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akilwilson@mastodon.art wrote:
Hey, it’s free comic book day!
I made a comic called Carl & the Magic Coin and you can download and read it for free on my website today!
And maybe other days too! I haven’t quite figured that part out yet! But definitely today! Download & read it today for sure! FCBD! Yay!
And if you were to repost this so that other people could download and read it also, that would be ❤️ ❤️ ❤️!!!
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- We see Carl’s face, reflected in orange from the window of a drying machine, as he stares down at the drying machine display, confused, and says, “What the…?” The display of the drying machine reads “- 10 yrs” (remote)
- Carl frowns and mutters “Great… goddamn slug broke the whole machine” (remote)
- Carl focuses his attention away from the drying machine to say, “Hey Hassan, that slug didn’t work. Do me a favor and go tell the guy that we -“ but doesn’t notice that his reflection is now blue and shows him 30 years younger, dressed in a fast food restaurant uniform. (remote)
- Carl looks shocked as he notices his younger self in the reflection of the drying machine. (remote)
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foo@fosstodon.org ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:
Happy Dave Brubeck Day!
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Renowned painter and pioneer of minimalism Frank Stella dies at 87
Frank Stella was one of America's leading minimalist artists and a pioneer of the minimalist movement of the early 1960s. The movement challenged the idea that art was meant to be representative.
The Verge’s 2024 Mother’s Day gift guide
Illustration by Manon Louart for The Verge
We found a collection of unique gift ideas that go beyond the flowers and chocolates that typically rule the day.
NYC says half of those arrested at 2 pro-Palestinian campus protests were not students
Following the mayor's claims that "outside agitators" escalated protests this week at two Manhattan campuses, city officials released data saying 134 of the 282 people arrested were not students.
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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
This is like a foreshadowing scene at the beginning of one of the Terminator movies.
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The Best, Freakiest Little Guys From Star Wars
The Star Wars universe is massive, filled with hundreds of books, games, TV shows, and more. And let’s not forget the movies, which started all of this wild nonsense back in 1978 with A New Hope. Throughout all of Star Wars, from all the fan fighting over Last Jedi to people going wild over Grogu, one thing has…
The newest Star Wars Acolyte trailer seems to reveal the show’s big bad
Carrie-Anne Moss in The Acolyte. | Screenshot: Disney
Disney’s newest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, is just a month away on Disney Plus, and the newest trailer for it hints that the show will pull on a thread that Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi tugged on back in 2017: Is the Jedi order actually all that good?
Set well before the events of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, The Acolyte sees High Republic-era Jedi master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) investigating a string of murders (which include at least one Jedi). Today’s trailer reveals that the mysterious black-clad Mae (Amandla Stenberg), is a former student of his, and it seems like she’s probably a suspect in the murders. It also reinforces the idea that this will be a particularly grim series.
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Answers in Genesis demonstrates that fictional aliens are fictional. Checkmate, atheists! May the Fourth not be with you.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/04/may-the-fourth-proven-false-by-a-religious-twit/
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Caitlin Clark shines in her WNBA debut, a preseason sellout
The NCAA's all-time leading scorer played in her first professional game in the Indiana Fever's match against the Dallas Wings on Friday night. Clark's 21 points were impressive but not enough to win.
ChromeOS gets better multitasking and Wi-Fi traffic prioritization
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
The latest version of ChromeOS (M124) is out with a couple of nice upgrades, including faster split screen setup and a new web traffic prioritization feature. The update brings other updates with it as well, like a settings UI refresh and updated gesture controls.
Judging from screenshots published by 9to5Google, the new “Faster Split Screen Setup” feature will be familiar to Windows users. After you snap an app to one side of the screen, previews of other apps pop up on the other side — pick one, and it pins there for you. Before this update, you had to navigate to the other app and repeat the side-by-side pinning process, so this should remove a little of that friction.
Image: 9to5Google
Setting up split screen...
When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Asci_red_-_tflop4m.jpeg
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
Happy Caturday!
