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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It’s been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world’s first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49 (arstechnica.com)

I’ve been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it’s time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.

Baby whales (lemmy.zip)

True (media.mas.to)

Proof that Regex is Hate Speech!

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Poor Miles (startrek.website)

Families in Gaza wear ID bracelets in case of death (www.middleeasteye.net)

MiddleEastEye.net

MOAR STOCK PHOTOS (lemmy.world)

I just finished DS9, and I'm sad to know that we'll never get anything like it again (sh.itjust.works)

It was so good, I am sad to have finished it....

Footage shows moments before and after Israeli airstrike hits civilian convoy fleeing Gaza – The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Video is censored by blurring, but still disturbing.

Cats without ears look really weird (startrek.website)

This guy is super chill and wants all the pets he can get, and he doesn’t mind being the subject of weird pictures.

Through the Wall (lemmy.world)

Maybe even the rest of my life! (sh.itjust.works)

These Prisoners Are Training AI : In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. (www.wired.com)

Catastrophic shutdown averted as McCarthy sides with Democrats over far right in his own party (www.the-independent.com)

Republicans avoid shutdown by cutting deal with Democrats over their own party’s hardliners

Winter in Lomanstraat,Amsterdam (i.imgur.com)

Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday celebration moved to Saturday to avoid federal shutdown threat (apnews.com)

The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown....

Canada has evidence linking Indian diplomats to killing of Sikh activist, media reports (www.theguardian.com)

The Canadian Broadcasting Company revealed communications gathered about murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

What’s the funniest internet argument you’ve ever read?

Inspired by this Jon Bois video where body builders argue about the number of days in a week....

I'm on the edge of my meat (lemmy.world)

Grisham, Martin join authors suing OpenAI: “There is nothing fair about this” (arstechnica.com)

Yesterday, popular authors including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and George Saunders joined the Authors Guild in suing OpenAI, alleging that training the company’s large language models (LLMs) used to power AI tools like ChatGPT on pirated versions of their books violates copyright laws...