In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon
Agency denies allegation as congressional panel demands information from CIA probe into pandemic’s start
The water from your toilet doesn’t just empty into the Atlantic Ocean like you saw in Finding Nemo.
This week i’ve decided to rewatch the avatar films on blu ray. I picked up the special editions with the 3 hours worth of extras for each film. I’ve rewatched the first film and some extras. I’m a casual fan at best and by no means a movie critic, but here arey impressions....
Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships.
Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is first rioter to be tried for January assault on Latin America’s largest democracy
Indian parents whose children died after taking toxic syrups want justice. Some of the drugmakers haven’t shown they even tested their products.
The French supermarket chain Carrefour has put labels on its shelves this week warning shoppers of “shrinkflation”, the phenomenon where manufacturers reduce pack sizes rather than increase prices....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — As Alex Jones continues telling his Infowars audience about his money problems and pleads for them to buy his products, his own documents show life is not all that bad — his net worth is around $14 million and his personal spending topped $93,000 in July alone, including thousands of dollars on meals...
The California Senate voted on Thursday to grant unemployment benefits to workers who are on strike. The bill passed with a 27-12 vote. The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA have each expresse…
This summer NSF decided to cancel or curtail 67—more than half—of the 131 projects and activities funded for the 2023–24 austral summer after concluding it couldn’t provide them with the necessary logistical support.
Accelerating research by sharpening the focus on unknown proteins. UK researchers have developed a new publicly accessible database, and they hope to see it shrink over time. That’s because it is a compendium of the thousands of understudied proteins encoded by genes in the human genome, whose exis
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I went directly to https://noworriesto.day/ and I don't see any posts. Apologies if I missed some news or if I am just somehow not doing something correctly.
Ahead of the Sept. 16 anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, days before her 22nd birthday, government opponents say Iran is conducting a wide-ranging crackdown to stifle possible dissent, including seekingfull control of internet in Iran....
Two defendants are set for trial next month, but the former president and others charged are headed for separate trials later.
A temporary but vital firefighter pay bump, implemented as part of US president Joe Biden’s 2021 infrastructure bill, will expire at the end of September. Without it, firefighters say the US risks exacerbating a crisis of burnout and retention at a time when fires are becoming bigger, more dangerous and harder to control.
and is there anything we, kbin, or the wider fediverse can do to combat them?...
Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The Detroit Three automakers -- Ford Motor Co., General Motors and Stellantis -- have moved labor contract negotiations to the headquarters of the powerful United Auto Workers union as the deadline for a strike looms just hours away.
I put together this unofficial guide to /kbin. It's not perfect. Probably needs some more clean up and a few gaps filled ... but version 1.0 is out!...
I know you can follow kbin users from Masto and co and see their threads and boosts and I think that's pretty cool, but what does it do on kbin? I followed two accounts to test and it looks like the threads they create will show up in my subscribed feed. But what about their microblog posts and boosts? It seems like there is no...
Rite Aid is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy as opioid litigation hangs over the pharmacy chain....