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Reproductive Rights Advocates Close in on Abortion Ballot Measures in Missouri and South Dakota
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters. In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required. […]
'Zillow Gone Wild' brings wacky real estate listings to HGTV
Zillow Gone Wild started in 2020 as an Instagram account devoted to eccentric property listings. The show focuses on homes that defy everyday expectations in some way.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's early in the season and the Theridiidae are just so tiny.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/04/i-want-you-to-know-this-was-a-challenge/
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Stellar Blade's 'Censorship' Circus, Remembering The First Sonic Trailer Five Years Later, And More Of The Week's Gaming Opinions
This week, debates raged about supposed censorship in Stellar Blade. We also took a look at the upcoming game from the makers of Life Is Strange, remembered how the first trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, with its, uhh...unsettling take on the character...broke the internet five years ago, and more.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/05/02/chicago-police-no-discipline-officers-extremist-group
‘The Boys’ season 4 trailer is bloody and a little bubbly
Screenshot: Amazon Prime Video
When we last left The Boys, Homelander’s (Anthony Starr) political dabbling was humming along and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) had a terminal illness. Two years and a new spin-off later, Homelander’s supercharging of a presidential campaign continues to be a dark mirror of the US political climate and Butcher looks to desperately reckon with his diagnosis.
The official trailer sees Butcher considering something very much like the X-Men legacy virus — a biological solution that can kill the series’ supes. There’s plenty of carnage, some teeing up of weighty, consequential moments, someone’s skull apparently spewing bubbles when cleaved with a hatchet, a Butcher standoff with Black Noir, and even a chicken chest-burster.
The next season of...
Canadian police arrest 3 suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader
Police said they arrested three Indian nationals in the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India.
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Star Wars Movie
Star Wars is a massive and popular franchise that encompasses hundreds of books, games, and more. But it all started with a few films back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. And today, we are going to dodge the angry nerds and fan theories to look at every Star Wars film released in theaters and list the best and worst…
Starfield's Tiny Cities, An Escape From Tarkov Debacle And More Of The Week's Gaming News
This week, we’ve got stories on Square Enix eating significant losses and shifting its strategy, a look back at Dragon’s Dogma 2's wild first month, and more. Click on for a roundup of the week’s biggest stories.
Mystery Group Announces $5 Million Fund to Pay for Reports of Election Fraud. What Could Go Wrong?
On Saturday, Fox News reported the launch of the Fair Election Fund, an apparently right-wing nonprofit that says it has a $5 million budget aimed at exposing election fraud. The project promises to pay election workers, organizers, and concerned citizens who have witnessed election fraud firsthand to share their stories. “Your voice could be what […]
More than 16,000 pounds of ground beef sold at Walmart recalled over E. coli risk
Cargill says that, out "of an abundance of caution," it is recalling several of its ground beef products produced in late April and sold at Walmart locations across the eastern U.S.
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JoieDeVivre@hellsite.site ("Felicity Simone 🌙 🌺") wrote:
everybody is always doing temporary things "for the time being". who is this Time Being? What are its motives? and how does it compel so many to carry out its will?
The teens making friends with AI chatbots
Illustration by Ard Su for The Verge
Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI’s advice can go too far.
Komoot is helping me get back on my bike after a long hiatus
Know just how steep that hill is before you go. | Screenshot: Komoot
Getting into cycling in my late thirties has been humbling.
I’m responsible for my own medical costs, which really makes me consider things differently than when I was a kid tearing through the neighborhood park on a twelve-speed Huffy. I’ve also discovered you can spend infinite money on bike stuff if you have the resources, which I do not.
Most of all, I’ve learned that knowing how to get from point A to point B in a car or on a bus does not mean you know the best way to get there on a bike. For this particular bit of cycling logistics, I’ve found a tremendous — and mercifully free of charge — solution: Komoot.
Komoot helps adventurers plan and follow routes — by bicycle or on foot. There are iOS, Android, and smartwatch apps in...
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randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:
Because of @ceejbot
Hocus Pocus - Focus The Midnight Special - YouTube
The Midnight Special performance is extra special because, as per a comment:
«…only five minutes of showtime remained, so could they please play another, shorter song … to which the Dutch group replied “No, it is not a problem, we will simply play our intended song much faster!"»
