Woman of the Year Accurso is officially one of the world’s most influential entertainers. She has now outraged Israel lobby groups by daring to empathise with — and weep over — the tens of thousands of Palestinian children maimed and murdered during the post-October 2023 phase of the genocide.

After watching Mr. Robot based on the recommendation from Rubisco@slrpnk.net here on Lemmy, I was then encouraged to paint Darlene. Her hair and lips intimidated me the most. How did they turn out?

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From Kenzo Pan

Ich hätte ihn noch ein wenig besser inszenieren können, ohne das Bild im Hintergrund. Aber so steht er nun hier im Wohnzimmer: Ich habe vor einigen Jahren im Sommer trockenes Totholz gesammelt, dann die Äste zugeschnitten, je ein Loch in die Mitte gebohrt und auf eine Metallstange (Betonstahl) gesteckt, die wiederum eine Bohrerlänge tief im Stamm steckt. Das machen wir jetzt schon seit einigen Jahren so. Wenn die Feiertage vorbei sind kommen die Einzelteile in einem großen Kaffeesack aus Jute zurück auf den Speicher. Wir mögen den Baum richtig gerne, er hat nichts gekostet und das jährliche auf- und abbauen mit den Kindern ist ein schönes Ritual. :)

Welcome to the Owl of the Year quarter finals! This is going to bring us down to our final 4 contestants and a place in the community banner.

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.

Snowy has had a busy time on its way to get here. A narrow win over the fabulous Indian Eagle Owl and another against the Long Ear.

From Carlos A Carmona

Over the past four years, I’ve significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I’ve found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.

I felt like some kind of “what would a Christmas tree in Mordor look like” vibe. So I made one. My first attempt at a tiny bit of “terrain building”, with a very limited colour palette: black and grey.

But I have Tan Eggs promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep…

This TV movie was funnier than it had any right to be. I don’t normally enjoy slapstick, but I laughed out loud several times. Also nice and short.

I know this is fuck cars but planes are just as idiotic…

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In a small room in San Diego last week, a man in a black leather jacket explained to me how to save the world from destruction by AI. Max Tegmark, a notable figure in the AI-safety movement, believes that “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI, could precipitate the end of human life. I was in town for NeurIPS, one of the largest AI-research conferences, and Tegmark had invited me, along with five other journalists, to a briefing on an AI-safety index that he would release the next day. No company scored better than a C+.

I’m new to self-hosting. All I did so far was install Ubuntu Server, enable SSH and tried setting up DuckDNS, which I could not set up automatic update of my IP following the documentation, neither updating manually through the website, which even though seems to be changed, when I ssh the domain, I get the initial IP

I go back on nights tonight for one more week. But I go back to my regular job next month, so there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

I don’t typically like making posts where I just complain about something, but I don’t have anyone else to talk to about this movie and I wanted to write down my thoughts as a way of processing them. This post will be filled with spoilers for the new Running Man movie so don’t read it unless you’ve already seen the movie (or have no desire to watch it).

After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable ‘app’ in the Yunohost store! It’s been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn’t ran yet. But that’s gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others.

Although Campbell is right to point out that markets do play a significant role in government spending, Polanski is on to something deeper that could help reframe the debate around the UK economy. While Rachel Reeves might be celebrated for scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the latest budget doesn’t go nearly far enough in delivering the change that Britain desperately needs. Austerity has scarred the UK for the last 14 years. If it wants to finally break free, then it’s time for a radical new approach. And that starts with rethinking how government finances work.

This study evaluates the largest automated speed enforcement program in the United States—2,000 cameras deployed across New York City from 2014 to 2023. Leveraging data on 700,000 collisions and 18 million speeding tickets, the analysis finds that cameras lead to persistent and sustained reductions in crashes. These results demonstrate that automated enforcement can meaningfully improve road safety while avoiding the harms associated with conventional traffic safety approaches.

I wanted to share a new app I just started using. Its called Shiru and it works like streamio only its for just anime. Out of the box it won’t stream anything. You have to add the extensions for streaming. So go here after installing Shiru. https://github.com/Spithskia/Shiru-Extensions then copy and paste the link for the extensions into the sources part of settings. Then set the bandwidth limit, turn off autoplay next chapter to avoid issues like I had early and add a my anime list account for saving progress marks and playlist.

I watched (in a second screen sort of way as I tended to some work) the Game Awards last night. I’m not interested in talking about what the ceremony means—it’s an obviously vapid affair—but the powerful sweeping of awards by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was interesting to see. it also left me feeling a bit… odd.