I’m a bit of a news junkie.
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MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Revealed: The operators behind four major neo-Nazi X accountsEnglish
121·2 years agoThrough reviewing posts on X, web archives, leak databases, and other social media profiles, the Observer identified the following individuals as the anonymous operators of neo-Nazi X accounts, which had a collective 500,000 followers at their peak:
Cyan Cruz (40 years old): Marketing professional who has lived in Austin and Amarillo, Texas, operating the X account TheOfficial1984.
Michael Gramer (42 years old): Retired mechanical engineer who has lived in New Hampshire, claimed to own a house in Galveston, Texas, and spent time in Dallas, operating the X account 9mm_SMG.
Robert “Bobby” Thorne (35 years old): Vice president at JP Morgan Chase in Plano, Texas, operating the account Noble1945 and previously Noble_x_x_.
John Anthony Provenzano (30 years old): Lives in Virginia, works at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland, and operates the X account utism_ (formerly JohnnyBullzeye).
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•The Dobbs effect: Why abortions have risen across AmericaEnglish
5·2 years ago“Contrary to predictions” instead makes sense. I’ve updated the summary.
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Over 4,000 overseas voters’ ballots challenged in PennsylvaniaEnglish
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MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Over 4,000 overseas voters’ ballots challenged in PennsylvaniaEnglish
741·2 years agoThe US Constitution already resolves this issue with federal preemption under the Supremacy Clause. Basically, Pennsylvania’s residency requirements apply to all elections within the state: local, state, and federal. However, in federal elections, federal law preempts and overrides any conflicting state laws. These challenges have been filed in bad faith.
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Criminals set up fake online pharmacies to sell deadly counterfeit pills, prosecutors sayEnglish
7·2 years agoLooks like AP dropped the ball on this one because that’s not what the prosecutors said. They said:
…With his co-conspirators, LOPEZ REYES set up dozens of online pharmacy websites, designed to appear legitimate in order to lure customers into buying, at reduced prices, tablets of fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl, and methamphetamine disguised as real prescription medications, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, Adderall, and Xanax, among others…
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Conspiracy theorists and vaccine skeptics have a new target: geoengineeringEnglish
6·2 years agoYep and as recent as 2014:
The national campaign to ban geoengineering can be traced back to Rhode Island in 2014, when a lawmaker looked to the sky and saw a conspiracy.
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Ms. MacBeth’s beliefs are better known as the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which posits that airplanes are secretly emitting dangerous chemical trails, as opposed to water vapor naturally released as condensation from planes’ engines, which turns to visible trails of ice crystals in the cold air. There is no evidence supporting the chemtrails theory, which has attracted many followers through social media.
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•TikTok removes Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, citing 'covert influence operations'English
18·2 years agoTikTok is fighting a possible US ban in January 2025 and was in court last week to argue the questions that you’re raising: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23194/tiktok-us-ban-appeals-court
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•CNN shows supercut of Trump calling Harris ‘fascist’ – after JD Vance said no one should be using the wordEnglish
20·2 years agoThis CNN article links to the clips: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/jd-vance-kamala-harris-fascist/index.html
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into USEnglish
19·2 years agoIt’s a bit more nuanced than that. The article doesn’t talk about it, but this NYT article touches on how these Chinese sites are exploiting the de minimis exemption loophole to circumvent US anti-forced labor law, which companies have to comply with to keep their supply chain free of slave labor (Uyghurs in Xinjiang for example):
Lawmakers are flagging what they say are likely significant violations of U.S. law by Temu, a popular Chinese shopping platform, accusing it of providing an unchecked channel that allows goods made with forced labor to flow into the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/business/economy/shein-temu-forced-labor-china.html
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it? English
16·2 years agoAgreed. ChatGPT doesn’t like to cite sources. Microsoft CoPilot and Google Gemini do link to some sources, though not as accurate or thorough like Wikipedia.
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•JD Vance dodges on whether Trump's immigration policy would lead to family separationsEnglish
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MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warnEnglish
71·2 years agoWow, thanks for the kind words, @[email protected]. It’s nice to see such positivity on the internet, so keep it up!
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Claims of rigged system by convict Trump and allies ‘threaten rule of law’English
1·2 years agoAppreciate the recognition, Flying Squid. And I’ll try to make it easier for people who skim.
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says pollEnglish
0·3 years agoLooks like this was an online poll where you get paid if randomly selected:
Ipsos UK interviewed online a representative sample of 3,716 adults aged 16+ across the United Kingdom between 17 and 23 August 2023. This data has been collected by Ipsos’s UK KnowledgePanel, an online random probability panel…
For what it’s worth, there’s a recent Gallup survey showing a similar trend that published a couple weeks ago:
…Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop from Alaska Airlines flight where panel ripped offEnglish
0·3 years agoFace ID keeps your phone unlocked as long as you’re looking at the screen. Does that not do it for you?
MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPto
News@lemmy.world•iPhone survives 16,000 foot drop from Alaska Airlines flight where panel ripped offEnglish
0·3 years agoCan we talk about how the phone did not have a screen lock? What?





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