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Revealed: Labour tried to gag Black lawyer who wrote party’s own racism report ( www.independent.co.uk )
The Forde report, an independent inquiry into Labour’s culture that was published in July 2022, found that the party was an “unwelcoming place for people of colour” and had a “toxic” culture of factional disputes between the party’s right and left....
EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault ( x.com )
Murphy Open To "Beverly Hills Cop 5" - Dark Horizons ( www.darkhorizons.com )
Having only just seen the original trilogy this year, I'm treating film four as a direct sequel to the original....
Community question
Is this community more so for news posts? That’s all I really see here. Would love to engage w some fellow Chicagoans abt non-news stuff 🤷🏼♀️...
doot doot ( mander.xyz )
'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement ( www.theatlantic.com )
As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...
Uber calls B.C. gig-worker wages, job protections 'unreasonable' ( bc.ctvnews.ca )
Uber's reply to the new laws.
Largest US oil trade group to sue to block Biden's EV push ( finance.yahoo.com )
The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming ( electrek.co )
Breaking Rules to Create Better Apartments | About Here ( www.youtube.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23019807
[B.C.] Canada's first commercial electric flight to make history June 14 ( www.nanaimobulletin.com )
On June 14, Sealand's Pipistrel Velis Electro will take flight for an introductory flight lesson. It will be the first time a person can purchase a commercial flight on an electric aircraft in Canada. The student will be allowed to operate the aircraft under the guidance of the flight instructor....
Finally got a skirt (alongside a Thorium pendant) ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
'Several' injured after seaplane goes down in Vancouver: police ( www.cbc.ca )
A Harbour Air seaplane, with 6 people on board, collided with a pleasure boat on Saturday
Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee ( sherwood.news )
"...For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024)....
Spacex team’s Starship partially melts during renterty of test flight 4, makes soft splash down anyway. ( youtu.be )
Evidently the joints on the flaps still need a little work into not letting gases through, but it seemed to still have enough actuation to keep the spacecraft stable until the engines took over for the landing burn.
Nepal | Mount Everest: Eleven tonnes of rubbish taken off Himalayan peaks ( www.bbc.com )
Four corpses and one skeleton were also removed from Everest and other peaks during an annual clean-up....
New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally friendly ( arstechnica.com )
Pretty cool stuff.
Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship ( go.theregister.com )
In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan The US Navy has cracked down on an illicit Wi-Fi network installed on a combat ship by demoting the senior enlisted leader who ordered it to be set up.…
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds ( bgr.com )
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Will microplastics in our testicles be an issue?
There was a finding that all males have microplastic particles in our testes....
Inflation is higher than they would like you to believe.
The US government is telling everybody that inflation is 3.4% per year. That is not correct. Try 14.2% and that's about right. Source : gold/usd 1 year simple moving average.
A cool guide The Decline of the Simpsons ( i.redd.it )
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1d40905/a_cool_guide_the_decline_of_the_simpsons/...
rulegularly check their modlog to remind myself how burnt and sickly the grass is on the other side of the fence ( lemmy.cafe )
https://lemmy.cafe/pictrs/image/97660db9-06bb-4a4b-a71a-531125b5486f.webp
US’s Electric Vehicle Boom Is Deepening the Suffering in the Congo ( truthout.org )
The Space Shuttle: A $200 Billion Lesson in Risk Management ( youtu.be )
A detailed discussion of the Shuttle program as well as some ethics in airspace.
Let Ukraine Freely Strike Russia with Western Arms – NATO Chief ( orinocotribune.com )
Are there any EV cars without any "technology"?
Like the title says, are there any EVs that just have a Bluetooth radio and that's it? Like a normal car, not a smartphone on wheels? If not, do you all think that this will actually happen at some point? This is the main reason why I can't (and will never) buy an EV. I like to have actual buttons everywhere on my car. I think...
Arizona Senate Republicans Pass Bill to Prevent Climate Action ( climate.law.columbia.edu )
California Gov Gavin Newsom pounces as Republicans come to Big Oil’s defense: The potential Democratic presidential contender called Republican attorneys general “wholly owned subsidiaries of Big Oil” ( www.politico.com )
The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss ( theconversation.com )