Climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran's presentation to the European Parliament about Exxon's propaganda campaign ~enviro climate change PDF 44 votes
The government of Cuba declares itself in a ‘war-time economy’ ~society politics Article 544 words 19 votes
High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil ~science Article 580 words 14 votes
Proton is launching encrypted documents to take on Google Docs ~tech google.docs privacy Article 488 words 42 votes
Texas congressman becomes first House Democrat to call on Joe Biden to withdraw ~news usa.tx politics Article 716 words 28 votes
The Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship is now open for new applicants! ~creative writing.screen Link 8 votes
Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies ~humanities.history Article 924 words 37 votes
Germany's Kai Havertz and Jamal Musiala shrug off storm delay to sink furious Denmark and head through to the UEFA Euro 2024 quarter-finals ~sports.football Article 390 words 10 votes
12,000-year-old Aboriginal sticks may be evidence of the oldest known culturally transmitted ritual in the world ~humanities.history Article 759 words 16 votes
OnlyFans vows it's a safe space. Predators are exploiting kids there. ~tech social media Article 5835 words 15 votes
Swedes take a new step in parental leave. Grandparents can now get paid to take care of grandkids. ~life family parenting Article 470 words 31 votes
Synapse collapse reveals lack of FDIC protection for fintech depositors ~finance banking business Article 15 votes
Lloyd’s John Neal: ‘You’ll never find an insurer saying, “I don’t believe in climate change”’ ~finance Link 36 votes
Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive ~tech Article 697 words 18 votes
America misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change ~enviro climate change Link 32 votes
Denmark's plan to eliminate parallel societies has drawn criticism as ethnic discrimination. Others in Europe may be watching. ~society politics Article 1010 words 21 votes
Pål Enger, talented Norwegian soccer player turned celebrity art thief who pulled off the sensational 1994 heist of Edvard Munch's famed “The Scream”, has died ~arts art painting Article 558 words 13 votes
Finland's PM Petteri Orpo urged parliament not to weaken a deportation bill that would allow Finnish border authorities to refuse to accept asylum applications in certain circumstances ~society politics Article 327 words 5 votes
110 new languages are coming to Google Translate ~humanities.languages Article 536 words, published Jun 27 2024 15 votes
Algorithms are deciding who gets organ transplants [in the UK's NHS]. Are their decisions fair? ~health healthcare medicine Link 21 votes
The yeses that surprise you: Organizing across the lines of cis and trans ~lgbt transgender Article 4115 words, published Mar 31 2023 8 votes
They were secret for sixteen years. Now a US judge has released the Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records. ~news usa.fl crime Article 251 words 18 votes
Mitigating Skeleton Key, a new type of generative AI jailbreak technique ~tech security Link 15 votes
Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web ~tech microsoft internet Article 647 words 16 votes
Los Angeles’s mayor was contemplating a mask ban. She just got Covid. ~society politics Link 38 votes
Microsoft CEO of AI claims online content is 'freeware' [and can be used to train LLMs in the absence of a specific directives from the author against this] ~tech microsoft internet Article 721 words 43 votes
In Wyoming, TerraPower moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation ~enviro energy Article 969 words, published Jun 10 2024 25 votes
One Million Checkboxes - a silly little game where (un)checking a box (un)checks it for everyone ~games Link 49 votes
The timing of fireworks-caused wildfire ignitions during the 4th of July holiday season ~enviro Article 5028 words 10 votes
A forgotten poem by Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis reveals details of friendships between fantasy writers and medievalists at the University of Leeds ~books poetry Article 774 words 15 votes
Ballkids? No thanks, we’ll stick to boys and girls says Wimbledon. – Change comes slowly at the All England Club, which will not follow the other Grand Slams by scrapping the gender-specific titles ~sports tennis Article 451 words 7 votes
Why Copa America is being played on small fields – and what it means ~sports.football Article 1911 words 9 votes