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‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families ( www.theguardian.com )

A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...

After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them ( kotaku.com )

Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. ( www.wsj.com )

Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...

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Belgium broadcaster interrupts Eurovision semi final to condemn Israel's war on Gaza ( www.middleeasteye.net )

A Belgian broadcaster interrupted its coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday night to display a protest message condemning Israel's war on Gaza. In an act organised by a trade union, the screen briefly went black ahead of the semi-final coverage on VRT, Belgium's public-service broadcaster in Flemish....

‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters? ( www.theguardian.com )

Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives...

Sailing the high seas ( lemmy.world )

Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse ( www.euronews.com )

Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it....

Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize ( apnews.com )

As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world’s food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea anybody ever had” — a global seed vault built into the side of an Arctic mountain. ...

Social media abstinence can boost self-esteem ( www.dw.com )

A Canadian study has found that refraining from social media for a week can have a positive impact on one's body image. Online beauty ideals are most harmful to young women who try to achieve unhealthy body shapes....

Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years.

FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

Wisconsin woman marks 20 years since her near fatal rabies diagnosis ( www.wmtv15news.com )

A Ukrainian sport plane drone just flew 800 miles (1300 km) into Russia to blow up an oil refinery ( www.forbes.com )

It’s the deepest Ukrainian drone strike of the war, so far...

Cool distros to try

I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?

Barcelona is parched — and angry at quenched tourists ( www.politico.eu )

The yawning gap between locals’ and visitors’ consumption is stoking long-standing resentments ahead of an election....

Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools ( www.nbcnews.com )

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....

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Things the "owl"-gorithm recommends to me... 😒 ( lemmy.world )

I've mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....

Triplets ( lemmy.world )

Photo by Justin Rogers...

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