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2026-01-22 17:03:45

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“Ethical dilemmas about AI aside, the posts are completely disconnected with ManyVids as a site,” one ManyVids content creator told 404 Media.

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Aliens and Angel Numbers: Creators Worry Porn Platform ManyVids Is Falling Into ‘AI Psychosis’

Samantha Cole (404 Media)

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Another cost of AI: CAPTCHA's
Another way AI is costing us all in money, time, and environmental impact.
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Why Am I Seeing So Many CAPTCHAs? - Ask Leo!

Tired of being asked if you're human? I'll explain what site owners like me are dealing with behind the scenes and why you’ll probably be clicking “I’m not a robot” a lot more often.
Leo Notenboom (Ask Leo!)
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If you are in #Edmonton #yeg , check out this book launch presentation of "Move slowly and build bridges" a book about Mastodon and the #fediverse by Robert Gehl.
ualberta.ca/en/media-technolog…
#fediverse #yeg #edmonton
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"My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

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HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty

Jason Koebler (404 Media)

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uncontrolled channels of information is treason there, just like here soon

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Canada: Movement Briefing on Arms Embargo
Canadian weapons are being used to bomb Venezuela and Palestine... We must cut off the unregulated flow of weapons to the U.S. Join an urgent movement briefing to delve into the current political context and plug into the next steps of our campaign to close the US loophole. #armsembargo #Canada
Register at armsembargonow.ca/webinar
#canada #armsembargo
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If you're on Vancouver Island, in Washington, Oregon, or California, go outside. You might see Crew-11 coming back for an emergency landing due to a crew medical emergency.

You might also hear the sonic boom if you're lucky.

This is expected in the next few minutes!

#spaceflight

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- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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#spaceflight
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SPLASHDOWN

166 days in space, they're home.

Hoping the best for the injured crew member.

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one spicy marshmallow
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The scale of the size of the Dragon is really exemplified here.
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SOP is that the crew will be removed via stretcher, being they have been without gravity for so long. It does not mean any of them are ill.
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SpaceX confirming there are dolphins in the area, very curious of what the heck is going on.

I guess this is how you train your dragon?

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Reports saying folks in LA could hear the sonic boom
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NASA Administrator Jared Issacman appeared in mission control, appears to be Houston from my recollection.

Dragon translation in progress

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First crewmember out is Mike Fincke, his fourth trip to space.
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It seems SpaceX was pretty emotion with this one.
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Do we know if it is injury or sickness ?

Looks like coneheads invading earth 🙂

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@jfmezei we don't know - but being that it wasn't an emergency departure, it was something the astronauts, trained in emergency care, were able to stabilize.
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They are 48km from coast. Fairly long swim.

Early in project, SpaceX wanted to do land landings (using the super Dracos) but NASA said a big fat NO.

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@jfmezei a helicopter will transport the crew from Shannon.

Yes - NASA was against landing using the Super Draco thrusters, despite approving airbag landing of Starliner.

@Jean-Francois Mezei
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As it turns out, Alberta oil and gas doesn’t love you back.

Alberta's oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs last year — even as production soared | Edmonton Journal

#ableg #abpoli #ClimateChange

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Alberta's oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs last year — even as production soared

The province produced about 122 million barrels of oil in 2011. Last year, Alberta produced nearly 1.4 billion barrels of oil by November.
Zac Delaney (Edmonton Journal)
#climatechange #abpoli #ableg
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"With ICE agents coming under fire for opening fire on American citizens, many are examining the agency’s Escalation Training Module, which teaches unqualified numbskulls to approach all confrontations with guns drawn and aggression dialed up to ten."

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White House insists ICE shooter had passed mandatory escalation training - The Beaverton

WASHINGTON D.C. - Following the death of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good, Trump Administration officials are unanimously insisting the officer who shot her had completed his routine ICE training on how to exacerbate all violent altercations.
Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)
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Rose of a Different Color

This is a rose—but let’s call it a rose of a different color. The original photo captured an orange bloom, but what remains is a yellow-orange flower streaked with red, pink, and hints of blue where the shadows settle. Around it swirls a kaleidoscope of color, transforming the scene into something more dreamlike than botanical.

If you love flowers—or just enjoy discovering their beauty and names like I do—come explore my gallery of blooms captured in moments of wonder and curiosity.