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I have definitely fallen back into the mundane universe.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/04/wouldnt-you-know-it/
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
done with my usual Saturday AM volunteer shift, 🐾 walking dogs at the #ROC City Pound… there are some real sweeties in jail.
take someone home? even a short foster placement can help relieve some of the craziness… 🦮
How to make the most of Apple Notes
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge
Apple Notes is one of those apps you can turn to on a daily basis without ever really making full use of all the different features and functions it’s got to offer. That’s where this particular guide comes in. The idea is to point you to some of the lesser known but very useful tricks that Apple Notes can do.
I’m going to focus on the mobile app, but you’ll find most of these tips apply to the desktop version of Apple Notes on macOS as well.
Link notes together
Maybe you’ve got two notes that are separate but also related — one note for planning a trip, for example, and another listing various sights you want to see. Apple Notes lets you link them both together.
Open one of the notes. At the point you want to insert the link:
- L...
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anandamide@dataare.cool wrote:
omg
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Here are some of our favorite Star Wars Day deals
May the Fourth be filled with awesome deals on games, toys, and collectibles. | Image: Star Wars
Peruse these awesome deals on Star Wars stuff, you must, because today is May the Fourth. Fans of Lucasfilm’s iconic franchise have long celebrated this day as a kind of borderline-religious holiday of sorts, one that recognizes an ever-growing franchise that has been adapted for almost every type of media — and product — you can think of.
Since its debut in ‘77, Star Wars lore has been doled out in films, TV series, books and graphic novels, video games, and plenty of other mediums we’re surely oblivious to. It’s also inspired board games, toys, apparel, and enough merch to fill a galaxy far, far away. Many retailers commemorate May 4th by discounting the latter, and we’ve gone deep into the heap so you can see all of the best Star...
Some cities allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Their turnout is quite low
Some cities, like three in Vermont, allow non-U.S. citizens to vote in local elections. In these places, noncitizen turnout has remained low, as noncitizen voting is a contentious national issue.
California Police Are Using a Controversial Tactic After Someone Dies in Their Custody
Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially across California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95 percent of police departments in the state and offers its clients trainings and ready-made policies. In one of Praet’s training webinars, posted online, he offers a piece of advice that policing […]
The Flextail Tiny Bike Pump is a solid pump half the time
The tiny Flextail pump inflated this city bike tire in 45 seconds. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge
Social media’s algorithms know that I ride a bike almost every day. My quiver includes a city bike, mountain bike, and gravel bike, in addition to one or two e-bikes I’m always in the process of reviewing. I’m also the family mechanic, which makes me responsible for no less than 16 to 18 tires that I must keep inflated. So, you’d better believe I took notice when Instagram served me several ads for the Flextail Tiny Bike Bump.
The mini rechargeable pump works with Presta (the thin one) or Schrader (the old fatty) valves and promises ultra-fast inflation that maxes out at 100psi (about 7 bars) — enough for any bike that doesn’t require a stretchy wardrobe coordinated with your shoes and helmet.
The origins of the pump are suspect, as I...
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andrewt@mathstodon.xyz ("Andrew") wrote:
🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me to "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on👇 anyway so this is a real song now https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452
She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.
When PTO stands for 'pretend time off': Doctors struggle to take real breaks
What's a typical vacation activity for doctors? Work. A new study finds that most physicians do work on a typical day off. In this essay, a family doctor considers why that is and why it matters.
Jerry Seinfeld and the fraught history of comedians and 'political correctness'
Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of comedy (among other societal ills). But what does the term actually refer to?
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
Watching scifi movies and seeing a character ask an AI to do or evaluate something hits different now.
I'm watching Alien: Covenant and the pilot just asked the spaceship AI how close they could get to the storm in the planet's atmosphere.
The AI answered 80 kilometres, which I assume at this point is a confidently wrong answer, probably pulled from an unattributed blogpost systems away about a different ship, different atmosphere, and different storm.
Photos: Campus protests continue nationwide as some turned violent
Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.
