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STATEMENT: “The concerted efforts of Big Content to ensure the enshittification of public #libraries and shut down digital libraries like the #InternetArchive could not be clearer than they are with this new lawsuit from the world’s biggest record labels." #music #library #preservation #lawsuit #copyright #copyrighttroll fightforthefuture.org/news/202

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Ancient Egyptians used moldy bread on infected wounds and cuts in order to treat some patients, and no one understood why.

Until 1928, it was discovered by scientist Alexander Fleming that penicillin had a great effect as an antibiotic on bacteria.

When bread is left rot, it secretes a fungus called Penicillium, from which penicillin is derived, most famous antibiotic used so far to treat bacteria known to Egyptians 5000 years ago.

#archaeohistories

Funny. Looks like they fixed it after it got a bit of attention.

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Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K": - DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Afric...
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Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

I don't know how well full text search will work when federation can already be fairly spotty. It feels like a bit of a tripwire.

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Federation of posts can be kind of spotty and inconsistent at times.

Maybe, they need a sign with a drawing of a naked person and a drawing of a person with clothing.

A tick on the naked one and a cross on the clothed one.

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/11/catalonian-nudists-campaign-against-clothed-tourists Catalonian nudists upset about swimwear w...

For a more mainstream, and probably better, music anime, there is K-ON.

One advantage is that it's cuter, lol.

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Remember that this old Twitter account was created right after i lost the OLDER one, thank to my OLD Laptop bricked! and now, that old account is now suspended... all my content there is gone, but it shall never forgotten forever!

Thank you for much everything Comedy, even for my mistakes of recent April Fools Furry RP! But Elon Musk treated me like a Violator! But he is a mistake! he's a heartless bastard! one day he will pay! over time, he makes more dumbest decision of rebranding Twitter

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Christian Young, artist on Twitter made a wonderful Howl's Moving Castle scenery using Microsoft Paint.

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We now see what can Ms Paint do behind a great artist.

Cr: @ChristianYoungA on :twitter:

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #howlsmovingcastle #mastoart #fanart

bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66132 Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, they don't want to appear too friendly to the migrant children. Kind of silly.

reason.com/2023/08/15/this-is- Inhumane conditions in Floridian prisons for prisoners with cancer. Lack of treatment. Violates the Eighth Amendment.

For the one covered in this article, who they virtually condemned to die, he was a burglar.

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Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice: u.fsf.org/40a #EndDRM #Enshittification #Google #WebStandards

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Alright, it's not images this time.

Multiple offenses can be levelled against the same person in relation to the same victim. In fact, this is not an unusual practice. We see it all the time. Perhaps, that contributes to these statistics.

The headline is extremely misleading. They mention their statistic is "in wait for the bill", which makes people think of months, or a year, however, they actually have a very wide window of many, many years.

Curiously, it seems they only created this "speaking sexually with a minor" offense in 2017 / 2018. It's hard to extrapolate off that.

Presumably, this flags anyone who speaks inappropriately with a minor. While inappropriate, that might not be someone looking to engage in more sinister activities.

In any case, it's not hard to surmise there are a certain number of crimes on the Internet.

As I've mentioned before, we don't search random homes for dead bodies, nor do we remove the doors off locks to theoretically make it easier to do so.

Also, from the looks of some of the discourse around this, they are catching predators? It seems from reports made to the police?

In one case, the victim attributed their ability to get the police to intervene in a case where someone was trying to extort them, to an online safety program they attended in school.

The criminal was later convicted for his crimes.

This begs the question as to why these people aren't advocating for more countries to run such programs.

Instead, they lobby for pieces of legislation which are disproportionate, bad for human rights, and are very likely, ineffective.

The article also uses sensationalistic language to try to make it appear as if the process of getting someone's confidence is easier than it really is. Given the framing around it, this isn't terribly surprising.

Lots of assertions about a very dubious bill (and what it "might" do) from lobbyists asking the government to "do something".

There's a random line complaining about "AI" (whatever that is supposed to mean), even though it is irrelevant to this, because got to have that in there. Again, human rights.

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"PA Media" wrote this article. Who is that? The biggest shareholder is a very right wing company, although I presume it isn't just them.

Noting that staff for social networks mention that victims are typically of an older cohort... Hmm.

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