Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Winnipeg’s Union Station to receive multi-million-dollar investment, VIA Rail says
Winnipeg's Union Station is getting a facelift through a multi-million-dollar investment from VIA Rail, with the goal of renovating the city's train station.
#globalnews #Canada #Centraltrainstation #passenger #Toronto
https://globalnews.ca/news/9917463/winnipeg-union-station-multi-million-dollar-investment-via-rail/

Justice Department files hiring discrimination suit against SpaceX https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/08/24/SpaceX-Justice-Department-hiring-lawsuit-non-citizens/4251692900458/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill

As California legislation nears finish line, Apple suddenly switches sides.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Perhaps some signs of accelerating progress for Ukrainian forces?

"Further tactically significant Ukrainian gains in and around Robotyne in western Zaporizhia Oblast are widening the Ukrainian breach of Russian defensive lines in the area and threatening Russian secondary lines of defense."

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-23-2023

#Ukraine

Hawaii's Keck Observatory can deliver near-infrared images three to four times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.

#science #sciencefacts #keckobservatory #hubblespacetelescope

I've been helping some friends and colleagues block some of the site scraping bots that are feeding "AI" models. Decided to take some of my notes and make something others could use too. It's a work-in-progress. Happy to add to or correct things.
https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/

Christian extremist group attacks LGBTQ+ bar in Beirut @lebanon

https://www.newarab.com/news/christian-extremist-group-attacks-lgbtq-bar-beirut

The Pistachio Nebula
Credit - Bray Falls & Chester Hall-Fernandez - Astronomy Picture of the Day - https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230822.html - Amazing. This nebula was discovered during a dedicated amateur survey, and the image is the result of 70 hours of exposure time.

https://www.newarab.com/news/christian-extremist-group-attacks-lgbtq-bar-beirut Christian extremist group 'Soldiers of God' attacks LGBTQ+ friendly bar in Beirut

Break down larger tasks into smaller bites.

If you haven’t yet done so, check out our radio show and podcast Big Picture Science. It puts SETI Institute research within the context of the broader agenda of science. Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/a-twist-of-slime

#podcast #science #scicomm #biology

@stablehorde_generator Draw for me a photo realistic image of scared Tories in a small boat trying to cross the channel Include Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Every major media outlet covered the story this week, which is a welcome change for stories about non westerners. Still, even in death Prigozhin looks like he'll push this out of the headlines and back into irrelevance.

I don’t know if recent NVIDIA drivers, or a recent update to the Linux kernel did this, but battery life on standby on my laptop (12rh gen intel + RTX3050Ti) has improved significantly!

Usually, if I left it on suspend overnight, it drained about 20% of its battery. Yesterday it lost something like 6%!