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[OC] Leafy Butterfly (jlai.lu)

The leafy ribs looked pretty cool to me, and I liked its color. I hope you’ll enjoy the pic too!...

Grade school literature was depressing (lemmy.world)

Specifically thinking about The Little Match Girl and To Build a Fire

is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google?

Hackaday - Physical hacks, freshly served

Hackaday.com serves up Fresh Hacks Every Day from around the Internet. Their playful posts are the gold-standard in entertainment for engineers and engineering enthusiasts....

The power of time (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

Chicago Sky announce plans for a $38 million training facility in Bedford Park: ‘It’s not shared. This is ours.’ (www.chicagotribune.com)

The Chicago Sky will break ground this fall on a purpose-built training center, delivering on team ownership’s promise to provide exclusive player facilities....

OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)

Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

What languages do you speak?

Alternatively, in the languages I speak:...

US, Australia, Canada, Philippines stage naval and air force manoeuvers in disputed South China Sea (apnews.com)

TIL that African naked mole rat do not feel the sting of capsaicin (main component of chilies) and acids (link.springer.com)

Fire at cooling tower of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (www.france24.com)

Domino's India franchisee Jubilant reports two-fold surge in Q1 profit (www.reuters.com)

Jubilant FoodWorks (JUBI.NS), opens new tab, Domino’s Pizza’s (DPZ.N), opens new tab Indian franchisee, reported a near two-fold increase in first-quarter profit on Friday, as value meals attracted budget-conscious customers....

A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors (www.theverge.com)

Hindenburg alleges India market regulator chief held stake in offshore funds used by Adani Group (www.reuters.com)

U.S. based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged on Saturday that the head of India’s market regulator, Madhabi Puri Buch, previously held investments in offshore funds also used by the Adani Group....

What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?

So, I’ll start. I have 3 devices that I’d say are tied for best...

Russian Economic Growth Dips in Second Quarter as Inflation Rises (www.themoscowtimes.com)

The pace of Russia’s economic growth slowed in the second quarter of 2024, official data showed Friday, amid concerns over stubborn inflation and warnings of “overheating.”...

What options does Maduro have after Venezuela's contested presidential election? (web.archive.org)

What do you think will happen in Venezuela?

Unvaxed [sic] unicorn hunters seek bang maid. (lemmy.world)

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.