An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) (www.staygrounded.online)
PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
California elementary school evacuated over bomb threat after rightwing harassment (www.theguardian.com)
Chabot elementary in Oakland received racist and threatening emails, forcing 50 students and staff to vacate the premises
Lawsuit Alleges Reddit Fired Employee for Taking Medical Leave, ‘Toxic’ Culture (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit was filed against Reddit alleging that the company fired an employee with anxiety for taking medical leave. The employee, Jamie Lee, had worked at Reddit as an accountant for over 4 years with positive reviews. In July 2022, Lee requested 3 days off for her health but was denied. She was later placed on medical leave...
Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ (www.theverge.com)
Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy responded to employees’ reluctance to return to the office by telling them that “it’s probably not going to work out,” according to Insider.
Poptalk.scrubbles.tech is going down temporarily due to fear of federating CSAM (lemmy.world)
poptalk.scrubbles.tech/c/poptalkmeta...
PlayStation Portal: Hands On With Sony's New Remote Play Handheld (inv.zzls.xyz)
As a reminder, the PlayStation Portal, or Project Q, is (according to leaks) based on Android. It doesn’t run the games itself, it merely streams them from your PS5 and your handheld then serves as a controller with its own display....
1 killed, 4 wounded in shooting in Copenhagen's Christiania neighborhood, police in Denmark say (abcnews.go.com)
This is clearly shaping up to be the pinnacle of this decade's technology (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Phil Spencer Insists Games Launch Across Xbox Series X and S Despite Baldur's Gate 3 No-Show - IGN (www.ign.com)
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has addressed the fact Baldur's Gate 3 launches on PS5 before Xbox Series X and S in an interview at gamescom 2023.
Armored Core VI Review Thread (85/100) (opencritic.com)
Game Information...
TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. (www.pbs.org)
The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...
UO People is an accredited and tuition free college that offers full degrees and certificates (www.uopeople.edu)
If you’re considering doing online college, check to see if they offer your program!...
Hi-Rez Studios, the people behind Paladins and Smite, have stated that they will be using AI to clone voices and refused to add in any words to contracts that would protect actors from it (twitter.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/gaming/t/354777...
GNOME 44.4 Is Out to Improve Epiphany, GNOME Software, and More - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Fairphone 5 - release date and US support?? (www.fairphone.com)
Ever since I learned about the Fairphone, I keep trying to figure out when they’ll release the Fairphone 5....
New study reaffirms what we all knew – fossil fuel companies plot the path to climate ruin (www.thecanary.co)
Mountains are collapsing: A Swiss mountain peak fell apart, sending 3.5 million cubic feet of rock into the valley below. (www.businessinsider.com)
Mt. Fluchthorn’s tallest peak, on the Swiss-Austrian border, collapsed in June....
OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre (www.inverse.com)
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
US set to unveil long-awaited crackdown on real estate money laundering (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Treasury Department will soon propose a rule that would effectively end anonymous luxury-home purchases, closing a loophole that the agency says allows corrupt oligarchs, terrorists and other criminals to hide ill-gotten gains.
Mishaal Rahman: ASUS is NOT killing off bootloader unlocking for its phones (twitter.com)
“The service team reply misunderstood the situation. Unlock tool is unavailable at this moment but we are allowing the possibility to unlock, please stay tuned.”...
Google wants iPhone switchers to know 'It's all good' on Android [Video] (9to5google.com)
Google’s latest advertising campaign, encapsulated by the tagline “It’s all good with Google on Android,” is aimed at persuading iPhone users to switch to Android by emphasizing the simplicity and worry-free nature of the process....
PC graphics cards to get more expensive again "thanks" to AI boom (archive.is)
12 reasons to stop using Goodreads - selected by Goodreads staff (help.goodreads.com)
It could be kind of lame to poke fun at a site that I don’t use (anymore), but I find this funny enough to share: Goodreads has started changing and updating their site last year, but apparently they’ve broken a ton of things in the process, and now they’ve published an announcement with the list of 12 bugs they’re...
YSK you can meditate without sitting quietly (psychcentral.com)
WHY YSK- Many people practice mindfulness and meditation as part of their lives, and some would like to but feel like they don’t have time to sit down and meditate properly. Once you’ve gotten used to doing it as a part of your daily activities, it becomes easy to simply take a few breaths and gain some peace from your...
