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Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?

people have been demonizing it for most of the AD years i think but it’s quite pleasant really. are there any proven negative effects?

LinkedIn is the human centipede of social media, and it has some strange people. (lemmy.world)

Exploring the mystery of the man embroiled in a Canadian mining company's billion-dollar gold scam (www.cbc.ca)

Anyone remember BreX? Sure happy I didn’t invest, although yours truly had considered it at the time.

In praise of libgen

Let’s just all stop and appreciate that libgen is a thing in the internet. It has saved me so much money with very overpriced math textbooks during college when my family was low-income. It contains virtually all the books, and even obscure ones. It provides low barriers to entry for knowledge for people wanting to advance...

Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)

Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....

#19 (nobody ever got banned for posting Aphex Twin) (www.youtube.com)

Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be?

I can’t say I’ve been using Lemmy for long, but from the get-go it seems that the communities, memes, opinions that get upvoted seem to reflect left-wing ideas....

Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza (apnews.com)

Extreme heat takes withering toll in teeming Philippine jails (www.washingtonpost.com)

Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)

Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down (www.theregister.com)

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Saints and Sinners Trailer (www.youtube.com)

How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)

Microsoft confirms Copilot AI assistant coming to Windows 10 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)

Am I too pessimistic about this? Today it can detect ransomware, the next day could be malware, and the day after can be any file....

But who is fundamentally in the wrong here?

Shin Joong Hyun - Moon Watching (youtu.be)

'The Abyss Is Beckoning': Global Nuke Spending Surged to $2,898 a Second in 2023 (www.commondreams.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16632607...

UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left (www.bbc.com)

Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year (www.npr.org)

We see you, hard-core NPR readers — just because it’s summer doesn’t mean it’s all fiction, all the time. So we asked around the newsroom to find our staffers’ favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We’ve got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and more.