Illustration: The Verge If you’re on Mastodon, you might notice new author bylines appearing alongside articles — including those from The Verge. Click on the byline, and you’ll jump directly to the author’s fediverse account, allowing you to track their work wherever it’s posted. For now, you’ll only see this feature on mastodon.social and other instances that use a recent Mastodon nightly release. You can see how author bylines appear beneath articles in this post, which links you to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko’s profile. Image: Mastodon The byline doesn’t have to link to an author’s Mastodon account. It can also lead to a person’s profile on Threads, Flipboard, WordPress with ActivityPub, PeerTube, and others. To make it work, Mastodon... Continue reading…

I can’t afford an actual house in this hellish economy, so a virtual one will have to do. | Image: Snap Snapchat Plus subscribers are getting a new feature that allows you to design your own virtual house to show off on the Snap Map. You can view your house at any time by visiting the map, as can anyone you share your location with. Your customization options range from drabby shacks to extravagant multistory abodes and castles. It essentially lets you show off your location with a more inviting curb appeal than the lifeless gray cuboid structures that typically populate the map. There’s not much other utility there right now except to give Snapchat Plus members a little something extra to justify yet another social media subscription in their monthly budget. But maybe it’s a segue to something more? I’m imagining an AR experience a la P... Continue reading…

The New York Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred following repeated false statements to federal courts regarding the 2020 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported.

There is a "vast DEI bureaucracy" that has pervaded the everyday operations of the Pentagon and the nation's military academies and has created a culture of "race- and sex-based scapegoating and stereotyping," according to a yearlong study released on Tuesday by the Arizona...

Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling from a day earlier on presidential immunity, saying in a social media post it ends all of the "witch hunts against me."

The Biden administration this week awarded a $176 million federal contract to Moderna to help fund a vaccine for avian influenza, also known as bird flu.

On Tuesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first elected Democrat to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president. “My decision…

The former New York mayor and prominent Republican Rudy Giuliani was disbarred Tuesday by a New York appellate court. According to the disbarment order, Giuliani had “flagrantly misused his prominent…

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory on the frontlines of demonizing conservatives in American public discourse, is unwittingly revealing just how absurd the idea of unionizing nonprofits…

SCOTUS Issues Orders On Major Gun Rights Cases iStock-Bill Chizek-1149364911.jpg The Supreme Court of the United States announced several orders regarding gun rights today. The first case that was examined…