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Nicolas Cage to star in Spider-Man Noir live-action series
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Mortgage companies could intensify the next recession, US officials warn
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The US maternal mortality crisis is a statistical illusion
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Ubisoft shut down The Crew. Here is what we can do about it.
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This YouTuber has been uploading Half-Life 3 ‘updates’ every day for over six years
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Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
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Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
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US President Joe Biden raises tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports: EVs, solar panels, batteries and more
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Jet Lag: AU$TRALIA | Trailer
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US Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes
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‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s forty-year battle to film Megalopolis
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German court says far-right AfD is suspected of extremism
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‘Grand Theft Auto 6’ sets fall 2025 release as Take-Two posts $2.9 billion quarterly loss
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Static recompilation project for N64 games is now available
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Family demands answers after LAPD officers fatally shoot mentally ill man in Koreatown
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OpenAI insists it's not launching a search engine nor GPT-5 on Monday
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The unpunished: How extremists took over Israel (gifted link)
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The forged Apple employee badge
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Fuel-guzzling ‘Yank Tanks’ face a costly future in Australia after new vehicle emissions changes approved
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What are some global projects I can contribute to from my home?
I'll try to keep it short. I'm not satisfied with the way I'm trying to contribute to the betterment of humanity and the planet. I want to contribute to my local community, but because of...
I'll try to keep it short. I'm not satisfied with the way I'm trying to contribute to the betterment of humanity and the planet. I want to contribute to my local community, but because of political and health reasons, I can't do that.
My relevant strong points are that I can analyze, synthesize, and write well (have been praised for them in professional academic settings). But the suggestions don't have to be about this.
I've been writing things here and there for years, but I feel like they lack direction. It's just one person putting it out there with very limited reach. I feel like being part of a bigger project could help me effect change better. At the very least, it could help me feel like I'm doing something more tangible.
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Outdoor time is good for your kids' eyesight. Here's why.
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Super Mario 64’s unopenable door has finally been opened
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Those who journal, how do you do so authentically? (How to stop “self-editing” or “censoring” yourself and your thoughts?)
I have tried and failed to journal many times in the past. I always find myself self-editing, avoiding writing certain thoughts or feelings and just overall not being as authentic or honest or...
I have tried and failed to journal many times in the past. I always find myself self-editing, avoiding writing certain thoughts or feelings and just overall not being as authentic or honest or genuine as I should be to actually get some value out of journaling. I wish I could get over this “self-censoring” habit because I love reading and writing and really think journaling could be a great outlet for me.
So, I ask, what tips do you have to help write? To help actually get your thoughts and feelings out on the page, without judging yourself or feeling self conscious or critical? What do you write? What do you find helps you write more honestly and genuinely?
Could really use some help and guidance.
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Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend
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X-Men '97 - Season 1 Discussion
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No love for fiction or literary pursuits on Tildes?
The kind of group(s) which are remarkably missing on tildes are those related to fiction or literature. Are there really no fans of Artemis Fowl or Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins over here? It...
The kind of group(s) which are remarkably missing on tildes are those related to fiction or literature. Are there really no fans of Artemis Fowl or Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins over here? It really couldn't be!
The closest that comes is perhaps the /~creative group but that's way too generic. The field of literature deserves something of its own, right? Reddit has several such as /r/books and /r/writing and probably more relating to fanfic and other fan literature. So maybe creative.writing, creative.writing.thriller and creative.writing.nonfiction maybe? What y'all think?
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Turtle tanks, "cope cages" and modified vehicles in Ukraine - Purpose, evolution and effectiveness
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The lonely work of moderating Hacker News
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Tildes Book Club Discussion - The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
This is the third of an ongoing series of book discussions here on Tildes. We are discussing the Dispossessed.
Our next book will be Project Hail Mary around the end of June.I don't have a particular format in mind for this discussion, but I will post some prompts and questions as comments to get things started. You're not obligated to respond to them or vote on them though. So feel free to make your own top-level comment for whatever you wish to discuss, questions you have of others, or even just to post a review of the book you have written yourself.
For latecomers, don't worry if you didn't read the book in time for this Discussion topic. You can always join in once you finish it. Tildes Activity sort, and "Collapse old comments" feature should keep the topic going for as long as people are still replying.
And for anyone uninterested in this topic please use the Ignore Topic feature on this so it doesn't keep popping up in your Activity sort, since it's likely to keep doing that while I set this discussion up, and once people start joining in.19 votes -
Some thoughts on cleaning up my shitty apartment
So, I have some crap lying on the floor. Not crap in the sence that it goes straight to recycling, just lots of tidbits which I don't exactly know what to do with; semi-sorted papers, notebooks,...
So, I have some crap lying on the floor. Not crap in the sence that it goes straight to recycling, just lots of tidbits which I don't exactly know what to do with; semi-sorted papers, notebooks, various VR gear, some books which I don't really have room for in my bookcase, some folders where some of the papers should probably go into, my laptop, a stone which I guess I use for weightlifting except I forget to do that, and when I see all this stuff, my brain just shortcircuits.
