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San Francisco mayor wants drones and CCTV to stop crime (www.theregister.com)

Philips Kept Warnings About Dangerous CPAP Machines Secret While Profits Soared. (www.propublica.org)

Exhibit #482,683 on why capitalism and medicine are inevitably a horrible combination.

‘Alien: Romulus’: Ridley Scott Says Fede Álvarez’s Movie Is “F***ing Great” (deadline.com)

Of course he’s going to say that, but somehow this is the first I’ve heard that Fede Álvarez is directing an Alien movie. It’s hard to be optimistic about a new Alien announcement lately, but I’m hoping this gets a treatment similar to Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey. It’s also a Hulu release so we’ll see.

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Now I cry on company time (sh.itjust.works)

Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution (www.theguardian.com)

In Singapore, a certificate to own a car now costs $106,000 (www.reuters.com)

We Added 690 New Words to the Dictionary for September 2023 | merriam-webster.com (www.merriam-webster.com)

Hon Hon hon (loot.buckodr.ink)

Not OC

Pizza, popcorn and pints: six surprising foods that may actually be good for us - Positive News (www.positive.news)

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Hyprland is a toxic community (drewdevault.com)

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...

Just 2 minutes of walking after eating can help blood sugar, study says | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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Massachusetts passed a millionaire's tax. Now, the revenue is paying for free public school lunches. (www.cbsnews.com)

U.S. lab says it repeated fusion energy feat — with higher yield (www.washingtonpost.com)

Reddit exodus - Using Lemmy from my existing Mastodon (vijayprema.com)

Many are turning to Lemmy as a viable Reddit alternative. Here is how to use your existing Mastodon account with Lemmy.

I made a tool that transfers your reddit subscriptions to lemmy, thought maybe you all might be interested (github.com)

One thing that annoyed me about moving to Lemmy was that I’d lose my subreddits and that looking for and joining communities on Lemmy would be tedious. So (logically) I spent 2 days writing a script, that gets a list of your subreddits from your reddit account and looks for communities with the same name on Lemmy. It also...

Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)

What are some of the "small things" you appreciate about Lemmy over Reddit? (lemm.ee)

I like being able to edit titles!

Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone (www.theverge.com)

There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup (themarkup.org)

Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of...