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ThenaWasHere , to random
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Interesting staging, having Counselor Troi enter in the background, looking at consoles and displays, and making a circuit of the outer bridge before she enters the discussion with Picard and Riker.

joewynne ,
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@ThenaWasHere Interesting? More like cool, menacing, calculating...alright, I'm creeping myself out now.

@allstartrek

hmm_cook , to random
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If you could name one wildly improbable dream—one thing you would love to be able to do if people issues were no obstacle—what would it be?

notagander ,
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@CynAq @hmm_cook @actuallyautistic ahaha People issues aside? Accessibility Coach. I wanna yell at people/corps for not making appropriate/legally-mandated/completely normal and low effort accommodations for people with disabilities of all kinds. Autism being just one of many things that are normative to the point that someone should write guide to it. “seeeeeeeee i promise it’s not that hard to be nice to people who have different needs than you.” 🤣

hmm_cook OP ,
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@notagander @CynAq @actuallyautistic Yes! I hope you do this and can help lots of companies which can help lots and lots and lots of other people! You’re right, it’s not that hard. It does take letting go of some assumptions though.

BBC_News_Labs , to random
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It can be difficult to search the register where MPs list the gifts they receive.

A fellowship collaboration between editorial and technology teams at the BBC and The Times is trying to fix this with .

https://www.journalismai.info/blog/mp-interests-tracker-utilising-genai-for-uncovering-insights-in-the-uk-register-of-financial-interest

kdnyhan ,
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@BBC_News_Labs I read the blog post and saw nothing about how they are measuring the performance of LLMs at this task, or how they are validating the results.
Also no info about the resources that would be required to catalog this data the "old-fashioned way" with human indexers using a controlled vocabulary, or a "formerly novel" approach like crowdsourced tags.

slowe ,
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From having processed the RMFI, yes, it is hard. It is deliberately so.

It is a shame that UK news organisations don't just commit to creating and maintaining a joint, open, shared, structured version of the RMFI where journalists clean up and tag the data using their actual domain expertise.

Sheril , to random
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I haven’t been sharing interviews here, but it was an absolute delight to join Kate Lister on to talk about the & of kissing.

Yes, I’m a scientist focused on policy, sustainability & communication, but 12 years ago, I wrote a book called The Science of Kissing. We contain multitudes.

https://play.acast.com/s/betwixt-the-sheets/history-of-kissing-why-do-we-lock-lips

Kabbaway , to random
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Gimme all of the angst, I can handle it… I SWEAR! 😈 😇

🔗 https://youtube.com/shorts/Hi99n5CstVc?feature=share

Don't forget to stream Good Omens (Seasons 1 and 2), give them good ratings, keep sharing it across social media and support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to help make Season 3 happen! The writers and actors deserve a livable income and reasonable work hours/conditions, as well as the opportunity to make the high-quality art they want to share with the world 💚

@neilhimself

temporal_spider , to random
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Wow, Frisco ISD is just swingin that ban hammer like a drunken monkey, and they appear to hate fantasy with a special kind of hate. Gotta admire young Cameron Samuels. This is what courage looks like.

More Than 430 Books Banned in Texas Schools. | Dallas Observer

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/list-of-texas-banned-books-shows-state-has-most-in-us-17480532

> Texas led the nation, followed by Florida, in banned titles in a list created by PEN America, a literary nonprofit. Many surprising titles are included in this list.

chirpbirb , to random
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wanted to show off my cool gba :3

this is a no-solder mod and a complete case swap that uses a funnyplaying 3.0 ips kit, a usbc battery mod, a custom shell, new buttons, new stickers, and an ezflash omega definitive edition cart with an sd card that currently holds every and rom from myrient afaik

very happy with it, definitely my second favorite way to play gba games after the steam deck. this is great to just bring around around with me when i'm just waiting to pick someone up. :3

a game boy advance with a custom transparent green shell, purple buttons, and a new ips display. it is sitting on a wooden surface on its front., showing off the usbc battery ban and new holographic stickers on the back.
a game boy advance with a custom transparent green shell, purple buttons, and a new ips display. it is sitting upright on a wooden surface showing the different display settings of the ipa display.
a game boy advance with a custom transparent green shell, purple buttons, and a new ips display. it is being held to showcase the usbc port on the back. a copy of pokemon blue is inserted.

kcarr2015 , to random
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I can't believe this show inadvertently swapped for . I know Jennifer Lien had issues, but it was such a odd turn of fate to drop the innocent, empathic character for cold, aloof, and sexy.

