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NYT: William Calley, Convicted of Mass Murder in My Lai Massacre, Dies at 80
In March 1971, Lieutenant Calley was convicted of the premeditated murder of “not less than” 22 Vietnamese and sentenced to life in prison. Americans, long divided over Vietnam, were overwhelmingly outraged, calling him a scapegoat for a long chain of command that had gone unpunished. Many blamed the war itself, or said the lieutenant was only doing his duty.
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In 1974, a federal judge in Georgia, J. Robert Elliott, overturned the conviction, saying Mr. Calley had been denied a fair trial because of prejudicial publicity. The Army appealed, and Mr. Calley was confined to barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for three months. He was then released on bail and never returned to custody.
A good refresher on a chilling event.
Ars Technica: Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
Most people who just use the Chrome browser, rather than develop for it or try to serve ads to it, are not going to know what “A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web” could possibly mean. The very short version is that Google had a “path,” first announced in January 2020, to turn off third-party (i.e., tracking) cookies in the most-used browser on Earth, bringing it in line with Safari, Firefox, and many other browsers. Google has proposed several alternatives to the cookies that follow you from page to page, constantly pitching you on that space heater you looked at three days ago. Each of these alternatives has met varying amounts of resistance from privacy and open web advocates, trade regulators, and the advertising industry.
So rather than turn off third-party cookies by default and implement new solutions inside the Privacy Sandbox, Chrome will “introduce a new experience” that lets users choose their tracking preferences when they update or first use Chrome. Google will also keep working on its Privacy Sandbox APIs but in a way that recognizes the “impact on publishers, advertisers, and everyone involved in online advertising.” Google also did not fail to mention it was “discussing this new path with regulators.”
Daily Mail: [Scientists finally solve mystery of how Egypt’s pyramids were built](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13687527/mystery-pyramids-built-egypt-solved.html?source =RSS)
Once the underground water reached the centre of the pyramid, it flushed upwards through the central shaft like magma in a volcano.
This powerful jet of water would have pushed up a floating elevator – a level platform likely made of wood – that could carry up to 100 tonnes of stone at a time thanks to the force of the water.
According to the experts, the jet of water could be controlled so that the shaft could be emptied, ready to be reused for another load of stone.
This article should probably be titled “Scientists propose a new theory of how some pyramids were built.”
PureWow: [14 McDonald’s Secret Menu Items Every Fast Food Lover Should Try]( flip.it/nNbuj1
You’re aware of all the ins and outs of eating keto at McDonald’s, as well as the fast food chain’s little-known stash of ice. But how familiar are you with the McDonald’s secret menu? There are plenty of modified drinks, sides and sandwiches — some invented by fans, some former mashups that were on the menu for a limited time — to sink your teeth into. Here are 14 of my favorite options, ranging from towering burger combos to a play on affogato. All of these should be available nationwide and year-round at nearly all McDonald’s locations.
I’m not recommending any of these (except maybe adding a double espresso to a vanilla shake) but it sure is interesting what people are eating!
Business Insider: Stop the crackdown on coffee-badging — here’s the real problem
You can’t go a day in 2024 without hearing about another workplace trend. The latest one: Coffee badging.
Coffee badging is what employees do when employers ask them to work from an office, even when their work can be done remotely. Employees briefly show up at the office, “badge in,” grab a coffee — and then leave and complete their work elsewhere.
Why are people doing this? Well, often because there’s no great rationale for why they need to be in an office — and they’re actually more productive at home.
Politico: Harris, fracking and Shapiro: Dem campaign looks for Pennsylvania breakthrough
Vice President Kamala Harris’ decision to reverse her support for a fracking ban is doing little to ease concerns among the fossil fuel industry and its workers — and cheerleaders for Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro see an opening.
Some Democratic Party allies fear Harris’ flip on fracking has still left her particularly vulnerable in Pennsylvania. What Harris needs now, the party’s boosters say, is someone like Shapiro — who has carved a middle ground in the country’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state — in the vice presidential slot.
I, Cringely: Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a hobby. Why won’t Tim Cook say that?
16.Jun.2023
Which is why I wish Apple had been honest and called it a hobby. Maybe they are hoping it isn’t a hobby, but that would be a mistake. The Vision Pro’s trajectory is clear to me. It will lose money for years until it finds a vertical market where the price doesn’t matter. Along the way two important effects will also have happened: 1) third-party developers will fall in love with the Vision Pro and make good applications for it, and; 2) eventually Moore’s Law – and Moore’s Law alone – will drive down the Vision Pro’s price enough for some later version to be declared an overnight success.
Apple’s unstated strategy here is obvious. Just look at the company’s previous hobby – Apple TV – which eventually broke even and then begat Apple TV+, a completely separate and different business that needed such a hardware platform to succeed. Along the way Apple TV and the broad success of streaming video on actual televisions helped Apple as a whole to sell production computers and copies of Final Cut Pro, enabling the very different video market of today.
Stuff (WashPo): Apple says Safari protects your privacy. We fact-checked those claims
Using the handy “Cover Your Tracks” privacy test (coveryourtracks.eff.org) from the consumer privacy nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, my iPhone using the Safari browser showed I had partial protection from common types of data tracking.
Last Updated: 30.Jul.2024 23:58 EDT
