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My life with face blindness
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Mr. Robot | Season 4 trailer (starts October 6)
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Yacht Club Games Presents
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Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
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Comparing four site-uptime monitoring websites
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The Fanatic Review: We Have Reached Peak Late-Stage Travolta
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I made my own thermostat using a Raspberry Pi
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Andrew Yang’s plan to tackle climate change, explained
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MTV VMAs 2019 ratings hit all-time low
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Silvio Gesell, who wanted to create money that expired, is making a comeback
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg nears end of her Atlantic crossing on zero-carbon yacht
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Norway warns its companies to not hurt Brazil's rainforest
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Colts QB and former #1 overall pick Andrew Luck abruptly retires from pro football at only 29 years old
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Malcolm Lincoln - Siren (2010)
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Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology
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Finland should stop using soya as animal feed by 2025 says the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
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How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year
News article: How social inclusion could boost Australia's economy by $12.7 billion a year The study: The economic benefits of improving social inclusion
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Hooliganism fears rise in Denmark after footballer Jens Stage's flat is set on fire following his transfer from AGF to FC Köpenhamn
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Cane and Rinse interview with Fumito Ueda (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian)
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In April 2018, Facebook promised to share data so academics could research impact on elections. They haven't done it, and the project's funders will pull out if it's not all available by Sept 30
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Any-Mation - channel dedicated to education about animation used in movies (and TV)
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Do you collect questions? What are some questions on your list?
I read an interesting comic a while back about someone who collects questions that they don't have immediate answers to. (That is, things you can't just Google.) I'm wondering if anyone else...
I read an interesting comic a while back about someone who collects questions that they don't have immediate answers to. (That is, things you can't just Google.) I'm wondering if anyone else actually does this and if you have any questions that you'd like to share?
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Australian solar could power Singapore within a decade
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The incredible artists of Kyoto Animation: Part 1
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Proposal: Community Sourcing
The Problem A large problem in internet communities is internet debates that devolve into metadiscussions on credibility. This likely isn't bad, because the default alternative is generally...
The Problem
A large problem in internet communities is internet debates that devolve into metadiscussions on credibility. This likely isn't bad, because the default alternative is generally large-scale misinformation campaigns.
Examples
Tildes hasn't been free of this, naturally; for a (very) recent example, see this thread on Andrew Yang's climate change proposals.
I, personally, have partaken in a thread that seemed as if it might head in the same direction; take a look at this thread, on gun suicides of a certain population & aggravating factors of them. A third-party delivering a breadth of sources seemed to have stopped it in its tracks, however.
Solution
It does seem to me like something that could be solved—or at least mitigated—at the platform level, with a feature that would allow other users to cite sources for a comment in question, ideally with community ranking of those sources.
Getting rid of the question of credibility in casual discussions in a way that doesn't interrupt the flow of dialogue seems like something that would undoubtedly help The Conversation™ flourish, while simultaneously preventing disinformation catastrophes.
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The 175-year history of speculating about President James Buchanan’s bachelorhood and possible homosexuality
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Active YouTube channels in "dead" genres?
What are some good YouTube channels still currently working in genres which aren't currently popular because of algorithm shenanigans, the natural cycle of trends, or whatever else? I'm thinking...
What are some good YouTube channels still currently working in genres which aren't currently popular because of algorithm shenanigans, the natural cycle of trends, or whatever else? I'm thinking like sketch comedy, original animations, serious short films, etc.
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The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease
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A group of Chinese international students say they take little notice of politics or historical events, with one admitting to not having heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
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Climate change plans need to account for the manufacturing of materials like steel, cement, plastic, glass, aluminum, and paper
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Skrillex and Nero - Promises (Knower remix) (2011)
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Weightlifters: your stories of pain?
I was feeling great in the gym yesterday and switched up my normal deadlift by using the hex bar. It requires a slightly different posture than the straight bar deadlift but felt so good that I...
I was feeling great in the gym yesterday and switched up my normal deadlift by using the hex bar. It requires a slightly different posture than the straight bar deadlift but felt so good that I kept adding on weight and, evidently, speeding up. What happens when you get a little too enthusiastic under load? Zzzlip! There went my back. So I’m home from work today, barely able to hobble around. Ibuprofen is not enough. I sneezed earlier and it felt like someone had inserted a power drill into my lower spinal column. Yep, I’m feeling stupid today.
Weightlifters, what are your stories of pain? I’m sure there are some good stories out there.
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Here’s what San Francisco’s most expensive home on the market looks like
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Kernel Panic - The world's first cyber crime: The Morris Worm
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"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie", written and directed by Vince Gilligan and starring Aaron Paul, will be released on Netflix on October 11
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Tyranny of the Clock - Lessons we learned when debugging a scaling problem on GitLab.com
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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Anthony Levandowski, former Uber self-driving car executive, indicted for alleged theft of trade secrets from Google
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Andrés Digital - Mixtape Colombiano (2019)
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Infinity Shred - Cranemaker (2019)
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Fairphone updates its ethical smartphone for 2019
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Hong Kong activists booted from Montreal Pride parade after alleged pro-Communist threats
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Knights and Bikes | Launch Trailer
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Men
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A short cultural history of tie-dye
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What purpose does Tildes serve that Reddit does not?
It's a question I'm sure has been asked in a better way many times before, but somehow I haven't found it in search so I'll just post it here.
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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
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Anthony Michael Hall joins horror sequel ‘Halloween Kills’
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Icelanders can't remember a hotter summer – it's nice, and worrying
7 votes