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Journalist's death prompts Russian outrage over Ukraine's alleged use of cluster bombs (www.reuters.com)

Cocaine dumped in the sea off Florida could have 'crazy' consequences if sharks eat it, scientists find (news.sky.com)

"Now I Know Why My Wife Was Fired from Her Government Job" | Nieman Reports (niemanreports.org)

When Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White found out last year that ByteDance, the controversial China-based firm that runs the video-sharing platform TikTok, had used the app to track her whereabouts as she covered the company, she knew she was on to a major story. And she was worried — but not necessarily about herself. The...

Do cavers accept chipping ?

I was browsing Tik Tok (yes I am ashamed) and saw a video of caver in pretty narrow passage. So that caver took another rock and started to chip in order to widen a little bit the passage, while complaining about not having a hammer with him....

Netflix removes its basic tier in the US and the UK (techcrunch.com)

My 7 year old loves to tell people "bite my shiny metal ass" and it's awesome.

Wife and I decided to do another watch through before the new episodes. The 7 year old caught a couple and now he’s hooked. His favorites to quote are Bender and Zoidberg. It’s especially cute when he goes “wub wub wub!” At the grocery store. I’m so proud.

never buying this again (media.discordapp.net)

Life before air conditioning: Curly hair kept early humans cool (www.psu.edu)

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Fast growing Lemmy Communities?

Hi. Is there a tool to see fastest growing Lemmy communities? It’s easy to see the big communities, but it would be helpful to see fast growing communities to join in with community building for things you may have an interest in. is there anything that currently does this?

Baby Blue the day we got her. (i.imgur.com)

Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] (archive.ph)

Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...

[OC] More of the F-35 Lighting II (i.imgur.com)

View from the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. (lemmy.world)

I think he might need a larger hard hat (lemmy.world)

Relaxing (i.imgur.com)

Improving Fediverse Discovery & Onboarding

This post is a sort of partial dump of my efforts towards an idea/proposal for improving discoverability and onboarding for the Fediverse while avoiding new users just being dumped on a centralised instance. I’ve seen people suggest that one of our secondary defenses from megacorp social media (like Meta) is improving our UI,...