New York’s Iconic Queer Beach Faces Looming Privatization Scheme
Queer New Yorkers are fighting for Riis Beach as a developer with Israeli government ties plans a private beach club.
Trump Plan Would Give Political Appointees More Control Over Federal Grant Money
The rule would also prohibit distribution of federal grants to organizations that “promote anti-American values.”
Software Update Automatically Turns off Amazon Delivery Drivers’ AC During Dangerous Summer Heat
A new software update is turning off the AC in Amazon delivery vans after 10 minutes or 30 seconds under certain conditions.
NEWS: Congress Demands JD Vance's Testimony, Epstein Criminal Investigation Heats Up, Trump Fears Impeachment, Iran 'Deal' Unraveling Again
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Civil Records for Hundreds of Thousands of Lebanese Could Be Wiped Out By Israel’s Total War
With whole towns leveled by Israel, a quarter million Lebanese people may have lost the proof of who they are and what they own. The post Civil Records for Hundreds of Thousands…
9 Meltdowns From Top Israeli Figures Over Trump’s Iran Deal
Top Israeli figures are raging about the deal, calling Donald Trump a 'loser' and the U.S. 'treacherous,' and calling Benjamin Netanyahu 'weak'
Can the Safety Tax Be Highly Concentrated?
TLDR: We may capture much or most of the available AI safety benefit by reserving expensive, specialized agents for the <1% of tasks that carry catastrophic risk. This would mean…
Four LTS Java Versions Get End-of-Support in a Three-Year Window (2029-2032)
Simon Ritter joined Sun Microsystems in 1996 and spent time working in both Java development and consultancy. He's now written an opinion piece for InfoWorld warning that "Between…
Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head...
Two competing (?) thoughts kept going through my head while reading this : “Not even a celeb like Emily Ratajkowski can find a decent man to date” and “A celeb like Emily…
Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy
Scholars Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim share their analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism.
Heart protection from COVID shots remains amid updates, study finds
Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.
The Belfast Riots Are an Anti-Migrant Pogrom - and the British Media Has Serious Questions to Answer
In his first column for Zeteo UK, acclaimed journalist and author Owen Jones looks at how the lie about immigrants pushed by British media and political elites is fueling the…
Links #3: 2026/06 Part 1
Preface I show my discovery graph in (via …) blocks, those without (via …) usually come from my RSS reader, or the algorithm in the corresponding website This is approximately a 1…
As 'Disclosure Day' Premieres, Steven Spielberg Says He Believes Aliens Really Have Visited Earth
Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first…
A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.
Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood...
Joe “Handyman” Negri, a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fixture, has died at age 99 . “He really was like the friendly fellow you might find walking around a neighborhood. He was just…