- arstechnica.com ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers
ISPs tell FCC that mistreated users would switch to one of their many other options.
- www.livescience.com Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it's the 1980s, but researchers still aren't sure why they do it.
- gizmodo.com Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.
- www.pcgamer.com Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/gaming@lemmy.world/t/1484642
> Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.
- www.theguardian.com Elusive deer spotted wearing high-vis jacket in Canada: ‘Who is responsible?’
‘Double takes’ as British Columbia mountain community tries to figure out how local animal came to don neon jacket
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How we can mine asteroids for space food
www.cambridge.org How we can mine asteroids for space food | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge CoreHow we can mine asteroids for space food - Volume 23
- apnews.com South Korean man convicted for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service
A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service.
- www.standard.co.uk Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry
With paltry streaming royalties and a cost-of-touring crisis, it’s harder than ever to make money as a musician. Claudia Cockerell on the household names who are taking up side hustles, and what it says about the state of the music industry
- www.them.us Trump's Latest Pick for His Wildly Anti-LGBTQ+ Cabinet is a Gay Billionaire
In case you needed further proof that “representation” is not liberation.
- www.bbc.com Malaysian government ordered to return LGBT Swatch watches
A court ruled the government, which said the watches had "LGBT elements", did not have authority to seize them.
A Malaysian court has ordered the country's government to return 172 rainbow-coloured watches it seized from watchmaker Swatch last year.
The government said it took the timepieces from the Swiss company because they featured "LGBT elements" - homosexuality is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia and punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
However, a court ruled the government did not have a warrant to confiscate the items and a law prohibiting their sale was only passed later, making the seizure unlawful.
Malaysia's Home Affairs minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the government's legal team will need to "examine the basis of the judgement" before deciding to appeal against the order.
He said the government "must respect the decision, or else it would be viewed as contempt of court".
He went on to say his ministry may appeal against the ruling but must first "examine the basis of the judgement thoroughly".
Authorities raided Swatch shops across Malaysia in May 2023, but an order prohibiting sale of the watches was not issued until August 2023.
Therefore, Swatch had not committed an offence at the time of the seizure, the court ruled.
But the prohibition order has not been overturned, so although the watches - worth $14,000 (£10,700) - have been returned they cannot be sold.
The authorities must hand back the items within 14 days, government prosecutor Mohammad Sallehuddin Md Ali told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today.
Swatch took legal action contesting the seizure in June 2023, arguing the product was "not in any way capable of causing any disruption to public order or morality or any violations of the law".
Homosexuality is illegal under both secular and religious laws in Malaysia.
Swatch described the Pride flag as a "symbol of humanity that speaks for all genders and races", but at the time of the confiscation, the Malaysian government claimed the acronym "LGBTQ" could be found on the watches themselves.
The Swiss manufacturer argued the company's reputation had been damaged and business had suffered after the seizures.
Malaysian authorities claimed the watches "may harm... the interests of the nation by promoting, supporting and normalising the LGBTQ+ movement that is not accepted by the general public".
The Swatch Group declined to comment.
- www.voanews.com Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated
She also threatens to have his wife and House of Representatives speaker killed
- www.bbc.co.uk Dutch police find 2kg gnome made of MDMA during drug bust
Police say they tested the gnome after finding it among suspected narcotics.
- kotaku.com Billionaire Waits Outside Supermarket To Fight Call Of Duty Fan
The COD player blamed the businessman for his poor internet connection
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Opinion: How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | The Observer
www.theguardian.com How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole CadwalladrIn the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
> > > 1. Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.” > > > 2. Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that. > > > >
> > > He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this. > > > > 1. Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that. > >
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Misinformation expert cites non-existent sources in Minnesota deep fake case
> A leading misinformation expert is being accused of citing non-existent sources to defend Minnesota’s new law banning election misinformation.
> At the behest of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hancock recently submitted an affidavit supporting new legislation that bans the use of so-called “deep fake” technology to influence an election. The law is being challenged in federal court by a conservative YouTuber and Republican state Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria for violating First Amendment free speech protections.
> Hancock’s expert declaration in support of the deep fake law cites numerous academic works. But several of those sources do not appear to exist, and the lawyers challenging the law say they appear to have been made up by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.
- www.nbcnews.com Trump names former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary
McMahon, who is a co-chair of Trump's transition team, led the Small Business Administration during Trump's first term.
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Trump picks Dr. Oz to be CMS administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- www.latintimes.com Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Releasing All Ethics Reports, Not Just Gaetz's: "If We're Going to Dance, Let's All Dance In The Sunlight'
The report on Gaetz has been dominating the conversation given his contentious nomination for attorney general
