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7 votes
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This staircase from the Eiffel Tower is for sale
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Errant Signal - "Keep Your Politics Out of my Video Games"
7 votes -
Italian Village Installs Speed Cameras, Records 58,000 Infractions In 2 Weeks
15 votes -
Two scenarios of Chinese hacking of Australian companies
China uses the cloud to step up spying on Australian business How China diverts, then spies on Australia's internet traffic
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Healing the body electric: In the next five to ten years, a new generation of small networked sensors will provide doctors with up-to-the-moment insight into patients’ health
5 votes -
[Short Film] The Real Thing - a soldier returns home to meet his daughter, who transitioned while he was on tour - (fair warning: you're gonna cry)
8 votes -
§peculum§: Mixtape #17 - سبعة عشر ميكس
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Bag’o’grooves #2
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In Praise of Tom Waits, Character Actor
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Any literary translators here? What programs do you use?
I've started doing this amateurishly a few months ago, translating a novel slowly, and nowadays I'm thinking of going to a few publishers and asking for actual contracts. Currently, I'm using an...
I've started doing this amateurishly a few months ago, translating a novel slowly, and nowadays I'm thinking of going to a few publishers and asking for actual contracts. Currently, I'm using an Org mode file in Emacs to do the translation, but I'm not sure that this is the most optimal way to do it. I was doing it using paper for a while, but editing and commenting is more flexible in Org mode. Yet it is also rather cumbersome the way I do it:
<<pageNo.paragraphNo.sentenceNo>> Text, text text # some text with a comment # comment about the part between this comment and the above empty one more text, more text. <<...>> Another sentence
I'm thinking of adding some code to make this a bit prettier, though.
But are there anything that's better out there already. My preference hierarchy: Emacs mode, yayyy! > Open source app, that's fine > Proprietary app, shit! but better than nothing.
I'm not sure if this should go under ~comp, ~tech or here (~books).
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Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Climate Mash
3 votes -
Review of controls for certain emerging technologies
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The million-dollar drug: How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was thirty years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared
19 votes -
“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)
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The new populism • An investigation into the rise of a global phenomenon
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Hey, Tildes, what's a strong opinion you hold, but which you also feel like is the minority opinion?
pretty much anything goes (exercise common sense, obviously). i find questions like this interesting to ask and usually interesting conversations come from them, so let's give it a spin.
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The fax is not yet obsolete
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I have found a bug in the topics tag filter where when submitting hyphenated compound words, it says “invalid tags”.
It doesn't allow me to filter words like neo-nazi or alt-right, for example.
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Do you even bake, bro?
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Ghost Data - Magical Metamorphosis (2017)
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This man hosts a free Thanksgiving dinner for all who RSVP. It’s his 33rd year.
7 votes -
The community network manual: How to build the Internet yourself
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The Main Squeeze - "Have a Cigar" (Pink Floyd) (2018)
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Guatemala volcano erupts: Nearly 4,000 people evacuated from Mount Fuego
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A day in the life of Lloyd Squires, founder of Myer's Bagels in Burlington, Vermont
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Krunker - In-browser multiplayer FPS
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Tildes, what are your thoughts on the "Earth Strike" movement that's currently being organized?
for those of you unaware, the "Earth Strike" movement (see also: their Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter pages) is an international planned protest movement that will ultimately culminate in a general,...
for those of you unaware, the "Earth Strike" movement (see also: their Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter pages) is an international planned protest movement that will ultimately culminate in a general, international strike on september 27th, 2019. as of today it's only been in planning for like a week and change (almost exclusively online, as a point of note) so a lot of kinks are still being worked out and i'm not even sure there's a centralized organization to it as of now, but among other things, it internationally seeks the following demands:
An immediate start on global co-operation to reverse the damage done to the earths’ climate, through unambiguous and binding agreements, by both world leaders and corporate entities, following IPCC projections of halving carbon net emissions by 2030 and zero net emissions by 2050;
International, unambiguous and binding commitments to halt the destruction of rain forests and other wildlife habitats, and
International, unambiguous and binding agreements designed to hold corporations accountable for the greenhouse gases they produce.i think most of us can agree that ultimately, their current demands are not 100% feasible or are actively impossible (at least not without radical, extremely sudden societal change) and that the ship has most likely sailed on keeping climate change from having some serious impacts. but do you think that this movement has any potential of any kind to enact change going forward? is it destined to be another Occupy, where some of its goals are taken up into politics but ultimately the movement itself collapses due to infighting and external factors? can it even be truly successful at all, given its lofty aim of an international general strike? or is it likely to just outright evaporate into functional or actual irrelevancy given enough time?