...or maybe it was apt? Audience seemed to REALLY like cold, aloof, and sexy.🤷‍♂️

sezduck ,
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@Infrogmation @allstartrek @kcarr2015
Did they actually condsider adding Sarah Silverman to the cast? That would’ve been interesting!

Infrogmation ,
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@sezduck @allstartrek @kcarr2015
Indeed! It was under consideration as a possibility.
I don't know where I read it first, but here's a source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140222011008/http://www.blastr.com:80/2011/04/see_who_almost_became_a_r.php

brian_gettler , to random
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I haven't seen any interviews with her, but / should really be speaking with Kassandra Luciuk about the SS veteran invited to Parliament. Luciuk is a historian (Dalhousie) of the Ukrainian community in 20th-century . She demonstrates that some Cold-War Canadian officials were quite happy for right-wing Ukrainian migrants to use violence against communist labour leaders, also from Ukraine, already in the country.

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/llt/1900-v1-n1-llt07545/1094778ar/

brian_gettler OP ,
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2/ This week I've read/heard many discussions in the media of SS veterans' migration to , but none with historians. What I've seen are conversations with politicians. Fine, this is a contemporary political debate. Still, all of these conversations claim that "we don't know enough" about the history. But scholars know more than politicians! If I were a journalist, I'd start with Luciuk, but other (of migration, anti-communism, intelligence, politics) could help too. @histodons

brian_gettler OP ,
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3/ I just came across this from the CBC. The piece from the National features a historian with some expertise on SS veterans' migration to - Jan Grabowski. More like this, please! @histodons https://youtu.be/Ucm8cSoCGXw?feature=shared

schizanon , to gaming
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BostonAbrams , to random
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TheConversationUS ,
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The story on the course is part of a series of articles we have on creative ways to teach important ideas:
https://theconversation.com/us/topics/uncommon-courses-130908

@academicchatter

Snowkitten , to random German
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Wer von euch schreibt Bücher/Geschichten?
Ich möchte mich mehr mit Schreibenden verbinden auf dieser Plattform.
Also, welchen Accounts kann ich folgen?

Sascha_Raubal ,
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RustyBertrand , to random
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aralqprf ,
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galoisghost ,
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@aralqprf thanks for posting that link. Possible, certainly plausible but debated. I wish the Smithsonian had actually included or linked to the dissenting views. @RustyBertrand

fell , (edited ) to linux
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I am once again considering to write my own window manager

...unless the setup I am thinking of is already possible, let me construct this in your head:

On the top of the screen, there is narrow status bar, which is split into two parts. On the right side of the bar, you have your clock, your battery, your signal strength and so on.

On the left side, there is a clickable tab for every window you have opened. It's like browser tabs: Every window always uses the entire space below the status bar.

On the far left, there could be an icon which opens a searchable list of applications, kind of like but vertical. Everything supports mouse input as you would expect.

Does that exist? Should I make it? It would be awesome for smaller screens, like phones.

Edit: I should add that I'm planning to run it on a Nokia N900 with a single 600 MHz CPU core, 256 MB RAM and a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Existing full desktop environments like Xfce4, LXDE, and so on are way to heavy to run.

@linux @linux @linux @linux

merthyr1831 ,

Unless you wanna write your own window manager (all the power to you!) almost any barebones window manager can pretty much be customised to meet your needs with their scripting APIs.

Oh damn, maybe you might wanna write your own for such a specific use case.

demesisx ,
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You can do this with XMonad and XMobar.

crimedad , to pics

Moon with colorful aura [OC]

Is there a name for when a nearly full moon shines through the clouds at night and produces a rainbow-like aura? A moonbow perhaps?

Edit: I looked it up and I think this phenomenon is actually a lunar corona (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_%28optical_phenomenon%29?wprov=sfla1).

@pics

Ferris , (edited )

I think 22deg lunar halo, though it is diffused into a rainbow

*definitely a lunar carona vv

CrimeDad ,

It might be a lunar corona.

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