1. 📰 Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting (direct link) (👍681 👎2)

from Not The Onion (!nottheonion@lemmy.world)

Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting

Emporia Kansas has dropped its criminal case against Lux Claridge, a high school teacher who was arrested for clapping during a city data center meeting. “Today, I was informed by my attorney that the city has dropped my charges and has passed my information along to the county. After Clardige’s arrest, Emporia’s city commission moved to virtual meetings and ended public comment. According to a press release from the Emporia city commission, the city will meet in-person in a special session open to the public on August 26. “Public comment is expected to resume at the regular September 2 meeting,” the announcement said. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by VetOfTheSeas

2. 📰 Report: Tim Curry’s death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house (direct link) (👍228 👎1)

from The Onion (!theonion@midwest.social)

Report: Tim Curry’s death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house

LOS ANGELES – Following the death of beloved 80-year-old British actor Tim Curry, observers have noted a coterie of anonymous upper crust suspects arriving at his mansion in order to investigate the mystery what actually happened to him. Curry, the star of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Muppet Treasure Island, and countless more classics, will reportedly have his passing investigated by a motley crew of high society ne’er do wells, as well as a buxom French maid, each with their own closely-guarded secret. Most likely he was killed in the Observatory, using a lead pipe! There must be at least three versions of his death, each more amusing than the last!”At press time, nobody in the ragtag assemblage of would-be sleuths could find a butler to help them get anything done. In a related story, audiences concurred that too many beloved performers from Home Alone 2: Lost In New York had recently been lost, including Curry, Catherine O’Hara, and Brenda Fricker, when there was at least one obvious un-beloved 80-year-old cast member who remains alive. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by CombatWombat

3. 📰 Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common (direct link) (👍204 👎4)

from Offbeat (!offbeat@lemmy.ca)

Coin-Operated Elevators in Condominiums and Apartment Buildings Are Becoming More Common

Coin- and card-operated residential elevators exist across three continents, surviving or re-emerging wherever building budgets crack under the weight of aging infrastructure. The Logic Is Painfully SimplePay-per-ride systems have a straightforward financial rationale — but the details reveal how quickly that logic gets complicated. Elevators in condominiums and apartment buildings are being installed with coin operated elevatorsResidents must pay with coins to use the elevator and be taken to their floor. But the impulse behind pay-per-ride elevators doesn’t disappear — it just looks for the next surface to attach to. What remains unsettled is whether building residents are willing to accept subscription fatigue bleeding from their streaming accounts all the way into their front hallway. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by Amuletta

4. 📰 Iran labels California its ‘new territory’ after Trump’s Hormuz claim (direct link) (👍120 👎0)

from Not the Onion (!nottheonion@lemmy.ml)

Iran labels California its ‘new territory’ after Trump’s Hormuz claim

An official Iranian social media account labeled California a “new territory” of Iran on Tuesday in response to US President Donald Trump posting an image portraying the Strait of Hormuz as “NEW U.S. Territory,” Anadolu reports. Trump shared the image on his Truth Social account Tuesday, showing a map of the Strait of Hormuz with the strategic waterway circled beneath the words “NEW U.S. Territory,” following up on his earlier remarks saying the strait would be made US territory after the war ends. The White House later reposted Trump’s post on its official account on US social media platform X. An estimated 141,000 Iranian Americans live in Los Angeles County, according to the Iranian Diaspora Dashboard hosted by UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. Negotiations involving Iran and Oman over arrangements for navigation through the strategic waterway, meanwhile, have continued without a breakthrough. 🖊️️🤖

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5. 📰 GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 with RTX 3060 at esports hotel, but power outage gave them away (direct link) (👍80 👎0)

from And Finally… (!andfinally@feddit.uk)

GPU thieves replaced RTX 5080 with RTX 3060 at esports hotel, but power outage gave them away

GPU thieves are now a thingTwo men in China had a fairly simple plan for stealing expensive graphics cards from esports hotels. According to Wuhan police, some hotels had no idea their GPUs were gone because the replacement RTX 3060 cards still worked. Most systems only need a GPU driver reload, sometimes a restart, to fully support the replaced GPU. Two RTX 5080 cards had been replaced with RTX 3060 models. It was the power going out while somebody was apparently trying to perform a midnight GPU upgrade in reverse. 🖊️️🤖

Posted by fne8w2ah

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