The fact that 'Worcester' is pronounced 'Wusster' is wild.
But have you ever seen the five-syllable Old English name it stems from?
'Weogornaċeaster'.
It meant "fortified settlement of the Weogoran (a Saxon tribe)".
Click to hear a reconstruction of its pronunciation:
Guía para comenzar a usar #Mastodon
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Guía para comenzar a usar Mastodon - Laintersección
Consejos y herramientas para tus primeros pasos en Mastodon: cómo encontrar contenido interesante, la netiqueta, aplicaciones, etc.Laintersección
Mr. T (working name) has arrived well ahead of my birthday (thank you @jan!) and is sharing my work day.
How Has Structural Racism Held Back the Co-op Movement?
Join MEDLab and the E2C Collective for an event on an important new book on the co-op legacy and racial capitalism. Learn more and register here: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/1…
How Has Structural Racism Held Back the Co-op Movement?
November 4, 202410 - 11 a.m., Mountain TimeFree webinarRegister hereDespite extensive study of co-operatives' real and imagined benefits, we know little aboutMedia Economies Design Lab
Russian roulette with a shotgun, Buckshot Roulette will add multiplayer on October 31 gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/russ…
Russian roulette with a shotgun, Buckshot Roulette will add multiplayer on October 31
Buckshot Roulette is a clever game putting a spin on the lethal game of Russian roulette but with a shotgun and items to help you along the way. At the end of October you'll be able to betray your friends too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Subnautica 2 arrives in Early Access in 2025 with 4 player co-op gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/subn…
Subnautica 2 arrives in Early Access in 2025 with 4 player co-op
Unknown Worlds and KRAFTON, Inc. have officially revealed Subnautica 2, the sequel to the incredibly popular open-world ocean survival game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Halls of Torment hits 1 million sales - more free updates planned gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/hall…
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Halls of Torment hits 1 million sales - more free updates planned
Halls of Torment has been a great hit for developers Chasing Carrots, with it hitting 1 million sales on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Red Rogue Sea looks like a deck-building pirating version of FTL: Faster Than Light gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/red-…
Red Rogue Sea looks like a deck-building pirating version of FTL: Faster Than Light
I adored FTL: Faster Than Light and Red Rogue Sea looks like a sweet evolution of the gameplay with pirates and deck-building.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Here's the 20 most-played demos from Steam Next Fest October 2024 edition gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/here…
#SteamNextFest #Steam #PCGaming
Here's the 20 most-played demos from Steam Next Fest October 2024 edition
Struggling for what to pick in Steam Next Fest? Valve emailed over a list of the 20 most-played demos overall so here's what you might want to check out.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Assassin's Creed Mirage arrives on Steam as Ubisoft return to Valve's store - will get a Steam Deck Playable rating later with an update planned gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/assa…
Assassin's Creed Mirage arrives on Steam as Ubisoft return to Valve's store
Things are not going exactly well for Ubisoft right now, and so they continue returning to Steam with Assassin's Creed Mirage released today.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Maintenance update for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.1) is available 🚀
Upgrade to a new version for better and even more secure Nextcloud experience. The updating process is designed to be and smooth - always keep your server up to date!
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New maintenance release for Nextcloud Hub 9 - Nextcloud
Maintenance update for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.1) is here! Read an update summary and access full changelog on the website.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Valve makes a big improvement for Native Linux games in a Steam Beta update gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/valv…
Valve makes a big improvement for Native Linux games in a Steam Beta update
Valve released a new update to the Steam Client Beta for Steam Deck and Desktop, with some Steam Input changes and some improvements for Linux too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Okay everyone, let's do this together!
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A new recording of one of Jacob Collier's particularly beautiful songs. Wait for the funny bit of sneakiness at the end!
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Defector Annual Report, September 2023 – August 2024 | Defector
Published on October 16, 2024 Purpose of this report This is the fourth year that Defector’s business team is publishing an annual report.defector.com
"Comet C-2023 A3 pictured from the International Space Station."
NASA Johnson Space Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Was recently made aware of this excellent paper about the Fediverse by @profxavier01. They go into a lot of detail about the social situation here from both an internal and external perspective, and I found the conclusions quite insightful. Give it a read!
An evidence-based and critical analysis of the Fediverse decentralization promises
This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web.arXiv.org
"Passage de la comète C-2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas au dessus de Capbreton 2."
Thomas Castel, Public domain via Wikimedia commons.
Mastodon feat. Büsi #plushtodon #CatsOfMastodon
Edit: Forgot to add the shop link. You can order your Plushtodon from here shop.joinmastodon.org/ (only open to EU currently, US and other countries coming soon)
Mastodon Merch Store
The official merch store of the open-source, decentralized social media platform Mastodon.Mastodon Merch
What kind of digital world do YOU want to live in?
In our latest Nextcloud Podcast Constanze Kurz explores the complexities of digital politics, predictive policing, and mass surveillance in Europe.
Listen now!
#digitalrights #Snowden #masssurveillance
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Constanze Kurz: mass surveillance, Snowden, and the future of digital politics - Nextcloud
Edward Snowden's disclosures in 2013 were not only revelatory but also catalyzed a necessary discussion around mass surveillance and yet Constanze argues we've since lost momentum in this critical conversation.Nextcloud
Transition. Part 25.
Sometimes I take a black and white film camera on my bike rides.
#photo #photography #photoart #filmsnotdead #filmphotography #mediumformat #forest #trees #believeinfilm #rollei400s #Poland #blackandwhite #Transition #staircase
Not one of these Bastard Companies are GREEN as they claim. It's All Greenwash Nonsense!
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
#BBC #BusinessArticle #DirtyAI #AIDoomsUsAll
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
The tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.João da Silva (BBC News)
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Another community problem is the sheer noise. This health crisis story from Granbury, Texas is about a bitcoin mining farm, but the same problem applies to data centers:
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For the techbro community, it's all about "shopping around" for the places with the fewest regulations and the cheapest politicians to buy off. Sometimes that's in some east asian hell-hole. Sometimes that's the middle of Texas.
‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
TIME spoke to over 40 people in Granbury, Texas who believe their medical issues stem from a Bitcoin mine owned by Marathon Digital Holdings.By Andrew R Chow/Granbury, Texas (Time)
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@Alexander Goeres Maybe the techbro geniuses behind nuclear AI asked AI what the most efficient power source for their AI plans would be, and the AI training data was infested with oodles of nuclear power propaganda.
The whole "small reactors" thing is the nuclear industry's current attempt to pretend to be relevant. There has been a constant torrent of press releases and propaganda puff pieces regurgitating industry claims that small reactors are the next big thing ... like way more press than solar freaking roadways or Hyperloop.
Truth is, the economic viability of small reactors is even more hopeless than traditional reactors. But people have been wising up to the failures of traditional reactors, so they pump up talk about these small reactors to fool the easily fooled that we need to stop investing in solar and wind because superior nuclear is right around the corner.
My point is ... if these techbros ask AI what to do, the AI will simply GIGO them small reactor lies.
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Más empresas GAFAM entrando en lo nuclear para atender a la pantagruélica demanda de energía de los #CentrosDeDatos
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El Periódico de la Energía
El Periódico de la Energía, con información diaria sobre energía eléctrica, eólica, renovable, petróleo, gas, mercados y legislación energéticaRedacción (El Periódico de la Energía)
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