Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.
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Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect. ( m.youtube.com )
A sad day for emulation and open source advocates, and a reminder that Nintendo can and will destroy you if they see fit....
GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source privacy oriented Twitter/X client ( github.com )
Basicallly the only vialable nitter altnerative I'm aware of at the moment, biggest downsides being you need a twitter account and you can only access it through android, but it does offer the abillity to see your feed in an rss style, aka no recommendations, which is very useful if you only need to follow a few remaining...
Fox News guest decrying “migrant crime” previously arrested after getting violent over a grilled cheese sandwich he deemed too cheesy ( www.mediamatters.org )
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Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change ( thehill.com )
NYC Housing Authority Paid $708 to Replace a Lightbulb ( www.truthdig.com )
The no-bid micro contracts awarded to vendors at the center of a bribery scandal are rife with wildly inflated costs, an analysis finds....
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools ( www.404media.co )
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
CBP’s Top Doctor Tried To Obtain ‘Fentanyl Lollipops’ For ‘Pain Management’ ( www.techdirt.com )
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Hochul: Sorry I Joked About Doing to Canada What Israel Is Doing to Palestine ( hellgatenyc.com )
Governor Kathy Hochul has been a staunch supporter and defender of Israel's ongoing siege and bombardment of Gaza and sanctioned settler violence in the occupied West Bank, even going so far as to travel to Israel a few weeks after the Hamas attacks of October 7, despite being told her father was on his deathbed....
Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans ( www.erininthemorning.com )
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away....
MAGA Candidate Says He’s Worried About Babies Who Might Get an Abortion ( newrepublic.com )
Bill Eigel, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Missouri, may not realize, but this is physically impossible....
Libs of TikTok creator accuses NBC News of stochastic terrorism after bomb threat investigation ( www.advocate.com )
Chaya Raichik accused an NBC journalist of silencing tactics and claims victimhood in the face of scrutiny over her incendiary online behavior....
Oklahoma Appoints Libs Of TikTok "To Make Schools Safer," Violent Threats Follow Her Posts ( www.erininthemorning.com )
Chaya Raichik, creator of the anti-LGBTQ+ account Libs of TikTok, was appointed to the state's Library Media Advisory Committee. Her posts frequently are followed by bomb threats on schools....
Pro-Palestine ‘Drag Race’ Queens Outraged By Viral Image of Their Names On An IDF Missile ( www.them.us )
Pro-Palestine Drag Race queens are speaking out about a viral image that appears to show their names written on an Israeli missile....
Flying the Pride flag is a gateway to ISIS, a Connecticut official claims as town passes ban ( www.advocate.com )
A Connecticut town council voted to ban the LGBTQ+ pride flag in government buildings almost immediately after coming under Republican control....
Florida Woman Had Her Entire Driveway Stolen ( jalopnik.com )
If you leave things in your yard, you shouldn’t be surprised if they get stolen. People are opportunistic, and if they see your kid’s bike sitting there unsecured, they may decide it’s a perfect opportunity to give it to their kid. Heck, sometimes even entire cars get stolen out of driveways. It sucks, but it happens....
A South Carolina man runs a church that claims to treat opioid addiction, but he’s no longer a doctor since he lost his license for overprescribing painkillers that killed at least one person ( www.postandcourier.com )
original title: The pill messiah: Doug Smith claims he can end the opioid crisis. But will his troubled past catch up with him first?...
13 Feet Ladder ( github.com )
A site similar to 12ft.io but is self hosted and works with websites that 12ft.io doesn't work with....
Hard-up this holiday? Amazon flyer tells workers to ask orange blob company mascot for help ( www.theguardian.com )
Amazon is asking workers experiencing hardship to write a letter to its company mascot, Peccy, this holiday season so “some of their holiday wishes can come true”....
What's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one?
A vaginal ring that discreetly delivers anti-HIV drugs will reach more women ( www.npr.org )
Women in a growing number of African countries will soon have access to a vaginal ring to help reduce their risk of acquiring HIV from an infected partner. And they can use it discreetly, without their partner or anyone else knowing. The ring is inserted and slowly releases the antiretroviral drug dapivirine for a month, when it...
Kroger Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta ( themarkup.org )
Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy...
Ottawa paid nearly $670,000 for KPMG’s advice on cutting consultant costs ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
The federal government hired KPMG consultants at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars for advice on how to save money on consultants, documents show....
March for Israel Rally Features Far-Right Pastor Who Once Blamed Jews for Holocaust ( newrepublic.com )
Pastor John Hagee once said Hitler was sent by God....
