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12 votes
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Titanium: The metal that made the SR-71 possible
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Why NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is essential despite the coronavirus pandemic
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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The art of the possible
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Iconic Prince 'Blue Angel' guitar, that was once considered lost, is sold for over $500,000
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The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation
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I don’t care if baseball ever comes back. The game has been boring for years
12 votes -
Playing full PC games on a Raspberry Pi 4
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The ancient history of board games
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Welcome to Laufskálarétt – The autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley
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Karl Friston: Active inference and artificial curiosity
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See the light – why midsummer birding in Norway is life-affirming
9 votes -
Star Wars: Squadrons | Reveal trailer
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Victoria will bring back tougher coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings in homes to five people, in a bid to address a recent spike in case numbers
News article: Victoria will bring back tougher coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings in homes to five people, in a bid to address a recent spike in case numbers. Statement from Victoria's...
Statement from Victoria's Premier:
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"around half of [Victoria's] cases since the end of April have come from transmission inside someone’s home."
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"From 11:59pm on Sunday, the number of visitors you can have at your home will reduce to five."
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"Outside the home, families and friends can meet in groups up to ten."
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"restaurants, pubs, auction halls, community halls, libraries, museums and places of worship will all stay at a maximum of 20 people in any one space until 12 July."
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"Businesses that were set to open on Monday like gyms, cinemas, theatres and TABs can do so – but again, only with a maximum of 20."
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"Community sport for kids and non-contact competition for adults can proceed as planned."
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"those who can work from home [should] continue to do so at least until 31 July."
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How to reform the police
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Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction
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Diversity & D&D: Making Orcs and others more complex
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Thelonious Monk’s unlikely Palo Alto High show becomes thrilling live album
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Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
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Wood heaters too dirty to sell are clean enough to be donated to Native American tribes and Appalachian communities for a tax deduction, says EPA
9 votes -
Can't invite someone new
I am trying to invite a friend to Tildes, and on my invite page I see the message "You aren't able to generate more invite links right now." Is this a default setting for new users?
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Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs
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The minimum wage in Australia will increase by thirty-five cents to $19.84 per hour, affecting the pay packets of more than 2.2 million people
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 19
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider
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HIV drugs have transformed the lives of people in rich nations. In Papua New Guinea, the virus is mutating
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BP data reveals newly-installed clean electricity generation matched coal for the first time in 2019
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COVID-19 may have been in Italy as early as December 2019, according to new research of sewage samples
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Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
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Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter
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Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
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New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:
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#YouDownloadTheAppAndItDoesntWork — Highlighting hypocrisy and double standards on Apple's App Store
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Cyber-attack Australia: Sophisticated attacks from ‘state-based actor’, PM says
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Willie Thorne, former snooker player, dies aged 66 after illness
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Why is Victoria experiencing an increase in coronavirus cases and other Australian states aren't?
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The world's next coronavirus hotspot is emerging in Indonesia
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Chrome now supports linking to "Text Fragments", which will automatically scroll to and highlight specific text on a page
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Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103
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What happens when Hobbesian logic takes over discourse about protest – and why we should resist it
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Cursed | Trailer
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The case against ~news
The longer I use Tildes, the more I question the effectiveness of ~news. /r/news made sense on reddit, where they didn't have a robust cross-group tagging and filtering system. I think Tildes be...
The longer I use Tildes, the more I question the effectiveness of ~news.
/r/news made sense on reddit, where they didn't have a robust cross-group tagging and filtering system. I think Tildes be better served by eliminating ~news entirely and replacing it with a news tag with a date property, which would allow for nice chronological filtering for catching up on news stories, especially if the article date could be scraped somehow. Miss a week of news? Search the tag with a date range, get all news stories for last week, perhaps with a minimum comment threshold to see what sparked discussion.
I think ~gov (or politics) would be needed as a replacement, as it's a major driver of most news stories, but there's so much more to politics than just news, and those discussions don't exactly fit anywhere nicely at the moment, esp if it's a random blog post relating to recent events in the news. Almost every other group serves as a nice catch-all for most other common news categories.
The only issue I would see would be when ~gov would overlap with the other categories, which would likely happen a lot..but that happens with the current ~news too. I think that could be further mitigated by having a sort of x-post system blurring the lines of tags and groups even more, where ~gov would take precedence but posts would then also appear in the tagged groups for users not following governance otherwise.
That's actually a foundation of my more insane idea of completely eliminating traditional groups by letting people build their own groups in the form of prioritized tags, but that's another post for another time.
17 votes -
‘The Platform’ review: An accidentally timely political allegory
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Hypertension affects one in four adults and is usually treated with medication, even though lifestyle changes can reduce blood pressure
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Cyberpunk 2077 release date delayed to November 19, 2020 (from Sept. 17)
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 18
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
8 votes -
What is Juneteenth and why is everybody talking about it this year?
17 votes -
Comprehensive guide on the JavaScript tooling system by MDN
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The social codes of the crazy rich
6 votes