The Locus Awards are right around the corner!!! Secure your spot to the awards ceremony on our site, either in person in Oakland, CA or virtually (or both)! You can also still vote for your favorite authors and works on our site.
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2025 Locus Awards Weekend, June 18-21
We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards on June 21, 2025 in Oakland, California! For more than 50 years, the awards have been highlighting the very best in science fiction, fantasy, and …Locus Online
Art can help remind US and Europe of special relationship, says director of reopening Frick Collection
After a $220m five-year renovation, the New York museum is set to showcase a trove of European masterpiecesEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
I've always been a fan of z80-based releases of Gauntlet. However, both the original collection of mazes and those in the "Deeper Dungeons" add-on were a bit limited (most dungeons were duplicate of others).
Now I've created a tool that allows adding your own mazes and creating a new collection that can be loaded from the original game.
github.com/Colpocorto/gauntlet…
#msx #retro #retrogaming #zxspectrum #amstrad_cpc #amstrad #cpc
GitHub - Colpocorto/gauntlet-editor: Maze editor for 8bit game Gauntlet
Maze editor for 8bit game Gauntlet . Contribute to Colpocorto/gauntlet-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@Linux You see he is now threatening companies affected by his tariffs to not raise prices, and eat it from their bottom line?
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🚨Best News of the Year: We've stopped a backdoor law in France
Encryption backdoors must never be allowed. We at Tuta will continue to fight against mass surveillance! ✊
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#privacy #encryption #surveillance #backdoors
Let's fight encryption backdoors on Global Encryption Day! | Tuta
61% of all Tuta emails are sent e2e encrypted - a huge success for privacy. But the authorities want to weaken encryption. We must stop them!Tuta
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There’s misinformation in one of the quotes.
“Similar story today in Cincinnati. Gay couple arrested for abusing 5 foster boys.” — the couple is not a gay couple. The wife’s name is Matthew, probably making the commenter assume that she is a man.
cincinnati.com/story/news/crim…
Ohio couple accused of torturing, abusing 5 adopted children
The children, who were biologically related but adopted by the Edmonsons, were first brought to the married couple as foster children.Quinlan Bentley (Cincinnati Enquirer)
This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/30/g-s1-51935/toxic-mines-zambia-polluted-lead-poisoning?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
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Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deletedOliver Milman (The Guardian)
Irony: the deep sea mining scam is based on a 1974 CIA cover story—Project Azorian, the attempt to recover the sunken Soviet nuclear missile submarine K-129. They built a ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, which was described so convincingly as a mining ship for seafloor manganese nodules (not raising sunken missile submarines!) that it spawned imitators and grifters.
Just like the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden killed Polio vaccination in Pakistan.
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Christo. London, England (@Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk)
Time is running out. We must stop deep sea mining. https://act-int.greenpeace.org/e3t/Ctc/UC+113/d33VTK04/VVTKDb1_BGxGW60ZHYM4N-H3_W4qM5Xr5tNpJCN6L2Zrs3qgyTW6N1vHY6lZ3ngW91xCqK2F-7XkW77gMhg3sS8dZW4XlBQQ2swmYLVnj-Mg6q23-KW5V51Sv5bt5PBW44f1DN8yrX2NVL…mastodon.me.uk
Fedi.Video's PeerTube site has been updated to the latest version, hopefully it is now easier to navigate and more accessible:
There are three tabs at the top of the screen:
🏡 Home - Default page, it has lots of info about PeerTube as well as handpicked playlists
📚 Discover - Videos organised into random topics
🆕 Browse videos - This has two smaller tabs, recently added videos & trending videos, pick whichever one you want and start scrolling 🙂
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Narrative Alchemy Jam 2025
A game jam from 2025-02-23 to 2025-05-01 hosted by Narrative Alchemy. (Image by RDNE Stock Project ) This is a jam for transformative narrative games of all kinds. It will be judged by me (Chance). Since I prefer to cult...itch.io
Taking in the first signs of spring on a picnic in New York's Adirondack Mountains
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5336336/taking-in-the-first-signs-of-spring-on-a-picnic-in-new-yorks-adirondack-mountains?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Shakira's message of empowerment draws crowds to 7 sold-out shows in Mexico City
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5343516/shakiras-message-of-empowerment-draws-crowds-to-7-sold-out-shows-in-mexico-city?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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We're not big on Mother's Day in our house, but I did receive this.
