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36 votes
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The Cardigans blir ”sponsor” till FC Rosengård / The Cardigans become a "sponsor" to FC Rosengård
3 votes -
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree | Story trailer
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Hundreds paid to be ‘robbed’ by phony holdup crews to gain favorable immigration status, feds say
20 votes -
Marvel’s new ‘X-Men’ movie lands ‘Hunger Games’ screenwriter Michael Lesslie
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Pixar: Layoffs hit storied animation studio
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The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff
36 votes -
GOG will host Fallout: London
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Consider the Consequences!, the 1930 pioneer of interactive fiction, remade as a Twine game
11 votes -
Blunt, stunts and Ryan Gosling: how did The Fall Guy flop – and what does that mean for cinema?
18 votes -
Menthol inhalation may boost cognitive ability in Alzheimer’s
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British Library on why it kept it real in communication about ransomware attack
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How the internet revived the world's first work of interactive fiction
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Which books or authors have had the greatest impact on your worldview despite never having read them?
Some (hopefully obvious) caveats before we begin. By definition, everyone sharing examples here has not deeply engaged with the source material, so they're likely to have misconceptions from...
Some (hopefully obvious) caveats before we begin.
- By definition, everyone sharing examples here has not deeply engaged with the source material, so they're likely to have misconceptions from cultural osmosis.
- If you have read the source, feel free to share whether the common knowledge is accurate, a common misconception, or the first time you've seen it interpreted that way.
- If it was a video game, classical music, or other non-book that influenced you, those are also welcome.
Some answers from asking a similar question elsewhere
- Marx
- The Bible
- F.A. Hayek
- Aristotle
- Milton Friedman
- Socrates
- Plato
I'll post my answer as a comment to give it equal weight to the others.
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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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Fecal microbiota transplant: Inside the black market for human poop
30 votes -
A new native port of Majora's Mask might change how we play N64 games on our PCs
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How to make a CPU
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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Dune Rats - Melted Into Two (2022)
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Embracing chaos - how Hyper Light Breaker survived 2023
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Criterion and Janus Films bought by Indian Paintbrush founder Steven Rales
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The 100 games that taught me game design
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Rams (2018) - A Dieter Rams documentary - Free today
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Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars
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Yorkshire crafts: Drystone wallers
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Toward a feminist criminal law: Mass incarceration means police and prisons are not simple allies for feminists who want a more just world
14 votes -
The Controversialist: Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism
3 votes -
Building the worlds first Etch-A-Sketch camera
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The engineering of duct tape
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What’s your method for archiving bookmarked/liked social media posts?
Following the recent upsets with both Twitter and Reddit, how have people here been exporting/archiving their bookmarked/favorited/liked/etc threads, posts, and the content within (images, links,...
Following the recent upsets with both Twitter and Reddit, how have people here been exporting/archiving their bookmarked/favorited/liked/etc threads, posts, and the content within (images, links, etc) for later reference?
It hit me not too long ago that there’s a lot of good stuff I’ve bookmarked over the years on both and it’d be unfortunate for viewing it to be locked behind keeping accounts active. Additionally, more and more of it’s disappearing over time not just due to link rot (which seems to have been accelerating dramatically in the past decade), but also as a result of users deleting their posts on the way out.
I’m particularly interested in solutions that saves content locally, because exporting these things to e.g. a cloud read it later service or bookmark manager really just shifts the problem around instead of solving it, but beggars can’t be choosers and all that.
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Five-hour video about the history of North Korean media
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The race up a Hong Kong tower covered in forty feet of steamed buns
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Privacy woes and autonomy, where do I go now?
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent. Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of...
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent.
Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of privacy and autonomy, without ever winning. DuckDuckGo is my search engine, use a paid mail provider, I try to stay away from anything Google and Meta, use only Signal, ad blocking everywhere, hosting most services locally, etc. It seems, however, to make no difference in the long run. The user-profile-building just seems to enter the home faster than I can mitigate it. Kids install some new app or new hardware ends up listening in, privacy infringement is there.
The reason I'm starting this post now is because I switched ISP and TV provider recently, but it has been on my mind for a long time. Finding one that isn't owned by one of huge 3 parent companies, is almost impossible here. After a year of deciding, I finally figured it was time to throw in the towel and just pick the least bad option. Yesterday was the day of switching and it has been such a frustrating process.
The provided router doesn't allow me to turn off its WLAN. I live in a city, so the airwaves are already crowded enough as it is. No need to keep that antenna on, but screw me, that's not possible. Opened up the device to just remove the card, but everything is soldered on the board and disconnecting the antennas didn't do shit.
It's possible to buy a modem/router myself, but it'll need to follow their requirements and will set me back $200. It would be okay if the rest of the service was great, but here comes the TV part!The device they use for TV is apparently Android TV. I assumed it would be IPTV with this subscription, but Android TV isn't that. Booting the device makes it immediately clear they are here to harvest data. It makes me so unhappy that a service I'm paying for, is also making money on the side by collecting data. To get a quick idea of what's being done, I routed the box through wireshark to sniff DNS traffic. It's riddled with domains used for data collection and ads. That combined with the features this box wants me to agree to (location, using the mic, access local network, sign into PlayStore, make a profile including real life information) does not make me trust this device. So I've decided to not play and will be sending it back.
