Dozens of states ask Congress to un-doom the Kids Online Safety Act
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A group of state attorneys general are pushing Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which has stalled in the House of Representatives thanks to concerns over online censorship. An open letter published today is signed by 32 attorneys general, including those of 31 states and the District of Columbia. It urges leaders of both parties in the House and Senate to vote on the bill before the current congressional session ends early next year.
“While an increasingly online world has improved many aspects of our material well-being, prolific internet usage negatively impacts our children,” reads the letter, whose signatories include the attorneys general of Florida, New Mexico, and New York. “KOSA will establish better safeguards...
Pope calls for investigation into whether Israel's actions constitute genocide
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel's military attacks on Gaza constitute genocide. It's the first time he's publicly suggested that Israel may be engaged in genocide.
US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android
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The Department of Justice is planning to ask for Google’s antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell off its Chrome browser after the judge ruled the company has maintained an illegal search monopoly, reports Bloomberg.
Chrome is the world’s most widely used browser, and the government’s lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google’s products is one of the things limiting available channels and incentives for competition to grow.
Requirements that officials are preparing to propose include that Google separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without trying to force Google to sell off Android. Another requirement would say it has to share more information with advertisers and that it “give them more control...
Amazon and SpaceX attack US labor watchdog in court
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Amazon and SpaceX are seeking to hamstring the National Labor Relations Board, asking a court to declare its processes for upholding labor law unconstitutional. But judges on a three-person panel appeared skeptical when the companies presented their arguments Monday.
In two separate cases before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the two companies argued that the NLRB is unlawfully forcing them to participate in administrative law proceedings over alleged anti-labor actions. The Amazon case centers around whether it’s required to bargain with the union at its JFK 8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, while the SpaceX case involves a charge by former employees who claimed they were fired after being critical of CEO Elon Musk.
A ruling...
GTA 6 Fans Think The Moon Is Telling Them When The Next Trailer Will Arrive
A random promo image from Rockstar Games featuring the moon as seen in Grand Theft Auto V has led to a wild theory that, actually, the space orb that controls our tides in that image is really a clue pointing to when the next GTA 6 trailer will drop.
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kevinteljeur@mastodon.online ("Kevin Teljeur ❄️") wrote:
Guys! GUYS! IT’S HAPPENING, AWWW YEAH
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
caveat: this is super-early test software, and no guarantees are made that it will not make your computer halt and catch fire.
on the other hand, I think I have it locked down enough so outputs will be child-SAFE, so it will give you EFFECTIVE storytelling advice, and so that it is TRUSTWORTHY bout not tracking anything but whether your browser is currently logged in or not.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay
the username/password challenge
is in place
and will “stick” until you
restart the browser
(or I restart the server)I will fix it so it does a real “logout”
Real Soon Now
but this will do for nowusername: tester password: password [https://arghstudios.com:50433][3] (and select “Login” from the menu)please try it out...
during this early test period
getting folks to use it
to get real story ideas
for telling to real kids
would be super usefulthank you very much
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
from @bcantrill: “Blogging through the decades”:
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the-decades/
Razzlekhan, crypto’s most embarrassing rapper, is going to prison
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A federal judge has sentenced Heather Morgan to 18 months in prison for her role in helping husband Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein launder stolen Bitcoin, CoinDesk reports. Lichtenstein has admitted to hacking the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing 120,000 Bitcoin, worth $71 million at the time (and almost $11 billion as of this writing).
Before she was arrested, Morgan was a Forbes and Inc. blogger. When the Department of Justice announced her arrest, the internet found out she also made crypto-themed rap videos under the name “Razzlekhan.” The whole story is expected to be immortalized in a Netflix documentary series and a film called Dutch & Razzlekhan.
Morgan issued a statement on X, saying she “will soon be telling my...
With new safety update, Roblox aims to boost protection for young gamers
In an effort to address child safety concerns, digital gaming platform Roblox announced Monday that it is rolling out a major update to its safety features and parental controls.
