News | July 27, 2024


The Intercept

Honduras, 15 Years After the Coup: An Interview With Ousted President Manuel Zelaya

Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor

Deputy Accused of Killing Sonya Massey Was Discharged From Army for Serious Misconduct

U.S. Has Never Apologized to Somali Drone Strike Victims — Even When It Admitted to Killing Civilians

Netanyahu Insulted and Smeared the Pro-Palestine Protest Movement. Congress Clapped.

Rights Groups Demand Biden Give Answers on Israel’s Secret Influence Campaign on Congress


Wired

Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

Drew Afualo Will Never Stop Making Fun of Misogynist Men

The 20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (August 2024)

2024 Summer Olympics: A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It's Calling Again

Teenage Engineering TX-6 Review: A Pocket-Sized Audio Mixer


Hacker News

Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?

Call the compiler, fax it your code [video]

Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecture

Zen 5's 2-Ahead Branch Predictor: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New Tricks

Repulsive Shells [video]


Le Monde

En direct, cérémonie d’ouverture des JO de Paris 2024 : Marie-José Pérec et Teddy Riner allument la vasque olympique, Céline Dion interprète « L’Hymne à l’amour »

JO 2024 : une cérémonie d’ouverture sous la pluie, mais un temps chaud attendu la première semaine

« La Seine olympique » en carte

Sept athlètes français sur la route des Jeux

Thomas Jolly, un Peter Pan du théâtre devenu chef d’orchestre des Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024

Les Jeux olympiques, miroir d’une histoire contemporaine torturée


Economist

Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?

Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now

A Texas judge gives a nod to America’s at-home distillers

Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America

What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?

Is Kamala Harris “brat”?


Low Tech Magazine (Solar)

Low-tech Magazine: The Ebooks

Thematic Book Series: How Circular is the Circular Economy?

How to Escape From the Iron Age?


Jacobin

The Indian Prime Minister Who Mainstreamed the Hindu Right

Anne Applebaum’s Dystopia of Rules

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on Making a People’s Music

An Investigation Shows How the IDF Killed Hind Rajab

Billionaire Donor Wants Kamala Harris to Fire the FTC Chair

How the United States Exerts Power Over the UK


Briar Patch

Collective liberation means collective liberation for all

Creating anti-Zionist Jewish community

A reading list on disability justice organizing

Beyond Pharmacare

Weaponizing words

Fighting rising anti-trans hate


The Tyee

Spotting Wildfires from Space

Losing Jasper

Riders and Drivers Urge TransLink to Bring HandyDart In-House

How Virtual Driving Helped Me Get Free

We’ll Help You Get Off Gas, Says Washington’s Top Gas Supplier

Why Rustad’s Reckless Indigenous Policy Would Be Disastrous