Kazakhstan may prohibit wearing hijab and niqab in public places (www.azerbaycan24.com)
Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead (www.eff.org)
Keep Bandcamp Great: Tell Songtradr to recognize and negotiate with Bandcamp United immediately (actionnetwork.org)
On September 28, Epic Games announced the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr, Inc. In an internal announcement to staff, Epic Games wrote that Songtradr, Inc. would be offering positions to some Bandcamp employees but not all. This comes amidst ongoing contract negotiations with Bandcamp’s staff union - Bandcamp United.
Pénurie de masques : l’État condamné à verser des réparations à la famille d’un médecin mort du Covid (www.leparisien.fr) French
Danny DeVito is down for whatever (wapo.st)
He doesn’t look like a movie star. He doesn’t act like one, either. And if a role requires DeVito to disrobe and get ‘greased up like a halibut,’ so be it.
Gene therapies for rare diseases are under threat. Scientists hope to save them. (www.nature.com)
"We have the technology, but we’re not going to save your kid because we can’t make any money on you’? Really?”
Trump drops lawsuit against New York fraud judge (www.rawstory.com)
Donald Trump has dropped a last-resort lawsuit against the judge overseeing his New York fraud trial. The former president's attorneys withdrew their lawsuit against Justice Arthur Engoron, which had been seen as a long-shot attempt to stop his real estate empire from being dismantled after he f...
from 1st to 5th (slrpnk.net)
Canada's buildings have an emissions problem. Could fish skin provide an answer? (www.cbc.ca)
How high above my baseboards (electric?) should I hang my sheers to avoid a fire hazard? (sh.itjust.works)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2cacadd6-010f-4683-bfdd-a5400e5ebc73.webp...
Russian missile attack in east Ukraine kills 10-year-old boy and his grandmother (www.latimes.com)
Video: files.catbox.moe/6xmwag.mp4...
[Analysis] The EU has a lack-of-teachers crisis — here's why (euobserver.com)
EU renewable energy financing mechanism – first tender oversubscribed (energy.ec.europa.eu)
A sixth basic taste may join sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami on the tongue (dornsife.usc.edu)
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste — in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter — in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him....
[Prime/Epic] Ghostwire: Tokyo (gaming.amazon.com)
Japanese-folklore-themed spooky adventure for Windows, free on Epic Games for Amazon Prime subscribers until 2nd November
(for programmers): we all have one or more of "those" projects (feddit.it)
Still maintaining one’s first app, etc.
Mozilla is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to work on their Mastodon server at mozilla.social (www.mozilla.org)
Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)
Google gives up on a fixed day for its monthly Pixel updates (www.androidpolice.com)
That was already the case this year but they never acknowledged it, now Google is putting the final nail in the coffin as it relates to the “first Monday of the month” updates:...
The Toilet Paper (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/1746485...
bring back bean (sh.itjust.works)
Starfield's fiercest defender is one of Cyberpunk 2077's lead designers (metro.co.uk)
Hundreds of Free-Floating Planets Found in the Orion Nebula (www.universetoday.com)
[OC] Finally gotten around to documenting my code in org-mode (sh.itjust.works)
The projects:...
Box of giraffe poop seized at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The traveler told authorities she planned to make a necklace with the feces. (bringmethenews.com)
In a statement, LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, director of field operations at the Chicago field office, said bringing fecal matter into the United States is a “real danger.”