Starbucks Under Scrutiny Over Fictional Symbol (from Avatar: The Last Airbender) in Native American Heritage Month Poster ( nativenewsonline.net )
Popular coffee chain Starbucks is under scrutiny after a symbol on a poster celebrating Native American Heritage Month resembles the same one used in the animated children’s show “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”...
LA Councilman’s Aide Resigns After Holocaust Jokes About Amy Schumer ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Josh Androsky, a former comedian, thought it would be fun to share puns about concentration camps....
Kanye West told a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a photo of Hitler "every day" ( www.avclub.com )
A bombshell new report from the New York Times also discusses how the rapper (now known as Ye) would throw shoes and make staffers watch porn during meetings...
Elon 'Back to the Office' Musk Called in Remotely to First X All-Hands ( gizmodo.com )
The billionaire owner and CEO Linda Yaccarino dialed in from out of town, vaguely touting new features that will roll out in the coming months....
British Navy Stops Using 'Chinese Servants,' But Not For The Reason You Expect ( jalopnik.com )
Incredibly, they’re still going to pick laundry workers based on race...
Jewish Editor Fired for Sharing Onion Article on Gaza ( newrepublic.com )
Michael Eisen says his dismissal was due to his sharing the satirical article....
Kids Are Attending Pro-Palestinian Protests In Roblox ( kotaku.com )
A solidarity protest took place on Roblox, with 200 players reportedly attending...
Israeli settler activist: 'Spitting near churches or monasteries is an ancient Jewish tradition' ( www.jpost.com )
The statement came as a response to a video circulating online of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City....
Russia Prepares RuStore VPN Ban After Declaring RuStore Installation Mandatory ( torrentfreak.com )
*Russia’s incremental moves to eliminate online privacy regularly target VPNs. To ‘free’ itself from Google and Apple, in 2022 Russia launched its very own app store, which ironically offers dozens of VPNs. After the government recently announced the mandatory pre-installation of RuStore on tech gadgets, a draft law will...
A Computer Model Is Causing Years of Delays for Amtrak's New High-Speed Trains, Scathing Audit Finds ( www.vice.com )
The flagship Acela fleet may have to cut service because Amtrak is running out of spare parts and using unsupported software on critical components while the new fleet is nowhere close to entering service....
Scientists want to rename the Hitler beetle — but not for the reason you think ( archive.ph )
In 1933, amateur entomologist Oskar Scheibel added an unusual insect to his collection. The specimen turned out to be a previously unknown and rare blind cave beetle from Slovenia. The Austrian engineer named it Anophthalmus hitleri. The first word derived from the Greek for “without eyes,” the second from the leader of Nazi...
Drone Named After the Terminator Launches a Torpedo from the Air During NATO Exercise ( www.vice.com )
This isn’t new, the U.S. Navy used to do it all the time using an helicopter that ran off Porsche engines....
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show ( www.404media.co )
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance....
Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen ( www.vice.com )
In a court filing, the companies argue that social media companies “caused an unprecedented increase in thefts.” The cars being stolen didn’t have basic anti-theft technology....
Nearly 400 monkey skulls seized at Paris airport, destined for US ( www.aljazeera.com )
Primate skulls likely meant for collectors and hunting clubs in the US, where they are reportedly given as gifts and prizes....
Kansas Librarians Sue After Being Fired Over Autism Display Mistaken for LGBTQ+ Support ( www.advocate.com )
Two Kansas librarians have been fired after conservative officials in their town mistook a multi-colored display as something for Pride and the “LGBTQ agenda.”...
'If the Black players don’t like it here, they should go back to Africa and see how bad it is' - Buffalo Bills owner ( deadspin.com )
Former reporter claims Bills owner Terry Pegula, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones made racist comments about hiring, social justice protests...
Landlords Throw Party to Celebrate Being Able to Evict People Again ( www.vice.com )
The Berkeley Property Owners Association’s fall mixer is called “Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium.”...
Wordpress Rejects 86% of All DMCA Takedown Notices ( torrentfreak.com )
WordPress has published its latest transparency report which shows that it only takes action for a small fraction of the piracy takedown notices it receives. A whopping 86% don’t result in any removals. This high rejection rate is mostly the result of “careless” incomplete notices sent by takedown companies, the report...
Nebraska governor signs executive order defining men as "bigger, stronger and faster" ( boingboing.net )
Nebraska governor Jim Pillen, a Republican not noted as a women’s rights supporter, yesterday issued an executive order “defining” males and females and the attributes thereof. The anti-transgender political grandstanding offers fusty explanations of the sexes–men are “bigger, stronger and faster” on average–in...
Pakistan wants to claim the rights to the name 'India' should country change its name ( www.indy100.com )
Pakistan might change its name to India, if India changes its name....