Israel’s Crisis Is Just Beginning (www.politico.com)
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor dies aged 56 (www.bbc.com)
Saudi Arabia is spending billions to become a global gaming hub. Some fans don't want to play | ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Rust Pro Tips (collection) (geeklaunch.io)
Whenever I encounter an interesting Rust programming technique, I add it to this blog post. I’ve amassed a bit of a collection. Hopefully someone finds it interesting and useful!
Hunter Biden guilty plea in doubt over immunity questions (www.washingtonpost.com)
Even if the legal turmoil that has surrounded Hunter Biden for years is wrapped up, the political battle will continue.
PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement (prql-lang.org)
Studie: Autoverkehr kostet Kommunen das Dreifache des ÖPNV (www.internationales-verkehrswesen.de) German
Overture maps is an open standard for Maps apps to compete with Google and Apple. (overturemaps.org)
Aufruhr nach Aussagen über AfD: CDU-Chef Merz stemmt sich gegen »Personaldebatten« (www.spiegel.de) German
Baldur's Gate 3 used intimacy coordinators for sex scenes: 'I never felt 'yuck' in a recording session at all,' says actor (www.pcgamer.com)
Larian Studios believes it’s one of the first motion capture games to use professional intimacy coordinators during production.
Jeder vierte Erwerbstätige erhält weniger als 14 Euro pro Stunde (www.zeit.de) German
Man dies of heatstroke in east Japan while working at store without running A/C (mainichi.jp)
UTSUNOMIYA -- The Tochigi Labor Bureau announced on July 24 the work-related death of a man due to heatstroke, the first of its kind in the eastern Japan prefecture in eight years.
Threads is rolling out its Following feed (www.theverge.com)
Threads, Instagram’s messaging app, has added a new Following feed that shows posts only from accounts that a user follows. This was a highly requested feature from users. To access the Following feed, users tap the home icon or Threads logo at the top of the app. However, when reopening the app, it reverts back to the default...
Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry about (imo very legitimately) was effectively already shipped by Apple in Safari last year (httptoolkit.com)
BT-Gutachten: Cannabis-Legalisierung EU-rechtskonform (www.lto.de) German
Aufregung um ein Gutachten des Wissenschaftlichen Dienstes des Deutschen Bundestages zum Thema Cannabis. Zuerst hatte der Spiegel darüber berichtet – allerdings mit der irreführenden Überschrift “Ampelpläne zur Cannabislegalisierung kollidieren mit Europarecht”....
Das Kennzeichen ist verpixelt, Boss! (www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de) German
He did it all for the cookie... (slrpnk.net)
Russian defense chief will visit North Korea this week to ‘strengthen’ military ties (www.politico.eu)
Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Yale researchers found that registered Republicans in Ohio and Florida had a higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats.
Why You Can No Longer Roll Back a macOS Update (mjtsai.com)
TIL about squash vine borers & had to perform surgery on my plants (www.almanac.com)
After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there’s these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that...
News: Special counsel received documents from Giuliani team that tried to find fraud after 2020 election | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Among the materials turned over to special counsel Jack Smith about supposed fraud in the 2020 election are documents that touch on many of the debunked conspiracies and unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud peddled by former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
News; City mayor demands Trump settle 2018 bill of $35k ahead of rally (www.independent.co.uk)
Trump is returning to Erie to shore up support ahead of 2024 Republican presidential primary
Microblogging still on the map? (kbin.social)
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