Nobility... Whatcha gonna do. 🤷‍♂️

She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

When the rich only think about charity as a means to further their own name, it's no wonder nothing ever really gets fixed.

The authors of the institute's report said there was evidence that audiences "continue to selectively avoid important stories such as the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis as they cut back on depressing news and look to protect their mental health".>

Bingo. However,

But the figures are much higher for young users. One in five (20%) 18 to 24-year-olds get news from TikTok, up from 15% last year. The report says the platform "is the fastest growing social network in our survey". However, it is not necessarily news from traditional news providers. TikTok users are more likely to get news on the platform from celebrities, influencers or ordinary creators than mainstream news outlets or journalists.

This is far more worrisome.

Or Viktor Orbán.

Shai-Hulud's dumber cousin.

As an FYI to readers, port forwarding with ProtonVPN on Linux can be done, just with a little extra effort.

Yep, this looks like the thing - thanks!

I haven't (yet) dipped toes in the *arr worlds yet, so it's great to know the feature's there.

Complete Baguazhang Nine Dragon System, by John Painter

It's out of print and good copies are about $130+

This is a neat idea I hadn't thought of.

Yeah I agree the costuming was good.

Reload the page with Javascript turned off.

Yes!

I hope part 2 lives up to part 1. If so, this could easily become a masterpiece trilogy.

Yes, that's true; everybody borrows.

This seemed particularly plagiaristic though. Oddly placed yin-yangs? Allusions to the Roma people? An underworld looking distinctly hell-like?

At least make me work to find the source material.

I'm split on this myself.

On the one hand, I do think there is a risk of Meta's influence becoming too pervasive over ActivityPub and ultimately kneecapping it. I think to presume this couldn't happen is naive. Further, Meta does have a history of trying to bring everything under its own umbrella, and if they see enough profit opportunity in trying to own the protocol then they will sink serious effort into doing so. They have done it with many other companies & ideas already.

On the other hand, preemptive blocking is not in the spirit of the fediverse, users should be able to make their own choice, and SDF is known for its general openness. "Why in this case and not others?" is a real question.

I personally don't think the influx of users/content & problems with "Eternal September" are too big a deal. True, I'm not a sysadmin or mod here. If those were real reasons to block the service then we should do it on logistical grounds without hesitation - there's no need for user input or discussion in that case.

To me this software carries a sense of the absurd.

I think AI bots are about trying to "think less", or at least do less work in research & analysis on a question (hallucinations overlooked for now). Having to analyze & decide between many different AI answers doesn't accomplish that.

Although I guess being able to correlate answers between bots might allow you to catch a hallucinating one.