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Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking and beating, the AP reported. | |
Submitted at 08-06-2025, 08:51 PM by Mordant | |
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In the grim darkness of the far future there are only anteaters and crabs. | |
Submitted at 08-06-2025, 06:25 PM by B. Weed | |
Italy's government gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of what will be the world's longest single-span bridge, linking Sicily to the mainland, despite environmental, financial and other concerns that have delayed it for decades. | |
Submitted at 08-06-2025, 05:19 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 08-06-2025, 03:30 PM by sleeppoor | |
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything. | |
Submitted at 08-06-2025, 03:35 PM by sleeppoor | |
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted. | |
Submitted at 08-05-2025, 07:38 PM by sleeppoor | |
Local newspaper editors and journalism experts worry that flimsy news sites that rely almost exclusively on artificial intelligence, known as “pink slime” journalism are making it harder for readers to distinguish real from fake reporting. | |
Submitted at 08-05-2025, 06:21 PM by sleeppoor | |
A wildlife trapper in Monterey County made an unexpected discovery after capturing a series of wild pigs in March of this year. While processing the animals, the trapper found several with blue-tinged muscles and fat tissues. The bizarre discoloration is a result of exposure to diphacinone, an anticoagulant rodenticide that is often dyed to identify it as a poison, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. | |
Submitted at 08-05-2025, 04:09 PM by a murder of lawyers | |
Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with? | |
Submitted at 08-05-2025, 03:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
The bronze statue depicting Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, which protesters tore down and burned in 2020, is being restored, the Park Service said Monday. | |
Submitted at 08-05-2025, 01:47 AM by sleeppoor | |
A new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that audio of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver screaming at each other in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” is being used by the United States Department of Agriculture to scare off wolves from killing cattle and scaring livestock on farms across the America. The fight scene is the most emotionally volatile moment in Baumbach’s 2019 drama, which earned both Johansson and Driver Oscar nominations.
Per the WSJ: “Riding to the rescue are drone cowhands, whose quadcopters have thermal cameras that can reveal any wolf lurking in the darkness and bathe it in a spotlight. A loudspeaker broadcasts alarming sounds like fireworks, gunshots and people arguing. One recording is of the fight between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in the movie ‘Marriage Story.'”
“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” a USDA district supervisor in Oregon told the publication. | |
Submitted at 08-04-2025, 08:10 PM by Wreckard | |
Submitted at 08-04-2025, 05:25 PM by sleeppoor | |
This research suggests that Neanderthals’ signature dish was rotting meat infested with fly larvae, which are responsible for the extremely high nitrogen levels discovered at various sites throughout history. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 05:22 PM by Nibbles | |
The study authors analyzed fossilized hominin teeth for carbon and oxygen isotopes left behind from eating plants known as graminoids, which includes grasses and sedges. They found that ancient humans gravitated toward consuming these plants far earlier than their teeth evolved to chew them efficiently. It was not until 700,000 years later that evolution finally caught up in the form of longer molars like those that let modern humans easily chew tough plant fibers. | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 03:34 AM by Nibbles | |
"... We are birds constantly regurgitating and eating our own upchuck. Same flavour but different colour, different flavour but same chunks." | |
Submitted at 08-03-2025, 12:39 AM by B. Weed | |
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 08:41 PM by Mordant | |
Police engaged in a nightlong standoff Friday in Cambridge after a man wielded a machete in Central Square and made it to his home in The Port neighborhood, according to police and police scanner reports.
In an effort to get the barricaded man out of his home, police used gas that sent several sickened residents fleeing instead.
Though at first the man could be seen pacing through the window at 243 Broadway, after a while he pulled the shades and police lost their view,
Gas was shot into the building shortly after midnight and rose through the building – which had not been fully evacuated. The 1879 five-story brick building, known as the George Close, was once a warehouse. Its 53,724 square feet holds 61 apartments.
One man came out livid from being affected by the gas – a mix of pepper spray and tear gas, according to a Pro EMS responder. One of the people watching over the hours took video of a woman on the fourth floor coughing and calling for help. Elderly residents in medical masks were assisted out of the building at 1:25 am., followed by a man in a wheelchair and others. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 08:30 PM by sleeppoor | |
Two Spotsylvania residents are facing one misdemeanor charge each after the July 20 incident in the Partlow area. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 01:30 PM by read a tv | |
A jury found Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the sensitive health information of millions of women through the period tracking app Flo.
