10 h. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird review – how all the hate speech flooded in

This film shows how a ‘hallucinogenically optimistic’ vision descended into the hellscape we know today. Young, confident men really should not rule the internet It turns out that Mike Judge’s supposed sitcom Silicon Valley was a documentary after all. My bad, as the people young and in touch enough with the world to have known this all along may still say.Twitter: Breaking the Bird is a 75-minute CNN film chronicling the rise, fall and possibly end of the social media site that was launched by a group of eager young things in 2006 amid a widespread belief – at least in the Valley – in the power of the internet to remake the world in radically better ways. This, a co-founder or two has come to consider since, may have been a “hallucinogenically optimistic” view. Well, we were all young once. Although that feels – and in no small measure because of Twitter – like a very long time ago. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Poisoned ‘almost demonic’ sea lions could terrorize beachgoers this summer

Scientists say a mass poisoning event of the animals took place after an algal bloom in Pacific waters

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9 d. ago ‘Imagine if it died on my watch?’ The fight to save one ‘ancient’ Adelaide tree

Cities lose thousands of mature trees a year. On Overbury Drive, neighbours were determined to protect a solitary giant dying red gum – stuck right in the middle of their roadSign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsIt’s a striking image; in a suburban landscape where nature has been largely pushed aside to make way for roads, houses and driveways, the thick craggy trunk of a towering river red gum tree stands defiantly in place, forcing the bitumen to squeeze and buckle around it. Bang in the middle of the street.Barely a day goes by without the residents of Overbury Drive noticing a carload of tourists or curious locals pulling up in their quiet cul-de-sac, cameras at the ready. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Life in world's hottest city as birds fall from the sky and fish boil in sea

Kuwait City has been dubbed the 'Marseilles of the Gulf' for its once booming fishing industry and coastal spots that attracted sun worshippers - but now it's far too hot to be there

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1 week ago Mass poisoning suspected as hundreds of birds fall from trees in Australia

Corellas often damage farms and orchards but authorities say misuse of pesticides to poison birds carries heavy penalties

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1 week ago Hundreds of small cockatoos dead in suspected mass poisoning in Australia

Corellas often damage farms and orchards but authorities say misuse of pesticides to poison birds carries heavy penalties

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2 w. ago Trump administration briefing: judge incredulous at deportations defense; Doge workers break into building

White House denies violating judge’s order with Venezuela flights; Elon Musk’s Doge workers break into non-government agency – key US politics stories from Monday at a glanceThe Trump administration claimed to a federal judge on Monday that it did not turn around the deportation flights of hundreds of suspected Venezuelan gang members over the weekend despite his specific instructions because that was not expressly included in the formal written order.The administration also said that even if James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, had included that instruction in his formal order, his authority to compel the planes to return disappeared the moment the planes entered international airspace. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House’s defense for not recalling deportations ‘one heck of a stretch’, says judge

Administration claims it didn’t stop flights despite judge’s instructions because he did not write it in the formal orderThe Trump administration claimed to a federal judge on Monday that it did not recall deportation flights of hundreds of suspected Venezuelan gang members over the weekend despite his specific instructions because that was not expressly included in the formal written order issued afterwards.The administration also said that even if James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, had included that instruction in his formal order, his authority to compel the planes to return disappeared the moment the planes entered international airspace. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago FBI releases hundreds of DB Cooper files as chemical evidence points to new suspects

The FBI released 472 files related to the DB Cooper case. The files uncovered a slew of information on possible suspects that have come to light since the November 1971 plane hijacking.

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3 w. ago Man suspected of smuggling hundreds of migrants into Europe arrested in London

Majid Muhamad was apprehended in the Westminster area by National Crime Agency officers

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