Let's talk about the Shadows of Change DLC (www.totalwar.com)
Hi everyone. I’m Rob Bartholomew, Chief Product Officer here at Creative Assembly....
The Most Efficient Solar Panels of August 2023 (www.cnet.com)
Japan: Super Mario Bros Movie has now topped $100M and is 6th highest grossing Hollywood movie of all-time (mynintendonews.com)
The beautifully animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie has now become Universal Studios biggest title ever released in Japan and is now the 6th highest grossing Hollywood movie of all-time in the land…
Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew Reviews - OpenCritic (opencritic.com)
‘If Stevie Wonder wants to play it, pay attention!’: how a bizarre new instrument found unusual success (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/HGJKo...
Xbox adopts an eight-strike suspension policy | Players who strike out won't be able to use Xbox's social or multiplayer features for an entire year. (www.engadget.com)
"U.S. bullying ends now!" - Putin issues stunning military plan | Redacted w Clayton Morris (rumble.com)
Putin offering arms to other countries. Russian version of NATO....
Price Control Panel Fails to Stem Myanmar’s Growing Food Crisis (www.irrawaddy.com)
Space Race 2, India Vs Russia. Mission to the Moon: Who will win Russian and India's race to the lunar South Pole? (www.bbc.com)
TIL CJK compatibilty ideographs (often used to put a lot of symbols in fonts such as 着 which displays as the Wii logo on my machine) were originally allocated to support older standards for storing Chinese characters and derivatives in code points (en.wikipedia.org)
Sorry for the confusing title. Basically before Unicode, a bunch of different standards for storing Chinese characters (also used in Korean and Japanese which also have some of their own derivatives) emerged. When Unicode sought to unify every standard they of course had to add compatibility for older standards so for all the...
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted (www.phoronix.com)
Special counsel to investigate President Biden's son Hunter (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1339184...
Global oil demand is set to expand in 2023, with China accounting for more than 70% of growth, IEA report says (web.archive.org)
West African military leaders agree action over Niger coup | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Trees and renewables help India slash emissions rate by 33% (www.euronews.com)
Fourth Amazon Summit: Venezuela Proposes Joint Task Force for Amazon Rainforest Recovery (orinocotribune.com)
The Global South breaks away from the U.S.-led world order (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Let trade run free. Tie your currency to the U.S. dollar. Align your foreign policy with America’s. The U.S. and its Western partners wrote these economic rules, a cornerstone of the world order prevailing since World War II.
Haiti: US nurse Alix Dorsainvil and child freed by kidnappers, charity says (www.bbc.co.uk)
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What happened to Heather Mayer? (warning domestic violence, adult themes) (m.startribune.com)
My download seems to be throttling itself because it’s topping out my removable disc usage… But this game is on the SSD (imgur.com)
Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 (www.papalencyclicals.net)
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Man arrested after stabbing near British Museum in London (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/rXLlw...
Pixelfed cross-posting in Micro.blog - Maton Reece (www.manton.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/3509989...
ACFM: Surveying the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet (soundcloud.com)
ACFM hosts step back from their screens to survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet, dredging up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting.
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)
TLDR: The Mozilla Corporation claims to run on user donations, while official records prove they actually make so much money from web search defaults that if all user donations stopped, they’d be fine. The Mozilla Corporation spends it’s money on political activism companies or vague and shadowy companies that very little...
