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63 votes
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Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
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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 -
Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public
12 votes -
Oldest and largest Maya structure discovered in southern Mexico
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You can't undo subgroup linking syntax
It will take \~a year or 2 for [blank] to happen. It will only take ~a year or 2 for [blank] to happen. Doesn't happen often but it can.
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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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For the first time in modern Swedish history, an ex-ambassador has gone on trial and faces a possible jail term
6 votes -
Bizarre scenes in tiny Western Australia town as 'sovereign nation' attempts to overthrow government
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 5
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.
17 votes -
Donald Trump administration makes move to completely roll back US methane pollution regulations
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Revealing motion invisible to the naked eye using Motion Amplification and Video Magnification
6 votes -
Incognito mode detection still works in Chrome despite promise to fix
11 votes -
What kind of man only works part time?
9 votes -
President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
1 vote -
Critics warn of multimedia 'hell' (1995)
9 votes -
US schools lay off hundreds of thousands
8 votes -
Pokey LaFarge - Fuck Me Up (2020)
3 votes -
Torii Hunter had no-trade clause to Boston Red Sox because of racist taunts from fans
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Panic-buying: Australians top global charts for toilet paper stockpiling
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Report reveals Rio Tinto knew the significance of 46,000-year-old rock caves six years before it blasted them
10 votes -
Donald Trump says he's the 'law and order' President, but his response to George Floyd protests could cost him
3 votes -
A New RegExp Engine in SpiderMonkey
7 votes -
Internet service provider Optus has been ordered to hand over the details of a customer accused of defaming a Melbourne dentist through a Google review
7 votes -
Las Vegas casinos reopening
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The New South Wales Police Minister has labelled anyone who attends a protest during the coronavirus pandemic as "certifiably insane"
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What are you confused by?
I thought this might be an interesting subject for conversation, inspired by the rationalist emphasis on the importance of noticing your confusion for figuring out important warning signs that...
I thought this might be an interesting subject for conversation, inspired by the rationalist emphasis on the importance of noticing your confusion for figuring out important warning signs that could easily be overlooked.
I think it's best to try to answer the question as genuinely as possible. Sometimes, saying you're confused is implied criticism of others' behavior, but I think it's more important to notice those moments when things about the world genuinely don't add up.
As a simple example, I'm somewhat confused that the stock market has been going up. It's not all that confusing because bear market rallies are a thing, and many others are puzzled by this as well. But still, I must admit that I don't understand the mechanism behind it.
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Amazon Web Services and Slack join forces
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After a staff uproar, New York Times says that Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” op-ed it published yesterday did not meet its standards
21 votes -
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells European Union workers to come back, but must quarantine
12 votes -
Free open source app to create GitHub issues faster
4 votes -
Genesis - Land Of Confusion (1986)
10 votes -
Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
4 votes -
Nearly half of commercial retail rents were not paid in April and May
9 votes -
What happened to the donation bar?
I noticed that the donation bar disappeared, at least for me. Was there a reason? I think it was quite neat and induced people to work towards a common goal.
13 votes -
Billy Talent - February Winds (2016)
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NBA’s Board of Governors approves a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida
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Podcast discussions & recommendations! What are you listening to?
Tildes has had a couple of threads about podcast recommendations in the past, but most of them are over 18 months old now, and podcasts are always evolving, and we have new members who may not...
Tildes has had a couple of threads about podcast recommendations in the past, but most of them are over 18 months old now, and podcasts are always evolving, and we have new members who may not have participated in those threads before—I certainly only picked up podcasts in the last few months.
So. Three questions!
- What podcasts are you listening to?
- What podcasts have you dropped, or picked up, in that time?
- If you had to recommend a couple of podcasts to others, which shows would you pick? Why do you recommend them? Got a favourite episode?
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Is there such a thing as too many tags?
This post has twelve tags My intuition says that’s too much. I’ve noticing that most people use a lot more tags than I do, but I don’t really know how they work, hence the question: is there such...
My intuition says that’s too much. I’ve noticing that most people use a lot more tags than I do, but I don’t really know how they work, hence the question: is there such a thing as too many tags? What’s the best practice?
9 votes -
Electronic Arts games listed on Steam
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How to actually fix America’s police
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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. Previous topics Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
16 votes -
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
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Scores of testing sites forced to close because of vandalism in civil unrest
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AMC Theatres has 'substantial doubt' it can remain in business
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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?
6 votes -
How a raccoon became an aardvark
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How Germany saved its workforce from unemployment while spending less per person than the US
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Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 4
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.
17 votes