Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12.3 (en.bandainamcoent.eu)
Just a bug fix patch which nerfs all the broken weapons. Goodbye, perfume one-shotting.
Americans Show Heightened Concern About Antisemitism (news.gallup.com)
A "test" to judge Star Trek shows
You’ve heard of the “Bechdel-Wallace test” and its potential value to some people in measuring various media in a given context....
Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing?
Wouldn’t it cut down on search queries (and thus save resources) if I could search for “this is my phrase” rather than rawdogging it as an unbound series of words, each of which seems to be pulling up results unconnected to the other words in the phrase?...
Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government (www.theguardian.com)
Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)
Today, before taking an Uber home, she sent me a text wanting me to be downstairs on the street to greet her as the Uber arrives. I read it and told her that yes, I’ll be there. I didn’t notice any further text because I was in the middle of something....
I stayed at a North Korean summer camp. We polished statues and played a game where we destroyed the White House. (www.businessinsider.com)
Singapore prepared to recognise a Palestinian state with an effective govt that accepts Israel's right to exist (www.channelnewsasia.com)
That is an act of cruelty towards the poor pokémon (pawb.social)
Realme 13 Pro+ early hands-on and camera samples (m.gsmarena.com)
Mini me melee (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
cross-posted from: sharkey.world/notes/9v9u4c6bhbbo00pm...
Realme introduces in-house AI photography architecture called Hyperimage+ (m.gsmarena.com)
Scientists discovered the oldest termite mounds on Earth — and they're 34,000 years old (www.livescience.com)
A faked orgasm is just another kind of participation trophy
NCD in a nutshell about MacArthur. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Looks like a lovely time (lemmy.world)
Why didn't we mass edit our comments to sound like this? We could've burned Reddit.
What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago (www.adweek.com)
Time removed its paywall in June 2023, resulting in a rise in advertising revenue but a loss of digital subscribers, with traffic remaining relatively flat....
[Self Promotion] Cat Box Paradox is currently on sale....now only £2.50 (store.steampowered.com)
AI Is Rewriting Meme History (www.wired.com)
Can I share my Signal username publicly?
I’d put it on my website, which contains my real name anyway, but Signal says that I should only share it with people I trust. Also, the link (signal.me/…) contains long base64 string with unknown content. What do you think?
Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get (arstechnica.com)
Japan's government finally moves on from floppy disks (www.xda-developers.com)
The making of Cult of the Lamb: 'A lot of the design was trying to encourage the player to be evil' (www.pcgamer.com)
Indonesia to impose up to 200% tariffs to counter cheap textile imports from China after protests of Indonesian workers (www.bloomberg.com)
Indonesia is preparing to impose tariffs and use other means to protect its textile industry from imports from China, the latest in a series of countries and blocs such as the US and the European Union, which are responding to the flood of goods out of the world’s largest manufacturing nation....