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5 votes
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
15 votes -
Designing investigative conversations in Heaven's Vault
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قلب: لغة برمجة [alb: a programming language]
18 votes -
Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
10 votes -
Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far.
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Jayson from Vegas flies in for final hike up 'symbol of all Australia'
3 votes -
Adventure Time revived at HBO Max
6 votes -
The Outer Worlds | Launch trailer
16 votes -
Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets
8 votes -
Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath Björk
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Is there a manga equivalent of sakuga?
A part of a page drawn with higher than usual quality or attention or detail, or something along those lines? Does it have a name?
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What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
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Svensk Vindenergi – Sweden is set to have more wind power capacity than nuclear this year
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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New release: Tails 4.0
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
8 votes -
Google demonstrating quantum supremacy
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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Firefox 70 has been released
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Legends of Runeterra announced - A strategy card game set in the world of League of Legends
8 votes -
Congressional hearing - An examination of Facebook and its impact on the financial services and housing sectors
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The 737 built Southwest, and the 737 Max could be its undoing
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SoftBank to take control of WeWork at a pre-funding valuation of $7.5B - $8B, according to sources
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The new two-value syntax of the CSS display: property
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Olympic destroyer - The untold story of the 2018 Olympics cyberattack
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Nanotale: Typing Chronicles | Early Access trailer
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California city returns island taken from native tribe in 1860 massacre
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How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache
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In defence of America’s prison-industrial complex
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The creative camaraderie behind Wilmot's Warehouse
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Quantum supremacy: The gloves are off
7 votes -
Scandroid - Writing's On The Wall (2019)
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Canada election: Justin Trudeau's Liberals win but lose majority
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Kik Messenger acquired by MediaLab, announces plan to introduce ads
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TechCrunch published Snap's earnings almost 10 minutes before they were released
@alexeheath: TechCrunch appears to have published a prewritten Snap earnings story before the numbers actually went public. Post has been taken down but was up for a few minutes https://t.co/ZlxmDSvHo5
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The mathematics of winning Monopoly
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Lee Pace, Jared Harris to star in Apple’s Isaac Asimov series ‘Foundation’
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US envoy testifies that release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election
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OpenAI Plays Hide and Seek…and Breaks The Game!
19 votes -
Tildes app ?
Any plans for a tildes app?. I’m often on mobile and an app would probably run better than the website on browser
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Women in Norway have the best quality of life according to the latest Women, Peace and Security Index
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Tallinn and Helsinki to harmonize their public transport networks – working towards the creation of a common ticketing system for both cities' buses
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PG&E’s rolling blackouts probably don’t eliminate fire risk, and they actually could make responding to fires harder. What they largely do is shift responsibility away from the company.
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Why we need to dream bigger than bike lanes
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How can we betray each other less on the Internet?
I was thinking about having a general purpose thread about internet drama venting, but that seems like a very bad idea if all the top level threads are different gripes and one in particular gets...
I was thinking about having a general purpose thread about internet drama venting, but that seems like a very bad idea if all the top level threads are different gripes and one in particular gets out of control, so here's mine and this can be dealt with as needed.
There was this recent issue in left adjacent Twitter of a notable YouTube person inviting someone else to read a quote for a bigger project. Invitee had controversial views on gender dysphoria, the host defended their decision, and details aren't super important for what I want to talk about.
I see where Natalie is coming from if she wants to make a point about Tolerance and Outgroups. I think this was the wrong way to do that, #BuckisWrong, but I don't think brigading her on Twitter and asking her social group to disavow her is appropriate, however, I don't have any skin in the game outside of being an anxious cis white male who thinks Twitter enables and thrives off of toxic discourse.I get that this is all some of you are willing to talk about but I want to talk about the meta and the behavior here, so please pretend they're all Martians for the time being.
What I want to talk about is how the internet specifically reacted, asking the creator's circle to walk back any endorsement of them, holding them to a fire and how much it kind of fits in into a pattern of isolation featured earlier in Lindsay Ellis' presentation about being shamed online, and propose that what makes an internet outrage mob is kind of values neutral.
Obviously, your -ism of choice would factor into an internet hate mob and make it into the Eternal Tire Fire that the internet is known for birthing these days, but the key spark seems to be a betrayal of trust. You thought someone or something was in your corner/was values neutral/shared your politics and when that is not the case, you simply want it gone. It was kind of always in the discussion with "Cancel Culture Concern," but it hasn't really clicked until now for me that it's such a common thread.
So, assuming we can't nor want to make it impossible to betray one another or make the Internet a safe space for everybody and for all sensibilities, can we cut down on this outcome, is it incentivised through engagement metrics, and/or is it just something that comes with the ability to mass broadcast and mass response?
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I just took the world’s first twenty hour flight. Here’s what it did to me.
19 votes