A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says ( www.nytimes.com )
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French Courts Are Giving Protesters INSANE Sentences ( www.youtube.com )
French courts have been imposing disproportionately severe sentences for minor offenses, including 10 months in prison for stealing a can of Red Bull and one year for a homeless boy with schizophrenia caught looting a luxury store. The overwhelmed courts rush cases, provide minimal time for defendants, and prioritize punishment...
Doomed Titanic sub CEO tried to sell cut-price tickets, saying it was ‘safer than crossing the street’ ( nypost.com )
The NY Post got their hands on some pretty damning text messages where this CEO was irresponsibly downplaying the risks and cutting the ticket price for a potential prospect. I know he’s dead now, but I hope some sort of regulations come out of this.
‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
CW: Occupied Palestine
Six suspects in assassination of Ecuador candidate murdered in prison ( www.reuters.com )
U.S. Knew Saudis Were Killing African Migrants ( www.nytimes.com )
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Most of the Texas border buoys, installed to deter migrants, are in Mexican territory, study shows ( www.nbcnews.com )
Democracy ‘in trouble, stagnant at best, and declining in many places’ ( www.aljazeera.com )
Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI - The Verge ( www.theverge.com )
Taiwanese citizens take the nation's defense into their own hands: Interview with scholar Wen Liu ( globalvoices.org )
For people in Taiwan living under regular military threats from China, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the West’s responses to it have prompted queries about the Taiwanese military forces’ own readiness and resilience. In the early days following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Taipei quickly...
China is flooding Taiwan with fake news and disinformation ahead of a major election. Here’s how it’s fighting back ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/6763982
Brave lays off 9% of its workforce | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' ( www.youtube.com )
Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by IDF in Gaza were holding makeshift white flag, official says ( www.theguardian.com )
World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 ( www.theguardian.com )
Anti-China Rhetoric Is Off the Charts in Western Media ( thediplomat.com )
Prigozhin most likely dead, and an explosion may have downed his plane, U.S. officials say ( wapo.st )
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‘Ghost flights’: Qatar Airways flying near-empty planes in Australia to exploit legal loophole ( www.theguardian.com )
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Moderation / Rules of "news" community?
I can't seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I'm very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality....
Titanic sub CEO was on a 'predatory' mission to convince influential people to support his unsafe vessel, says expert ( www.insider.com )
Prices soar in Argentina after Milei’s currency devaluation ( english.elpais.com )
40 workers have been trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in India for over a week and 3 attempts to drill through the debris have failed so far ( www.insider.com )
U.S. President Biden says "Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under single government" and "extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop" ( feddit.de )
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5830159...
Pilot Who Tried to Kill Flight’s Engines Told Cops He’d Taken Shrooms, Feds Say ( www.thedailybeast.com )
‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalists ( www.indexoncensorship.org )
“It is undeniable that the intrinsics of Julian’s case are so shocking it is something one would expect from the worst dictatorships,” Stella Assange says....