Ukraine is Allowed to Fire US-made Missiles into Russia
Ukraine is granted permission from the Biden administration to fire U.S.-made long range missiles into Russian territory. We hear from two NPR correspondents about this major policy shift by the White House. Our Pentagon correspondent tells us the goals around the move and what it might mean on the battlefield. And our correspondent in Moscow gives us the Russian Government's reaction to the move.
The 7 Biggest Surprises From The Game Awards 2024 Nominees
Game Awards host Geoff Keighley revealed the 2024 nominees across dozens of categories on Monday. It included something for everyone, unless you’re a fan of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which is quickly becoming this year’s Starfield.
Corsair now has a gaming keyboard and mouse for the Mac
Corsair has upgraded its K65 Plus wireless keyboard and M75 wireless mouse so they’re Mac compatible with new colorways. | Image: Corsair
Corsair has announced an updated version of the K65 Plus wireless keyboard it debuted earlier this year that’s now compatible with the Mac. It’s joined by a new version of Corsair’s M75 wireless mouse, and both peripherals are available in Mac-exclusive colors including glacier blue and a white version the company calls frost.
The frost versions of the K65 Plus wireless keyboard and M75 wireless mouse are available now from Apple’s online and retail stores for $179.95 and $129.95, respectively. The glacier blue versions will be available for the same price, but at a later date.
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The Mac version of the Corsair K65 Plus wireless keyboard is exclusively available in glacier blue and frost (white)...
Trump’s FCC Pick Wants to Intimidate Broadcasters and Enrich Trump Allies
During this year’s campaign, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation agenda that would transform the federal government’s enforcement powers into political weapons while selling off the rest to the highest bidder, by swearing he didn’t know who was behind it. But now that voting is over, he’s finding the plan a handy way […]
Get the Pokémon TCG Pocket Card You Want With The Pack Point Exchange System
Opening up card packs is the progenitor of loot boxes, so we can all recognize that occasionally icky feeling while playing Pokémon TCG Pocket. Keeping track of all the game’s numerous currencies certainly doesn’t help in that regard either. Thankfully, there is a modicum of grace for bypassing the RNG with Pack Point…
HarperCollins is asking authors to license their books for AI training
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HarperCollins has agreed with an unnamed AI tech company to let the company use some nonfiction titles to train its models, 404 Media reports, but only if authors opt-in to having their books be used for training. Some authors are currently suing companies like OpenAI, accusing them of copyright infringement for training AI models on their works without permission.
According to a statement HarperCollins gave to 404 Media, the agreement protects authors’ “underlying value of their works and our shared revenue and royalty streams.” Author Daniel Kibblesmith posted screenshots of an email showing that he would be paid $2,500 if he allowed one of his books to be licensed.
Abominable.
Resin printers and the current educational level of society don't mix well.
"But it says water-washable on the box, surely that means I can just flush it down the sink!" -- a YouTuber with millions of subscribers.
😵
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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.
Toyota shows off its latest big idea for cold hydrogen vehicles
The liquid hydrogen-powered GR Corolla H2 Concept. | Image: Toyota
Toyota is pushing hydrogen-powered vehicle technology forward with a liquid hydrogen system design that includes a self-pressurizer to save escaping gas and reuse it as fuel to increase engine efficiency.
Toyota introduced a liquid system in the GR Corolla H2 Concept in 2023, which keeps hydrogen at -253 degrees Celsius during filling and storing in the tank. Hydrogen exists as a gas at room temperature, so the pumps have to operate cold to prevent the liquid from boiling. Inherently, the system still has boil-off gas that gets wasted.
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Boil-off gas chart for the system.
So what’s the solution? Toyota exhibited a “self-pressurizer” at the Super Taikyu Series 2024 race this past weekend that “uses the...
Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’
The US Department of Energy headquarters building on February 9th, 2024, in Washington, DC. | Photo by J. David Ake / Getty Images
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”
Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, and other disasters exacerbated by climate change are already hitting the US. And renewable energy capacity is on course to more than double globally by the end of the decade.
