Quotes of great men (lemmy.world)
Cannibal stars at the heart of the Milky Way stay young in a gruesome way (www.space.com)
hate when authors assign human behaviors to natural phenomena. black holes don’t experience hunger. let alone kinship to food. they should assign natural behaviors to humans more often. downvoting
Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse (www.theguardian.com)
Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging (wedistribute.org)
We sat down and interviewed Manton Reece, the creator of Micro.Blog. Micro.Blog is an IndieWeb platform with microblogging capabilities that marries a social experience with a more traditional personal website / blogging concept. It federates via ActivityPub, and has been a part of the Fediverse since 2018.
TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility (community.nodebb.org)
“NodeBB is at this year’s FediForum, and one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a topic-centric model of content representation....
Godot Engine GDC 2024: Retrospective (godotengine.org)
Share your Cell Lab creations! Think Spore cell stage, but much more advanced. (www.cell-lab.net)
This is a niche game for people with an interest in biology, about multicellular evolution that is unlike anything else out there. I am looking for other people to share creations with and maybe even have them face off in an environment together. It runs on an older version of Android but I use the bluestacks emulator to play on...
Accessibility guides about using Mastodon from a blind perspective (social.growyourown.services)
‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’...
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China (www.economist.com)
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Disney’s Steam Deck controlled droids are coming back to Galaxy’s Edge (www.pcgamesn.com)
After Killing of US Aid Worker in Gaza, the US Doubles Down on Military Aid to Israel (peoplesdispatch.org)
Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/28549378...
ArtToCope - Art that you made to help deal with emotions (lemm.ee)
ArtToCope is a subreddit I followed on Reddit for a long time, and one of the only communities I missed when I completely ditched Reddit for Lemmy. Recently, I talked to the moderator and we agreed that I should make a Lemmy community for it, as they had also wanted to move off Reddit....
The bridge of the Klingon Battlecruiser from ST:TMP has been added to the Roddenberry Archive. You can freeroam on this and other bridge sets. (roddenberry.x.io)
Unless I’m mistaken, the Discovery bridge has been added only recently as well....
Biden tells Netanyahu the US policy hinges on ‘Israel’s immediate action’ (www.politico.com)
The president, in a phone call, said that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza was “unacceptable.”...
Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days (www.theverge.com)
France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans (www.politico.eu)
The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text....
Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu (www.wsj.com)
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement....
McDonald’s buys all of its Israeli franchise restaurants amid damage from Middle East turmoil | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
McDonald’s will buy every one of its 225 franchise restaurants in Israel, it announced Thursday, just weeks after saying that the Israel-Hamas war was hurting its business....
Life is Strange studio Deck Nine accused of toxic workplace culture in new report (www.eurogamer.net)
China tests US voter fault lines and ramps AI content to boost its geopolitical interests - Microsoft On the Issues (blogs.microsoft.com)
Israel says it will open new aid routes into Gaza (www.bbc.com)
The Erez Gate in northern Gaza will be temporarily re-opened for the first time since the start of the war and Ashdod Port will also be opened for humanitarian deliveries....
India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan (www.theguardian.com)
Defence minister’s comments after Guardian report are first time India has acknowledged any assassinations on foreign soil...