 million to effort to save West Newton Cinema ( www.wbur.org )
Thousands of Ford Broncos recalled same day OJ Simpson dies ( www.yahoo.com )
Conjoined twin Abby Hensel is now married ( www.nbcnews.com )
Abby and Brittany Hensel, who documented their lives in the TLC reality series “Abby & Brittany,” have a new member of the family....
Pollen ( mander.xyz )
Scaramucci calls Trump ‘most un-American presidential nominee in US history’ ( thehill.com )
Dutch far-right firebrand Wilders says he won't be Prime Minister ( www.france24.com )
1923 Bucyrus Model 50-B Steam shovel (early excavator) ( upload.wikimedia.org )
Bucyrus Model 50-B Steam shovel...
Kenya Officials Arrest Fake Lawyer Who Won 26 Court Cases ( www.ndtv.com )
We finally know why live music makes us so emotional ( www.newscientist.com )
Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat ( www.nytimes.com )
Pastor’s Sermon Implying Women in Shorts Deserve to Be Raped Prompts Response ( julieroys.com )
A magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden New Hampshire robocall that is under investigation ( www.nbcnews.com )
"Special" Forces ( files.catbox.moe )
These are trying times ( lemmy.world )
Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired ( jalopnik.com )
McDonald's is promising 'attention to affordability' after the price of Big Mac meals hits $18 ( fortune.com )
Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material ( www.computerweekly.com )
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however....
Leading US particle-physics lab faces uncertain future ( www.nature.com )
Thousands sign Christian petition urging bishops not to back Donald Trump ( www.newsweek.com )
Arnold Schwarzenegger Detained At Munich Airport Over Luxury Watch ( www.huffpost.com )
Outrage as Oklahoma Republican’s bill labels Hispanic people ‘terrorists’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Long Island Midwife Gave Pellets Instead of Vaccines to 1,500 Children ( www.nytimes.com )
The gun that started WWI. ( leminal.space )
https://www.historynet.com/ww1-archduke-ferdinand-assassination-browning-m1910/
The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first! ( www.androidpolice.com )
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware ( arstechnica.com )
Trump fraud trial: Trump intends to deliver part of closing argument himself, say sources ( abcnews.go.com )
Mockups created in 1944 by the US government about how Hitler may have looked in disguise. ( lemmy.world )
Excerpt: Towards the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence officials were afraid that the German dictator would flee Germany by assuming a disguise. By 1944 the world identified the man largely by his trademark toothbrush mustache and oily side-slicked hair, so they ordered his portrait to be cloned....
Don't call me Arial ( lemmy.world )