What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? ( kbin.social )
It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?...
/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up ( kbin.social )
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
Reddit's pathetic attempt to quash dissent ( www.reddit.com )
Reddit tried to sticky this post for moderators around 12p CST today, and they’ve since tried to bury it. Thought it might be good to back up the link here.
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training ( stackdiary.com )
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. ( www.npr.org )
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Reddit kills awards and coins ( old.reddit.com )
Poll: 61% of voters disapprove of Supreme Court decision overturning Roe ( www.nbcnews.com )
On the anniversary of the Dobbs decision, 53% say abortion access nationwide has become too difficult, a new NBC News poll finds.
The /r/ShittyLifeProTips moderation team has been destroyed. Reddit admins publicly solicit the community for replacements. ( www.reddit.com )
For those that don’t want to go to reddit: i.imgur.com/1Rk2FqQ.jpeg...
Some trouble ( lemmy.world )
I laugh at the Ford every time I see it. Today i got at chance to park next to it and the the size difference is comically large. ( feddit.dk )
One of these has definitely hauled more than the other, and i guarantee you it’s not the ford.
Know your genocide apologists ( media.kbin.social )
TIL there is an fediverse alternative to Discord ( matrix.org )
About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications....
Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins ( www.theverge.com )
Two IMO on-point excerpts of the article:...
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/ ( kbin.social )
I think you should see something....
Victoria warned against ‘very inefficient’ hydrogen buses after trial announced ( www.theguardian.com )
House to vote on Biden impeachment ( www.axios.com )
Right-wing lawmakers are proving increasingly willing to force potentially divisive votes.
"Migrer sur Mastodon? On en reparlera quand le compte @lelibreedu aura plus d'abonnés sur Mastodon que sur X" ( mastodon.social ) French
Discussion hier dans les couloirs du ministère...
MTG Loses It, Calls Lauren Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ On House Floor: Report ( www.rollingstone.com )
Sources tell The Daily Beast that the Georgia congresswoman was furious over Boebert filing a competing impeachment resolution against President Biden
Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest ( www.pcmag.com )
Entire mod teams of r/interestingasfuck, r/TIHI and r/mildlyinteresting KICKED out. Some even locked out of their accounts ( old.reddit.com )
EU will require removable batteries from 2027 ( www.consilium.europa.eu )
It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:...
TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%. ( www.mother.ly )
Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share ( www.theregister.com )
Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%
It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 ( www.androidauthority.com )
TL;DR...
This article calls 'Arrival' as 'One of the Best Sci-Fi Films of the Century' but was it? I tried it and I was like ... 'meh' ( www.msn.com )
spoilers ahead I felt like the character conflict arcs were contrived and ultimately the idea of learning a language makes you a pre-cog fell flat for me. In science fiction, the big idea goes 'woo!' or the characters go 'woo!' but in the case of Arrival, nothing really went 'woo!'...