Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery
Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches
Exclusive: Amazon office workers in New York requested to donate time over to Fresh delivery process during firm’s busiest timeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Elon Musk hired a dozen Texas lobbyists this year. State law keeps the extent of their influence under wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.
His lobbyists, who represented Tesla, SpaceX and the social media giant X Corp., spent tens of thousands of dollars on things like gifts and meals for Texas elected officials and others during the session, according to an analysis of state ethics data. In most cases, Texas transparency laws do not require lobbyists to disclose which politicians they wined and dined or on behalf of which clients.
A slate of ethics bills, including several to require transparency into who funds mass text messages for political campaigns, failed to become law this year, according to The Texas Tribune. Meanwhile, legislators approved a new law that will reduce the fine for former lawmakers who engage in illegal lobbying activity.
Texas Legislature won’t pass ethics bills this year
Lawmakers filed dozens of bills that would increase transparency around spending in elections and strengthen penalties for campaign and lobbying violations. None are poised to pass.Kate McGee (The Texas Tribune)
How terrorist groups are leveraging AI to recruit and finance their operations
How terrorist groups are leveraging AI to recruit and finance their operations
Counter-terrorism agencies are scrambling to maintain an advantage and thwart attacks as access to digital tools easesBen Makuch (The Guardian)
Flooded Texas County opposed siren alert system that could have warned residents because of the cost
A recent effort to bolster emergency communication infrastructure failed in the Texas Senate earlier this year
As the death toll from flash floods in Central Texas climbs past 80, scrutiny is mounting over Kerr County's past decisions to reject an outdoor siren alert system due to cost concerns.
Kerr County, located in a flood-prone region of the Texas Hill Country, has previously dismissed proposals for siren-based warning systems, citing financial burden on local taxpayers.
A recent effort at the state level to bolster emergency communication infrastructure, House Bill 13, failed in the Texas Senate earlier this year. The bill would have funded improved disaster alert systems and provided grants for counties to build infrastructure like sirens and radio towers, according to the Texas Tribune.
Some lawmakers, including state Rep. Wes Virdell, voted against it due to its projected $500 million cost, though several now admit they're reconsidering in the wake of recent events.
Flooded Texas County Opposed Siren Alert System That Could Have Warned Residents Because of the Cost
A Texas county rejected siren alert systems in the past due to high costs. But after recent flash floods, state and local officials face renewed questions.M.B. Mack (Latin Times)
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Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it.
Simple Wikiclaudia
Have you ever been reading a Wikipedia article and tapped out because it's just too dense and difficult to read? Simple English Wikipedia exists to help make articles easier to read and understand.Matt Sayar
Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it.
Simple Wikiclaudia
Have you ever been reading a Wikipedia article and tapped out because it's just too dense and difficult to read? Simple English Wikipedia exists to help make articles easier to read and understand.Matt Sayar
China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for Jobs AI Already Does: The rise of AI in broadcasting is pushing China’s top journalism schools to rethink what skills still set human anchors apart.
China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for a Job AI Is Already Doing
The growing use of AI in television broadcasting is forcing China’s top journalism schools to reconsider what skills still set human anchors apart.#SixthTone
China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for Jobs AI Already Does: The rise of AI in broadcasting is pushing China’s top journalism schools to rethink what skills still set human anchors apart.
China’s Next-Gen TV Anchors Hustle for a Job AI Is Already Doing
The growing use of AI in television broadcasting is forcing China’s top journalism schools to reconsider what skills still set human anchors apart.#SixthTone
Van Morrison - Born To Sing: No Plan B (2012)
A quattro anni da Keep it Simple ultimo suo disco in studio, esce Born To Sing: No Plan B, album registrato interamente in presa diretta nel castello di Culloden in Irlanda e precisamente a Belfast sua città natale. Per questo lavoro, Morrison ha scelto e non a caso, l'etichetta jazz Blue Note... Leggi e ascolta...
Ubisoft isn't the only studio that orders you to destroy your games once support ends
Ubisoft is being called out for a clause people have discovered in its licence agreement that orders owners of its games to destroy them should the studio choose to end service for those games. However, not only is the clause not new, as some have implied, but Ubisoft is far from the only studio that has it in its licence agreement.Not only has that clause been in the Ubisoft EULA for a while, but the same sentiment can be found in EULAs you've agreed to before playing other games from an array of different studios. As highlighted by Amon274 on Reddit, the same clause can be found in the EULAs for various games on Steam, including Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Oblivion Remastered. A Phasmophobia dev also pointed to a similar clause in multiple agreements when the game was called out for the exact same thing two years ago.
Even your copies of Baldur's Gate 3 have got to go if Larian Studios ever deems it so.
