France Is Headed Towards Its Most Feral Right-Wing Regime Since the Nazis (www.thedailybeast.com)
Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)
President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....
Egg Rule (lemmy.world)
Cities: Skylines 2 developers have noticed 'a growing tendency of toxicity in our community' (www.techradar.com)
Developers of Cities: Skylines 2 have noticed a growing toxicity in their community, which is affecting engagement and creativity....
EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains (www.theguardian.com)
“Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has announced that he is dissolving the national assembly, and calling for legislative elections on June 30 and July 7....
France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans (www.politico.eu)
The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text....
Steam :: Introducing Steam Families (steamcommunity.com)
Valve announced a replacement feature for both Family Sharing and Family View. Currently in beta....
Firefox Devs Working on Tab Previews (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022) (www.theverge.com)
Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account (www.gameinformer.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/14764738...
DEA to reclass marijuana to Schedule III (apnews.com)
Bout damn time
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
Chechnya bans all music deemed too fast or too slow (edition.cnn.com)
Authorities in the Russian Republic of Chechnya have announced a ban on music that they consider too fast or slow.
Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors (news.artnet.com)
A painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College was slashed by protest group Palestine Action....
Obesity has become the most common form of malnutrition in the majority of countries (english.elpais.com)
Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)
The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport....
Team Biden Roasts 'Feeble, Confused, Tired' Trump After Unhinged Presser (www.rollingstone.com)
The president has been going after his presumptive 2024 opponent with a little more venom than usual...
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC (www.theregister.com)
Russia Declares War on ‘Mediocre Actor’ George Clooney (www.thedailybeast.com)
Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well (www.theverge.com)
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The lawsuit accusing Trump of raping a 13-year-old girl, explained (www.vox.com)
Johnson claimed that Trump violently raped her when she was 13 at a 1994 orgy hosted by Jeffrey Epstein — the billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution and has been accused of having sex with more than 30 underage girls....
Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs (kotaku.com)
The GOP can't leave MAGA — "Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party" (www.salon.com)
An ex-MAGA activist warns “no civic savior is coming” as Donald Trump’s cognitive decline becomes undeniable...