Nevertheless, Wright is a staunch evangelist for fossil fuels who consistently rejects mainstream climate science. While Wright also has ties to the nuclear energy industry, clean energy advocates say that with Trump’s cabinet picks, the US is losing ground in the race to deploy renewable...
Turn The Tables On Your Foes With Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero’s Most Difficult Counter
Something I love about Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is the many layers of mechanics to dig into. Conversely, something I don’t like is that the training mode doesn’t cover all of said mechanics particularly well. Super Movement is a great example of this, but another is Sonic Sway, a fantastic technique that can put a…
A Pennsylvania court says again misdated mail ballots don't count this year
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has directed county officials not to count mail ballots for the general election that arrived on time but in envelopes without current dates handwritten by voters.
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
sometimes cool URIs don’t change but other times you must burn previously cool URIs to the ground so they can’t be further monetized for evil 🔥
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I made a throw-away comment in my talk last week about how AMP was based on lies -- which doesn't seem controversial at this point? But it remains poorly understood, and there has been a fair bit of correspondence in response.
Trying to decide if I should write up how AMP robbed publishers of opportunity, not just scarce tech budget.
Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI
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Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.
Metaphor: ReFantazio, As Told By Steam Reviews
The year isn’t over yet, but if you follow any RPG fans online, then you know they’re calling Metaphor: ReFantazio game of the year material. Well, based on the Steam reviews, those people may be onto something. It’s a highly popular anime-style RPG from developer ATLUS, known for the phenomenal Persona franchise, in…
Dbrand’s new glow-in-the-dark skins have a circuit board texture you can feel
Dbrand’s Circuit Board skins could make it easier to find your devices in the dark. | Image: Dbrand
Dbrand’s latest gadget skins capitalize on our curiosity to peek inside our electronics. Its new Circuit Board collection, created in collaboration with LinusTechTips, features a complex pattern that looks like a functional PCB because the pattern was created with the assistance of engineers that design actual circuit boards.
The company describes the complex design of the new skin collection as being an “accurate representation of a printed circuit board” but it don’t represent a functional PCB copied from an actual device. Instead, the pattern is a “mosaic of functional circuit board elements,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz tells The Verge, that showcases components like resistors, capacitors, and traces laid out in a schematic that prioritizes...
Google may be about to reboot its laptop and tablet hardware again
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Google might be preparing to make big changes to its laptop and tablet hardware by making the software on its Chromebooks resemble what you’d find on a tablet. One report from Android Authority suggests that Google has a “multi-year project” in the works for migrating ChromeOS to Android, while a second one from the same outlet indicates Google may be planning a second Pixel tablet that comes with a foldable keyboard cover.
That tracks with the moves Google has made in recent months.
In June, Google announced that ChromeOS “will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack” to make the engineering process easier and bring AI features to ChromeOS faster. Google also merged its Android and hardware teams, began testing desktop...
Upcoming Pokémon TCG Pocket Events Seemingly Leaked
If you’re as Pokémon TCG Pocket-pilled as I am, you’re desperate for new cards to collect and new events to battle through. Fortunately, it sounds like players won’t have to wait too much longer for either one, at least according to the latest datamined leaks coming out of the mobile card game.
Kicking Enemies Is So Much Fun In Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a big, epic RPG about the destruction of the world and dealing with your past. It’s a game featuring a large cast of flawed people trying to come together to stop someone who thinks they are doing the right thing, but which will kill many. But who cares about all that? I’m here to talk…
The Companions From Every Dragon Age Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
Earlier this year, we ranked the party members from all the Dragon Age games, but kept our rankings for each game separate. So Origins’ companions got their own ranking, as did Dragon Age II’s and Inquisition’s. Now that The Veilguard is out (and we ranked those newcomers, as well) we thought we’d see how each of…
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Election 2024: Which S.F. voter guides got what they wanted?