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#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #flower #plant #rose #abstract

"A single yellow rose blooms at the center of the image, its petals unfolding like flames caught mid-dance. The flower’s golden hue is deepened by streaks of red that ripple through the folds, giving it the look of something both tender and fierce—like sunlight filtered through stained glass. The petals curl and layer with a painterly softness, their edges glowing as if lit from within. Surrounding the rose are stylized leaves, some rendered in grayscale, others bursting with unexpected color—teal, violet, hints of orange. The background is a swirl of abstract shapes and multicolored patterns, like a dreamscape or a stained canvas. It’s not a garden, but a visual symphony where the rose is both soloist and centerpiece. The image feels digitally enhanced, yet the emotion it evokes is organic: a celebration of beauty, contrast, and transformation." - Microsoft Copilot

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This is the website of Coy Pearson. Shop for nature art, wildlife art, bird art, and more. Designs are available to purchase as canvas prints, framed prints, posters, greeting cards, apparel, and other products. Retired soldier.
Coy Pearson - Official Website
#Photographer #Photography #Photo #nature #abstract #flower #plant #rose #photographylovers

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1.3 million trees planted in 2025 alone 🌳✨

With one of our newest partners, @plantwpurpose, we’re supporting rural farmers to grow trees in cacao and coffee forests in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Keep searching to help us plant even more trees in 2026 🌱

#ecosia #reforestation #climatehope

#reforestation #ecosia #climatehope

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““We’re operating in disaster mode everyday,” Dr. Parks said.”

Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow | Globe and Mail (gift article link)

#ableg #abpoli #abhealth

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Edmonton doctors call on Alberta government to declare state of emergency as hospitals overflow

Call follows deaths of three patients in Grey Nuns Community Hospital emergency on Dec. 22
Alanna Smith (The Globe and Mail)
#abpoli #ableg #abhealth

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WTF: “At the university hospital, he said two patients offloaded in the EMS waiting area, who require additional care and movement to a ward, had been there for 70 and 65 hours respectively.”
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Best health care system in Canada has been systematically attacked, broken up, and broken down by spectacularly bad government directing resources into politically motivated reorganizations and overpriced patronage contracts with private clinics rather than to where it's desperately needed.

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Will Canada sign the Peace Charter?
Petition for Canadians here ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…
#peace #Canada peacecharter

Petition

for Canada to sign the international Peace Charter
www.ourcommons.ca
#canada #peace
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 From the other morning when the snow was at times horizontal. Thankfully that didn't last long, but now we head into some even colder weather for the weekend. In this view the grouse were writing messages to Bird Goddess in the snow...
#winter #Ablerta #nature #birds #animist #photography
From lower left and mid left, two sets of bird footprints in nearly straight lines cross the snowy ground, angling slightly upward to the right. The fresh powder snow on the surface is not too deep and the prints are distinct. A slight film filter giving a faint violet hint and enhancing the snow texture has been applied, and edges are blurred and a white vignette effect used.
#Photography #nature #winter #birds #ArtAdventCalendar #animist #ablerta

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@karhutar if only I could read them :)
@Sari Mikkonen 🇫🇮🌻🇪🇺
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In the Rockies, a group of protesters aims to unite Albertans: ‘Most people can agree that we need clean water’ 💧🌲
#abpoli
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Civil disobedience in the Rockies, in photos | The Narwhal

In Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, organizers set up a civil disobedience camp in response to logging plans
Drew Anderson (The Narwhal)
#abpoli
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Record frostbite amputations in Edmonton, Alberta

I'm ashamed of my province in a lot of ways these days but this is one of the worst

"A controversial practice in both Edmonton and Calgary has been to dismantle tents and homeless encampments. Both cities confirmed that policy will continue this winter, citing safety concerns."

cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fr…

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#homeless #Alberta

Number of amputations with diagnosis of frostbite

Graph from CBC article
www.cbc.ca
#Alberta #homeless
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A government scientist was prevented from speaking to the media and community groups about his research, according to 600 pages of documents obtained by The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/alberta-stalled-…

Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal

An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show
Ainslie Cruickshank (The Narwhal)

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One of the (only) ways to protest an FCC launch filing is by showing technical infeasibility. So... I may have started writing a technical paper about Reflect Orbital last night, driven entirely by rage. Luckily I have a lot of astronomer colleagues who I think will help out with this! Because I definitely don't have time to write yet another paper... aaahhhh....

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Rage can be a powerful motivator. During the CrowdStrike fiasco last year our IT people managed to mess up a computer my lab uses for government regulated work. I wound up doing the investigation, and I was in a white-hot rage when I wrote the report. We were inspected by the government regulators recently, and they mentioned that investigation as an example of how we should be doing things. I'm sure I wouldn't have done so well if I hadn't been so angry.
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