From The Guardian article on the same incident:

The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.

"A few weirdos on the Internet used Photoshop, so now we're ragebaiting it for engagement to make a few pennies on X."

I feel like this is a euphemistic way of saying "we paid the ransom" without actually saying "we paid the ransom."

Not that this really matters since this is a shitpost, but this is misinformation. Completely harmless misinformation, but still incorrect.

The coconut image does exist but it's not a JPG (it's a VTF), the game doesn't crash if you remove it, and the dev comment isn't real.

So, considering that the root of the FDA's claim is that chest binders alleviate gender dysphoria, can we expect them to send similar warnings to manufacturers of skirts and baggy cargo shorts?

I actually really like the developer's rationale for why they use an anime character as the mascot.

The whole blog post is worth reading, but the TL;DR is this:

Of course, nothing is stopping you from forking the software to replace the art assets. Instead of doing that, I would rather you support the project and purchase a license for the commercial variant of Anubis named BotStopper. Doing this will make sure that the project is sustainable and that I don't burn myself out to a crisp in the process of keeping small internet websites open to the public.

At some level, I use the presence of the Anubis mascot as a "shopping cart test". If you either pay me for the unbranded version or leave the character intact, I'm going to take any bug reports more seriously. It's a positive sign that you are willing to invest in the project's success and help make sure that people developing vital infrastructure are not neglected.

For what it's worth, what Sanders said is a lot softer than the headline implies:

Singh interjected with another question: “But could we not also say, if there hasn’t been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?”

“Fair enough,” Sanders answered. “I’m not gonna argue with that.”

This is a complete nothingburger article that's just repeating Tyler McVicker's speculation. I like McVicker, but to act like his guess is insight from a "Valve insider" is dogshit-tier journalism.

Now that Superman claimed me as a dependent on his taxes, the government took away my HSA and I've gone headlong into CRIPPLING MEDICAL DEBT!

Thanks Superman!

I feel like people constantly shit on Duolingo and other things like it, especially compared to other forms of language study like full classes, immersing yourself in that language via cultural exports (movies, TV shows, books, etc.), or interacting with people that speak that language.

But I think that's kinda missing the point — Duo and other programs structured like it offer a way to learn a decent chunk of a language without a lot of effort. If you put in a bit of time every day or so and take things at least a little seriously, my understanding is that you can learn a lot. Maybe you won't be truly fluent, and certainly you won't learn as much as you would with intensive self-structured learning or classes at a university, but it takes way less effort and is far more approachable.

That being said, definitely look somewhere else now that Duolingo is using AI.

This might be less funny than it first appears, since companies often had a policy where developers were required to be listed under pseudonyms or worse, go completely uncredited.

No idea if that's the case here, but it's plausible "Booby Master" was basically a form of protest, or at least making a joke out of a bad situation.

It sounds like a lot of this case is going to come down to whether or not the students were actually told that the university was fake. One of the plaintiffs claims that he was repeatedly told over the course of multiple calls and months that classes would be starting and he'd get a normal course load, while ICE claims that it was made to clear to all students that it wasn't a real university (i.e. a "pay to stay" arrangement).

I obviously have my doubts about ICE, but if they were any kind of smart they should have phone recordings or emails proving that's the case. And if it is, they can likely keep the money in the same way that undercover drug busts do.

Obligatory "I'm not a vegan," but this comment seems like it's at least partially mischaracterizing the issue.

Some of the comments removed seem to advocate for a vegan cat diet that specifically includes the amino acids and protein that cats need, albeit sourced in a vegan-friendly way:

I am also not a vet (go figure) but this seems reasonable on its face and lines up with the 5 minutes of Google research that I did. It sounds like not all vegan formulated cat food actually strikes the balance cats need and that this diet would need to be balanced very carefully, but it seems possible to do it in a healthy way, especially if done in concert with a vet and frequent checkups.

It's from Kimi no Koto ga Dai Dai Dai Dai Daisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You).

It's good and fairly self-aware, but mainly centers around heterosexual relationships with some hints of Yuri here and there. So, not really a Yuri manga, for whatever that's worth.

I feel like this headline and article are missing the mark. This is clearly aping off of TikTok Live's Gifts system, which works in basically the exact same way. It's crazy to me that the article doesn't mention them at all.

Just like YouTube started supercharging Shorts after TikTok took off, they're chasing that same train again.

This, but I'll also never feel sorry for them because of the way they previously intentionally nerfed AMD's processor performance in applications using their compiler (i.e. a lot of big applications at the time) by checking if the the CPU was made by Intel and disabling optimizations if it wasn't.

That was some serious monopolistic, anti-competitive bullshit.

Adding on to what you're saying: I think it's pretty clear that Morrowind and Oblivion are more focused on a first-person perspective for the player character with third-person being a bit of a secondary concern. As such, it seems to me like the focus of the third person animations is on matching what the player would see in first person, especially since they can switch between the two with a single button press.

For example, when the player holds the "A" key to move pure left while keeping their view straight, it certainly seems more natural from a first-person perspective that they're strafing left rather than turning their torso left with their head and arms awkwardly straining at a 90° angle (try this at home, it feels weird).

The alternative here would be for the character to actually turn their whole body left when you hold the "A" key in third-person, but then have their view (i.e. their head and arms) snap 90° to the right whenever you switch back to first-person, which seems odd and immersion breaking.

That being said, obviously it does look quite jank from a third-person perspective for a player to be strafing all the time, even when they're in non-combat scenarios. This isn't helped by aging animations, either.

The next paragraph after that one:

The game is published directly by FromSoftware in Japan, but overseas distribution is handled by Bandai Namco. According to the investment fund, this arrangement resulted in a “material profit leakage” for the company.

So, it sounds like they're unhappy that Kadokawa let Bandai Namco take a cut.

It's a little bit confusing, but from what I've read, the collective bargaining rights that they previously enjoyed were granted from the beginning by the agency's administrator, so it follows that they can be revoked by the agency's administrator in turn.

Here's a 2011 NPR article covering when they were initially granted those rights.

As always, this is the danger in allowing such rules to be set by the executive branch instead of codified into law — when the next guy is in office, they can always easily undo it.

From the article:

Most toothpicks in South Korea are made of sweet potato or corn starch instead of wood. Their green color comes from the food coloring that is applied in the manufacturing process.