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More than a dozen Taylor Farms products that were sold at large retailers across the US are being recalled because they include jalapeño peppers that may be contaminated with salmonella.

You can’t tell me what to do!

Link to post: https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/117069670583842298

I’ve been hearing about these for a few years now. Huge if they work out at a large scale.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46497452

A 7% survey response rate tells you everything about how this industry operated before scrutiny arrived.

The SoC appears to be a 7% CPU/GPU perf bump according to Qualcomm. No info on North American compatibility yet.

The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) said on Monday it had thwarted a Russian intelligence operation aimed at discrediting Sweden and which involved an “agent” working in a foreign diplomatic mission in Sweden.

This represented the first supernova of its type observed without a gamma-ray burst and jet of material.

Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged America’s largest AI companies — Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI — to immediately pause their development of Artificial Intelligence.

Moldova’s Foreign Ministry recalled its ambassador from Moscow for consultations after a drone crashed in the village of Crocmaz.

I have a lot of respect for Bernie Sanders, but he has a trash take on AI.

Last month’s average global ocean surface temperature was the hottest ever recorded in the month of July, fueled in part by uniquely intense, fossil fuel-driven El Niño conditions…

Taken Aug 9th from a SeeStar S30 pro. About 90 minutes of exposure. Enhanced through SeeStar app.

The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration given by Alexander H. Stephens, acting Vice President of the Confederate States of America, at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861.[1]

That’s about a 50% reduction in size, lossless, zero reduction in quality or change to pixels from lossless PNG to lossless JXL.

Rae The Doe Comic Strip 2026-08-10 | Comics Kingdom

Full Report: The Grift Economy: How Young Men Are Being Sold Fake Belonging and Fake Wealth Online.

The global shipping industry is witnessing a significant increase in the number of cargo ships deploying wind-assisted propulsion as part of efforts to cut down on energy consumption and emissions. The industry is now pushing the boundaries as the first multipurpose cargo vessel was fitted with wind-assisted propulsion.

Seen in the wild, in Saudi Arabia, on some movie posters the text is written backwards.

Paddleboarding action-shot 😁 @paddleboarding@fedigroups.social @outdoor@fedigroups.social @nature@fedigroups.social @Nature@lemmy.world @photography@fedigroups.social @photography@lemmy.world #PhotoMonday #OC #Underwater #NaturePhotography #Nature #Photography #Photo #August #Finland #Archipelago #Åland #AlandIslands #Paddleboarding #Snorkeling #Snorkelling #InMy #Summer #Wonderland

I work in a windowless office. My wife got me a plant to spruce up the place, it’s supposed to be watered once a fortnight and need very little light.

The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, has recently been increasing exponentially, at a rate of 5.6 percent per year. By one estimate, researchers around the globe are devoting a collective 15,000 years of work to peer review every year—work that, if paid, would cost $1.5 billion for the share done in the US alone. Increasingly, researchers are finding it hard to donate that kind of time.

The factory in the city of Ferrol in northwestern Spain would be located a short distance from a military arsenal and would expose the movements of Spanish frigates to a “systemic rival,” according to military sources

https://archive.ph/iIarG

Every parent’s nightmare 😱 what are your best tips for travelling with small children, to avoid something like that happening?

Online the “naked” look is credited as part of wider trends, including the “clean girl aesthetic” that has become synonymous with slicked-back hair and dewy skin. Dominated by wealthy, white women, it has been criticised for co-opting black and brown beauty habits. Ranking “naked” nails as more desirable than statement styles, especially when nails and nail art are so rooted in race, further taps into this, with some critics considering it a form of erasure.

Dockworkers unions in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling an international day of action “against war and militarization” on October 30. They are demanding an end to “the genocide of the Palestinian people” and the “US-Israeli wars of aggression in the Middle East and against Iran.”

Tehran has played down concerns over a new mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, while portraying the agreement as evidence of declining regional reliance on the United States.

Full title: Fans Were Originally Supposed To Have Seen Much More Of Light No Fire By Now, But Sean Murray Is Just Having Too Much Fun Working On It: ‘I Don’t Think People Realize Just How Ambitious And Crazy It Is’

Some of the white quartz were foraged nearby but most came from a bag of rocks for tumbling. This is after stage 1 of tumbling.

Lithuania said last ​week that Moscow is considering such a staged attack and Poland, Latvia and Estonia have also warned of acts of sabotage to test NATO’s response at a time when U.S. commitment to the Western military ‌alliance is in question, according to Reuters.

As new electricity generation skews toward solar and battery storage in Texas, Republican state senators are questioning whether it’s time to impose minimum standards for building gas plants and move away from free trade in the state’s electricity marketplace.