So I decided that, okay, I can just ignore this and try tidying up this shelf which I had tried to make into a sort of cabinet of curiosities but which over time had degenerated into a bit of mess; a LCD game, the box to said LCD game, vintage headphones, vintage phone, retro Nokia mobile, beach glass, fossils, various stones, some mess which doesn't really belongs here, a cat skull (I think) ... and of course, the same thing happened. My brain just said nope, too much to deal with.
I know there are ways to go about it. If getting my apartment in a habitable state is too much, I can ignore all of it and just focusing on one room. If my coding project seem to overwhelming, I can decide on a alpha milestone to work towards and based on that make a bucket list of the tasks and start with the most basic one, and if the first one is too overwhelming, split it up into sub-tasks. So there are some tried-and-true ways to deal with it.
But for the first time, I started to wonder what exactly goes on with the brain here? Why does something consisting of a relatively small number of sub-tasks seem so overwhelmingly hard? Is it like that for everyone, does it have a name, what?
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Privacy woes and autonomy, where do I go now?
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent. Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of...
I'm very sorry, but this is going to be rant. One that may seem to come up almost daily, but I still feel the need to vent.
Every day I feel like I'm jumping through hoops to keep a little bit of privacy and autonomy, without ever winning. DuckDuckGo is my search engine, use a paid mail provider, I try to stay away from anything Google and Meta, use only Signal, ad blocking everywhere, hosting most services locally, etc. It seems, however, to make no difference in the long run. The user-profile-building just seems to enter the home faster than I can mitigate it. Kids install some new app or new hardware ends up listening in, privacy infringement is there.
The reason I'm starting this post now is because I switched ISP and TV provider recently, but it has been on my mind for a long time. Finding one that isn't owned by one of huge 3 parent companies, is almost impossible here. After a year of deciding, I finally figured it was time to throw in the towel and just pick the least bad option. Yesterday was the day of switching and it has been such a frustrating process.
The provided router doesn't allow me to turn off its WLAN. I live in a city, so the airwaves are already crowded enough as it is. No need to keep that antenna on, but screw me, that's not possible. Opened up the device to just remove the card, but everything is soldered on the board and disconnecting the antennas didn't do shit.
It's possible to buy a modem/router myself, but it'll need to follow their requirements and will set me back $200. It would be okay if the rest of the service was great, but here comes the TV part!The device they use for TV is apparently Android TV. I assumed it would be IPTV with this subscription, but Android TV isn't that. Booting the device makes it immediately clear they are here to harvest data. It makes me so unhappy that a service I'm paying for, is also making money on the side by collecting data. To get a quick idea of what's being done, I routed the box through wireshark to sniff DNS traffic. It's riddled with domains used for data collection and ads. That combined with the features this box wants me to agree to (location, using the mic, access local network, sign into PlayStore, make a profile including real life information) does not make me trust this device. So I've decided to not play and will be sending it back.
People around me are pretty conscious about what they do online, but compared to them I'm highly paranoid. Wherever I look, there are privacy issues. It seems impossible to escape from. How are other people dealing with this?
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France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia after deadly riots
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A British nurse was found guilty of killing seven babies. Did she do it?
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Canada’s fire season erupts, sending harmful smoke into United States
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Donald Glover surprise-drops a new Childish Gambino album, Atavista, featuring Ariana Grande, 21 Savage and more
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Please recommend me an anime to watch?
so I like animes like vinland saga , beserk , kingdom , MHA , FAB , Black clover . Please don't recommend exremely lengthy animes.. thats the only thing stopping me from watch one piece XD. i also...
so I like animes like vinland saga , beserk , kingdom , MHA , FAB , Black clover . Please don't recommend exremely lengthy animes.. thats the only thing stopping me from watch one piece XD.
i also like feel good animes like ghibli movies , or slice of life animes but rn would like to watch something which has a lot of story and depth to it and also comedy .
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Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision as UK comes 18th
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Ghost of Tsushima's Steam Deck performance is fantastic so far - first impressions
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Donald Trump - Joe Biden US Presidential debates to take place on June 27th and September 10th
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Raw milk easy to obtain despite bird flu warning, FDA interstate ban
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PPSSPP is approved for the [Apple] App Store
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Fabio and the Goose (collab videos with Adam Savage and SlowMoGuys in comments)
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China's unmarried 'leftover' women
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US Supreme Court denies California’s plea for immunity for COVID-19 deaths at San Quentin prison
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Tiny electric trucks are coming to a bike lane near you
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Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
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Stop postponing things by embracing the mess
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Any recommendations on places to visit in Singapore? There for a week.
I had initially planned a trip to Japan but had to change plans at the last minute. So here I am, not as well prepared as I usually am. Would love to hear what you guys love doing when in...
I had initially planned a trip to Japan but had to change plans at the last minute.
So here I am, not as well prepared as I usually am. Would love to hear what you guys love doing when in Singapore. I'm not someone who enjoys nightlife/clubbing. Good food and cocktail bars are more my speed. Already booked a nice looking place called Candlenut for a meal.
Any sightseeing recommendations would be really helpful as well. Thanks guys.
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Building cross-platform offline-first apps with Bluetooth Low Energy
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