A nice end to a fascist attack on a kids' reading; a bunch of counterprotestors showed up to protect the event

Another attack on a kids' reading in a library, this one in Michigan

One of my favorite world chefs is having a bad moment with staff, pay, etc

Part of the current political repression in Turkey, mixed with straight up homophobia

Another fascist attack on a library reading; this one with a gun

Local reporting on a surprisingly large protest

Customers report getting used satellite dishes; Starlink says they are really new and that dirt and scuff marks are normal (!)

Another scary incident involving Proud Boys harassing a Pride-themed storytime at a library

Archives of slave ships and details on the people that were trafficked in them

Remarkably swift and detailed writeup of the huge outage a few hours ago. If it's not DNS, it's BGP...

Update on the ongoing saga of Web Request; ad blockers and privacy addons are going to be a lot harder in Chrome soon

Tesla lays off Diversity and Inclusion Leader, also the President of the LBGTQ+ association

Cryptogeniuses "vote" to take over a nominal $20M of assets because they think it's a threat to their whole ecosystem

Just got my first of these; a call claiming to be someone authorizing a payment for an iPhone on Amazon

How's it going? Poorly.

The Indiana company that manufactures a lot of the distilled spirits sold in the US under craft labels

Employees express concern with their boss' childish antics, are immediately fired. 'Diversity of thought" and "Free speech" are well and good until you upset the man baby with a thin skin

Texas AG's comments on kids murdered with an assault rifle: "Life is short no matter what it is."

Regional TV station rewrites the ceremonial first pitch in a broadcast game and pretends an old recording is reality

Ad giant bans ads on its own ad product but lets partners syndicate murder toy ads through them

Their "free product" kept customers in a ridiculously high cash allocation so that Schwab could profit off of the parked cash.

How the elite of a society are more worried about losing their status in the face of disaster than the disaster itself

An appraisal of risks of the two big so-called stablecoins. Interesting that USBC is largely backed by a single US bank, a major risk.

Footage from the harassment of a reading to kids at a library

AI huckster and Trump-pardoned criminal ended his AI/religion stunt

Kids being read to at the library interrupted by "Proud Boy synonymous" group of people shouting slurs

NPR giving context on the thwarted attack on a Pride rally. Families having a party in the park with thugs wandering through carrying assault rifles.

LGBT event in Couer d'Alene was violently threatened; a group of fascists ended up getting arrested

1957 map shows where USSR citizens weren't allowed to travel in the US. I'd thought the US had freedom of internal movement, even for visitors.

Grid can't expand fast enough to keep up with electrificaton demand

Actual election fraud: a former congressman got insiders to stuff the ballot for Democratuc candidates he was working for

Photo of the Afrikaans questionnaire. It reads a lot like the quizzes they used to give Black people in the American south to prevent them from voting.

Shitty airline imposes bizarre, colonialist requirement that if you have a South African passport you have to demonstrate you speak Afrikaans. A language most South Africans don't speak.

Details of how the Republicans plan to subvert the vote in Michigan

Gross and opportunistic plan for some dumb startup to start flying weapons, bypassing their ethics board

Have to gamble to get top gear in Diablo Immortal game, would cost $100,000+ to get it. And it requires gambling.

In the US each state can have its own independent defense force. There are few active ones and they tend to be small.

Governor of Florida is trying to build a private state army

A letter from some tech luminaries to Congress, warning them of the dangers of cryptocurrency and blockchain