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Sevilla signs Switzerland forward Rubén Vargas byteseu.com/641734/ #Soccer #Switzerland #WiresBot


Homosexuality *was* once deemed a mental illness by the medical establishment

But then, the medical establishment once believed that mental illness was due to a detached womb blundering around the body. Thankfully, progress happened

open.substack.com/pub/theneuro…

#MentalHealth #LGBT+




It's not really a recognized life milestone, but growing up through the Satanic Panic as I did, I'd like to take a minute to say, my son is running his first home-made D&D campaign with his friends today, and I'm proud of him.
in reply to mhoye

He's got a small party of friends he's described as "One person who wants to be a wizard in a story , two super-aggro minmaxers and one guy who's never played and has no idea what he's doing", and like... that's basically my internal monologue, all the time? I think he's going to be great.
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What our parents were told D&D was about: Satanism, blood rituals, animal and occasionally human sacrifice.

What D&D actually is: Cooperative storytelling, stand up comedy, group therapy and first-year applied statistics.



Source: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…



If Trump and the Republicans follow thru on their immigration threats, Americans may be about to find out who actually provides the food and services we all take for granted.

calmatters.org/economy/2025/01…



My local community group had an old laptop that it wanted to get rid of. I did the obvious thing of wiping it, installing Linux Mint, and then donating to the local charity shop.
Now someone can get a bargain, reuse older tech, and they get to learn about Linux.
#LinuxMint #ThisIsTheWay #Totterdown


Are there any #SelfHosted #Wiki tools that federate using #ActivityPub? Ideally want something where when a new page is created, or an edit is made, it's posted to the fediverse. #OpenSource


It's been rainy all day and I slept reasonably well last night.

So I filled some time by trying to create a distributable #Python app by following the documentation that's been talked about recently.

It went pretty well!

discuss.python.org/t/how-to-cr…



#Windows really is remarkably bad. It's mind-blowing that it's still one of the most popular operating systems.... incumbancy really is a superpower.
in reply to Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

Installing #AgentRansack now to try to find text in a text file in a given folder without giving Microsoft carte blanche to index the entire of my PC.

#Linux dual boot next time. Seriously. Even after #Ubuntu screwed up my audio drivers a month after I moved to Japan and made it impossible for me to use VoIP calling for about a year. Even after that... linux next time.



*In New Jersey they look up and they wig-out about all those glowing drones, but hey, meanwhile "the sky — our only window to the cosmos — is currently cluttered by our warfare gadgets"

avi-loeb.medium.com/the-tensio…



@classicalmusic

#JohannRudolfZumsteeg 1760 – 1802

#CelloConcerto in A-major

1. Allegro
2. Andante molto
3. Allegro - Alegretto

#TomaszStrahl #Cello

#TheRzeszówChamberOrchestra

#GrzegorzOliwa

#musik #music #musique #musica #Zumsteeg
#classicalmusic

youtube.com/watch?v=GCsd1ayHwh…

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Springer hofiert nun nicht nur in seinen Medien, sondern auch auf seinen Events die Faschistenpartei AfD und Trump-Buddy Musk.
Ich wiederhole mich: Arbeitet nicht für Springer, kooperiert nicht mit ihnen, redet nicht mit ihnen, legt auf, wenn sie anrufen!
tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/m…


Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to January 11, 2025 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine

🔷 Yesterday 1,570 enemy, killed or wounded



There’s always something extra-chilly seeming about hard frosts when there’s no snow


Meta's head of civil rights departs
L: linkedin.com/posts/roy-austin-…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
posted on 2025.01.11 at 01:21:07 (c=0, p=4)


New, by me at FT

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4…

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Neil’s Online Safety Act Razor

The fedi / small site admins who are most worried about the UK’s Online Safety Act are most likely to be admins who already try hard to protect their users, moderate, remove problematic content promptly, etc. The admins who care.

The admins who don’t care about their users will just ignore the OSA, unless (and possibly even then) there is some measure of enforcement.

#OnlineSafetyAct

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Perhaps OFcom canj fine big tech and pass on some of the money to the smaller social media sites to help them with the admin of moderation etc.

Would be nice, but probably won't happen.



220,000 Russian Soldiers Killed in Ukraine: Report byteseu.com/641714/ #BBCRussianService #killed #Mediazona #report #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianSoldiers #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelensky