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- Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robotfuturism.com Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot
The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
- Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warmingwww.latimes.com Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
Exxon Mobil objects to the Securities and Exchange Commission's rule on shareholder proposals. So why is it suing these small investors instead of the SEC?
In case of paywall: http://archive.today/M5OFY
- Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1futurism.com Raw Milk Enthusiasts Demand Milk Infected With H5N1
Raw milk enthusiasts are dead set on being infected by the H5N1 aviary flu virus by drinking contaminated and unpasteurized cow milk.
- The 2025 Real ID deadline for new licenses is really real this time, DHS sayseu.usatoday.com The 2025 Real ID deadline for new licenses is really real this time, DHS says
You might have heard about the Real ID deadline before but this time, DHS says it's legit: You'll need a Real ID license by May 7, 2025.
- Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campuswww.latimes.com Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus
California colleges are giving student protesters 'interim suspension' notices, a disciplinary process typically reserved for the most serious misconduct.
- NYT awarded Pulitzer for Oct. 7 Al-Aqsa Flood coverage at Columbia University today
https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2024 >International Reporting: Staff of The New York Times > >For its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza.
Context:
The Intercept: “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé >Israel promised it had extraordinary amounts of eyewitness testimony. “Investigators have gathered ‘tens of thousands’ of testimonies of sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, according to the Israeli police, including at the site of a music festival that was attacked,” Schwartz, Gettleman, and Stella reported on December 4. Those testimonies never materialized.
>“It doesn’t make any sense,” said Abdush’s sister, that in a short timespan “they raped her, slaughtered her, and burned her?” Speaking about the rape allegation, her brother-in-law said: “The media invented it.”
>“There is nothing,” Schwartz said she was told. “There was no collection of evidence from the scene.”
Vanity Fair: New York Times Launches Leak Investigation Over Report on Its Israel-Gaza Coverage Management has questioned staffers, including Daily producers, after The Intercept revealed internal debate over a yet-to-air episode on Hamas weaponizing sexual violence. Such a probe is highly unusual, say staffers, one of whom dubbed it a “witch hunt.”
- Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenlywww.newsweek.com Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly
Joshua Dean, a former Spirit AeroSystems employee, had accused the aircraft manufacturer of ignoring defects in the production of 737 MAX planes.
- Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Membersfuturism.com Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
A bizarre new app called "Vera AI" claims it allows its users to create copies of "your friends or family members."
- Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not bakingfinance.yahoo.com Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not baking
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision helps define the legal status of transportation workers at companies that are not primarily involved in transportation. The post Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not baking appeared first on FreightWaves.
But the Supreme Court’s April 12 ruling that they are in the transportation business opens the door for them to take the dispute to court.
That’s because the FAA — in its very first section — exempts from its mandate several types of workers, such as railroad employees and “any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
- College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professornypost.com College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats,” Scott Galloway said.
>“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”
>Galloway said American society would not survive if its people could not rally behind noble causes — adding that much of what he was seeing reminded him of the early rise of Hitler. > >“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.
>Galloway repeated his observation which went viral this week that if students at terrorist encampments were chanting slogans calling for the death of black or gays they would be swiftly stamped out. > >And that professors who did so would never work again.
- Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefirewww.theguardian.com Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire
Congressman Adam Smith says ‘totalitarian’ protesters are ‘trying to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them’
>Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested. > >“Intimidation is the tactic,” said Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee. “Intimidation and an effort to silence opposition … I don’t know if there’s such a thing as leftwing fascism. If you want to just call it leftwing totalitarianism, then that’s what it is. It is a direct challenge to representative democracy now.” > >Smith was speaking – before the outbreak this week of mass protests on US college campuses, many producing arrests – to the One Decision Podcast and its guest host Christina Ruffini, a CBS News reporter.
- NYT Opinion: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safewww.nytimes.com Opinion | Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe
A surveillance law referred to as Section 702 is needed to protect us from foreign threats.
- Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefitswww.nola.com Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
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
- Maybe bullshit doesn’t make the art grow profounder after allwww.psypost.org Maybe bullshit doesn’t make the art grow profounder after all
Verbose descriptions accompanying artworks do not significantly enhance perceptions of their profundity or attractiveness. This finding challenges the notion that complex narratives always enrich the artistic experience.
- Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slowedition.cnn.com Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow | CNN
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14043072
> Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
- Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Gamesinsider-gaming.com Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games
CD Projekt's CFO has made an ambitious (if joking) claim about the company's games, stressing that they're going to be classed as 'AAAAA'.
- Finally, after a long blockage, it's now legal in Western Australia to take a plunger to a toilet or change a showerheadwww.abc.net.au Finally, after a long blockage, it's now legal in WA to take a plunger to a toilet or change a showerhead
As part of law reforms regulating plumbing in the state, it is now legal for residents to do small plumbing jobs in their own homes.
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/8582419
> So, uh should i be expecting a visit from the fuzz for all the tap reseals i may or may not have done over the years?
- Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spotinews.co.uk Public has no right to swim in sea, claims firm that dumped sewage at bathing spot
As South West Water defends a court action from a Devon swimmer, it also claims it has no legal duty to keep waters clean
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/9814842
> I've just realised that this was already in /c/environment. Oops, sorry!
- SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Streetwww.riverfronttimes.com SWAT Team Raids Innocent Family Over Stolen AirPods Dropped on Their Street
St. Louis County Police have some explaining to do
- NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly electedwww.cnn.com NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected | CNN Business
NBC News on Friday announced that it had hired Ronna McDaniel, the former Republican National Committee chair who has repeatedly attacked the network and its journalists, assailed the news media as “fake news” and promoted false claims around the 2020 vote, as an on-air commentator ahead of the 2024...
- Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney sayswww.latimes.com Murder defendant slips restraints in court, stabs his lawyer with pen. All good, attorney says
As a Contra Costa County jury watched, an Oakland man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend attacks his lawyer with a pen and tries to attack a prosecutor.
- Boeing whistleblower found dead in USwww.bbc.co.uk Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US
Prior to his death, John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracyfuturism.com Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy
Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has scientific bones to pick with Dune's sand-thumping and worm movements.
- German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 timeswww.bbc.com German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.
- German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishapwww.9news.com.au German tourists lost for more than a week after Google Maps mishap
Two German tourists are lucky to be alive after spending more than a week lost in the remote Far North Quee...
- Customs and Border Protection's top doctor tried to order fentanyl lollipops for helicopter trip to U.Nwww.cbsnews.com Customs and Border Protection's top doctor tried to order fentanyl lollipops for helicopter trip to U.N., whistleblowers say
Multiple Customs and Border Protection employees were involved in the "urgent" requests to purchase the fentanyl lollipops, the report said.
> The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project. > > The report was shared with Congress on Friday morning, and stated that Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alexander Eastman allegedly "spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York City." > > Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and painkiller driving the overdose crisis in the United States. Fentanyl lollipops are an oral version of the drug, and are used to treat pain, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chief among the Customs and Border Protection's duties as a federal agency is stopping the flow of illicit drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States over international borders. > > When asked why he would need fentanyl lollipops to travel to the United Nations' General Assembly meeting, Eastman allegedly argued that the lollipops would be necessary for pain management in case of an emergency, and were "necessary" in case a CBP operator was injured, or if the Air and Marine Operations team encountered a "patient in need." > > Over half a dozen CBP employees were involved in the "urgent" requests to purchase the fentanyl lollipops, the whistleblowers said, with senior leadership in the office reporting concerns about the process in emails. Eastman's attempts to order the lollipops were unsuccessful because there was not funding available, the whistleblowers said.
read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbp-doctor-alexander-eastman-tried-to-order-fentanyl-lollipops-helicopter-trip-un-whistleblowers-say/
- The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competitionsifted.eu The Enhanced Games: Peter Thiel backs drug-fuelled Olympics-style competition
The Enhanced Games will be the world’s first actively pro-performance enhancement sporting event.
- Mike 'Holmes Approved Homes' demolished due to alleged defects
Some homeowners say they're disappointed that Holmes, whose motto is to "make it right," never returned to TerraceWood to help make things right in this case.
"The neighbourhood has been disturbed," said Fayard, whose TerraceWood house recently underwent major repairs instead of being torn down.
"If [Holmes] had come and taken a look and said, 'Well this is what's wrong and this is how I can help,' I think that that would have been a stand-up thing to do," he said. "After all, it was Holmes Approved Home[s]."
- Lloyd Austin was treated for prostate cancer before health emergency, Pentagon says | WaPowww.washingtonpost.com Austin treated for prostate cancer before emergency, Pentagon reveals
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization stems from complications tied to a prostate cancer diagnosis, officials said Tuesday.
Wow thanks for the update on this guys prostate situation, serious journalist person!
- Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Sonpeople.com Man Gets 100 Years for Accidentally Killing His 8-Year-Old Daughter While Trying to Shoot His 18-Year-Old Son
Tony Valez, 66, flew into a rage when he thought he was being evicted from his home, authorities said.
- Sam Bankman-Fried says he was ‘surprised’ by FTX’s $8bn balance-sheet holewww.ft.com Sam Bankman-Fried says he was ‘surprised’ by FTX’s $8bn balance-sheet hole
Former billionaire denies intending to defraud customers in testimony to the jury at trial
- Not (only) The Onion
https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657
- last week's satire is today's actual headline
https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/
- UttarPradesh man bites his neighbors genitals in fight over goats.timesofindia.indiatimes.com UP man bites his neighbour’s genitals in fight over goats | Bareilly News - Times of India
A 28-year-old man bit a portion of his 31-year-old neighbour's private parts after the latter's goats strayed into his compound and damaged some of h
- That time the beef industry caused a plane crashyewtu.be DEADLY TIRED! The Dark Truth Behind Air Algerie Flight 702P.
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- In blistering order, judge tells Florida to stop blocking effort to aid medically frail kids
The battle of wills between Florida health administrators and a federal court judge intensified Tuesday as U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks accused the state of obstructing his efforts to free medically fragile children from segregated institutions, where many have spent their entire lives.
- A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Seawww.nytimes.com A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea
Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6913518
> The extreme heat has devastated corals.This is a truly heartbreaking read: > > “The coral didn’t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in the apocalypse.’ What’s happening?” > > Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230731225349/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/climate/coral-reefs-heat-florida-ocean-temperatures.html
