From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?
How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget
How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget
From CNN Business: New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his...
From Gizmodo: In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across...
“Free” is a tough thing to argue against so I picked Crying Suns up as part of the Epic Store’s Free Giveaway Thingy that they do every week.
From Twitter Safety: After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y —...
In lockdown, recuperation looks very similar to working.
From DFW’s CBS: DALLAS, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Chief Judge Barbara Lynn of the Northern District of Texas has reversed a previous ruling of the Court that had dismissed all claims against the City of Dallas in...
Ted Wheeler was confronted at a restaurant Wednesday night.
The Georgia returns are coming in and fingers are pointing already. Open thread. (Featured Image is “Thread the Needle [22/52] [Macro/Close-up]” by trustypics and is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0)
One key issue facing Haven was that each of the three founding companies executed their own projects separately with their own employees, obviating the need for the joint venture to begin with, according to the people, who declined to be identified speaking about the matter.
The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.
This is the review of Cyberpunk 2077 from someone who has done more than 90% of the side quests and most of the main quests
From The Hechinger Report: The recent news that New York City’s Department of Education will suspend the use of fifth graders’ prior test scores or grades as admissions criteria for some of the most...
Senait Gebregiorgis @SenaitTV reports that Det. Joshua Jaynes will be terminated and has a copy of the termination letter.
President Trump’s signature Sunday on the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill started a 180-day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs.
Darkest Dungeon is a dungeon diving RPG that has an interesting twist. This is a game that has a different idea about “difficulty” than most.
Silver linings in a year without a whole lotta tinsel
From Twitter: Recent TextSpark updates: We’re officially out of beta! Project metadata has been restored as a feature, and you can now select subscription tiers for up to 10,000/words per month with your playful...
Hoo boy. There’s probably an interesting article to be written about investors demanding a game be released, even in an unplayable state.