Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored (www.propublica.org)
Squirrel with a Gun - Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
Republicans want a database of pregnant people. In many ways, abortion surveillance is already here (www.salon.com)
State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad (abcnews.go.com)
The average Boston renter spends 47% of their income on housing. In Seattle, it's 28%. Why? (www.wgbh.org)
"Fun mom" no more: Republican "parental rights" activist gets probation for giving vodka to teens (www.salon.com)
It's crazy how well a 99 year old silent comedy movie could depict loneliness. (example scenes in description) (lemmy.world)
The Stranger...
“That’s beneath even you”: Bedlam erupts after Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Black lawmaker (www.salon.com)
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping: No longer a partnership of equals (www.bbc.com)
Vladimir Putin’s state visit to China this week was a show of strength. It was a chance for the Russian president to prove to the world that he has a powerful ally in his corner....
US confirms first aid trucks arrive via Gaza pier (www.bbc.com)
The first shipment of humanitarian aid has arrived in Gaza via a temporary floating pier, the US military has confirmed....
The Owner of a Mine in Yorkshire is Supplying White Phosphorus to Israel (www.thecanary.co)
Evil has awakened [Midjourney] (sh.itjust.works)
Prompt: EGA pixel drawing, of a medieval wanderer standing on a wooded hill, in the background below can be seen rolling forest hills with a wizard’s tower in the distance, a fierce vertical pillar of evil green energy erupts from the tower and pierces the cloudy night’s sky, causing stark contrast with the peaceful...
Vermont passed a bill making Big Oil pay. Now comes the hard part. (grist.org)
Cacodemon meatball (lemmy.world)
Bing
Is this a crime? Thoughts? (midwest.social)
Neil Gaiman on spicy autocomplete (www.tumblr.com)
Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories....
Billionaires urged NYC mayor to sic police on Columbia encampment (www.theverge.com)
Happy Friday, Lemmy. What are your plans for the weekend?
This weekend I aim to relax as much as my children will let me. But my younger daughter turns one on Sunday. So, we’ll likely celebrate that.
I need to wake up early (lemmy.world)
All the vibrating alarm clocks I could find do not sync with your phone, and have to be set manually. I thought about getting an Arduino, but then I will have to build the whole thing by myself. The only logical conclusion I could come up with is to get a programable vibrator. But most of them are either very expensive of look...
Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models (www.engadget.com)
"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded (www.vox.com)
LO-fucking-L
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