Ubisoft isn't the only studio that orders you to destroy your games once support ends
Ubisoft is under fire for an EULA clause that orders people to destroy their games once support ends, but the clause isn't exclusive to Ubisoft.Josh Coulson (TheGamer)
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Battle for Tibet (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Battle for Tibet (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE investigates China’s rule over Tibet, including how the Communist regime controls Tibet’s Buddhist population, and the battle over the succession o...YouTube
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
The population (especially the younger generation, who never seen a different kind of technology at all) is being conditioned by the tech industry to accept that software should behave like an unreliable, manipulative human rather than a precise, predictable machine. They're learning that you can't simply tell a computer "I'm not interested" and expect it to respect that choice. Instead, you must engage in a perpetual dance of "not now, please" - only to face the same prompts again and again.
Ĉu Esperanto fiaskis aŭ sukcesis?
Ĉu Esperanto estas lingvo sen historio kaj kulturo? Ĉu Esperanto fiaskis, aŭ ĉu male ĝi jam sukcesis? En vidpunkta artikolo Liu Xiaozhe pripensas, kion povas fari la Esperantista komunumo por adaptiĝi al la aktuala mondo.
HHS Asks Employees To Rat Out DEI “Discrimination” In Trollable Email
HHS Asks Employees To Rat Out DEI “Discrimination” In Trollable Email
The Department of Health and Human Services is asking employees to anonymously report “discriminatory” diversity, equity, and inclusion policies—part of the Trump administration’s broader crackdown on DEI.Mark Colangelo (AJI)
Einar Tangen: Asia Responds to an Unpredictable America
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‘I was sold a lie by my education system’ On Real Talk this week, the...
‘I was sold a lie by my education system’ On Real Talk this week, the...
‘I was sold a lie by my education system’ On Real Talk this week, the acclaimed British historian William Dalrymple slams the country’s education system, telling @mhashem9 he believes it has distor...TankieTube
Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster
Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster
Microsoft says it has further improved its Edge browser’s responsiveness by continuing to migrate its user interface to WebUI 2.0.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster
Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster
Microsoft says it has further improved its Edge browser’s responsiveness by continuing to migrate its user interface to WebUI 2.0.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
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Government to loosen rules for selling homes in trusts
Government to loosen rules for selling homes in trusts
People selling a house are currently being treated like potential criminals, the Associate Justice Minister says.Galleryreporters (RNZ)
Govt continues its blunt refusal to acquire knowledge
Govt continues its blunt refusal to acquire knowledge
Opinion: Increasingly knowledge is replaced with one politician’s intuition or a coalition agreement based on three politicians’ intuition, writes Rob CampbellRob Campbell (Newsroom)
It Wallet, dall’Isee a laurea e tessera elettorale: come cambia il portafoglio digitale e quali documenti conterrà
It Wallet, dall’Isee a laurea e tessera elettorale: come cambia il portafoglio digitale e quali documenti conterrà
Ad oggi il sistema è utilizzato da 5 milioni di italiani per 9 milioni di documenti caricati tra patenti, tessere sanitarie e carte europee della disabilitàDiana Cavalcoli (Corriere della Sera)
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades & Al-Salahuddin Brigades target zionist military vehicles
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades & Al-Salahuddin Brigades target zionist military vehicles
Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement in the Gaza Strip, released footage on Monday showing their fighters, in coordination with Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades (the military wing of the Resistance Committees in…www.saba.ye
Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1
World War Fee: Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan
Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop
Tech companies have found a way to market digital goods to lonely people, promising relief through connection, but this kind of connection isn’t the solution; it’s the problem. Calling loneliness an epidemic transforms a feeling into a pathology to be cured, creating a loneliness economy. Reframing a universal human experience like loneliness as a medical diagnosis creates a market opportunity to manufacture, sell and buy treatment. The prescription given for loneliness is connection, and Big Tech has found a way to seize the vulnerability of lonely people eager to escape their predicament.Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, argues that A.I. companions can help fill what he sees as a friendship gap. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, is developing an A.I. “companion” that will live with users and, the company claims, be capable of sensing their surroundings. Replika, a generative A.I. chatbot, touts customer claims like “I love my human-like A.I. companion” and “Replika understands me better than any real guy ever did.” “Friends come and go, but GalaxyAI has your back,” another ad reads. Social media, dating apps and A.I. companions won’t alleviate loneliness; they will make it worse by giving people a way to avoid their aloneness.
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Gaokao AI Breakthrough: Google Gemini Outscores 99% of Humans — Ultra Unlimited
Gaokao AI Breakthrough: Google Gemini Outscores 99% of Humans
In 2025, Google Gemini aced China's Gaokao exam, outperforming 99% of students. Explore how this reshapes intelligence, testing, and cognitive ecology.John Heinz (Ultra Unlimited)
An open letter signed by 602 founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
An open letter signed by 602 founders, VCs, and more urges Sequoia act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
By Kate Clark / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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Qualche attimo fa, pur di non andare a dormire ad un orario giusto, stavo cercando mattoni economici online… per costruzioni, non lo so, per commettere Minecraft nella vita reale… e sono stata alquanto delusa. Ok, no, sto scherzando… ma su Amazon ho trovato letteralmente 1 solo prodotto che rispecchiasse il mio desiderio pienamente, ed è […]
The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
The crisis, from the immigration raids that sparked the protests to the militarized response that tried to put the protests down, was almost entirely of Mr. Miller’s making.
