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All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree (www.wolframcloud.com)

Fartology is an up and coming science.

40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess (arstechnica.com)

/k/ approaches the demonic truth (lemmy.world)

TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)

[OC] I met this cool little guy on a trip (lemmy.world)

Recommendation Algorithms & Advertising - Where do you draw the line?

I think recommendation algorithms and advertising are separate things, however think with defaults and when it comes to what specific data is collected, where do you draw the line? Absolutely no recommendations at all based on an algorithm? Would you say using your ‘like’ history to recommend you more videos is okay? What...

Sweet dreams, Miez

https://i.imgur.com/C4Hdw4Z.mp4...

TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)

You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.

The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] (www.youtube.com)

Study: 83% of Americans will have to work into their 70s in order to afford to retire (medium.com)

How does generative AI create convincing lighting in images?

I believe lighting plays a very important part in making a scene realistic when it comes to creating one artificially, like in 3D modelling. That is why I also think the lighting of these AI generated images is the prime source of what impresses people about these images since no matter how unrealistic or distorted the subject...

Akon - Lonely (Official Music Video) [04:23 | Rap, R&B, Soul Pop, Chipmunk Soul, Soul] (youtu.be)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16858061...

Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)

Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....

Death toll at Hajj pilgrimage rises to 1,300 amid scorching temperatures (apnews.com)

think of the children, they're terrorists in training, really. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Zelenskyy= Theoden, prolly. Aging well, but so tired of the bullshit.

Rep. Neil Friske released from jail amid investigation into sexual assault, gun charges (www.freep.com)

This is the sober, clear-eyed proper reporting of the incident. The much more fun-to-read-one is over here....

Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might’ve been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....

America’s housing crisis continues to worsen, renters are struggling more than homeowners, report says (www.cnn.com)

Credit card debt is soaring, especially in these cities (thehill.com)

Using data from the Census Bureau, TransUnion and the Federal Reserve, the study’s authors looked at inflation-adjusted household debt in the country’s largest 181 cities found Santa Clarita, California to have the highest average household credit card debt ($21,836), followed by Chula Vista, CA ($20,920), New York, NY...