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Aatube

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  • mra's when

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  • the vast majority of men are in favor of criminalizing rape of any kind

    not in India, where this comic's from

  • New Device Extracts 1,000 Liters of Clean Water Per Day from Desert Air

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  • this one's the size of a shipping container so it seems more believable. improvised solar stills give you 2L per square meter per day iirc

  • AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer

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  • I mostly agree, but Tom's/the reporter didn't vibe the product. Ze reviewed something someone else vibed.

  • wikipedia @sh.itjust.works
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    wmf Staff Security Engineer tests in production, executing mass-vandalism malware across Metawiki, turning all sites read-only for two hours, and disabling custom user scripts

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    'Shock jock' Rosenberg says he apologized to Mayor Mamdani for calling him a 'cockroach'

    gothamist.com /news/shock-jock-rosenberg-says-he-apologized-to-mayor-mamdani-for-calling-him-a-cockroach

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • you can't buy an iPad without a touchscreen. your argument feels like arguing that tariffs won't affect consumers because they're paid by the importers

  • Spain refuses to provide military support for US attack on Iran and distances itself from France, Germany and the UK

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  • isn't Ireland a corporate tax haven?

  • Missing Florida man found over a week later trapped in shoulder-deep mud

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  • fair point. I feel about this the same way though, because both are the consequences of events that should not have ever happened in the first place

    one could argue it's the fault of capitalism that his support system is so bad that he only trusts going to a borrow pit to let out his depression from his breakup

  • Missing Florida man found over a week later trapped in shoulder-deep mud

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  • the horror of being trapped in mud like that

  • Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download

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  • for context, the full sentence is "Throttling efforts led to “brownouts” via 429 errors, but patterns mutated, forcing a "Whack-a-Mole" game, especially since most consumption is headless and unnoticed." so they tried to use brownouts to control it but it couldn' t stop them

  • Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download

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  • U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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  • on that note:

    The Copyright Office has separately rejected bids by artists for copyrights on images generated by the AI system Midjourney. Those artists argued that ⁠they were entitled to copyrights for images they created with AI assistance - unlike Thaler, who said his system created “A ‌Recent Entrance to Paradise” independently.

  • Tech @programming.dev
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    Open source devs consider making [bandwidth] hogs pay for every download

    www.theregister.com /2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/

  • Missing Florida man found over a week later trapped in shoulder-deep mud

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  • The Florida news outlet WCJB reported a statement from Vulcan, which praised its team for having “handled a trespassing situation with care and compassion shepherding first responders to a man who was in distress”.

  • Missing Florida man found over a week later trapped in shoulder-deep mud

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  • my goodness, this is probably the first accident rescue post I've seen that's also OrphanCrushingMachine

  • Uiua — an extremely terse programming langauge

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  • google APL

  • A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates [in the US] have plummeted

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  • (FWIW, it says lead emissions dropped the IQ of those affected by 2.6 points on average, not the average intelligence which has not dropped.)

  • New York Times gift articles @sopuli.xyz
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    Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-anthropic.html
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/24/us/politics/pentagon-anthropic.html
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Pakistan bombs Kabul, declares ‘open war’ with Afghanistan after months of border clashes

    www.france24.com /en/asia-pacific/20260226-pakistan-vows-immediate-response-after-afghanistan-launches-retaliatory-attacks

  • Long Island high school student gets National Recognition for her cancer research

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  • There's five more years before she gets a bachelor's degree (grad research school requirements), and by then it's quite likely funding'll be restored.

  • React Is No Longer Meta's Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation

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  • actually permissive like MIT is the OSI (Open Source Initiative) direction. you're thinking of the free software community and the word you want is "copyleft"

  • Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories

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  • that was the opposite of what i meant; sorry i was unclear. when I said "how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism" i meant that BetterHelp had many reasons it was bad other than efficacy like data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism, and asked how the tetris treatment would replicate BetterHelp's notorious woes

  • Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories

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  • i have never supported or defended BetterHelp

  • Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories

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  • it's not too limited just to assess general efficacy either

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/
  • Excellent Reads @sh.itjust.works
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    The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/18/style/coldplay-concert-couple-kiss-cam-woman.html
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    The Woman in the Coldplay Concert Kiss Cam Video Is Ready to Talk

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/18/style/coldplay-concert-couple-kiss-cam-woman.html
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    “The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize

    www.thenation.com /article/activism/the-nation-nominates-minneapolis-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Freshmen create website mapping ICE incidents

    www.ricethresher.org /article/freshmen-create-website-mapping-ice-incidents-20260128
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    NY students would study Jan. 6 Capitol attack under pending [state] bill

    gothamist.com /news/ny-students-would-study-jan-6-capitol-attack-under-pending-bill
  • Progressive Politics @lemmy.world
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    proposal from Harvard Law: carve Washington DC into 127 states to provide votes and reshape US democratic process

    harvardlawreview.org /print/vol-133/pack-the-union-a-proposal-to-admit-new-states-for-the-purpose-of-amending-the-constitution-to-ensure-equal-representation/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    How exotic dancers became some of the biggest donors of toys to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital

    www.oregonlive.com /living/2025/12/how-exotic-dancers-became-some-of-the-biggest-donors-of-toys-to-doernbecher-childrens-hospital.html
  • New York Times gift articles @sopuli.xyz
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    The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/12/opinion/trump-pardon-cuellar-justice.html
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    Private equity finds a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    The Pardon That Represents the New Era of Corruption

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/12/opinion/trump-pardon-cuellar-justice.html
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments

    www.nytimes.com /2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html
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    Golden Visa Programs, Once a Boon, Lose Their Luster

    www.nytimes.com /2024/04/21/business/golden-visa-spain-europe-housing-crisis.html
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    Americans Head to Europe for the Good Life on the Cheap

    www.nytimes.com /2023/03/17/realestate/europe-homes-sale-americans-lisbon-barcelona.html