X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark after newcomer’s challenge
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X's new terms of service say that no one can use the Twitter name, trademarks, logos, and more without written consent.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
As many as 84% of #Latvians are satisfied with their lives, according to a #Eurobarometer survey in October 2025. They see rising #prices, #inflation, and cost of living (33%), #healthcare (23%), and the state of the #economy (22%) as the main problems facing #Latvia.
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I watched an interview with Josh O'Connor where he said that everyone talks about how good it looks to the audience, but on Wake Up, Dead Man it felt to him like all of the production design was there to help the actors.
Basically he said: these sets are so good; they set the mood perfectly for me as an actor, & it made my performance feel easy & natural.
Younger Me: I just hope nothing bad happens in the world today.
Me Now: I hope what shitty thing that happens today... is really funny.
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Mapping the complexity of ME/CFS: Evidence for abnormal energy metabolism, altered immune profile, and vascular dysfunction
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"these findings indicate mitochondrial dysfunction and energy stress"
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Le PLQ a une longue histoire de "résilience préventive", c'est-à-dire une grande capacité à "crosser" sans se faire prendre...
La tradition se perd...
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Trump expands U.S. travel ban to 5 more countries, toughens limits on others
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Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
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No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Mozilla's pivot to AI first browsing raises fundamental questions about what a browser should be. Waterfox won't include them. The browser's job is to serve you, not think for you.Alex Kontos (Waterfox)
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honestly, I fail to see how it undermines trust, transparency, and user agency.
How, exactly?
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@grahamperrin @skinnylatte @jbz I can't speak for others, but having done a lot of work training a RAG system, I can provide some examples.
With the specific model I'm using (Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q5_K_M), prompting it with anything that was even slightly off-path or oddly phrased could result in pretty incredibly hallucinations. Everything from imagining syntax to inventing entire toolkits.
LLMs fall back to hallucination when unclear, and this could tweak your whole experience.
I've never hitchiked, but I have given and received a lot of rides from strangers.
#DementiaJTrump #JimmyKimmel
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Rob Reiner’s son Nick to face murder charges in killings of parents, prosecutors say
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Rob Reiner's son Nick to face murder charges, prosecutors say
L.A. County authorities announced charges against Nick Reiner, 32, son of legendary Hollywood figure Rob Reiner, in the suspected homicides of his mother and father.James Queally (Los Angeles Times)
Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, the Inventor of the Rom-Com
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Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, the Inventor of the Rom-Com - Jezebel
"The rules around female behavior have changed, but the architecture of how people interact and fall in love have not," author Jennifer Egan told Jezebel on why Austen endures.Morgan Leigh Davies (Jezebel)
Driver pleads guilty in Etobicoke crash that killed 3 children
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Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •The cast of Frankenstein, of course, said similar things about my boy del Toro's costumes & sets (& set decoration).
It's something actors often comment on about working with del Toro: the world of the film is so well-realized that it makes their work easier, because they have a genuine reaction to their environment.
#ThisIsAGuillermoDelToroFanAccount
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •And I think some people think that's a waste. Like, when you can just fill in what something is supposed to look like later, why would you need to actually make it at all?
I think a lot of people think of filmmaking purely in terms of its product: what we see & hear in the theatrical film.
But the thing is, we *do* see & hear those physical sets & the artistry that went into them.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •We see & hear it in the performances of the actors, in the way the camera moves, in every single aspect of the people making the movie reacting to the creative environment they are in.
It's an immersive experience & there are all these little intangibles that come out of actually immersing everyone in the world of the film.
Also it's fun. I think that's a good reason to do something: it's fun & will have a memorable impact on the people who were involved in creating the film.
Artemis
in reply to Artemis • • •One of the biggest things I enjoyed from my favorite films this year is how much the artists involved loved making the things & how they enjoyed the creative environment they were in.
Movies are a Big Deal to me. I love them inside & out.
I was watching Princess Bride last night (in memory of Rob Reiner) & thinking about how obviously fake it all was, how clear that it is a movie, & how much I actually like that in this case. Like, I'm not trying to forget that I'm watching a movie, ya know?
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in reply to Artemis • • •Cheeseness
in reply to horseshoe crab • • •@leguinian_utopia In The Princess Bride, that's not even metatextual - that's *in the text*
The grandson's bedroom and his interactions with his mum and grandfather are the bits that are real, and they're scripted/shot/performed that way.
I think for my tastes, the film is infinitely stronger than the real novel it's based on, but I do miss the added layer of the in-fiction story being mostly made up and not matching the in-fiction book.