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  1. What is going on with the Epstein files?

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    I try looking things up, but it’s apparently common news-site practice these days to try to tie things to other news (Gaza, civil liberties, etc), which I don’t want to know about as I’m on a news...

    I try looking things up, but it’s apparently common news-site practice these days to try to tie things to other news (Gaza, civil liberties, etc), which I don’t want to know about as I’m on a news diet. (If you know of a site that does maybe a weekly newsletter of only the top two things to know about the week that’s passed, please let me know.)

    So re the Epstein files: Are they released? Are they going to be released? What’s in them? Is this thing about Putin having compromising photos of Trump true?

    36 votes

  2. Comment on ‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape (2024) in ~society

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    I really recommend Jasbir Puar’s “The Right To Maim” for an excellent, albeit dense, theory of why this happens.

    I really recommend Jasbir Puar’s “The Right To Maim” for an excellent, albeit dense, theory of why this happens.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    This is what keeps me from Proton. My partner uses it, or tries to. I understand why no IMAP but that won’t work for me.

    This is what keeps me from Proton. My partner uses it, or tries to. I understand why no IMAP but that won’t work for me.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    Thanks for the rec! I’m going to do their “try for 30 days” to see what it’s like, but 24BRL/month is probably a little much for me right now. In terms of PPP (purchasing power parity) the 5USD US...

    Thanks for the rec! I’m going to do their “try for 30 days” to see what it’s like, but 24BRL/month is probably a little much for me right now. In terms of PPP (purchasing power parity) the 5USD US users pay is equivalent to a purchase here of about 12BRL, which would be much more doable for me; the 24BRL fastmail asks for here is equivalent to a little less than something costing 10USD for you. Oranges and apples, etc.

    (I can’t find any reference to it by now, but I remember some months ago mastodon flipped out about fastmail, which was the first I’d heard of it. It hadn’t been on my radar at the time so I don’t remember what the fuss was about.)

    2 votes

  5. Comment on I am angry at Google and wanted to share (rant) in ~tech

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    I’m disappointed but not surprised. I keep meaning away from gmail, but every solution I find requires I give up using an aggregate app, deal with AI bullshit (I know gmail does this already but...

    I’m disappointed but not surprised.

    I keep meaning away from gmail, but every solution I find requires I give up using an aggregate app, deal with AI bullshit (I know gmail does this already but why move for more of the same?), or an investment of money I simply don’t have into a service (most services don’t offer regional pricing) or buying some cheap (fur USians) equipment to self host. Not really sure what a bird’s to do.

    12 votes

  6. Comment on Brazilians don't get dry, minimalist literature. A bit of a rant. in ~creative

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    This is partially why I write in english tbh. …This and the depressing fact of the cost and inaccessibility of the written word to most brazilians. Coming from academia, I have observed the label...

    This is partially why I write in english tbh. …This and the depressing fact of the cost and inaccessibility of the written word to most brazilians.

    Coming from academia, I have observed the label of “good writing” being applied liberally to unreadably bad texts: overwrought and flowery prose; smug overusage of “educated” words no one, not even professors, not even other academics, know; stupid sentence construction that seems to think flexing complexity is a marker of “good.”

    In seems (at least in academia) it has calmed down somewhat in the past couple years as post-doc books become more readable, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t know why this became the case, but my usual scapegoat is viralatismo.

    9 votes

  7. Comment on Medicine’s AI knowledge war heats up in ~health

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    Please tag this as AI, thank you!

    Please tag this as AI, thank you!

    2 votes

  8. Comment on No evidence of disease in ~health

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    I remember reading a comment during the fad of people online self-diagnosing with DID/Dissociative Identity Disorder that basically said that healthy people do not invent having psychiatric...

    I remember reading a comment during the fad of people online self-diagnosing with DID/Dissociative Identity Disorder that basically said that healthy people do not invent having psychiatric disorders. The gist of it was “They are sick. Not with DID, but they are sick.” I hope this woman gets the help she needs.

    21 votes

  9. Comment on Why does this happen? in ~tech

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    But the first half of the comment is accurate to the post, which (as far as I can tell, having seen the post minutes after it was posted) never said anything about Kongjian Yu.

    But the first half of the comment is accurate to the post, which (as far as I can tell, having seen the post minutes after it was posted) never said anything about Kongjian Yu.

  10. Why does this happen?

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    A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in...

    A photographer I knew passed away, and I was trying to see if there was any information. This was the top result I got on google. The part after the ellipses says “killed in a plane accident in Pantanal.”

