In 2020, along with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic spike in murders in the United States. This increase in lethal violence, understandably, was covered extensively in national and local media outlets. Yet, much of this coverage lacked critical context. While the increase in murders was significant, the...
Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
(article is 1 day old so not exactly breaking news) With Twitter's value tanking, the business is pivoting to video
The CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, is on board the missing submersible that vanished during a mission to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, the
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
U.S. and Canadian rescue teams were racing against time to locate a submersible carrying five people to the wreckage site of the Titanic after the submarine ...
The UN has adopted the world's first treaty to protect the high seas and preserve marine biodiversity in international waters, marking a milestone after nearly 20 years of effort, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Monday.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will plead guilty to three federal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday in a court filing....
Andrew Tate charged with rape, human trafficking and forming organised crime group to sexually exploit women
A quarter of workers surveyed by PwC expect to change jobs in the next 12 months, up from 19% last year, as they are increasingly left cash-strapped in a cooling economy while dealing with inflationary pressures.
According to an employee at the restaurant, the supposed priest urged employees to “get the sins out.”
Kennedy, an anti-vaccine crusader, is seeking support for a Democratic presidential run.
I wanted to know whether as a user I can block an instance, as I can block another user or a magazine. I haven't found a way to do it....
European researchers said Thursday that the the start of June saw global surface air temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time. That is the limit governments said they would try to limit global warming to at a 2015 summit in Paris.
Amid a dangerous heat wave, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law nullifying local regulations, including mandated water breaks for construction workers, effective from September 1....
I love the idea of kbin, but I've found the UX could be improved. Honestly, I like it better than new reddit already, but I find it doesn't quite feel as nice as old.reddit.com to me....
Americans are still spending as inflation has finally shown signs of cooling. Still, there are some troubling economic signs. Mark Strassmann breaks it all down.
I had been having trouble getting meaningful results from the fediverse on Google, and after seeing this post, it seems I'm not the only one. So, I created a site that helps search the fediverse in your search engine of choice (it currently supports Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Dogpile)....
Recent claims by an ex-US intelligence agency whistleblower about alien spacecraft landings have been met with scepticism by scientists – not least over the galactic visitors’ driving skills
A survey shows perceptions of the Florida governor's favorabilty have dropped, even among Republicans, as he refuses to back down in a feud with Disney.
I've heard you can do a google search and append say kbin.social to get results just from kbin, but if I wanted to treat the fediverse's content like reddit's, is there a way to do the google search on just everything that's on the fediverse?...
“We got down from the car and went inside.”...
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
