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Materials Science PhD candidate in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
A brief note on lost posts
you might have noticed we lost a bunch of posts…...
[question] Is it pointless buying virgin olive oil if you're just gonna heat it?
So as I understand it, virgin olive oil is made from cold pressing olives....
How long would a hand-written password for The Legend of Zelda be? (makertube.net)
Square Enix stock has dropped 30% since Final Fantasy 16 launch (www.pcgamesinsider.biz)
Stock in Japanese games giant Square Enix has dropped by 30 per cent since the launch of Final Fantasy 16. As reported by Bloomber g, around $2 billion has been shaved from the company's share pri...
how's your week going, Beehaw
we’re so back. anyways as you can tell by the other pinned post, we’ve been a little busy with a lot of stuff on the backend and that’s probably going to continue into the foreseeable future
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 10th
New thread!...
Wingspan publisher Stonemaier Games’ next board game is full of bees (www.polygon.com)
Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)
Archive link
The Oldest Living Shark (www.livescience.com)
Link to the relevant study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf1703
We Might Have Accidentally Killed the Only Life We Ever Found on Mars Nearly 50 Years Ago - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
How's your week going, Beeple? (beehaw.org)
@alyaza is MIA currently, but this weekly thread has been so awesome to see and keep going; so I am making what would be her typical post for this week. Alyaza; stay safe friend, I hope everything is okay....
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)
The Best Toppings for Oatmeal (sporked.com)
Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now (www.eurogamer.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/2277558...
PinkWug - Rigged Vote (beehaw.org)
Rigged Vote
Those who use Firefox on a low-end laptop or any such low-spec machine, what tinkering have you done to get the best experience?
Firefox has been improving drastically in terms of performance with every release. It’s pretty evident in recent months, which is very heartwarming to be honest....
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery (www.nature.com)
[Homemade] Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate 🥤☕
This fancy cold brew dispenser makes me happy all summer. It’s really well engineered, so you can tilt the steeper and get the last drop of of goodness out :)...
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a surprising number of young galaxies containing massive black holes at their centers, churning up the gas within only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Spectroscopic data indicates that these “hidden little monsters” harbor black holes weighing...
Using AI to find antibodies is fast and produces unimagined molecules (arstechnica.com)
How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
Not what I initially expected this article to be about, but I do love this kind of cross-cutting research that takes ideas from one field and applies them to a seemingly entirely different field. (Also makes me wish I’d been able to take a topology class at some point.)
Liquid Metal Battery Will Be on the Grid Next Year (spectrum.ieee.org)
Cursed Units (youtu.be)
Article proposes variant of current ΛCDM cosmological model that makes the universe twice as old (doi.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1721793...
Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
Slay the Spire Fanart - The Defect WIP I (beehaw.org)
I’ve been playing Slay the Spire again recently and decided I wanted to do some more fanart for it. Here’s the Defect so far!...
Where to even start with Final Fantasy?
I’ve been wanting to jump in on the final fantasy universe for a while now but I’m not sure where to start....
Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games (www.theverge.com)
Neopets, the virtual pet website launched in 1999, is promising a “new era” with an improved website and fixed Flash games. They will launch a new unified website on July 20th to fix issues and bring back over 50 Flash games using the Ruffle emulator starting July 25th. A new Neopets mobile game called World of Neopets is...
how's your week going, Beehaw
hello Beehaw, it’s a sleepy morning–and i did not get very much sleep. luckily i have no social priorities so this is not a big deal. currently reading a number of books after completely crashing out of doing that for the entire month of June. i think i can get about 3 in before the end of the month, we’ll see
is anyone else tired of heteronormativity?
I kimd of am, why are so many relationships in media strsight? We need more lgbt representation...
Non right-wing tech podcasts?
It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?
60,000 People Died from Blistering European Heat Waves, New Analysis Finds (www.scientificamerican.com)
Excerpt:...