Despite a narrative that San Francisco is moving into a more conservative era, organized labor and progressive voter guides aligned best with the choices made by San Francisco voters in the November races. That was a shift from the pattern in the March primary, when more conservative political groups like GrowSF, TogetherSF and the San Francisco Republican Party were the most successful endorsers.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/11/sf-election-endorsement-success/
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
Real Talk 'Advertisement'
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- An activist-designed faux advertisement on a subway car window critiques NYPD actions, stating 'SKIP THE FARE? EXPECT THE DEATH PENALTY' and alleges that on September 15th, the NYPD shot four people over a $2.90 fare, challenging viewers with the stark juxtaposition of a typical payment system advertisement and a grave accusation of police violence. (remote)
Every Ridley Scott Movie, Ranked From Worst To Best
There isn’t a Hollywood director with a sense of scale, scope, and range quite like Ridley Scott.
Trump, Who Is Fine With Journalists Getting Shot, Now Claims a Free Press Is “Vital”
On Monday morning, Donald Trump tried to do what he has done many times before: rewrite history in an attempt to make himself look like a man of moderation. This time it concerned Trump’s treatment of the media, which has included a long history of threats and denigration. “In order to Make America Great Again, […]
Trump Confirms Plan to Use Military to Carry Out Mass Deportations
On Monday, Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is willing—even eager—to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his plans for mass deportations. “TRUE!!!” he wrote on social media, responding to a post suggesting that reports were circulating of the president-elect’s preparedness to go to such extreme lengths to implement […]
Biden asks Congress for about $100 million in disaster relief funding
The largest chunk of funding — about $40 billion — would be for FEMA's disaster relief fund, so that it has enough money to last through the coming year. But there are requests for 16 agencies.
From Chalamet to Styles: Why are celebrity lookalike contests suddenly everywhere?
After Timothée Chalamet showed up at his own celebrity lookalike contest, similar events have popped up in cities across and beyond the U.S. Here's a look at the winners — and what's behind the trend.
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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:
Thanks again to everyone who came to my Krita workshop at the Capitole du Libre yesterday. Here's a drawing for you 😉
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The best sleep gadgets to help you catch those Zzzs
Sleep trackers, earbuds, and smart beds. | Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge
Sleep tech is more than tracking. Here are the best gadgets I’ve tested that help you fall asleep, stay asleep, or wake up earlier.
DoorDash will let you import your grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app
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DoorDash now lets you import a grocery list from Apple’s Reminders app to make it easier to buy groceries on the app. To use the feature, while shopping on DoorDash, look for a button to import a list in the app and select the list you’d like to bring over. (You can also paste a list, if you prefer.) DoorDash will then offer suggestions for things to add to your cart based on what’s on your list.
The new feature is part of a suite of updates from DoorDash to make the app more useful for holiday shopping. One other potentially good change: when you search for a retail item, the search results will show where you can buy the product, the price, and the estimated delivery time all in a single view. This change is live first for searches for...
Assassin's Creed Syndicate Gets Surprise 60 FPS Update
One of the best Assassin’s Creed games ever released, Syndicate, has received a small but greatly appreciated update that lets the open-world action game run at 60FPS on current-gen consoles.
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
On Today's Oxide and Friends,
@ahl and I are going to be joined by Piotr Sarna and @cynthiadunlop to talk about technical blogging -- and their forthcoming book, Writing for Developers. Join us, at a Europe-friendly (ish?) time: noon Pacific. (Which is to say: in a little over two hours!)
Netflix’s Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight was a big moment for Bluesky
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It was morbid curiosity that made me tune in to Netflix’s live boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson on Saturday night. The stream ran into technical issues, and the fight itself was slow and ponderous. But there was something else that kept me watching: all of the jokes flying on Bluesky.
That kind of real-time social experience is a large part of what made X feel so vital back when it was still called Twitter. Whether it was the World Cup or a presidential election or a Nintendo Direct, having so many people posting in one place made it feel alive, an experience that Meta’s Threads, with its algorithmic feed, hasn’t been able to replicate. But at least for a brief moment on Saturday night, Bluesky sure did.
jake paul should...
