CBS News parent Paramount Global has agreed to pay $16 million to resolve a legally dubious lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” news report last fall.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/media/cbs-trump-60-minutes-paramount-settlement

[Joint Statement] GAZA: Starvation or gunfire — not a humanitarian response | Oxfam International (2025-06-30)

oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ga…

Full list of signatories (Google doc.):
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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>> >#Oxfam and over 170 other NGOs operating in Gaza call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme …, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire across Gaza have now been replaced by just four military-controlled distribution sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones where they face daily gunfire and mass casualties while trying to access food and are denied other life-saving supplies…

#GHF >#StarvationOrGunfire
@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

hcommons.social

hcommons.social is a microblogging network supporting scholars and practitioners across the humanities and around the world.

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Domestic tourists were “astonished” by what the South has dubbed “North Korea’s Waikiki”.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/straitstimes…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

North Korea opens massive beach resort, rolls out red carpet for Russians

Domestic tourists were “astonished” by what the South has dubbed “North Korea’s Waikiki”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Che Chris Robinson fosse un inguaribile 'fricchettone' è un dato di fatto che ormai dovrebbe essere risaputo. Che fosse però così fricchettone ed anacronistico forse non se lo aspettava nessuno... Leggi e ascolta...

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2025-07-02 07:19:45

Chris Robinson Brotherhood - BIg Moon Ritual (2012)

Che Chris Robinson fosse un inguaribile 'fricchettone' è un dato di fatto che ormai dovrebbe essere risaputo. Che fosse però così fricchettone ed anacronistico forse non se lo aspettava nessuno. Così, chiusa (temporaneamente, speriamo tutti) l'avventura dei Black Crowes, il frontman della Georgia si lancia anima e cuore in questa nuova avventura solista, realizzando il terzo disco della carriera lontano dal fratello Rich. Forse, però, non dovremmo neppure definirlo come un disco solista. Già dai due album del 2003 e del 2004 (l'altalenante New Earth mud e l'esaltante This Magnificent Distance) Robinson si era circondato di una vera e propria band, ribattezzata New Earth Mud, e non solamente da un gruppo di turnisti scelti per l'evenienza... rootshighway.it/recensioni/crb…

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To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national.

In Memphis, Elon Musk Pilots a Corporate Takeover Strategy

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AFSCME District Council 33 represents the blue-collar city workers who make Philadelphia run. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve.

Philadelphia’s Blue-Collar Municipal Workforce Is on Strike

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3.26.0d Hotfix 2

• Fixed the macOS Steam client failing to launch.

Patch Notes - 3.26.0d Hotfix 2 - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

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Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.

By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET

"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."

archive.ph/vIw7u

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32570135

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32570131

Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.

By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET

"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."

archive.ph/vIw7u

Peter Link

2025-07-02 04:18:44

How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor

Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.

By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET

"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."

archive.ph/vIw7u

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html

Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found.

Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

“If a technology is vulnerable to misuse, malicious actors will inevitably attempt to exploit it - whether for financial gain or to cause harm,” said senior study author Ashley Hopkins of Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health in Adelaide.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/its-too-easy-make-ai-chatbots-lie-about-health-information-study-finds-2025-07-01/

https://www.techspot.com/news/108525-windows-11-catches-up-windows-10-months-before.html

"Anyone could be prioritized," a spokesperson for the ACLU told Common Dreams. "It's really chilling."

'All Are Now Vulnerable': Legal Scholars Alarmed as DOJ Begins Push to Denaturalize Citizens

"Anyone could be prioritized," a spokesperson for the ACLU told Common Dreams. "It's really chilling."

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"People are fed up with billionaires' greed eroding the environment and communities we depend on," said one supporter of the new initiative. "It's time for world leaders to listen and act."

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…

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Anti-Poverty Campaigners Cheer Spain-Brazil-South Africa Plan to Tax the Grotesquely Rich

"People are fed up with billionaires' greed eroding the environment and communities we depend on," said one supporter of the new initiative. "It's time for world leaders to listen and act."

