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#Wrapstodon huh, not seen that before.
#wrapstodon

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"The American Library Association reports that 4,240 book titles were targeted for censorship nationwide in 2023, a 92% increase over the previous year.

Nearly half the books were about LGBTQ subjects, and communities of color made up 47% of those targeted."

ksby.com/news/california-news/โ€ฆ


New California law prohibits public libraries from banning books

The American Library Association reports that 4,240 book titles were targeted for censorship nationwide in 2023.
McKenzie Diaz (KSBY News)

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Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are available now gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/raspโ€ฆ

#RaspberryPi #RPi #Linux


Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are available now

Just in time for the holiday season, Raspberry Pi have launched two new bits of hardware for you to tinker with the Raspberry Pi 500 and an official Raspberry Pi Monitor.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #RaspberryPi #rpi

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OBS Studio 31 released with first-party YouTube Chat features, new NVIDIA filters and Linux improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/obs-โ€ฆ

#OpenSource #OBSStudio


OBS Studio 31 released with first-party YouTube Chat features, new NVIDIA filters and Linux improvements

OBS Studio has a brand new stable release available! The awesome free and open source video capture tool OBS Studio 31.0.0 is out now.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #obsstudio
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Jack Zhang (๐Ÿ“น๐Ÿฆ Raccoon)
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Jack Zhang (๐Ÿ“น๐Ÿฆ Raccoon)
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This marks the official deprecation of NVENC on Kepler GPUs on the stable channel. If you still use a Kepler GPU and NVENC, please upgrade your GPU.
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Andrea Tuzzolino
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Andrea Tuzzolino
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is first party YouTube chat also for linux? Can't find it on Manjaro. I should try the flatpak to see if there is any difference

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EA pledge another 23 accessibility patents for public royalty-free use gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/ea-pโ€ฆ

#EA #Gaming #PCGaming


EA pledge another 23 accessibility patents for public royalty-free use

EA did another actually genuinely great thing here. They've expanded their previous patent pledge for game developers to use without problems.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #ea #pcgaming

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As our #plooshy is the expert with nuts, the #plushtodon helped with cracking nuts for Christmas cookies
#plushtodon #plooshy

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Steam sets a new record with 39 million concurrent users online gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #Gaming #PCGaming


Steam sets a new record with 39 million concurrent users online

Over the weekend the Steam store from Valve managed to smash another record, something it has done repeatedly this year and it shows no sign of slowing down.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#gaming #Steam #pcgaming

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Minimalist mini-game filled survival city-builder Dawnfolk gets a release date and new demo gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/miniโ€ฆ

#Dawnfolk #IndieGames #Linux #LinuxGaming


Minimalist mini-game filled survival city-builder Dawnfolk gets a release date and new demo

Dawnfolk from developer Darenn Keller is absolutely lovely, a minimalist survival city-builder with each tile having a little mini-game. Really unique and one you need to keep an eye on.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #indiegames #linuxgaming #dawnfolk

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itch.io store was taken down by Funko due to "trash AI Powered" phishing report gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/itchโ€ฆ

#Gaming #itchio #PCGaming #IndieGames #Funko


itch.io store was taken down by Funko due to "trash AI Powered" phishing report

This was an interesting one to come back to today. Game store itch.io was taken offline recently, due to a "bogus Phishing report to our registrar".
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#indiegames #gaming #itchio #pcgaming #funko
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It's-a me Shaw
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It's-a me Shaw
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The whole takedown system is majorly flawed and now it's going to be even worse. As long as there's no punishment for filing unwarranted DMCA/whatever takedown and sending the request is cheap/free accidents/incompetent/purposefuly evil takedowns will continue.

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what can go right

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I'm grateful for this Jacobin review essay by Robert Gorwa that features my recent book Governable Spaces: jacobin.com/2024/12/internet-dโ€ฆ

Read the book for yourself, free here: ucpress.edu/read/books/governaโ€ฆ

Can Democracy Survive Online?

The dream of a democratic web has turned into a nightmare of moderation crises, content mines, and billionaire overlords.
jacobin.com

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tattoos
So CUTE...I'm dying!

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my birthdays today and, keeping with family tradition, i waited to open my boxes on a group facetime with my family.

turns out this box was not a present but rather a three month supply of PrEP. whoops.

a heavily redacted box of three pill bottles from CVS speciality.

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The HOPE XV talks are finally up on YouTube! Hereโ€™s a link to mine, where I covered AI and Solarpunk:

invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=pโ€ฆ


HOPE XV (2024): AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing

Friday, July 12, 2024: 8:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): For more than a year now, "AI" has been the tech world's most expensive obsession.
Channel2600 | Invidious

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iโ€™m losing my mind here
A Threads exchange: @laurentickner: โ€œSigns someoneโ€™s using AI to write their content? This: โ€”โ€ Reply from @highdivinehoney: โ€œThatโ€™s also a sign a writer, designer, literate or educated person wrote it.โ€ @laurentickner: โ€œSomehow people with awful grammar are suddenly highly educated writers ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€
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WerySkok
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WerySkok
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@Gargron @grishka the thing is that these dashes are not even on default layouts, on PC you either have to copy them manually, or install Birman's typographic layout.