'Dance Your Ph.D.' winner on science, art, and embracing his identity
Weliton Menário Costa's award-winning music video showcases his research on kangaroo personality and behavior — and offers a celebration of human diversity, too.
Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Its GOP Donations.
This story was originally published by Capital & Main. August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the House, representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance. But he is […]
Orangutan Spotted Treating His Wound With a Medicinal Herb
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The high intelligence levels of orangutans have long been recognized, partly due to their practical skills such as using tools to crack nuts and forage for insects. But new research suggests the primate has another handy skill in its […]
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
drinking coffee in the backyard, watching the sun rise & listening to the birds… dawn is shift-change time, and full of joyful noise.
Six months out from the election, Wisconsin students weigh voting for Biden
Wisconsin's young voters — who have turned out in big numbers in recent elections — are key for either candidate to win the state. But Biden is facing some skepticism on the state's college campuses.
A seafood bounty lures sea lions to S.F.'s Pier 39 in numbers not seen in 15 years
It's a popular rest stop for sea lions, but the docks at the tourist hot spot these days are unusually packed out with the slippery residents. Conservationists are buoyed by the surge in visitors.
After adopting its own Green New Deal, a college town sets a new target
Ithaca, N.Y., will require that 50% of the money spent on its energy transition and on major infrastructure projects is directed toward those residents most at risk from climate change.
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develwithoutacause@techhub.social ("Doug Parker 🕸️") wrote:
Days since #JavaScript #sourcemap tooling lowered my confidence in what was actually happening and had to fallback to `console.log`:
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Houston area braces for flooding to worsen following storms
A flood watch remained in effect through Sunday afternoon as forecasters predicted additional rainfall Saturday night, bringing another 1 to 3 inches of water to the soaked region.
Senior UN official says northern Gaza is now in 'full-blown famine'
Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent official so far to declare that trapped civilians in northern Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The Verge published the most spammy article they could write, including AI-generated content, to prove how broken Google search truly is.
The article currently ranks number 1 for the key phrase "best printer"
Lol, lmao.
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nus@mstdn.social ("a goat‽") wrote:
Update: Brianna is now going full-blown #transvestigation on black basketball player Brittney Griner.
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- @BriannaWu on Twitter: "Wow. That's got to be averaging in the 75 htz range, and I'm hearing a lot going below 50. Typical female speaking range is 160-240. Androgynous is 160-140, though most of us dip in and out." Original poster's commentary: "you tried to transvestigate Brittney Griner. for no reason. why do you feel the need to police what hertz range someone’s voice is and how it does or doesn’t match with someone’s gender? very unnecessary lmfao. you do realize different races have varying range of voices." (remote)
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flamed@social.lol ("fLaMEd") wrote:
🔖 New bookmark: TheSmallWay.txt
🔗 https://library.xandra.cc/the-small-way/
> I like “the small way;“ it fosters my need and desire to contribute and grow the personal web.
Xandra's approach to fostering and growing the personal web
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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:
She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.
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As Google’s antitrust trial wraps, DOJ seeks sanctions over missing messages
Illustration: The Verge
The fate of Google’s search business is now in the hands of Judge Amit Mehta, as closing arguments concluded in the landmark trial on Friday.
The Department of Justice and plaintiff states made their last arguments Thursday on Google’s alleged anticompetitive conduct in the general search market, and on Friday focused on its allegedly illegal conduct in search advertising. Google was also under fire (separately) for failing to retain chat messages that the DOJ believes could have been relevant to the case.
The government is trying to show that Google locked up key distribution channels for the general search engine market, so that would-be rivals could not grow into significant threats. It says it did so through contracts with phone...
Microsoft needs some time to ‘refine’ updates for Copilot AI in Windows
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Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider blog posts say that when it comes to testing new Copilot features in Windows 11, “We have decided to pause the rollouts of these experiences to further refine them based on user feedback.” For people who already have the feature, “Copilot in Windows will continue to work as expected while we continue to evolve new ideas with Windows Insiders.”
Microsoft is holding an AI event on May 20th which would be a good time to show more of what’s next, and after setting up 2024 as “the year of the AI PC,” with a new Copilot key on Windows keyboards, there’s a lot to live up to.
