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How do you even call that? (lemmy.world)

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study (www.theguardian.com)

From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife....

Man sentenced to 40 years to life for killing mother after argument over video game volume - ABC News (abcnews.go.com)

A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his mother after the two had argued about the volume on the video games he was playing

Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)

Meet the #1 serial killer

Israel lobby funded a quarter of British MPs (www.declassifieduk.org)

Russia overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world in PPP terms (www.intellinews.com)

Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)

Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought

Interview: Doug Jones On ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Finale, Saru’s Happy Ending, And If He Was Ready For More (trekmovie.com)

ANCST - armed with despise (official video) [2024, Germany, Metalcore, Blackened Crust] (www.youtube.com)

MusicBrainz: musicbrainz.org/…/3a278619-272e-4394-b31f-e20517b…...

I have played this song around 30 times since yesterday (www.youtube.com)

Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis (www.theguardian.com)

More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet....

WHO confirms first death in Mexico from bird flu never seen in humans (www.nbcnews.com)

The 59-year-old was the first lab-confirmed human case of infection with A(H5N2) subtype of the virus which has been reported in poultry in the country....

Linux admin with 20 years experience, looking for "beginner" distro [Solved, the real beginner distro was the Debian I've used along the way]

I’m over tinkering with my OS. So I’m looking for a distro that “just works” out of the box for my laptop. Also I want to test an “easy” distro I can install for my grandpa....

Stanford AI project team apologizes for plagiarizing Chinese model (www.globaltimes.cn)

Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes (www.theguardian.com)

Advice - Getting started with LLMs

I’m new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I’m really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I’m not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner. Could anyone provide some guidance and advice on the best way to get...

Democrats back Republicans into a corner and shine light on extremist stances on contraception (www.independent.co.uk)

We can do it. Together. (lemm.ee)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/33764179...

Alan Hawkshaw - Girl in a Sportscar (youtu.be)

What's your server wattage?

I’m in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn’t that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run...