But to be honest, I haven't memorized how punctuation works in English as my studying process wasn't focused on that

@Eugen Rochko @ะ“ั€ะธะณะพั€ะธะน ะšะปัŽัˆะฝะธะบะพะฒ

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I said it before...and I'll say it again... and here is another recent case of it in **Wired **

Pump and Dump, Soft or Hard, it's all a Scam.

Once More As Always CRYPTO CURRENCY IS A SCAM

#CryptoCurrency #Memcoins #PumpNDump #CurrencyScam #CryptoScam #AvoidCrypto

#cryptocurrency #cryptoscam #Memcoins #PumpNDump #CurrencyScam #AvoidCrypto
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Will
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Will
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There is a bit of real money involved by miners who have purchased ungodly amounts of computing power, and who have to work to get their money back plus profit. After all bitcoin is based on proof of work.

But the value of bitcoin is still based on the value of privacy of transactions. That's why cash was invented.

in reply to Joseph Teller

Will
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Will
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Somebody send me a bitcoin receiving address or QR code and i'll send you $20 worth, just for giggles. It's just funny money to me now that it has appreciated 100 times what i invested (20 cents x 100 = $20).

Easy, just download a wallet app (or get account on coinbase), set it up and generate a receiving address. Hard part for converting to dollars is you have to sign up to an exchange, like coinbase, then you have to set up a wire transer to a bank to deposit cash. Or just let it sit for 5 years and it will be worth 10 times that much, lol.

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So my cat found the Christmas tree.
Tuxedo cat in a Christmas tree with colorful lights.

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Study finds if you want to win a Nobel Prize, be a male from a wealthy family. If you're a woman, you need to be from a particularly rich family. The avg laureate grew up in a household just below the top 10%. >50% come from the top 5%. theguardian.com/commentisfree/โ€ฆ

The science behind winning a Nobel prize? Being a man from a wealthy family

A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%
Torsten Bell (The Guardian)

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Went down to the shore today to fetch some seaweed for the garden. This variety of seaweed was super striking compared to the abundant olive and green going on.

Unsure what it is, the shape would say bladder wrack (Fucus Vesiculosus) but I'm not sure because of the colour

#Seaweed

A fiery red and ginger coloured bit of seaweed attached to a rock. It has flat fronds and the air-bladders are in pairs.
Fiery red and ginger seaweed attached to a rock
#seaweed

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#silentsunday
#colorado
Moon setting over pinky-purple Mt Blue Sky with snowy trees in foreground
#SilentSunday #colorado

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โ€œWithin the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer Americaโ€™s place,โ€ McConnell said. โ€œBut letโ€™s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our declineโ€

McConnell had his chance to do something useful about Trump and he failed. He is a coward. He has personally done more damage to the U.S. than almost anyone else over a career of obstructionism and "legislative terrorism." politico.com/news/2024/12/07/mโ€ฆ

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#SilentSunday Sunset at the University of Connecticut
Orange clouds over a darkened street with streetlamps along the side and two large buildings.
#SilentSunday

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#silentsunday #BlueRidgeParkway #virginia
Curving road, tree with fall colors, blue sky over mountainous skyline, gray car parked to the side of the road
#SilentSunday #virginia #blueridgeparkway

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In #JapaneseFolklore iwana bozu are char (a type of river fish) who grow to an enormous size and transform into #yokai. They are able to shapeshift into human form, dress in Buddhist priest's robes, walk and talk. Mostly they approach people who are fishing in rivers to ask them...#SwampSunday1/3
Illustration by Matthew Meyer of a fish dressed in a monk's robe wearing a conical hat and holding prayer beads. It is standing beside a river with a forest behind.
#yokai #japanesefolklore #SwampSunday

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Steinacleit stone circle and cairn (also called Stein-A-Cleit; Siadar; Shader) on the isle of Lewis up on a boggy moor. "This bundle of stones on a low hill above a loch was originally interpreted as being the remains of a large chambered cairn and stone circle." Photos June 2021.

#StandingStoneSunday #PreHistory #IsleOfLewis #Scotland

Photograph of Steinacleit stone circle and cairn, shwing the stones on a bleak moor with a very grey sky
Photograph of Steinacleit stone circle and cairn, shwing the stones on a bleak moor with a very grey sky
Photograph of Steinacleit stone circle and cairn, shwing the stones on a bleak moor with a very grey sky
#scotland #StandingStoneSunday #prehistory #isleoflewis

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A remarkable transition:

Kenya is Africa's leading country when it comes to renewables.