People around me are pretty conscious about what they do online, but compared to them I'm highly paranoid. Wherever I look, there are privacy issues. It seems impossible to escape from. How are other people dealing with this?
UPDATE: I don't know if anybody is really interested, but I thought I would update anyway. I decided to listen to my gut and I cancelled the subscription. It feels like the best decision I've made in a long time. It's nice to feel like I'm still a little bit in charge, even though I know that's also just a false sense of autonomy. Suck it, Google! You're not the boss of me :-)
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How much research is being written by large language models?
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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Tobias Santelmann, Joel Kinnaman to star in Netflix’s Harry Hole nordic noir series
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Milestone: Eldest child hits 18!
I'm just spouting here. Today I feel old, yet I'm mid 40s. My eldest daughter today is 18. We had a family party for her yesterday and it was lovely. It's so crazy where the years go. As I sit...
I'm just spouting here. Today I feel old, yet I'm mid 40s. My eldest daughter today is 18. We had a family party for her yesterday and it was lovely.
It's so crazy where the years go. As I sit here, the 3.5 year old plays Duplo by the sofa on a lazy Sunday, the two other late teenagers upstairs and still not out of bed, I wonder what happens when they all leave and the house becomes peaceful.
I have a long time to go with the youngest having arrived while I'm in the later years for having a child, he will practically grow up a single sibling. Holidays are certainly going to get cheaper in the long term.
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Geert Wilders is coming for the EU – The hard-right politician has at last formed a government after six months of negotiation
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Meet Iran′s President-elect Ebrahim Raisi (2021)
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In defense of embroidery
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If you're seeing this, I'm in jail
54 votes -
Magnus Carlsen triumphed at the inaugural Casablanca Chess 2024, clinching first in a dynamic finish versus Hikaru Nakamura
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The Last Messiah by Peter W. Zapffe: An important pessimist and antinatalist essay
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Longlegs | Official trailer
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Formula 1 Emilia-Romagna (Imola) Grand Prix 2024 - Results
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Kind of a boring race, honestly. At least until the the last ~10 laps or so. Then Lando ate into that already small gap (for Max) of like 6-7sec and seriously challenged Max for P1! I think the gap the two was down to 0.7sec. I was wearing my RBR jacket; thought I might have to change into my McLaren jacket! One more lap and I think Lando would've had Max.
I definitely expect Lando at the top of the podium again at some point this season. And I'm looking forward to it.
Next race:
Monaco Grand Prix
Circuit de Monaco
Sunday, May 26Lastly...LOTS of racing next weekend. Aside from Monaco, IndyCar's 108th running of the Indianpolis 500 is on Sunday, along with NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 only a couple hours later. There's also the Formula E Shanghai E-Prix and a MotoGP race at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. I'm sure there're more, but these are some of the bigger races.
Race Results -- SPOILER
POS NO DRIVER CAR LAPS TIME/RETIRED PTS 1 1 Max Verstappen RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 63 1:25:25.252 25 2 4 Lando Norris MCLAREN MERCEDES 63 +0.725s 18 3 16 Charles Leclerc FERRARI 63 +7.916s 15 4 81 Oscar Piastri MCLAREN MERCEDES 63 +14.132s 12 5 55 Carlos Sainz FERRARI 63 +22.325s 10 6 44 Lewis Hamilton MERCEDES 63 +35.104s 8 7 63 George Russell MERCEDES 63 +47.154s 7 8 11 Sergio Perez RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT 63 +54.776s 4 9 18 Lance Stroll ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 63 +79.556s 2 10 22 Yuki Tsunoda RB HONDA RBPT 62 +1 lap 1 11 27 Nico Hulkenberg HAAS FERRARI 62 +1 lap 0 12 20 Kevin Magnussen HAAS FERRARI 62 +1 lap 0 13 3 Daniel Ricciardo RB HONDA RBPT 62 +1 lap 0 14 31 Esteban Ocon ALPINE RENAULT 62 +1 lap 0 15 24 Zhou Guanyu KICK SAUBER FERRARI 62 +1 lap 0 16 10 Pierre Gasly ALPINE RENAULT 62 +1 lap 0 17 2 Logan Sargeant WILLIAMS MERCEDES 62 +1 lap 0 18 77 Valtteri Bottas KICK SAUBER FERRARI 62 +1 lap 0 19 14 Fernando Alonso ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES 62 +1 lap 0 NC 23 Alexander Albon WILLIAMS MERCEDES 51 DNF 0 Fastest Lap: George Russell
Source: F1.com, FIA.com Final Race Classification [PDF]
13 votes -
Mario Builder 64 ROM hack now available
17 votes -
Police are not primarily crime fighters
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‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ sets fall 2025 release as Take-Two posts $2.9 billion quarterly loss
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City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System
27 votes