In a story, should the villain have the same skin color as the hero so that the story isn't called woke or racist?
If the hero is white, then the villain must also be white, otherwise is it racism?...
Bulgaria Seizes Heroin At Black Sea Port Worth $38 Million En Route From Kyrgyzstan, Georgia. (www.rferl.org)
The Untapped Potential of Fediverse Publishing (wedistribute.org)
Within the last few years, publishing within the Fediverse has started to take off. This week’s opinion piece focuses on some of the current hurdles this network has, when it comes to user experience, and proposes ideas and a vision of what’s possible.
Algal the Bard with Hildegard von Blingin' - Dust in the Wind (Bardcore) (www.youtube.com)
Not to flood the community, but several people seemed to like the last one. So here’s another taste of bardcore, this time a collab from two of the greats.
Day 26 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
The game in the Screenshot is (modded) Skyrim. I went to Solitude and joined the Empire. On my way out I stopped by the Docks and checked things out. I snapped a picture of the warehouse doors on my way out I
Cannonball
Not for snacks? (i.ibb.co)
Weekly active communities promotion thread
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We’re Entering an AI Price-Fixing Dystopia (www.theatlantic.com)
Question about DPOA and taxes
I’m creating a Durable Power of Attorney, and I can choose whether to grant my Agent the power to deal with my taxes. My question is: does granting the Agent this power also make them responsible for my taxes? E.g., if I owed the IRS $100,000, would my Agent suddenly be responsible for paying the IRS $100,000 if I didn’t...
For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division (www.independent.co.uk)
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz embodies everything liberal women see in their own fathers – except for their political views. For some, it makes them hopeful but also very sad....
Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin (www.404media.co)
A co-founder of transparency activism organization Distributed of Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) was a dark web drug kingpin who ran the successor to the infamous Silk Road marketplace and was later convicted of child abuse imagery crimes....
NiGHTS Style Tony Hawk's Underground (www.youtube.com)
20 years ago, I used Tony Hawk's Underground's ingame creation tools and some GameShark codes to add NiGHTS into the game. The game actually takes it pretty well despite not being designed with flying skaters in mind. Enjoy this blast from the past!
Examples of racism on Lemmy?
In 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) and its cross-posts, quite a few people said things like “maybe racism is a problem on Mastodon, but I don’t see it on Lemmy.” Then again, plenty of comments in the various threads were in fact examples of racism on Lemmy, so...
Best Accessories (or Mods) for Meshtastic Nodes (adrelien.com)
Enhance your Meshtastic nodes with top accessories: GY-NEO6MV2 GPS for accurate tracking, BME280 for environmental monitoring, GIZONT high-gain antenna for better range, EC11 potentiometer for easy controls, buzzer for audible alerts, and 18650 battery shield for improved power management
How would your codebase (personal projects, work projects etc.) look as a burger?
My latest personal project would look like this: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/1e818353-34db-4b1f-a69c-cae6d42bfffa.jpeg
TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merg (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.
How I got HDR working on Linux with an Nvidia GPU
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39456265...
Jury selection to begin for ex-politician accused of killing Las Vegas investigative reporter (apnews.com)
The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him will take center stage in Nevada on Monday, with jury selection scheduled to start in a case that stunned Sin City and the world of journalism....
Proxmox: Trouble with permissions of data in a mountpoint for a lxc (audiobookshelf)
I am moving from an debian-server (odroid) to a proxmox-server. I have a 2tb-ssd for some media in my proxmox, so that is what i did:...