We’re expecting to see new Surface laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors that run Windows on Arm and compete with...
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The web dev equivalent of seeing the ex who dumped you looking terrible in public is when your former employer launches a new 15MB slow-motion train wreck of a homepage.
Google bans advertisers from promoting deepfake porn services
Illustration: The Verge
Google has had a longstanding ban on sexually explicit ads — but until now, the company hasn’t banned advertisers from promoting services that people can use to make deepfake pornand other forms of generated nudes. That’s about to change.
Google currently prohibits advertisers from promoting “sexually explicit content,” which Google defines as “text, image, audio, or video of graphic sexual acts intended to arouse.” The new policy now bans the advertisement of services that help users create that type of content as well, whether by altering a person’s image or generating a new one.
The change, which will go into effect on May 30th, prohibits “promoting synthetic content that has been altered or generated to be sexually explicit or...
LG’s quirky briefcase TV is nearly matching its best price to date
I wouldn’t call portable in the traditional sense, but it sure as hell beats lugging a 65-inch OLED around. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
As my colleague Chris Welch pointed out in his review of the LG StanbyME Go, there’s something refreshing about a TV that takes a chance on a less familiar concept, especially at a time when beastly OLED panels and art-inspired TVs seem to dominate the landscape. And now, thanks to a $200 discount, you can pick up LG’s suitcase TV at Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo starting at $996.99.
In terms of design, the StanbyME Go is basically a 27-inch touchscreen TV that’s built directly into a 28-pound, military-grade briefcase you can tote around with you. The panel itself is nothing to write home about — it’s a basic 1080 LCD with an HDMI/eARC port and a peak brightness of 500 nits — but it’s the concept itself that makes it a fun...
Luminar, maker of lidar for autonomous driving, lays off 20 percent of its workforce
Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge
Luminar, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous driving systems, announced today plans to lay off 20 percent of its workforce amid a broader restructuring of its production process.
The company, which just announced shipments of its next-generation laser sensors to Volvo, said that it will transition to an “asset light” business model that will see more of its production outsourced to its partners. As part of the restructuring, at least 147 people will lose their jobs. Luminar has at least 730 employees based in the US, according to LinkedIn.
“Many of these team members have been on our journey with us for years, which is why this is so difficult,” Luminar CEO Austin Russell said in a statement. “We have also made the decision to...
Israel Hamas War Protests Worldwide; Visiting a Donkey Festival in Colombia
As protests over the Israel Hamas war roil college campuses across the U.S., similar protests are happening elsewhere in the world. We hear from some of them. And a quirky festival in Colombia celebrates the donkey.
Environmental journalism is under attack
Rufino Choque, from the Urus Indigenous community, stands over a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopó Lake, which disappeared in 2015. | Photo by Manuel Seoane
Attacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.
UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists surveyed 905 journalists across 129 countries. Between 2009 and last year, more than 70 percent of reporters experienced attacks while working on environmental stories ranging from mining and deforestation to protests and land grabs.
There were more than 300 attacks reported over the past five years alone, a 42 percent jump from the previous five-year period. The attacks come in many forms, from legal threats and online harassment to physical violence and death threats — although physical attacks were most common.They...
Here’s the letter from 14 senators slamming TSA facial recognition in airports
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The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the next several years — but a bipartisan group of 14 senators is now challenging that.
Facial recognition “poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit TSA’s development and deployment of facial recognition tools until rigorous congressional oversight occurs,” reads part of the May 2nd letter (via Gizmodo) from Sens. Merkley, Kennedy, Markey, Marshall, Cramer, Wyden, Warren, Daines, Braun, Sanders, Lummis, Van Hollen, Welch, and Butler.
They add later that “this powerful surveillance technology as deployed by TSA does not make air travel safer” and suggest that the TSA’s current error rate of 3 percent...