In case you want to know who is responsible for sending trucks with heavy weapons mounted on tripods into LA and creating a network of concentration camps.
ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together' | TechCrunch
ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together' | TechCrunch
Some ChatGPT subscribers are reporting a new feature appearing in their drop-down list of available tools called "Study Together." The mode is apparentlyJulie Bort (TechCrunch)
Citiverse.it: ecco come utilizzare le categorie del forum dal proprio account feddit.it
L'apertura di citiverse.it non è soltanto la creazione di un nuovo forum o, dal momento che a tutti gli effetti è federata con il Fediverso, di una nuova istanza.
Citiverse.it, sfruttando la versatilità di NodeBB, vuole infatti realizzare un ambiente che sia utilizzabile sia da chi è già dentro il Fediverso, sia – soprattutto – da parte di chi è fuori dal Fediverso.
Chi è su Lemmy infatti può utilizzare le "categorie" del forum NodeBB come se fossero "comunità" Lemmy.
Vediamo quindi quali sono le categorie di citiverse.it e rendiamole navigabili per l'utente Lemmy:
Luoghi e città
Gruppi e associazioni
Discussioni sul Fediverso italiano
Addio Big Tech
Discussioni di carattere generale
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Cos'è citiverse.it e in che modo vogliamo provare a creare un modello alternativo ai gruppi locali Facebook?
Perché citiverse.it? In Italia, i gruppi Facebook sono diventati uno dei principali luoghi virtuali di aggregazione, scalzando i vecchi forum che tra la fine...Citiverse
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Orc City is A Twitter Meme Of Yesteryear [Aftermath]
Orc City is A Twitter Meme Of Yesteryear - Aftermath
Only one thing has brought me sincere joy in logging on since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover in October 2022: Orc City.aftermath.site
Ted Cruz Kept Sightseeing as Desperate Rescue Crews Searched for Missing Kids in Texas Floods
Ted Cruz Kept Sightseeing as Desperate Rescue Crews Searched for Missing Kids in Texas Floods
The Texas senator was visiting the Parthenon in Athens while a massive rescue mission was under way to find flood victims, our must-read newsletter, The Swamp, reveals.The Swamp (The Daily Beast)
Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10 in global market share, a mere 1,371 days after launch
Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10 in global market share, a mere 1,371 days after launch
Windows 11's adoption among users has been slow. Its hardware demands, such as the requirement for a TPM 2.0 module – essentially making most pre-2017 CPUs unsupported...Rob Thubron (TechSpot)
Oh dear - Microsoft Windows Firewall was found to be complaining about...Microsoft code?
Oh dear - Microsoft Windows Firewall was found to be complaining about...Microsoft code?
Windows Firewall is flagging an issue with - MicrosoftCraig Hale (TechRadar)
How did Israel manage to avoid being expelled from Eurovision? | The whole story behind it
How did Israel manage to avoid being expelled from Eurovision? | The whole story behind it - Eurovision News | Music | Fun
Israel narrowly avoids exclusion from Eurovision during the EBU General Assembly in London. Key players, backstage insights, and what lies ahead for Eurovision 2026.Giannis Argyriou (Eurovision News | Music | Fun)
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •For those who haven't been paying attention, it appears Amazon is trying to "disrupt" the grocery market. Anecdotally they have been selling shit for crazy low prices and they'll make like 30 separate trips to your house all on the same day with lined/insulated packing for the perishable items and frozen water bottles (no extra charge to the customer) in each bag to keep the food cool in transit.
It seems like there is no way they can be making money on this process, which tells me they are speedrunning Walmarts strategy of operating at a loss to force other grocers out of the market.
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in reply to mctoasterson • • •Moose
in reply to dohpaz42 • • •EnsignWashout
in reply to Moose • • •So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn't collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?
Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.
Damage
in reply to EnsignWashout • • •As often reminded, that's probably a zoning issue.
Here on a different continent I live in an area BESIEGED by supermarkets, but I buy most of my groceries at the baker (breadmaker) and fruit-and-vegetables shop down the street. They're more expensive but more convenient and higher quality.
With the advantage of there not being a butcher as close-by, meaning I've been eating way more veggies since moving (and eggs, given those are sold in both stores).
Now the issue is they're opening a new pedestrian path that leads straight from my home to the pastry shop on the neighboring block!