Here Are Your 2024 GOTY Nominees For Geoff Keighley's 10th Annual Game Awards
The nominees for The Game Awards 2024 have been revealed and it will offer plenty for fans to fight over. The 10th Anniversary of host Geoff Keighley’s Oscars-like celebration of interactive arts will choose from the following for the best game of the year: Astro Bot, Balatro, Black Myth Wukong, Elden Ring: Shadow of…
Substack says it could be profitable — but it still isn’t
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Substack still isn’t profitable despite attracting big names in the independent writer world, whose newsletters and blogs rake in a massive digital subscriber base for the platform. Hamish McKenzie, one of Substack’s founders, told The New York Times that it could choose to be profitable but is focusing instead on “investing in and continuing to grow the business.”
According to the Times, X owner Elon Musk offered to acquire Substack during a phone call with its CEO, Chris Best, in April 2023_._ Musk even reportedly suggested making Best “chief executive of the combined company,” but Best turned down the offer.
Substack has repeated the line that it could choose profitability if it wanted for years. Best said on Nilay Patel’s Decoder in...
Now Telegram’s mini-apps can run in full screen on your phone
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Telegram is pushing a new 2.0 update for its in-app “mini-apps” that allows them to run full screen, enables developers to add subscription plans, allows gift sending from mini-apps, lets you add the apps to your homescreen, and more.
Full-screen mini-apps, including games such as Doom, can run in either portrait or landscape orientations inside Telegram and include “expanded gestures and interfaces” to support more gaming genres. Like native mobile apps, mini-apps can now read your device’s processor and RAM information to optimize performance and support gyro controls.
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Add mini-apps to your homescreen.
Telegram’s additions show the company’s efforts to build an all-in-one super app like China’s...
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Do I know anyone who uses an electric dumset?
I'm a former drummer. Had a set as a kid but never since leaving for college. Now I have a kid who wants to learn and we have ZERO space for a real set. I'm sad. I hate it in SoCal.
But, if you have any recommendations on what to look for and/or avoid in this space, I would greatly appreciate it.
Boosts OK!
Perplexity’s AI search engine can now buy products for you
The Verge
Perplexity is rolling out a new feature that will let Pro subscribers purchase a product without leaving its AI search engine. When searching for a product using Perplexity, Pro members based in the US can now choose a “Buy with Pro” button that will automatically order the product using saved shipping and billing information.
Perplexity says all products purchased through Buy with Pro come with free shipping. For products that don’t support Buy with Pro, Perplexity will redirect users to the merchant’s website to complete their purchase.
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Perplexity’s product cards will show whether you can “Buy with Pro.”
When asked whether Perplexity gets any kickback from sales made through its Buy with...
Nike’s Air Max 1000 are almost entirely 3D-printed
Nike collaborated with Zellerfeld to create the 3D-printed Air Max 1000. | Image: Nike
Nike’s new Air Max 1000 are the company’s first shoes manufactured almost entirely using 3D printing. Debuting at ComplexCon this past weekend in Las Vegas, Nike collaborated with Zellerfeld — a company that already has expertise in 3D printing shoes — to create the Air Max 1000, but they’re not currently available to the general public.
The Air Max 1000’s design is an updated take on the Air Max 1, which debuted in 1987 as Nike’s first shoe with an air cushion in the heel that was visible through a window in the midsole. That feature is carried forward to the new Air Max 1000, and although the air cushion itself isn’t 3D-printed, the rest of the shoe uses a single flexible material.
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Everything except...
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mathiasx@mastodon.xyz ("Matt Gauger") wrote:
Ok, it’s time to look for a smaller instance to migrate to, from mastodon.xyz
No one is complaining about spam from here right now (compared to mastodon.social), but there are a lot of users. And I think I’d like a local timeline with relevant-to-me conversations.Anyone taking applications for some place to talk about programming, solarpunk, books, or sustainability/resiliency?