Why You Should Play VR Missions Before Metal Gear Solid
While Metal Gear Solid’s 2023 Master Collection has more than its fair share of technical issues, it still packs a ton of solid Metal Gear action for you to play through. Like the full version of 1999’s Metal Gear Solid VR Missions (which do not require a VR headset, in case you were wondering), a spin-off to 1998’s Me…
Fake Beaches Are Popping Up Online And You Can Blame Pokémon Go Players
A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, church parking lots, and golf courses. And the community knows who to blame: Pokémon Go players trying to catch a rare…
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eaterofsnacks@tilde.zone ("EaterOfSnacks") wrote:
@isagalaev I always end up with this site (when I can remember its name!)
https://pyformat.info/
League Of Legends’ New Anti-Cheat Software Isn’t Bricking PCs, Riot Says
Earlier this week, Riot Games deployed a patch for League of Legends that introduced new anti-cheat software to curb “scripters, botters, and cheaters.” Unfortunately, players reported issues with the popular MOBA following the update, saying that the new anti-cheat program had bricked their PCs. Riot Games has…
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is so very damned cool (pun intended).
the Klamath will become a gorgeous river again, and perhaps the ecosystems depending upon it can heal.- salmon running mean bear & others eating salmon.
- critters eating salmon leave fertilizer (salmon bones & guts & etc) by the riverside
- and so the underlying forest ecosystem expands & flourishes.
“Undamming the Klamath” - High Country News
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
My biggest gripe about #python docs and modern search engines: the query "python f-string" finds a lot of trash instead of what I always look for: a reference. https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings
More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18
Illustration: The Verge
Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a new report from AppleInsider offers more details about what we might see in the next version of iOS. One of the big focuses will be on Siri, which will reportedly gain the ability to analyze and summarize texts within the Messages app.
AppleInsider previously said a similar “Intelligent Search” feature is coming to Safari in iOS 18, allowing users to summarize webpages. Apple’s large language model (LLM), called Ajax, will power these features. Several papers published by Apple suggest that the company is working on bringing on-device AI processing to the iPhone, and AppleInsider’s report further aligns with this.
The report says that Ajax uses on-device...
Another Crab’s Treasure Is Even Funnier If You Play It Like A Shooter
I ran into an unfortunate softlock during my review of Another Crab’s Treasure, an adorable but still intimidating Soulslike, that has so far barred me from completing the game. Near the end of the game, you’re prompted to activate an elevator by an NPC that takes players to the final major area and the last few…
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Classes are over for this semester. We got a concluding song to wrap it all up.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/03/schools-out-for-summer/
Scientists welcome new rules on marijuana, but research will still face obstacles
When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer barriers to studying it. But there will still be some roadblocks for science.
DoorDash won’t let you tip NYC drivers without the app
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Last week, I placed a big dinner order for myself and several friends through DoorDash. There was no way to add a tip when I placed my order, but I wasn’t too worried — DoorDash assured me I’d be able to tip after the order was placed or delivered.
It was the first time I had used the service since last November, and since then, DoorDash made some big changes: in protest of a New York City law guaranteeing a minimum wage for delivery drivers, the platform removed the ability to add a tip when you place an order. Now, in New York City, customers like myself who want to continue tipping must do so after their order is placed.
It wasn’t until I went back to add a tip to that dinner order that I realized just how difficult DoorDash has made...
TikTok’s Raw Milk Influencers Are Going to Give Us All Bird Flu
If you go on TikTok or Instagram, you’ll see legions of wellness influencers promoting the benefits of unpasteurized “raw” milk, which hasn’t been heated to kill off illness-causing microorganisms. Raw milk is risky business at the best of times, and despite what some influencers claim, there are no nutritional benefits to drinking it, according to […]
How To Unlock Metal Gear Solid’s New Game Plus And Best Items
Metal Gear Solid’s Master Collection has been out since October 2023. And while it is very lacking in some key ways that we’d expect from a modern remaster in the 21st century, it still contains a hefty selection of some of the greatest games of the late ‘90s and 2000s.