    He did not die in the plane accident! That’s another piece of Brazilian news, about the architect Kongjian Yu. The search result is even tagged with Yu’s Sponge City/Cidade Esponja.

    So why is this showing up for a post summary about José Bassit? There’s nothing in the post comments or the post itself saying anything like this.

    14 votes

  11. Comment on Brick | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Thank you, I too was baffled!

    Thank you, I too was baffled!

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Brazilian comedian sentenced to eight years over discriminatory jokes in ~society

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    Lins has a piece where he says he got on a plane going to the Northeast, and that while “obviously there are human beings who aren’t 100% human,” “not one Northeasterner there on the airplane was...

    Lins has a piece where he says he got on a plane going to the Northeast, and that while “obviously there are human beings who aren’t 100% human,” “not one Northeasterner there on the airplane was more than 72% human.”

    This is the kind of absolutely disgusting speech that people do say, and it’s illegal, and it’s extremely fucking racist, and I say this as gently as humanly possible, if you don’t understand why it’s been tried in a criminal court, then maybe you should reserve your judgment on the matter until you understand a little better how fucked up this is within the context of Brazil and our relationship with the northeast, and especially in the relationship between Rio de Janeiro (where Lins is from) and the Northeast. The things that have happened to Northeasterners by whites like Lins, by cariocas like Lins in our history isn’t something anyone should just pooh-pooh away under the passive umbrella of “free speech.” This is an incitement to violence and an apologism for the crimes committed against the poor in our highly hard-coded class stratified society. It is egregious, it is evil, and it is wrong, and it absolutely should be punished in a criminal court. Which is what it has been. Thank god.

    What if he said this about Black people in the US? If he said this about people who are Jewish? About any other minority in the states? Would that not be criminal? Would it not be seen as an incitement to violence by groups who barely need any prompting to go after people they already see as sub-human? “Hey, [insert favored minority here] are subhuman LOL”

    This is some of the most vile and disgusting speech I’ve ever heard. He should absolutely be jailed.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I was going to write a bunch of spoiler-tagged things, but markdown apparently doesn’t work with spoiler tags the way I anticipated (the discord || spoiler here || method) so I’ve deleted the...

    I was going to write a bunch of spoiler-tagged things, but markdown apparently doesn’t work with spoiler tags the way I anticipated (the discord || spoiler here || method) so I’ve deleted the section because the idea of a single dropdown full of spoilers was a little too much I wanted to put, in case.

    Anyway.

    This game is legitimately a masterpiece. I’ve never in my life come across a work so perfectly realized within itself, refined to the point that this game is, absolutely wholly true to its own vision, worldbuilding, lore, and internal logic. It’s absolutely breathtaking sometimes, thinking of the sheer work and dedication.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Still playing Blue Prince though by now I’m reasonably sure I’m about 99% done. Without spoilers, the two major puzzles I need to solve are ones I can, well, ruminate on outside of the game, and I...

    Still playing Blue Prince though by now I’m reasonably sure I’m about 99% done. Without spoilers, the two major puzzles I need to solve are ones I can, well, ruminate on outside of the game, and I don’t really know what the implication-slash-consequence of either would be in-game. Oh, and the Observatory. IYKYK.

    Not really sure what I’m going to do with my free time after this! 😅

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    Oh my god, this is incredible. I’m absolutely going to try this!!

    Oh my god, this is incredible. I’m absolutely going to try this!!

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    This is great, thank you. I’ll see if I can find a copy of this book!

    This is great, thank you. I’ll see if I can find a copy of this book!

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    We eat a lot of bread. 😅 Thanks for the tips, fresh jalapeños sound amazing!

    We eat a lot of bread. 😅 Thanks for the tips, fresh jalapeños sound amazing!

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    I hadn’t realized there was a difference! Thank you!

    I hadn’t realized there was a difference! Thank you!

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    This is great info about the gluten-free. I’ll take a look at the machine I have in mind. I hadn’t realized the bread would dry out quicker: it might do for my use to make smaller loaves daily....

    This is great info about the gluten-free. I’ll take a look at the machine I have in mind. I hadn’t realized the bread would dry out quicker: it might do for my use to make smaller loaves daily. Thanks!

  20. Comment on Bread maker recipes? Tips and tricks? in ~food

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    Unfortunately I have arthritis in both wrists, so making my own bread — something I used to tremendously enjoy — is no longer an option.

    Unfortunately I have arthritis in both wrists, so making my own bread — something I used to tremendously enjoy — is no longer an option.

    7 votes