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Magnificent #mandrills are undoubtedly one of the world’s most photogenic monkeys – famous for their brightly coloured and expressive appearance. Their bright blue rumps and vivid red, …Palm Oil Detectives
Calls for tighter rules on biofuels imports to root out palm oil fraud
Investigations suggest a large share of ‘used’ cooking oil being imported could be wrongly labelled as demand outpaces supplyGwyn Topham (The Guardian)
The Same Color Illusion
Image Credit: Edward H. Adelson, Wikipedia
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APOD: 2023 December 18 – The Same Color Illusion
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Exclusive: the X Files – how Elon Musk’s new rules allow hate to flourish
Leaked documents reveal how staff of the social media channel were stripped of powers to remove toxic content from its platformBusiness Post
Alternatives To The Invidious Project
Whilst Invidious is a well known project in the 3rd party YouTube client scene and one of the early ones, it's by no means the only one availableFull Episode...YouTube
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Disasters do show who people really are. There are ordinary heroes who step up and make things better, and some who take advantage for their own gain. Disasters are great for helping us find out which is which.
Long-term disasters, like the ones we hear about all the time at school and on the news, are probably less able to show us who people really are. And the number of heroes is certainly a lot less now.
"And the number of heroes is certainly a lot less now."
That is really hard to know. Maybe.
Major media has been concentrated into a few hands, and we mostly hear the stories they want to tell, rather than the wide diversity of stories that are happening all the time. Outside of those media we then have an overwhelming multiplicity of voices online, and it can be hard to know who you can trust. This is a subject I was called upon to lecture about at a university.
We also have a problem with how people define heroism. Is it only those people who do big things for which the media repeatedly praises them? Perhaps it's many lesser known people who are willing to do helpful things day in and day out, like nurses, paramedics, volunteer firefighters, a neighbour who puts themselves in danger in order to help another neighbour, school teachers who face down shooters at the cost of their lives, someone who plants hundreds of trees without ever knowing if they will grow to help reverse the climate crisis.
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Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.
These days, not so much.
Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.
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My feeds are filled with people who have COVID right now.
Please test before you get together with friends and family (especially vulnerable people like those with diabetes or those over 65) and stay home if you have symptoms.
In the U.S., you can still get four free tests at special.usps.com/testkits
And if you've stopped wearing a mask while you're out running errands, it's a good time to start again.
A block from my house police are currently responding to a bomb threat at the East Lansing synagogue.
In June, the FBI discovered a young man planned to carry out a mass shooting there with “hand-made pipe bombs, molotovs, two Stag-15s, 12 guage shotgun & two back up Glock 18s & a Akm full auto conversion.” lansingstatejournal.com/story/…
On Feb 13, our MSU campus experienced a mass shooting.
This isn’t normal.
Feds: Man with East Lansing ties may have been targeting synagogue for mass shooting
A search of Seann Pietila's home turned up ammunition, magazines, a shotgun, a rifle, a pistol, knives and other firearm accessories, officials said.Ken Palmer (Lansing State Journal)
So, accounts on #Threads will have to opt-in to #federation with #Mastodon and the #Fediverse.
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Correct me, if I'm wrong, but doesn't that change the whole debate here? Only a small part of #Threads user base will do that. The majority doesn't know about the #Fediverse, and won't care.
But that also means that there won't be a flood of content/accounts/stuff from Threads here in the Fediverse. For the most part, both will stay separated.
Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) on Threads
The current plan is you'll have to have a public account and explicitly opt in to your content being available on other servers.Threads
@Gargron Das sieht man auch. Muss man auch ehrlich mal sagen. (Ich bin ja auch schon seit 2018 hier.)
Ich würde auf jeden Fall die Weboberfläche noch etwas aufhübschen. Im Vergleich zu Threads fällt Mastodon optisch ab. Das ist aber bei vielen Open Source Projekten so, stößt aber auch viele ab, die "polished" Apps und Dienste gewohnt sind.
Und noch eine Sache @Gargron Die Suche könnte besser sein. Könnte man nicht eine zentrale Suche hosten und die dann überall integrieren?
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Das stimmt natürlich. War so auch nicht unbedingt zu erwarten.
Es ist aber schon bemerkenswert, wer in den vergangenen 12 Monaten hergekommen ist (wir ja mit eigener Instanz), wer nur kurz da war und wer gar nicht gekommen ist, aber jetzt bei der Einführung von #Threads direkt dabei war.
Wenn man auch im föderierten Threads nicht automatisch alle (oder auch nur die meisten) Accounts aus dem Fediverse heraus erreichen kann, dürfte das die Anziehungskraft verringern.
This is actually wild, I didn't think we'd be seeing open source NVIDIA drivers be viable in games for a long time
Source: twitter.com/Plagman2/status/17…
That's incredible! Linux graphics developers are incredible.
As an aside, what would it take to get Pierre-Loup to jump over to Mastodon? Would love to follow him and other game dev folks on... any other platform.
Humble Tech Book Bundle: Hacking 2023 by No Starch
Learn about the art and science of hacking with this library of tech ebooks. Pay what you want & support charity!Humble Bundle
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On OpenAI: Let Them Fight
I won’t pretend to know what the hell is happening at OpenAI. The story is changing by the hour. It’s chaos though. And that’s a good thing.Dave Karpf (The Future, Now and Then)
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APOD: 2023 December 17 – Geminids over Chinas Nianhu Lake
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Geminids over China's Nianhu Lake
Image Credit & Copyright: Hongyang Luo
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APOD: 2023 December 17 – Geminids over Chinas Nianhu Lake
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This last year I taught digital literacy at a university to people studying to be primary and secondary educators. Part of that was how to prepare students for computing jobs. For the last class of the term I put up the below list of careers I believe are more likely candidates for paying jobs that need bright young people.
Easy Grounding Exercises
Two useful grounding techniques for times you feel overwhelmed, intensely anxious, or dissociated from your environmentStephanie Cordes (Dr. Stephanie Cordes, ND)
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