Helldivers 2 Boss Says Sorry After Game Gets Review-Bombed To Hell
It’s been a terrible day for Helldivers 2 and the team behind it. Angry players swarmed the co-op shooter’s Steam page to review-bomb it like a giant hive of Terminids after a PlayStation Network login requirement was reinstituted on PC. “Ouch, right in the review score,” Arrowhead Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt tweeted…
Helldivers 2 Community At War Over Controversial PSN Requirement
Helldivers 2 is a game about endless war and now its fanbase finds itself in a similar situation as a civil war rages on between players following a change to how the super-popular online shooter will operate on PC.
Orangutan in the wild applied medicinal plant to heal its own injury, biologists say
It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told NPR. She says the orangutan, called Rakus, is now thriving.
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Long Beach.
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Canadian police have arrested three members of an alleged hit squad they believe was ordered by the government of India to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver last year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nijjar-killing-arrests-made-1.7192807
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Outrage: They Censored Johnny's Ass In Metal Gear Solid
I recently decided to play a phenomenal old game called Metal Gear Solid via the recently released Metal Gear Solid Master Collection, hoping to show my friends the scene where I could see a man’s bare ass after he gets his lights knocked out and his clothes stolen. But censorship has struck again as I came to find…
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I feel like @blogdiva would appreciate.
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Finally found it. The cartoon I saw that summarizes my feeling about the Hamas-Netanyahu disaster:
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- Cartoon by Matt Davies, 2024-05-02. Woman holding poster saying, "I support Palestinians (but not Hamas), condemn antisemitism, want an end to war (though Oct. 7 was horrific & demanded a response from Israel), but the govt. of Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control & must be reined in NOW!!" Bystander looking at it says, "It's not very catchy." (remote)
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students pay to not pay attention to teachers, while sometimes lawyers *get* paid to not pay attention to their clients...
sometimes I hate some lawyers with a purple passion
Tesla’s Supercharger layoffs couldn’t have come at a worse time
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images
Bounced emails. Stalled projects. Delayed adapters. These are the immediate effects of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s “ultra-hardcore” approach to cost cutting, which has resulted in at least 500 layoffs from the company’s Supercharger business, including the division’s top executive, Rebecca Tinucci.
The timing couldn’t have been worse. Tesla was on the verge of making its vehicle charging plug the de facto standard in North America, and its competitors and stakeholders are counting on a smooth ride. But Musk claims the leaner team will focus less on deploying new Supercharger locations and instead focus on “100 percent uptime.” How that will translate into reality is unclear, with laid-off employees telling InsideEVs that reduced manpower will...
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Duly voted against Musk's compensation package at #Tesla. He's hurting the original goal of the company and should really leave it alone now. Go wreck Twitter some more…
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My website is receiving a lot of traffic from localhost. Today, it's about half of all traffic.
Anyone know what that could be?
You’ll Finally Be Able To Play This Castlevania Spiritual Successor With Friends
Almost a decade after the game’s Kickstarter campaign first launched, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is about to get its final update. The Castlevania: Symphony of the Night spiritual successor from former series producer Koji Igarashi released in 2019 and has been getting steady content updates ever since. These…
Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to link to a PSN account
Image: Arrowhead Game Studios
Attention, Democracy Defenders: Helldivers 2 will soon require players on Steam to link their account to a PlayStation Network account. According to the announcement, all new players on Steam will be required to link to a PSN account starting May 6th, while current players will have a little bit longer, with mandatory enforcement delayed until June 4th.
According to Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios, linking to a PSN account was always going to be a requirement for Steam players, and the policy is there to ensure players are protected from griefing and other in-game abuses. But the game’s community isn’t buying it, vociferously protesting the decision on social media and on Steam itself.
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Our Favorite Cosplay From WonderCon 2024
WonderCon 2024, the three-day March convention held in Anaheim, California’s convention center, always has some great cosplay. This year was no exception, with folks bringing the heat with Star Wars looks, X-Men fits, and gigantic power armor that looks ripped from the Fallout TV series.
A Bugged Helldivers 2 Stat Was So Terrible, Players Refused To Believe It Was True
For some time now, the Helldivers 2 community has wanted clearer data on the galactic war that it’s been fighting, and earlier this week, Arrowhead Game Studios finally delivered. Specifically, the studio deployed the “Super Commas,” which implemented dividing commas into the existing in-game stats so that they didn’t…