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Rest of World retracts an article on WhatsApp misinformation "tip lines" in India after several fact-checking orgs detail how it was "riddled with inaccuracies" (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/20…

Rest of World retracts an article criticizing WhatsApp misinformation tip lines in India
Last week, the technology site Rest of World published a story on the apparent failings of WhatsApp misinformation "tip lines" in India. These are services that allow Indians to forward potential fake news and get information on its veracity. (We linked to it in our daily newsletter on Tu…

Rest of World retracts an article on WhatsApp misinformation "tip lines" in India after several fact-checking orgs detail how it was "riddled with inaccuracies" (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/20…

Rest of World retracts an article criticizing WhatsApp misinformation tip lines in India
Last week, the technology site Rest of World published a story on the apparent failings of WhatsApp misinformation "tip lines" in India. These are services that allow Indians to forward potential fake news and get information on its veracity. (We linked to it in our daily newsletter on Tu…

Supreme court to release opinions with Trump immunity and abortion cases pending
🔸Clarence Thomas’s wife calledfor the 2020 election to be overturned.
🔸Samuel Alito had rightwing flags flying at two of his properties.
Yet both conservative justices are set to rule on Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for his election meddling,
despite calls from Democrats that they step back from that and other cases because they are conflicted.
Democratic cong…

A little mix of the old with the new this week.
Just One of the Guys: One of the better 80s high school films. Several good lines in it. 4⭐
Little Monsters: My gateway into my love for #horror 4⭐
X: A quality modern throwback horror film. 4⭐
Firstborn: Pretty good little thriller here. The ending tries hard to ruin the rest of it though. 3⭐

We live for news article title #puns! 😂
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/29/strawberry-truck-overturns-on-san-jose-freeway/

Strawberry truck overturns on San Jose freeway, creates jam
Transition from northbound U.S.-101 to I-880 closed following overnight crash.

Check out this show by Grateful Dead from Fri, May 30, 1980 at Milwaukee Auditorium on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Milwaukee Auditorium on 1980-05-30
Set 1 Jack Straw -> Franklin's Tower Me And My Uncle -> Big River Friend Of The Devil Passenger Easy To Love You Althea The Music Never Stopped Set 2 Scarlet Begonias -> Fire On The Mountain Playing In The Band -> Drums -> Space -> Not Fade Away -> Black Peter -> Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad -> Good Lovin' Encore Alabama Getaway

The terrorist Israeli occupation gives humanitarian organisation #UNRWA 30 days to leave East Jerusalem.
In a masterstroke of projection, it intends to declare UNRWA, part of the UNO, established in the late 40s to bring relief to those fleeing the #NAKBA, a terrorist organisation.
Ocupación israel…

Israel da 30 días a la Unrwa para dejar Jerusalén este tras su intento de declararla “organización terrorista”
El Parlamento sionista da el primer paso para declarar la Agencia de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados de Palestina en Oriente Próximo como “grupo terrorista”.

Equivariant elliptic cohomology and the 2-loop groupoid
Matthew Spong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18505 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.185…

Equivariant elliptic cohomology and the 2-loop groupoid
Following an outline of Rezk, we give a construction of complex-analytic $G$-equivariant elliptic cohomology for an arbitrary compact Lie group $G$ and we prove some of its fundamental properties. The construction is parametrised over the orbit category of the groupoid of principal $G$-bundles over 2-dimensional tori and generalises Grojnowski's construction of equivariant elliptic cohomology.

"Following his speech, a BBC News presenter apologised after she accused Farage of using 'customary inflammatory language.' Geeta Guru-murthy made the comment after a clip of Farage speaking at the Dover event was shown on the news channel, before later apologising and saying this 'didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality.' Live on air, Guru-murthy said: 'Earlier today we heard live from Nigel Farage, speaking at that election event we just saw. When…

I feel like Kara Swisher is too in love with herself and her access to be an effective journalist. It doesn't help that she is the scion of a wealthy family and thus has much more in common with the billionaire class she is supposed to be grilling.
From: @…