"This is a landmark moment in the effort to safeguard digital privacy rights," said Michael P. Canty of the New York-based firm Labaton Keller Sucharow, who represented the plaintiffs. "Our clients entrusted their most sensitive information to a health app, only to have it exploited by one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.”
Jurors were given three questions — and on each one, they ruled against Meta. They said that yes, Meta had intentionally eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 02:36 AM by sleeppoor | |
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms. | |
Submitted at 08-02-2025, 02:57 AM by sleeppoor | |

Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in connection with the attempted carjacking and beating, the AP reported.
In the grim darkness of the far future there are only anteaters and crabs.
Italy's government gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of what will be the world's longest single-span bridge, linking Sicily to the mainland, despite environmental, financial and other concerns that have delayed it for decades.
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
Local newspaper editors and journalism experts worry that flimsy news sites that rely almost exclusively on artificial intelligence, known as “pink slime” journalism are making it harder for readers to distinguish real from fake reporting.
A wildlife trapper in Monterey County made an unexpected discovery after capturing a series of wild pigs in March of this year. While processing the animals, the trapper found several with blue-tinged muscles and fat tissues. The bizarre discoloration is a result of exposure to diphacinone, an anticoagulant rodenticide that is often dyed to identify it as a poison, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
The bronze statue depicting Confederate Gen. Albert Pike, which protesters tore down and burned in 2020, is being restored, the Park Service said Monday.
A new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals that audio of Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver screaming at each other in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” is being used by the United States Department of Agriculture to scare off wolves from killing cattle and scaring livestock on farms across the America. The fight scene is the most emotionally volatile moment in Baumbach’s 2019 drama, which earned both Johansson and Driver Oscar nominations.
Per the WSJ: “Riding to the rescue are drone cowhands, whose quadcopters have thermal cameras that can reveal any wolf lurking in the darkness and bathe it in a spotlight. A loudspeaker broadcasts alarming sounds like fireworks, gunshots and people arguing. One recording is of the fight between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in the movie ‘Marriage Story.'”
“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” a USDA district supervisor in Oregon told the publication.
This research suggests that Neanderthals’ signature dish was rotting meat infested with fly larvae, which are responsible for the extremely high nitrogen levels discovered at various sites throughout history.
The study authors analyzed fossilized hominin teeth for carbon and oxygen isotopes left behind from eating plants known as graminoids, which includes grasses and sedges. They found that ancient humans gravitated toward consuming these plants far earlier than their teeth evolved to chew them efficiently. It was not until 700,000 years later that evolution finally caught up in the form of longer molars like those that let modern humans easily chew tough plant fibers.
"... We are birds constantly regurgitating and eating our own upchuck. Same flavour but different colour, different flavour but same chunks."
The group used to believe the rights of Jews were inextricable from the rights of everyone else. Its war against anti-Zionism has changed everything.
Police engaged in a nightlong standoff Friday in Cambridge after a man wielded a machete in Central Square and made it to his home in The Port neighborhood, according to police and police scanner reports.
In an effort to get the barricaded man out of his home, police used gas that sent several sickened residents fleeing instead.
Though at first the man could be seen pacing through the window at 243 Broadway, after a while he pulled the shades and police lost their view,
Gas was shot into the building shortly after midnight and rose through the building – which had not been fully evacuated. The 1879 five-story brick building, known as the George Close, was once a warehouse. Its 53,724 square feet holds 61 apartments.
One man came out livid from being affected by the gas – a mix of pepper spray and tear gas, according to a Pro EMS responder. One of the people watching over the hours took video of a woman on the fourth floor coughing and calling for help. Elderly residents in medical masks were assisted out of the building at 1:25 am., followed by a man in a wheelchair and others.
Two Spotsylvania residents are facing one misdemeanor charge each after the July 20 incident in the Partlow area.
A jury found Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the sensitive health information of millions of women through the period tracking app Flo.
"This is a landmark moment in the effort to safeguard digital privacy rights," said Michael P. Canty of the New York-based firm Labaton Keller Sucharow, who represented the plaintiffs. "Our clients entrusted their most sensitive information to a health app, only to have it exploited by one of the world’s most powerful tech companies.”
Jurors were given three questions — and on each one, they ruled against Meta. They said that yes, Meta had intentionally eavesdropped and that yes, users could have reasonably expected that their sensitive menstrual information was not being shared. Finally, the jurors ruled that no, Meta did not have consent for its actions.
A dramatic week in the AI wars made it clear that the future is far from lost, and that we can't afford to fight for it on the tech community's terms.