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:
This. All of this. Times several million.
https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e
WD’s 1TB Xbox Series X/S expansion card is down to a record low $100
You’re probably going to want one of these by the time GTA VI comes out. | Image: Western Digital
We’ve safely exited another summer gaming lull and it looks like we’re entering a bull run of great games heading into 2025. As a result, the 512GB of internal storage supplied by the Xbox Series S is feeling increasingly paltry. You’ll even start to feel the squeeze on the 1TB Series X when you load up on new titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops VI(which demands about 85GB for multiplayer alone, and much more if you’re into the campaign). Don’t even get us started on the spate of games due in the next year and beyond. The 1TB WD_Black C50 expansion card can offer relief, and it’s down to an all-time low of $99.99 ($56 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. You can also get the 512GB card for $67.99 ($12 off), which is $2 more than its lowest...
Some Games Like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Actually Look Worse On PS5 Pro
The PlayStation 5 Pro has been out in the wild for over a week now, and while it offers impressive improvements on many existing games, there are also some for which it seems to introduce new issues that make things look worse. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the Silent Hill 2 remake are just a couple of games that new…
Spirit Airlines files for bankruptcy protection but plans to keep flying
Spirit Airlines says it will continue flying as it files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Monday's announcement follows years of losses and a failed merger attempt for the low-cost carrier.
This house is made for LAN gaming parties
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If you’re nostalgic for the era of lugging your desktop to a friend’s house to play Unreal Tournament, software engineer Kenton Varda doesn’t have exactly the solution — but he thinks he has something better. The Cloudflare Workers tech lead has spent more than three years and at least a million dollars to transform his Austin house into the ultimate local PC gaming pad, complete with 22 machines and a dedicated hardware room. It’s dubbed the LAN Party House, and you’re probably not invited.
LAN (short for local area network, as many readers likely know) parties were the best option for “online” gaming in the era of dial-up internet. While some are large-scale events, Varda’s house is aimed at having groups of friends drop by, pull a...
NBA settles with WBD as it prepares to stream games on Amazon in 2025
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The NBA has reached an 11-year agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery that will continue the development of content like Inside the NBA, which will appear on ABC and ESPN. The settlement comes months after Warner Bros. Discovery sued the NBA for dropping TNT’s licensing package.
In July, the NBA chose licensing deals with Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney, and NBCUniversal over TNT. This resulted in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery that accused the NBA of breach of contract. During the 2025-2026 season, dozens of the NBA’s regular-season and playoff games will stream on Prime Video service, while some games will still appear on ESPN, ABC, and NBC.
Warner Bros. Discovery’s settlement includes the highlight rights to NBA games, which it can...
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I think this opinion piece (audio) provides much food for thought
Horizon Zero Dawn's Second Lego Set Is Coming And It Won't Break The Bank
Two years after the Lego Tallneck was released, Sony has announced its second Horizon Zero Dawn crossover set with the toy brick company, and just in time for the launch of the abridged, Lego Horizon Adventures adaptation of the open-world RPG. The set is actually affordable, too.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
America is ruled by caprice and money, apparently. Who would have guessed?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/sale-of-infowars-halted/
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pave_the_earth@girlcock.club ("Sierra R, "Botfly Mother"") wrote:
a mime, a clown and a jester walk into a bar. everybody claps because they are respected members of their local community and everyone at the bar have all at different times found solace in the unique joy each of the 3 brings to their little town
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thirst for Coca Cola fading…fading…fading…gone.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/have-an-uncanny-christmas/
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
In case you missed it, Apple has been using age limits to unfairly discriminate against third party browsers:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The next target: the NIH.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/18/goodbye-nih/
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U.S. allows Ukraine to use long-range weapons in Russia. And, Trump's fentanyl plan
Why President Biden changed his stance on Ukraine using U.S. long-range missiles to strike inside Russia. And, experts are skeptical of President-elect Trump's plan to crack down on fentanyl.
