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Hey! Remember when Trump and Republicans spent a week pretending to care about tipped workers?

Big surprise, they don't really care, and here's a 5th Circuit case blowing up a Biden admin regulation that protected tipped workers.
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From Iain Clark on Bluesky:

"Waiting excitedly to find out what unfair genetic advantage trans women have in beauty contests."

bsky.app/profile/iainjclark.bsโ€ฆ

in reply to Transgender World

I'm going with... the weight of extra testosterone gives them better balance for walking in heels. ๐Ÿคฃ


Landed near Brownsville, Texas, United States. Apx. flt. time 50 min.
in reply to Elon Musk's Jet

~ 420 gallons (1,589 liters).
~ 2,814 lbs (1,276 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $2,351 cost of fuel.
~ 4 tons of CO2 emissions.


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being middle aged is gross

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being middle aged is gross

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In a new study, researchers demonstrate a real world method of teaching kids to think critically in order to protect them from the pseudoscience-to-alt-right-violence pipeline skepchick.org/2024/09/study-weโ€ฆ


Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials

Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text.

arstechnica.com/security/2024/โ€ฆ

in reply to Ars Technica

This article would be more useful if it had a link to the list of applications.

If people are getting these from the Playstore, shouldn't PS be vetting them?

in reply to Ars Technica

This article seems to me an advertising for Google, the only store mentioned, without any indication on what to do and which app/store to avoid.







fabula murina (mouse story) CCLXIX
Silvius filum metallicum tortum in saponatum tingit (Silvius dips a twisted wire into soapy water). leniter afflat - bulla pellucida apparet! (He blows gently - a transparent bubble appears!)
#fabulamurina
in reply to Minimus

๐ŸŽถ "Iโ€™m forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the airโ€ฆ" ๐ŸŽถ

Whatever will wee Silvius get into next?!

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in reply to Minimus

OO! Bullae! Silvius particeps posserit bullae cum suus parenis.


Got a review request for a #Wiley journal. Remembered it was THEM making ยฃ44 million by signing an AI rights deal without opt-out for authors. Big nope. thebookseller.com/news/wiley-sโ€ฆ
#genAI @academicchatter #AcademicChatter #PeerReview





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