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12 votes
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In China, surge in students informing on professors
8 votes -
Mac Walters, creative director for the Mass Effect franchise, answers unsolved mysteries of the Mass Effect universe
4 votes -
š©ššš»š½ ~ Abstract Art Evolution (A genetic art tool I just released)
8 votes -
The love that binds us: A report from the Kyoto Animation memorial service
3 votes -
Airbnb to verify all listings, CEO Brian Chesky says
7 votes -
Almost 7000 pages of leaked Facebook documents show how they leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
15 votes -
GitHub's "The State of the Octoverse" report for 2019
7 votes -
Re-Licensing Sentry
24 votes -
Roads from the past - a short animated history of Britain's Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers
6 votes -
"Children and Politics" - a 3 minute interview with British children before the 1964 general election
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously...
This is short, but it demonstrates something that's been missing from tv for a while, which is the simple interview with children that recognises they are children but still takes them seriously as humans.
EDIT: Somehow I missed the main link, which goes to a BFI page here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-children-and-politics-1964-online
There are some amazing old (1960s, 1970s) British tv interviews with children carried out by Harold Williamson. He asks children a question and then just lets them answer. There's no attempt to laugh at the children, and there's no attempt to say "zomg look at what this cute kid is saying".
A few clips here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b and there are probably more on Youtube: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tq93b
It's showing its age - "what would you do if your husbands went on strike? How would you run a household?" (asked of two girls) isn't acceptable.
7 votes -
China introduces restrictions on video games for minors
8 votes -
TrueAnon Podcast
2 votes -
Collapse OS
10 votes -
async/await On Stable Rust (1.39.0)
13 votes -
Soul | Official teaser
6 votes -
I am overwintering my peppers in Canada
14 votes -
Abbey Games (developer of Reus, Renowned Explorers, and Godhood) will end all employees' contracts at the end of the year
7 votes -
Whatās something you would gladly eat for lunch very day for for the rest of your life?
Mine would be feijoada!
22 votes -
Konosuba: Legend Of Crimson review - Not up to snuff
4 votes -
Hearing Things - Transit Of Venus (2019)
4 votes -
China's ancient dominance, how the West took it away from China and how China is regaining it
8 votes -
Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
15 votes -
Chorus: An Adventure Musical - From a team including David Gaider, Austin Wintory, Troy Baker, and Laura Bailey
4 votes -
The fantasy of opting out
16 votes -
Under shroud of secrecy, US weapons arrive in Yemen despite Congressional outrage
3 votes -
What do you gift a couch host?
In a few days, Iāll be crashing on my friendās couch for a week. If it matters, I can only buy from retail stores within Hong Kong and hand carry on the subway. Every time I see them, theyāre too...
In a few days, Iāll be crashing on my friendās couch for a week.
If it matters, I can only buy from retail stores within Hong Kong and hand carry on the subway. Every time I see them, theyāre too quick on the bill, so taking them to eat is out of the question.
Obvious choices are alcohol or fruit basket. Iām terrible at picking gifts for people, as Iām always worried theyāll be as picky as I am on my purchases.
What are your go-tos for gifts in this situation?
11 votes -
Braid and the beauty of not wasting time
5 votes -
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia
9 votes -
the city
Something I wrote after watching a scene in the Apple TV+ "The Morning Show" showing an NYC skyline. I've always had a love for NYC, even though I don't live there, and a love for cities more...
Something I wrote after watching a scene in the Apple TV+ "The Morning Show" showing an NYC skyline. I've always had a love for NYC, even though I don't live there, and a love for cities more generally. I've never not lived in a city after moving out of my parents' place, and can't imagine going back to the suburbs. Cities are my home, cities are where I belong. I don't think this one is finished, yet; there are a few rough spots, and I'm not sure about the ending. But, like people have said in a few of the timasomo threads, the important thing is to get the words out, to make the work exist outside of one's head.
the city is awake, alive lights dance in the dark of night little lifesigns, each a past and present each a history and a story not yet told subways and busses and ubers the occasional oblivious cabbie (cancer on the streets) each moving people to their goals their dreams veins and arteries in the city's body lights for seeing superstructure in steel and glass inspiration aspiration and ambition passion and drive these power the pulse and the breath each person, each cell shapes and grows the city, the body each experience shapes epigenetics no place the same after the city takes us all in gives us homes maybe not shelter, but homes we are alive and so is our home an energy ineffable yet indelible
edit: A friend has said that this reminds her of the opening of Murakami's After Dark, and I can absolutely see it. Perhaps a bit of subconscious inspiration?
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Announcing Dart 2.6 with dart2native: Compile Dart to self-contained, native executables
5 votes -
Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
8 votes -
Martin Scorsese: I said Marvel movies arenāt cinema. Let me explain
22 votes -
What is your favourite light theme?
Many people use dark themes for IDEs, text editors, etc. Light themes don't usually get much love. Do you like or use any light theme?
9 votes -
DemonCrawl | Launch trailer
3 votes -
SpaceX and Boeing still need a parachute that always works
6 votes -
Blade Runner: How well did the film predict 2019's tech?
11 votes -
Bob Dylan - CBC Quest (1964)
5 votes -
Vasya Oblomov - ABVGDejka (The ABC Show) (2017)
4 votes -
The Stanford Empire: The university is more than a prestigious place to get a degree, they're also Silicon Valley's largest land owner
7 votes -
So long, turkey: The ultimate vegetarian Thanksgiving menu
5 votes -
Unified theory of evolution
4 votes -
Airbnb pledges to improve platform safety, including verifying 100% of hosts and listings by the end of next year
8 votes -
Steve Guttenberg: āApple AirPods Pro, it's $249, but sounds like a cheap, throwaway headphoneā
19 votes -
Over 11,000 scientist signatories from 153 countries declare a climate emergency and establish global indicators for effective action
9 votes -
How Blasphemous' level design iterates on classic Metroidvanias
5 votes -
The Parrot Project needs your help
3 votes -
Corridor - Le grand Ć©cart (2017)
3 votes -
London protest ban on Extinction Rebellion ruled unlawful
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Discussion: Top 10 Stupidest Things US Fed Govt has done
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type. I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US...
Okay, so this notion is still a bit undefined in my head, kind of figuring it out now, as I type.
I want to come up with a list (doesn't actually have to be 10) of the worst things the US government has done, to undermine the ideals and principles that the United States was (at least nominally) founded on ... truth, justice, baseball and mom's apple pie - kinda stuff.
You can go back as far in history as you like (so Civil War, Dred Scott, things like that are absolutely open for consideration) ... but it has to be something that continues to significantly impact US govt, US society and/or the world, to this day ... something they have not remedied.
Off the top of my head, the main thing that comes to mind is the Citizens United case, which I believe has fundamentally broken the US political system (which was, previously, already seriously frayed). I'd also consider the non-consideration (by the Senate) of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination (by Obama), and the US (both the govt and the public) collective "whatever" to the news that Russia interfered in the 2016 US elections (and continues to do so, now joined by China and assorted others).
I may edit this to refine the idea. But the basic goal is to create a really high-level list of "First Things" the US needs to fix, to have any hope of returning to a state of democracy (okay, democratic republic), and/or normalcy.
5 votes