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FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Just a little bit frustrating to read people saying "the Fediverse should have starter packs" when I've spent the last four+ years hand-curating recommended accounts to follow on @FediFollows and https://fedi.directory
I'm not the only person doing this kind of initiative, the Trunk directory (https://communitywiki.org/trunk) was the first, and the Fediverse.info directory by @dansup (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) is an automated way for people to add themselves to suggested lists.
We already have these things on the Fedi, people just need to ask around and discover them, and let their friends know about them.
Trump cabinet picks offer 'fresh set of eyes,' says America First Policy spokesman
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to America First Policy Institute spokesman Marc Lotter about President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks and policies. The group has been advising the incoming administration.
Netflix adds Beyoncé to live entertainment juggernaut
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Netflix is trying to carve a slice of the live entertainment market, and it’s enlisting help from Beyoncé to do so. The Houston-born singer will perform in her hometown on December 25th, headlining the halftime show for the Texans-Ravens NFL matchup as part of Netflix’s Christmas Gameday live show.
Beyoncé’s performance will take place in the second of two NFL games that Netflix is streaming on Christmas Day, the first being between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The star is set to perform songs from Cowboy Carter live for the first time, and “is expected to bring along some special guests” that featured on the album, according to Netflix’s announcement. The games mark Netflix’s NFL streaming debut, having secured a...
Roblox will restrict kids under 13 from chatting outside of games
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Roblox is starting to roll out some recently-announced child safety features, and the updates include some new limitations for how users under 13 can communicate on the platform. Beginning Monday, users younger than 13 won’t be able to DM players outside of games or experiences on Roblox. And they’ll need parental permission to be able to send in-game DMs — though this change won’t be fully implemented across the platform until the first quarter of 2025.
The changes follow recent reports highlighting instances of Roblox failing to protect children. A big article from Bloomberg described how predators on the platform use chat to communicate with kids. And a report from Hindenburg Research described Roblox as “an X-rated pedophile...
They disagree about a lot, but these singers figure out how to stay in harmony
Members of the North Fork Community Choir in Paonia, Colo., aim to set aside their opinions on big topics when they sing. When differences arise, they figure out creative solutions to stay in harmony.
Repealing Biden’s Climate Bills Won’t Kill Clean Energy, But It May Cripple US Manufacturing
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States’s blossoming emergence as a clean energy superpower could be stopped in its tracks by Donald Trump, further empowering Chinese leadership and forfeiting tens of billions of dollars of investment to other countries, according to a new report. Trump’s promise […]
A $60 Billion-a-Year Climate Solution Is Sitting in Our Junk Drawers
I meet Baba Anwar in a crowded, chaotic market in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. He claims he’s in his early 20s, but he looks 15 or 16. Maybe all of 5 feet tall, he’s wearing plastic flip-flops, shorts, and a filthy “Surf Los Angeles” T-shirt and clutching a printed circuit board from a laptop […]
A more severe strain of mpox has been detected in the U.S. for the first time
The patient was traveling from East Africa, where the mpox disease is endemic. The CDC says the strain does not present a high risk to the general population.
Philadelphia criticized for how it's spending millions from opioid lawsuits
Philadelphia has disputed a state ruling that it should not have spent money from opioid-related legal settlements on home repairs and small businesses in an area ravaged by the drug epidemic.
Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board
SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.
Is it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell you
If you've got a fever, cough, aches and pains, and you're wondering, 'what virus got me this time?" Now you can find out, without taking a trip to the doctor.
'You're doing such a good job': A stranger tells a mom just what she needs to hear
Emma Carlson Berne was at a restaurant, feeling overwhelmed with her three young children. Then a stranger came over with words she's never forgotten: "What a beautiful family."
Countries agreed to try to hold global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Is that still possible?
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, most countries agreed to try hard to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Delay and inaction mean that goal is becoming harder to achieve by the day.
Artist, scientist, polymath — a new documentary uncovers the real Leonardo da Vinci
We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person.
LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000
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LG’s 27-inch OLED gaming monitor is one of the fastest models we’ve seen to date and it’s finally ready for preorder. The UltraGear 27GX790A (or GX7 for short) is priced at $999.99 and is built around a 480Hz panel from LG Display announced in early January with a 2560 x 1440 resolution and 0.03ms response time.
The base specs of the GX7 are on par with the $1,100 InZone M10S that Sony released in September. That makes the UltraGear GX7 a smidge cheaper, but it lacks some of the performance modes and variable refresh rate features available on Sony’s offering.
The UltraGear GX7 is listed as available for preorder on LG’s US website, but there’s no mention of a delivery date and it can’t yet be added to the basket for checkout. We’ve...
nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Picked up an Instax camera this weekend and I gotta say it was insanely fun playing around with it. Prosocial since you can take photos of family and friends and just give them the film to keep. This was also a hybrid model, so you could keep digital copies/apply digital effects. Highly recommended! Hoping to fill out this album over the coming months with friends, outings and more
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keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:
Still impressed how and old technology like brotli compression is still so difficult to be obtained.
- On NGINX: reserved to PLUS people
- On Express: still in progress, but you can use deprecated add-ons which requires absurd OS dependencies
2 killed, 10 wounded in shootings near New Orleans parade route
Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a New Orleans parade route and celebration attended by thousands on Sunday, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests.
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
"Only 8 monkeys remain free after more than a week outside a South Carolina compound"
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loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:
I have posted (and probably will continue to post for years to come) a lot here about #othernetworks - a cluster of projects that document networks before and/or outside of the internet along with artist experiments on these networks. The main project I recently finished is a catalog of about 85 of these other networks that will be published by Anthology Editions as a beautifully designed art book in spring 2025.
#othernetworks is an archival project and it's also an educational project that comes out of my belief that we are all capable both of understanding networks from the past and of building alternative networks for the future.
I also like to post about anything related to media archaeology, alternative histories of technology, alternative networks, and alternative network protocols. #introductions
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I feel like too many conversations on here right now are being driven by this kind of energy.
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EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:
Ok so since my Smilodon sculpt has been getting some love I thought I’d throw together a little thread on my paper mache process! 🧵
Disclaimer: These photos are all from my messy student apartment in 2016 I promise I don’t live like this anymore
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am A Bad Person… this made me smile
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ai-grandma-ties-up-scammers-yJzEm1_dT5CgYGkbzCGJUg
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I don't know exactly how the next four years will go, or exactly what I'll be doing, but one promise I'm making to myself today is, no matter what, to tell the truth as I see it, everything else be damned.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good Q
https://music.apple.com/us/album/wholl-pay-reparations-on-my-soul/1621357715?i=1621359057
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GuyDudeman@beige.party ("Lord Hurkle-Durkle :bc:") wrote:
An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.
“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yessssss
https://music.apple.com/us/album/small-talk-at-125th-lenox/1621357715?i=1621358406
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
his poetry is far too applicable again
https://music.apple.com/us/album/comment-1/1621357715?i=1621358269
bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Blogging through the decades https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the-decades/
Trump picks Brendan Carr to lead FCC
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President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that intends to name Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, a commissioner at the FCC since 2017, has made a name for himself by threatening to use the commission’s powers to regulate speech online and over the airwaves.
Carr authored Project 2025’s section on the FCC, using it to propose restrictions on social media platforms meant to bolster conservative speech. He proposed limiting the legal shield that gives websites wide latitude to host and moderate user-generated content. He also suggested putting regulations on tech companies that would limit their ability to block and prioritize that content as they choose.
In the lead up to the election, Carr...
E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots sickens people in 18 states
Grimmway Farms recalled an array of its organic whole and baby carrots over concerns of an E. coli outbreak. Recalled carrots were sold at retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
I've never felt so close to my grandparents as when I'm about to get the viruses they all but eliminated.
Trump taps FCC's Brendan Carr to lead the agency
Carr was seen as a pretty conventional Republican with a pro-corporate outlook for most of his career. More recently, he has embraced Trumpian themes about social media, tech and television companies.