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Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb
Lemmy.world is on there too - it wasn't tracked in May but in June it was up to 3.5M visits with 970K unique visitors, so starting off pretty well.
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Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb
Lemmy.world is on there too - it wasn't tracked in May but in June it was up to 3.5M visits with 970K unique visitors, so starting off pretty well.
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Mike Pence triggers MAGA types
Pence may be right about this point but he's still a knob.
We need to all remember that and not turn him into some kind of statesman just because he isn't Trump.
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Who watches these?
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I have watched a ton of their documentary stuff and enjoyed it all. Lots of interesting topics I'd never think to watch shows on otherwise. My favorites have been the one about the Pepsi points guy and the McDonald's monopoly money theft. But the American Gladiators was solid.
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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor
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I agree. I hate the idea of Meta or anybody having that much data on me in one place. However - - even Amazon, which supposedly has some of the most sophisticated purchase data and analytics out there doesn't seem to be able to do anything with it. I mean, I buy a blender there and the next thing they recommend to me is... A blender. That only stops until I buy something else which they then continue to recommend more of, as if I only want multiples of the exact things I've already purchased. The recommendation engine is the whole point of having my data to begin with so but they seem unable to recommend anything new to me at all.
It's like they have all this information written in front of them but they can't read.
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Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill
There is obviously 1)some ridiculous loophole in the bill basically eliminating all rtr protections or 2)apple is setting up to somehow be the only ones who can do the repairs or sell the parts (for an absurd markup).
Apple will not just go along with right to repair as it's intended to be. They will shit all over it and find ways to make money on it.
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I feel superior
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Same. I still have pangs of grief over doomscrolling reddit (via Boost, RIP) and getting lost in nonsense like best of redditor updates.
That said, I spend WAY less time on my phone now, which is definitely a healthy thing
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80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’
Staggering levels of ignorance on display in this article.
"We just needed to listen to our people and understand what, specifically, was problematic for them, and offer resources to address that.”
Seriously, this was a revelation?!
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Wealthy residents raise $60,000 to stop homeless shelter being built in San Francisco
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The problem is that basically democrats are the party of 'protect us from Republicans' and it's the one thing we agree on. Dividing by actual beliefs would only reduce the numbers of people available to shut down the nonsense Republicans are pulling.
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Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump's second term
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Well honestly what does trump (or most republicans) care anyway? They'll be dead in a few years so they don't need to be concerned if the world is baking. All they care about is next quarters earnings.
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‘Superman: Legacy’: James Gunn Taps David Corenswet And Rachel Brosnahan For Clark Kent And Lois Lane In DC Studios Film
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Id love to see a foul-mouthed Lois in the new iteration. If they are going to revive the same old characters for the 8millionth time they should at least do something new with them.
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DUMB MONEY - Official Red Band Trailer (HD)
Got to admit I'm looking forward to this one. Watching that nonsense play out on reddit was crazy and it definitely looked like an interesting story. Its a fun cast so the Hollywood version should be entertaining.
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What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
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Yeah the joke was funny at first but like so many jokes on reddit it got overplayed immediately and it seems like no one knew when to give up on it.
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The UFO congressional hearing was ‘insulting’ to US employees, a top Pentagon official says
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Agreed. I can't help but feel like this hearing is intended as a distraction. My midwestern city just had another thunderstorm with 70+mph winds and its the 5th or 6th of the summer. We're in the middle of the hottest month ever in history and it's like DC is humming along as if it's business as usual. Nobody is even trying to do anything about fixing climate change or even just improving emergency preparedness for severe weather. Instead we have senators literally sitting in congress catatonic and having strokes on TV because staying in power is more important than doing anything for the country.
But hey, here's a crazy hearing about UFOs.
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A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve
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Look up apartheid in South Africa. Same thing but a whole country.
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Rudy Giuliani booked in Trump Georgia election interference case, bond set at $150,000
I feel like there has got to be someone Photoshoping these into something worthy of a tshirt. I have money ready and I want to spend it.
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Fable Studios created an AI-generated episode of South Park... during a Hollywood strike over AI.
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My thinking is that from a studio's perspective it may be like a proof of concept that AI can get close enough to do what they care about make a passable imitation that gets buts in seats that will generate ad revenue or ticket sales. Fundamentally they aren't really concerned about producing quality material as long as it sells, so if the AI can get them to something kind of good its likely worth their attention. I think that's what writers and actors are concerned about and that is why even an unfunny south park episode is a threat. Fable can say their work is research all day long but their goal can easily change the second a studio shows up with a check in hand.
Also it is not clear here is how much human editing and tweaking was done after the AI was finished with it's part. I suspect people kind of helped the AI get to a final product, but without them disclosing their procedure it's hard to know.
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What are you Reading? (August 2023)
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OMG I loved the books. The show is making me want to go through them again but I have a stack of books I bought last year and still haven't read. I'll probably read Silo again though it is so freaking good.
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I have thirty fountain pens of varying value...
I tend to rotate between a 2 or 3 of mine. I have a Twsbi AL Mini that I use a lot as my everyday carry, and when I'm at home I tend to use my Twsbi diamond 580 or my Teranishi Guitar. In those pens the nibs that come with them are pretty nice (esp for the price) and I keep my favorite inks in them so I always those inks available.