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8 votes
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Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence
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For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future
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I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot
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The Lighthouse | Official trailer
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Security researchers at Google Project Zero discovered and responsibly disclosed the recently patched iMessage based Apple iOS vulnerability
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Food trucks have multiplied in Seattle — and with that come growing pains
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Indigenous maize: Who owns the rights to Mexico’s ‘wonder’ plant?
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What are you reading these days? #24
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes Sorry for posting late this time round. I had an...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes
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Sorry for posting late this time round. I had an intense week, and was basically too lazy to post yesterday.
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I will not include a list of past topics in the topic text anymore, given it is redundant with the listing in the wiki. Below you'll find a link to the relevant section in the relevant wiki page instead. If you think this is a bad change, PM me about it; if a lot of you don't like it I might end up reverting this.
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Have a nice weekend!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Samoa's 'third gender' delicately balances sex and religion
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YouTube's 'King of Random' Grant Thompson dead at 38, paragliding accident
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There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
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Give political power to ordinary people: To fight elite capture of the state, it’s time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries
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Unofficial Weekly Discussion #1 - Suggestions/ideas/concerns for future unofficial weekly discussions
Since @Deimos has stated he will likely not be restarting the tradition of the Official Daily Tildes Discussions, which is something I and a number of other users greatly enjoyed and miss, I have...
Since @Deimos has stated he will likely not be restarting the tradition of the Official Daily Tildes Discussions, which is something I and a number of other users greatly enjoyed and miss, I have decided to attempt to take on the responsibility of continuing them unofficially (with his blessing). And since these are not official (so won't be in ~tildes.official, which everyone is subscribed to and probably shouldn't unsubscribe from), I will only be doing them weekly instead of daily, and we now have topic tag filtering (so
unofficial weekly discussion
can be filtered out), hopefully the people who found the official daily discussions annoying can more easily ignore/hide these unofficial ones.With the explanation out of the way, on to the topic for this week:
Suggestions/ideas/concerns for future unofficial weekly discussions
I thought it would be appropriate to have the first one of these be a bit of an open-ended, meta-meta discussion on the future of these topics. And to kick things off:
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What would everyone here like to see discussed in these topics in the future? Are there any particular site features (planned, suggested or theoretical), policies (tagging, moderation, etc), or other meta issues/subjects you would like to be the topic in future discussions?
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What would you like us to try to achieve with these discussions? Should we have any specific goals in mind, or should they just be fun brainstorming/theory-crafting/naval-gazing sessions?
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Does anyone have any suggestions for me with regards to how I should handle these discussions? Is there anyone out there who would like to help me with these in some capacity going forwards?
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Does anyone have any concerns regarding these unofficial discussions, and if so, can you think of any ways we can try to address them?
The floor is open, and I am all ears. :)
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Tildes User Script: Drag and drop usernames in order to mention them in your comments
It is was a tedious task to mention users: copy, type, paste. This script makes it a single step: drag and drop any username on to the comment you're composing, and tada! It's there. Here is the...
It
iswas a tedious task to mention users: copy, type, paste. This script makes it a single step: drag and drop any username on to the comment you're composing, and tada! It's there.Here is the script:
// ==UserScript== // @name tildesDragNDropUsernameForMention // @version 1 // @grant none // @namespace tildes.net // ==/UserScript== var userLinks = document.querySelectorAll('a.link-user'); var dragstartHandler = function (event) { var text = event.target.innerText; if(!text.startsWith('@')){ text = "@" + text; } event.dataTransfer.setData("text", text); event.dataTransfer.dropEffect = 'copy'; } userLinks.forEach(function (each) { each.setAttribute('draggable', true); each.ondragstart = dragstartHandler; });
Patches welcome!
Edit: remove useless code
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From singing together to being read to in a library – an arts participation scheme is transforming lives in Denmark
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Slender Man for Boomers: The offshoots of the QAnon conspiracy theory have gone to even darker places.
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YouTube trolls advertise fake homeless shelter, tricking 'desperate' California residents and harassing a social media personality
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Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade
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Datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google's growing interest in Finland
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‘I think it’s a cap gun,’ the police officer said. He opened fire on an eighth-grader moments later. The district attorney decided not to file charges.
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Iranian heavy metal band Confess escape to Norway after receiving prison sentences
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The West seems unaware that Africa’s future is urban
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Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim
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Sweden's biggest cities face power shortage after fuel-tax hike
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The superheroes are the villains in Amazon's dark comedy 'The Boys' — Is it any good?
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Okey Dokey & Harpooner - Edge of America (2019)
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German officials are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to argue they can try anyone for war crimes committed anywhere
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Behind “Moms for Seattle,” a possible shell company and a bunch of shadowy men
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Control | Story trailer
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Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions
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To survive climate catastrophe, look to queer and disabled folks
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Hell is Other Internet People: Gretchen McCulloch’s new book unpacks the language of the internet
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China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
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The disappeared, the dead, and the damned: Inside the Church Of Scientology
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Humans will never colonize Mars
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Combining searches and filters
The lack of ability to combine search functions on Tildes is becoming more and more of a pain point for me. I can filter for one tag or search for one word, but that's it. I can't narrow the...
The lack of ability to combine search functions on Tildes is becoming more and more of a pain point for me. I can filter for one tag or search for one word, but that's it. I can't narrow the search in any way. I can't combine searches and filters and groups:
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I can't search for a word within a group.
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I can't search for a word within a set of topics filtered by a tag.
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I can't filter by two separate tags at the same time.
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I can't search for two separate words at the same time.
As Tildes is growing larger, the ability to search better is becoming more necessary.
Is there any possibility of bringing forward the work on searches so that some of these combinations can be enabled?
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
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Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
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‘The Expanse’ renewed for season five at Amazon
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Chinese vlogger who used filter to look younger caught in live-stream glitch
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The latest study on trigger warnings finally convinced me they’re not worth it
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Ethiopia plants 350m trees in a day to help tackle climate crisis
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Gay Star News is closing: a letter from the founders, Tris Reid-Smith and Scott Nunn
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Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
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Oxygen Not Included has released from Early Access
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Political confessional: The man who thinks the US is better off as a bunch of separate countries
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!!! - Serbia Drums (2019)
5 votes