A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
For three years, Patrick Braxton says he has experienced harassment and intimidation after becoming the first Black mayor in Newbern, Alabama....
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Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess gets 90 days behind bars for late-term abortion (nypost.com)
Celeste Burgess, 19, of Norfolk, was hit with a 90-day jail sentence and two years’ probation at Madison County District Court on Thursday.
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Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away (www.engadget.com)
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Masks are out at In-N-Out after burger chain bans employees from wearing them in 5 states (apnews.com)
In-N-Out will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor’s note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media last week.
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RTR#26 Configuration of the work environment and aggregate view (kbin.social)
Today, a quick log from the day. Lots of configuring test environments that I'll be working on for the next few months. This also includes testing a new method of creating instances for Docker....
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/kbin RTR#4 Grouping crossposted threads (kbin.social)
This update introduces changes to the presentation of cross-posted threads, improving the readability of the feed....
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AP visual analysis: Rocket from Gaza appeared to go astray, likely caused deadly hospital explosion (apnews.com)
An Associated Press analysis of more than a dozen videos found that the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital Tuesday was likely caused by a rocket fired from inside Palestinian territory that veered off course and broke up in the air before crashing back to the ground.
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The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.
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6 'Soldiers of Christ' members are in custody after a woman's body was found in a car trunk (apnews.com)
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — Five adults and a 15-year-old self-described as “Soldiers of Christ” religious group members were in custody Thursday on murder charges after a woman’s body was found in the trunk of a car parked outside a popular spa in Atlanta’s suburbs.
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[News] "Write a Check for $11,000. She Was 26, She Had Limited Value." SPD Officer Jokes with Police Union Leader About Killing of Pedestrian by Fellow Cop - PubliCola (publicola.com)
In a conversation with Mike Solan, the head of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, Seattle Police Department officer and SPOG vice president Daniel Auderer minimized the killing of 23-year-old student Jaahnavi Kandula by police officer Kevin Dave and joked that she had “limited value” as a “regular person” who was only...
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AEW PRESENTS: ALL OUT! Discussion Thread 09/03/23 (kbin.social)
Tonight, AEW is LIVE from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois! AEW's second PPV in as many Sundays begins at 7pm with ZERO HOUR on Youtube and continues at 8pm on PPV! The card for ALL OUT includes:...
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Former Twitter company 'X' wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history (www.theverge.com)
The social network has updated its privacy policy. "Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the privacy policy reads. It doesn’t include any details on what kind of biometric information this includes — or how X plans to collect it — but...
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AEW DYNAMITE Discussion Thread 08/30/23 (kbin.social)
It's Wednesday, you know what that means!...
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Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again while talking to reporters in Kentucky (www.npr.org)
Sen. Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze momentarily at an event in Covington, Ky. McConnell also froze in July at a news conference on Capitol Hill, going silent before being escorted away.
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Rudy Giuliani is liable for defaming 2 Georgia election workers, a judge says (www.npr.org)
Judge Beryl Howell's decision means that a trial will commence in this case to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss.
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U.S., Florida Gov. DeSantis says shorter lifespans should protect people from losing Social Security and Medicare protection (web.archive.org)
"I think it started before COVID and I think it’s continued even here afterwards. I think it’s more than, more than just COVID. I mean, I think that there’s deaths of despair. I think you have (drugs),” DeSantis said. Life expectancy in the U.S. has decreased to 76.4 years in 2023 from 77.28 in 2020, according to Centers...
[News] Arizona Prosecutors Are Probing Rudy Giuliani’s Role as Fake-Elector Kingpin (www.rollingstone.com)
Prosecutors in Arizona are “aggressively” ramping up their criminal probe into the 2020 fake electors plot aimed at keeping then-President Donald Trump in power. They’re not just looking at the fake electors, though. Rudy Giuliani is also now high on their list....
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🔫 AEW DYNAMITE DISCUSSION THREAD 08/23/23 🔫 (None)
It’s Wednesday, you know what that means…...
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US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
U.S. scientists have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said on Sunday.
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RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family
HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …
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Child from Honduras is one of two people dead on or near Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys (www.dallasnews.com)
Gov. Greg Abbott has rebuffed demands to remove a floating barrier that Mexico and US officials warned would become a 'death trap' for migrants.
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Twitter, now X, sues group that researched hate speech on platform (www.washingtonpost.com)
Elon Musk's X alleged the Center for Countering Digital Hate violated its terms of service in a bid to scare away advertisers and harm the company financially.
Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials (apnews.com)
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.
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