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Miniman - Digital Harmonies (2018)
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Small farmers in Mexico keep corn’s genetic diversity alive
3 votes -
The future of aging just might be in Margaritaville
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Cat tongue spines help smear saliva and inspire new 3D-printed brush
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New Orleans’ Tipitina’s Could Be Purchased By Local Funk Band Galactic
7 votes -
How do you feel about where you live?
Where do you live and how do you feel about it? What are the best and worst parts?
45 votes -
APEC leaders summit: Five key moments in Pacific tug of war
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison will cut the number of migrants coming to Australia, declaring the "roads are clogged" and buses, trains and schools in Sydney and Melbourne "are full".
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'That time Disney remade Beauty and the Beast' - On Disney's ongoing live action remake trend
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Desaparecidos - The Left Is Right (2015)
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Sackler family members face mass litigation and criminal investigations over opioids crisis
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Nautilus Pompilius - Proschalnoje pismo (Farewell letter, aka “Goodbye, America!”) (1989)
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Tim Cook defends using Google as primary search engine on Apple devices
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The Brexit mess could lead to a break-up of a no longer United Kingdom
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Decrying “tribalism” is a favorite pastime of American elites, but the real problem is the unity among them
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Black Mirror S04E06 “Black Museum” Discussion Thread
Previous episode | Index thread Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 6 - Black Museum On a dusty stretch of highway, a traveler stumbles across a museum that boasts rare criminal artifacts -- and a...
Previous episode | Index thread
Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 6 - Black Museum
On a dusty stretch of highway, a traveler stumbles across a museum that boasts rare criminal artifacts -- and a disturbing main attraction.
Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.
You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!
If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:
- How does the title relate to the episode itself?
- Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
- Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
Please rate the episode here!
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Canadian literary prize suspended after finalists object to Amazon sponsorship
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Generals.io: a cool little online real-time strategy game
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This Week's Releases 16/11 - Anderson .Paak, The Smashing Pumpkins, Imagine Dragons
Releases of the week 10/11/2018 - 16/11/2018 Featured Release Anderson .Paak - Oxnard (R&B, Hip Hop) Oxnard marks .Paak’s first release on Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and last of “his beach...
Releases of the week 10/11/2018 - 16/11/2018
Featured Release
Anderson .Paak - Oxnard (R&B, Hip Hop)
Oxnard marks .Paak’s first release on Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment and last of “his beach series.” “You know, we went to Venice, we went to Malibu,” .Paak noted, “so it’s only right that we take it to the next place, up the coast, up to the next beach.” As hinted previously, Dre was “heavily” involved in the making of the LP, serving as executive producer. “His music was everything to me,” Paak said of his mentor. “It molded me.”
Another famous name that pops up on Oxnard is Madlib, a veteran rapper and producer who is also known for his collaborations with DOOM, J Dilla, and Freddie Gibbs.
The new album features “sprawling psychedelic grooves and confident verses,” according to Rolling Stone, and per .Paak, a special ingredient missing from the current musical landscape. “I feel like ambition is missing from today’s music,” he explained. “This is the album I dreamed of making in high school, when I was listening to [Jay-Z]’s The Blueprint, The Game’s The Documentary, and [Kanye West’s] The College Dropout.”Notable Relases
The Smashing Pumpkins - Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (Rock, Grunge)
Imagine Dragons - Origins (Pop Rock)
Mariah Carey - Caution (R&B, Pop)
The Black Eyed Peas - Masters of the Sun, Vol. 1 (Hip Hop, Pop Rap)
Feel free to discuss or feature any and all other releases in the comments below
Discussion Points
Have you listened to any of these releases?
What are your thoughts?
What are you looking forward to listen to?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past?This is a new format I'm trying out to help immerse people into new album discussion. I welcome and look forward to any feedback!
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Live analysis by sesse supercomputer of the world chess championship match
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Dumbo | Official trailer
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What are you thankful for?
Hello everybody! As the Americans here are probably aware, this week is our holiday for Thanksgiving. One of the traditional parts of the holiday (at least as I've always practiced it) is...
Hello everybody! As the Americans here are probably aware, this week is our holiday for Thanksgiving. One of the traditional parts of the holiday (at least as I've always practiced it) is everybody writing a list of the things they're thankful for in their life and over the past year. Especially since this is our first Thanksgiving together since Tildes was founded, I was wondering if you'd like to contribute such a list. :)
17 votes