In 2000 fossil fuels contributed 60% to electricity generation.

Today it is 6%. In 2023 electricity was from almost 50% geothermal, 20% wind+solar and 22% hydro.

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Aurora around Saturn's North Pole apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241208.htโ€ฆ #APOD

APOD: 2024 December 8 โ€“ Aurora around Saturns North Pole

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
#APOD

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Just checking my Mastodon timeline.
A phylogenetic tree for elephants over a geological time scale.

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Saรดne River, France

Hasselblad 501CM / CZ Planar 80mm / Kodak Portra 160

#photographie #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #SilentSunday #argentique #hasselblad #france #analogphotography #6x6 #kodak #landscape #mediumformatfilm #photo #filmphotography #photo

The Saรดne River one early morning in a thick fog, the opposite bank barely visible, two swans pass in the center of the image. Photo taken with a 6x6 medium format camera on color negative film.
#photo #France #landscape #Photographie #filmisnotdead #SilentSunday #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #kodak #6x6 #hasselblad #argentique #mediumformatfilm

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I'm trying to rehome these Totoro slippers fast.
I know people who sell these sorts of collectibles for good money.
I am terrible at selling things, even when I could use the financial boost.
But I have to get rid of stuff swiftly in order to fit into the new house in less than two months.
I am feeling overwhelmed. I am also feeling sad that I may have to throw out things just because I don't have the time to place them with people who will appreciate them.
sigh!
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Muse
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Muse
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@fionag11 The opshop/charity shop near us puts all the toys on a table by the pavement where all the local toddlers play with them, leaving the toys a mess before anyone even buys anything.

In the end I found someone who was so excited to pick them up as a Christmas present for their daughter who is crazy for Totoro!

@fionag11

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(Reuters) - Syria's army command notified officers that President Bashar al-Assad's rule ended following a lightning rebel offensive. Syrian rebels said Damascus was 'now free of Assad.' reut.rs/3ZI7sFb

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Forehead injury incurred today at the @mediaarchaeologylab while trying to get an Apple IIe to work. All the while cursing Steve Jobs's insistence on putting power switches on the back.
@media archaeology lab
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Nathan Schneider
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Nathan Schneider
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@alwirtes yep! The all-text version of Oregon Trail was working until it wasn't
@Al Wirtes
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Nathan Schneider
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Nathan Schneider
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@alwirtes That's awesome. These were the first computers I ever used, but now I feel they are totally foreign to me. I can barely begin.
@Al Wirtes

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Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi al-Jalali announces heโ€™s ready to work with any leader chosen by the people and will hand over power peacefully.

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#softwaredeveloper #developer
picture of an onion and another onion, but only half. words read: most software is written like an onion. the more layers you peel back, the more you want to cry.
#developer #softwaredeveloper

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Growth Vessel, watercolor on Clayboard, 2023 Inspired by images of xylem vessels in plants #ArtAdventCalendar
blue and red abstract watercolor painting with blobby shapes
#ArtAdventCalendar

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How many times have I worried about this while writing a story?

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books
I should start a gym where instead of weights, people are lifting books!

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Boomer Shooter Humble Bundle is back for a limited time: humblebundleinc.sjv.io/c/57729โ€ฆ (partner link)

Back with a Vengeance: The Best of Boomer Shooters Encore

Pay what you want for and support a charity of your choice!
Humble Bundle
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Dark Photon Studio
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Dark Photon Studio
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Why!!? I thought I had put this all behind me, buying a game bundle and never playing them! I know it's an illness, but would you wave a glass of whiskey under an alcoholic's nose? NO!

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Latest comic: Experts explain why America voted for plague

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #media #journalism #election #authoritarianism

EXPERTS EXPLAIN WHY AMERICA VOTED FOR PLAGUE A SERIOUS OF PUNDITS DEPICTED IN ADVANCING STAGES OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE: DEMS DIDN'T OFFER MUCH OF A VISION EXCEPT "NOT PLAGUE." PEOPLE ARE SO DISILLUSIONED WITH THE STATUS QUO, THEY'RE WILLING TO TAKE A CHANCE ON CERTAIN DEATH. * KOFF* IF THE LEFT HADN'T INSULTED NECROTIC BUBOES ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AMERICANS WOULDN'T HAVE EMBRACED PLAGUISM. MOST VOTERS JUST WANT A BRUTAL MASS MORTALITY EVENT THAT WILL BRING DOWN THE PRICE OF EGGS. 17TH CENTURY PLAGUE DOCTOR WEARING BIRD BEAK MASK APPROACHING IN BACKGROUND
#politics #Comic #cartoon #Media #election #journalism #uspol #authoritarianism
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Alexander Karn
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Alexander Karn
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โ€œI did my own research.* Did you know there have been no studies for the last 20 yearsโ€”ZEROโ€”linking plague to negative health outcomes? But lamestream media wonโ€™t cover it.โ€

*YouTube

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