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We're seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there's no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don't get any headlines.

the researchers note that the sister raised in the US had suffered three previous concussions

the twin raised in Korea described growing up in a loving and harmonious family home, the adopted sister reported a harsher upbringing, colored by regular conflict and the divorce of her adoptive parents

It does seem as if there would be explanations for the unusual difference.

https://www.iflscience.com/identical-twins-raised-in-the-us-and-korea-display-surprising-iq-variations-71357

Move to Codeberg (esp. if you're European) - but please don't forget to donate something as well. If we don't pay for actual freedom, we won't be able to keep it.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to start selling "Obama 2028" hats.

Maybe it's time to move on from using SSNs for security? We have someting similar in Sweden - "person numbers". If I call the tax authority and ask for someone's "person number" they will tell me. They're not secret in any way, and thus not used as some form of authentication either.

My elderly parents got the "your computer cannot be upgraded" and my somewhat tech-litterate mom asked me to move them to Linux.

Microsoft should've realised at some point that the only thing most people need today is a computer that can run a web browser and connect to a printer.

No shit. My lease on the Model 3 I got in 2020 is up in a few months and the requirements we had for the replacement was "anything but Tesla".

(which turned out to be a VW ID.7)

My daughter loves the Moana movies. I've told her about this one - and the anti-excitement of "the same movie but with actual persons" is quite obvious. I can only conclude that no actual parents were involved in its inception.

I don't think the OS is the problem - it's that some of the critical service/apps people rely on (government ID, banking) only exist for the closed systems. Third party OS's try to "solve" it through various container approaches running the official apps, but since they see that as a security problem it's not something you can fully trust to be working at all times.

Well I mean murdering someone breaks the very definition of libertarianism so you can be very sure they're just using that moniker because it fits whatever they're really trying to accomplish.

the maximum freedom for each individual to follow his own ways, his own values, as long as he doesn't interfere with anybody else who's doing the same.

https://www.hoover.org/research/take-it-limits-milton-friedman-libertarianism

But you're absolutely right that a lot of people who are today clearly cheering for fascists used to call themselves libertarians.

While true, most of them are likely one paycheck away from having their family living in the streets. That's a powerful deterrent against refusing orders that the US has somehow mastered. That too.

Meredith just tooted that Signal is down due to an AWS outage.

Seems like a no, unfortunately.

Because, if the publishing history for von Braun’s book on Wikipedia is correct, then Errol couldn’t have heard about it when he was a child and used it as the basis for naming his son – as it wasn’t actually published until well after Elon Musk was born.

(It should be noted that the technical appendix to the book, which contained the specifications for the novel’s expedition to Mars, was published earlier: in Germany in 1952, and in English the following year – however, this appendix as it appears in Project Mars does not contain any mention of ‘Elon’.)

https://www.dailygrail.com/2024/12/did-elon-musks-father-confirm-that-he-was-named-after-the-martian-leader-in-a-science-fiction-novel-by-a-nazi-rocket-scientist/

nycjournals.com seems to be an influence operation. The domain is a month old and the about section contains nothing that actually tells you anything about what's behind the site.

edit: That means this is likely a false story unless corroborated by another source.

Looking at the image another question immediately arises: Do non-AI generated women still exist?

Epstein probably would have intentionally avoided making such a list, which would also incriminate himself and could possibly get him killed

Exactly. If such a list existed he would surely not survive long in jai ... oh

The Streisand effect never fails. Let the comparisons between his "awkward gesture" and nazi salutes flow free over all forms of media:

https://masto.sangberg.se/@troed/113879214124108391

As a dad I care about the subjects my kids care about, so I'm able to take a genuine part in their (almost completely online) lives.

"baking soda"

I'm even more confused now