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19 votes
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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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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
7 votes -
OpenMW 0.46.0 released (FOSS engine for TES:III Morrowind)
8 votes -
What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
16 votes -
Are journal articles getting too long?
8 votes -
What is your favourite film from your country?
Or the film you consider to be the best. Country you live in, country you were born in, whatever you want. I'm just looking for films to potentially watch.
19 votes -
What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Is anyone else a Neil Postman fan?
I eventually recommend Neil Postman's writing to anyone I can. These books are absolutely fantastic, especially Technopoly, though I'd also recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death and The End of...
I eventually recommend Neil Postman's writing to anyone I can. These books are absolutely fantastic, especially Technopoly, though I'd also recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death and The End of Education (pun in the title intended).
One of Neil Postman's big contributions to how I think was by explaining an extended notion of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. Instead of trying to insist that different human languages have different ways of communication, Neil Postman makes the assertion that different media, books, oral communication, TV, radio, the internet, have world-views embedded into them. So, you will (almost) never find a serious philosophical discussion in a film. Books, being linear can afford to give a cursory examination, and the person reading can follow at their own pace, while film can't do that. However, films are better at communicating emotion, so the stories in film are more experience/emotion/in-the-moment driven. Postman's argument was better, so ignore the weaknesses in my summary. I'm just trying to give some flavor to the type of things he wrote, like he also predicted how people would communicate on the internet.
The thing which really stands out to me is how Neil Postman was just a good thinker. He wasn't a one hit wonder for ideas. I'd be willing to read his thoughts on just about anything, even if I disagree. So anyway, read him! You won't have any regerts.
5 votes -
Immunity to COVID-19 may wane just two to three months after infection, study suggests
13 votes -
The obscure US Supreme Court case that could be used by the Republican Party to gut the First Amendment
8 votes -
Seba Safe - Lamont Lament (2020)
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The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game
14 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 20
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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Did Europe have more mutations through its history?
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in...
This is something weird to me. I think skin color is pretty diverse no matter where you go, or at least, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But take hair color. Europe has more diversity in hair color than almost anywhere else. Same with eye color. Why is this? Is it just because I interact with more people of European heritage on day to day business, or has Europe actually had more mutations which affect hair color, eye color, etc? Or is it that Europe, being a crossroads has had more people immigrate through it.
If this is racist, it's unintentional, this is just an observation, which I've been unable to find an answer to.
If you have an answer, a link to a paper would be great.
Edit: A point against what I just wrote that I thought of: Asia has both mono and double eyelids, which is something Europe doesn't have. Native americans don't count either for or against, since they immigrated fairly late in a small group, which also explains why almost all native americans are type O
5 votes -
MSI, Intel, and PCMR are giving away a MSI Z490 Godlike and a 2080 super X Gaming Trio
3 votes -
Guinness reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong, Pac-Man records
12 votes -
Titanium: The metal that made the SR-71 possible
6 votes -
Why NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is essential despite the coronavirus pandemic
4 votes -
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!
9 votes -
The art of the possible
3 votes -
Iconic Prince 'Blue Angel' guitar, that was once considered lost, is sold for over $500,000
4 votes -
The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation
8 votes -
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
6 votes -
The ancient history of board games
7 votes -
Welcome to Laufskálarétt – The autumn ritual of wild horse herding in Iceland's Kolbeinsdalur Valley
9 votes -
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
4 votes -
Greta Thunberg has hope for climate, despite leaders' inaction
7 votes -
Diversity & D&D: Making Orcs and others more complex
8 votes -
Thelonious Monk’s unlikely Palo Alto High show becomes thrilling live album
12 votes -
Unsubscribe: The $0-budget movie that ‘topped the US box office’
19 votes -
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?
9 votes -
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
11 votes -
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
14 votes -
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.
12 votes -
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
8 votes -
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
8 votes -
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
9 votes