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Over 165 NGOs are calling for an end to the U.S. and Israel's deadly humanitarian aid distribution scheme in Gaza.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

US- and Israel-Backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Must Be Shut Down, Say 165+ Charities

Distribution points run by the group, warns the NGO coalition, "have become sites of repeated massacres in blatant disregard for international humanitarian law."

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

"This isn't political. This is personal," said one veteran. "For many of us, these are people that we served with."

200+ US Veterans Volunteer to Attend Asylum Court With Afghans Targeted by Trump

"This isn't political. This is personal," said one veteran. "For many of us, these are people that we served with."

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans' massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn't like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms.

'You Know It's a Terrible Bill': Murkowski Helps GOP Gut Safety Net After 'Bribe' Shields Her State

Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans' massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn't like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms.

^{stephen-prager (Common Dreams)}

Federal judge blocks unlawful mass layoffs at HHS by Trump administration. Court rules actions likely violated the law. Victory for 19 states.

Case file: storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Judge Slaps Down RFK Jr's Likely 'Unlawful' Mass Layoffs at HHS

"We're not going to let Trump and RFK Jr. dismantle our nation's health systems to promote conspiracy theories and tax breaks for billionaires," said Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.

^{brad-reed (Common Dreams)}

Under this plan, SpaceX’s satellites would play a big role in the Space Force’s kill chain.

Pentagon may put SpaceX at the center of a sensor-to-shooter targeting network

^{Stephen Clark (Ars Technica)}

Democratic NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani was defiant against Trump's threats to arrest him if he makes good on a promise to refuse to cooperate with ICE.

'We Will Not Accept This Intimidation,' Mamdani Says of Trump Threat to Arrest Him

"That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this mayor's time in City Hall," said the New York City mayoral candidate.

^{jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)}

He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing

Case file: regmedia.co.uk/2025/07/01/appl…

Apple accuses former engineer of taking Vision Pro secrets to Snap

: He didn't cover his tracks very well, the iGiant claims in a court filing

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

How are student visa applicants supposed to share their social media accounts on platforms that haven’t existed in years, like Google+ and Vine?

Want a Student Visa? The U.S. Government Needs Your Vine Account.

^{Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)}

Vance handwaved away the Medicaid cuts — expected to lead to thousands of deaths yearly — as “minutiae.”

JD Vance Says Medicaid Cuts for Millions “Immaterial” Compared to Funding ICE

Vance handwaved away the Medicaid cuts — expected to lead to thousands of deaths yearly — as “minutiae.”…

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

The last round of ranked-choice ballots showed the left-wing candidate winning 56 percent of the votes, to Cuomo’s 44.

Zohran Mamdani Won in a Double-Digit Blowout, NYC Ballot Results Confirm

^{Sharon Zhang (Truthout)}

3.26.0d Hotfix

• The Reanimator Mercenary no longer has Minion Instability while in the Enemy state.
• Fixed a bug where, under very specific circumstances, Ultimatum encounters could unintentionally generate the same encounter.

Patch Notes - 3.26.0d Hotfix - Forum - Path of Exile

Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

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Australian airline Qantas disclosed that it detected a cyberattack on Monday after threat actors gained access to a third-party platform containing customer data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qantas-discloses-cyberattack-amid-scattered-spider-aviation-breaches/

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license.

Repo: github.com/microsoft/vscode-co…

Kelly & Associates Insurance Group (dba Kelly Benefits) is informing more than half a million people of a data breach that compromised their personal information.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kelly-benefits-says-2024-data-breach-impacts-550-000-customers/

Esse Health, a healthcare provider based in St. Louis, Missouri, is notifying over 263,000 patients that their personal and health information was stolen in an April cyberattack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/esse-health-says-recent-data-breach-affects-over-263-000-patients/

Building automation giant Johnson Controls is notifying individuals whose data was stolen in a massive ransomware attack that impacted the company's operations worldwide in September 2023.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/johnson-controls-starts-notifying-people-affected-by-2023-breach/

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/iranian-cyber-actors-may-target-vulnerable-us-networks-and-entities-interest