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9 votes
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David Rudder - Bahia Girl (2015)
5 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
14 votes -
Joe Biden outperformed because he won US voters who decide late
17 votes -
"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute."
6 votes -
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
21 votes -
Amy Klobuchar looked great on paper. What went wrong?
5 votes -
The American restaurant is on life support
10 votes -
Suckers list: How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders in the US
7 votes -
Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
5 votes -
Inside Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week—and settle Mars
10 votes -
Inside Valve: Making Half-Life: Alyx for virtual reality
8 votes -
Cloudpunk - PC release date trailer (April 23, 2020)
6 votes -
Premature session cookie expiration?
I've noticed that, even when I choose the "Keep me logged in" option, I usually have to re-log in to Tildes at least once or twice per day. Under what circumstances might the session cookie expire...
I've noticed that, even when I choose the "Keep me logged in" option, I usually have to re-log in to Tildes at least once or twice per day. Under what circumstances might the session cookie expire on such a short time scale? I can see that the Max-Age is set to one year, so I'm not sure what might be causing that.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? It's entirely possible that some of my add-ons are interfering (although I don't see how), which is the reason I ask.
I have to pull up my Tildes password and my TOTP generator in each case, which is just enough pain to encourage me to navigate to another tab instead.
4 votes -
Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
9 votes -
Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation
4 votes -
Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses
29 votes -
Warframe Revised (update 27.2.0) - Massive number of updates to game systems and quality-of-life changes, live now on PC
4 votes -
Book recommendation: Anti-Social by Andrew Marantz
I just finished Andrew Marantz's Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, and I think it's a book that would interest a lot of the people on...
I just finished Andrew Marantz's Anti-Social: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, and I think it's a book that would interest a lot of the people on this site. Marantz is a journalist for the New Yorker who embedded himself with alt-right influencers and social media companies. This book is a compilation of all of those stories; part memoir, part retelling, part observation, part commentary.
Despite its title, the book is not a one-dimensional hit piece. I actually strongly dislike the title as I feel it's a bit too barbed for a book that's rooted in extensive, thoughtful contemplation. The author is honest, open-minded, and critical. I hate the word "balanced" for all of the baggage it brings to the table, but it really feels like the best word to use, especially as an antonym for "unbalanced". He deftly handles a lot of different subjects here. He doesn't shy away from giving criticism where its due, but he's also not quick to judge, trying to understand the broader picture first before casting any judgments about it.
I mention it here because I think it has a lot of relevance to Tildes as a site, as well as the type of people that have congregated here. It covers a lot of ground of direct interest to Tildes: the role of social media platforms to police speech and ideology; how the structure of social media creates influence; how bad faith actors can manipulate systems; how noxious ideologies continue to appeal and propagate. I also know that Tildes trends toward the left, and as someone far on that side myself, I appreciated this book for giving me what I feel was a fair and thoughtful window into the lives of certain high-profile people on the right. It's easy to think of them as a monolith, but I was surprised by the differences between all of his various character portraits. Marantz never loses the individual humanity of his subjects, even when some of them are abjectly abhorrent people.
I should mention that the book is very US-centric, as that was where he focused his journalistic efforts. As such, readers outside the US might not appreciate it as much, but I still think a lot of what he shares is relevant no matter where you are located since we all share space together online.
6 votes -
Trials of Mana | Gameplay trailer
3 votes -
Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää ensured that his new film was torture for his actors, literally – but he insists his immersive methods are just like gardening
5 votes -
Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg says EU legislation to tackle climate change is a surrender
9 votes -
Alligatoah - Willst Du [Mit Mir Drogen Nehmen?] (Wanna [Do Drugs With Me?]) (2013)
6 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
12 votes -
A growing number of Danes choose cold water swimming as a way to invigorate the senses and combat their winter blues
6 votes -
Reply All #158 - The Case of the Missing Hit
7 votes -
The BMW logo – meaning and history
4 votes -
Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
5 votes -
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night released for iOS and Android for US $3
12 votes -
Ghost of Tsushima | Story trailer - Releasing June 26, 2020
3 votes -
‘The Last of Us’ series in the works at HBO from ‘Chernobyl’ creator and the game's writer and creative director
8 votes -
Health experts want to stop daylight-saving time
19 votes -
Michael Bloomberg drops out of US Presidential race, endorses Joe Biden
30 votes -
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?
10 votes -
Please stop recommending Git Flow
9 votes -
Live election results: Super Tuesday 2020
26 votes -
If the US removed FPTP and the electoral college, what new parties would pop up?
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.) I'll start. The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties. The...
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.)
I'll start.
The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties.
The neoliberal party is where centrist candidates like Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg go.
The progressive party is where progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren go.
The Republican party might lose a large part of their electorate to the libertarians, since many Republicans are more concerned about letting business prevail and don't really want cultural conservatism.
Andrew yang maybe also leaves the Democrats and founds his own party, the party for online reform.
The greens also become significantly more popular but they may have too much in common with the progressives.
The Senate could be changed to include as many seats as the house for proper representation.
18 votes -
The normalization of far-right populism in Europe
8 votes -
Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands
12 votes -
The invisible city: How a homeless man built a life underground
10 votes -
Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
11 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
10 votes -
Anthony Levandowski, former head of Uber's self-driving unit, files for bankruptcy after a court confirms he would have to pay Google $179 million
7 votes -
Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more
11 votes -
Inside the collapse of $100 million home-design startup Homepolish
6 votes -
Half-Life: Alyx - 9 Minutes of Gameplay
22 votes -
Swim only when the wave comes
When I was young, I went into the ocean with my older cousin. He lived near the beach, while I merely knew how to swim. We went to the deep to catch some higher waves using our bodies (in Bahia we...
When I was young, I went into the ocean with my older cousin. He lived near the beach, while I merely knew how to swim.
We went to the deep to catch some higher waves using our bodies (in Bahia we call this "pegar jacaré", or "catch the alligator").
When we got there, the wind stopped and the stream started pulling us away from the land. After a while, I was very scared and started swimming with all my strength in the opposite direction. But my efforts were much weaker than the stream, so I remained in the same position.
Then my cousin told me: "@mrbig, stop swimming otherwise you'll get tired and drown. Wait for the wave to come. Only swim when it arrives."
And so I did. Minutes later came the wave. I swam. And then another, and another after that. Little by little, by saving our energies and acting at the right times, we arrived at the shore.
And that is the story.
18 votes -
The Bon Appétit Test Kitchen in conversation
5 votes -
The 5th-generation Waymo Driver
7 votes -
Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
10 votes