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Dave T-W

Commodore brand revived with badge laptops and bluetooth earphones. commodore.inc/prodotto/gep-810

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Johan Halse

DHH is truly unhinged these days. I'll never be able to wrap my head around people who see diversity efforts as somehow worse than the naked authoritarianism creeping into every nook and cranny of government and capitalism in the 2020s. Sure, people can go overboard in accusing others of racial insensitivity or mansplaining or whatnot. But LOOK AROUND YOU, MAN. If you really think DEI is the thing that's wrong with the world in the year of our lord 2024, you're madly out of touch.

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Ernesto Priego

The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.

ernestopriego.com/2024/03/11/t

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Dave T-W

What's that you say, a 4 hour documentary series on one of the greatest satires of 80's American culture? All wrapped up in one of the most quotable action ever? Sticking my data spike straight in for Robodoc: Making of youtu.be/lyBL9eINHO8

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@jordinn They used to do this in Argentina as well, a surprising discovery coming from the UK where (at the time) we had small bottles delivered in the morning and modified our request on a little clock. Spillage anxiety was significant.
Seems they still do:

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How it started...

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Skeletextman

Behold: the USB jord (jeans cord)

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@mapto @Geri Fundamental to this was his threads/articles describing how Russia functions as mafia state, drawing on parallels with Mexican cartels. Tl;Dr: such organisations prefer extraction or farming because it doesn't require complexities of production, manufacturing and distribution... Which needs effective managers. Such people aren't motivated by violence, which is the mafia's only tool.

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mapto

@Geri sanctions are only as effective as you make them.
Kamil Galeev has been very good at documenting this.

Unfortunately, he's on ex-twitter and substack only. Here's what I think is an acceptable way of reading him
threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/15

I recommend him as a way to understand Ruskiy Mir. Goes without saying that he's to be read critically. Even though he's very informed historically and a good narrator, his way of thinking has its own Russian biases.

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Dave T-W

@mapto That method above, via threadreader app, was ok for the last article. I think that's based on a twitter user calling on the particular article.

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Andrea

If you happen to be in #London today and have a bit of time on your hands, go to London Bridge station and hear my friends and colleagues of the "Society of Women Organists" play on the Henry Jones #PipeOrgan there.
13 hours of #OrganMusic 🙂
I'm sure there will be works by #WomenComposers, too.
@womeninmusic
@womencomposers

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Low Quality Facts

We made a comic about the Hulk.

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Dave T-W

Interesting but unexpectedly exhausting day hearing candidates for new HoD. Not been involved in this process for the previous 3 in my time here, but was really great to hear from people who have identified the current and future challenges, bring fresh ideas and experience.

Biggest disappointment was the lack of academic staff who made it in person. Their loss as there were plenty of lunch leftovers.

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@RuthMalan Is the image generated from the post content, or bear any relation to the post?

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jd 🔆

@Snowshadow @Thatmermaid_J

thebeaverton.com/2018/11/faceb

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Jason Koebler

I went deep into the world of TikTok spammers who claim to makes 5 figures a month posting stolen and AI-generated clips through its partner program. This community is very wild.

There are 80,000 people sitting in a Discord talking about how to turn Reddit posts, fun facts, redpill clips, Would You Rather, Minecraft gameplay into $$$. Entire industry has popped up around it. People selling clips, tools, US-based TikTok accounts, GPT prompts, ideas

404media.co/inside-the-world-o

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OpenSexism

"No country in the world affords women the same opportunities as men in the workforce, according to a new report from the World Bank, which found the global gender gap was far wider than previously thought."

theguardian.com/global-develop

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RustyBertrand

UK to Expand Extremism Definition

"Organisations such as the Muslim Council of Britain and protest groups such as Palestine Action are among those that could be affected by the non-statutory move to block groups from funding or accessing venues if they are regarded as promoting an ideology that undermines “British values”. - Guardian

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TechAltar

youtube.com/watch?v=3FQSFnZpsq

Absolutely insane story of a Ukranian girl getting her face cloned & deepfaked her into dozens of pro-russian fake digital influencers on Chinese social media.

I fear this flood of AI shit is truly going to break the internet

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Dave T-W

@Techaltar AI generated contact is still really obvious as it doesn't have the giveaway human quirks of speech, dialogue and movement. However, if content consumers and influencers have gotten used to presenting in a particular way, well that leaves them open to vulnerability. Same as we're now vulnerable to shitty clones of decent products on Amazon.
Real human contact, as ever, is crucial.

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