Me in Pokemon form. How wonderful and strange to be captured so completely in two sentences.
P.S it usually says 'retreat' on a Pokemon card 🤣
The FDA will lose 3,500 jobs as part of the HHS cuts. How will this impact you?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5343646/the-fda-will-lose-3-500-jobs-as-part-of-the-hhs-cuts-how-will-this-impact-you?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New bats help the New York Yankees set a franchise record of nine home runs in a game
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5344940/new-bats-help-the-new-york-yankees-set-a-franchise-record-of-nine-home-runs-in-a-game?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Democrats far out-raise Republicans in Florida's special elections but are likely to lose
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5342412/democrats-far-out-raise-republicans-in-floridas-special-elections-but-are-likely-to-lose?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Politics chat: Trump withdraws Elise Stefanik nomination, special elections coming up
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5341313/politics-chat-trump-withdraws-elise-stefanik-nomination-special-elections-coming-up?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Sunday Puzzle: For French fanatics
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5341314/sunday-puzzle-for-french-fanatics?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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REVIEW - THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5338844/review-the-ballad-of-wallis-island?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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My post about #Newpipe is now available in English!
If you're interested in using a free and #OpenSource app instead of the official youtube app, that doesn't track you, doesn't show you adds, allows video and audio downloading, and even playing with the screen off (great for saving data and battery), go and install it now!
You can follow content from #YouTube, #Peertube, and more.
ikacode.com/en/newpipe-the-eth…
NewPipe, the ethical alternative to Youtube - IkaCode
You can watch and listen to YouTube videos without using the official app. The advantages are considerable, particularly in terms of reducing the amount of mobile data you consume.IkaCode
yes exactly.
Well actually YouTube is trying to prevent such tools to work but then patches come out shortly after to counter that.
You can also try #freetube on desktop that does the same thing as #newpipe.
I made a video about it recently, it's in French but you have English subtitles available if you want to have a look: videos.ikacode.com/w/sBiBSgidz…
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Trump’s FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters With Bogus Investigations
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #npr #pbs
Trump’s FCC Starts Harassing Public Broadcasters With Bogus Investigations
If you hadn’t noticed, consolidated corporate media hasn’t been meeting the challenges of the current moment very well. There’s generally two reasons: one, these media outlets ten…Techdirt
Trump Administration Revokes Student Visas Over Campus Activism - News Facts Network
More than 300 student and visitor visas have been revoked by the Trump administration, Secretary...newsfactsnetwork (News Facts Network)
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for a Self-Guided City and Murals Tour of Derry - Northern Ireland Purple Travel Guide
Derry was the epicenter of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Self-Guided City and Murals Tour brings you to the most important locations in Derry.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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Plastics are amazing materials. Plastics can do things that were impossible before they became common in manufacturing and design.
In some ways this solution (where they use a little less plastic and lie) is better than the much more common plastic laced paper that tries to pretend to be "green" At least with this mess, you can still separate the plastic and paper.
Our school tried to replace plastic cups only to buy fake "green" paper ones with a plastic micro-lining.
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Ideas:
* Offer refill service at your store. Let people bring their own container and fill it up for a modest discount.
* Make the bottle a nice object that people will want to reuse and take returns.
* pay your store employees more, train them more, offer more on-site services make the value of your brand more about service than objects. "the people there KNOW skin care"
* Close the store and make an education center for ants and local insects instead.
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My heart isn't in it in the same way as of late.
"How can we do better?"
Just stop. That's how.
@futurebird Is there anything useful that can be made with old grocery bags? They don't appear to recycle well.
Can't this crap at least be made into 3D printing filament or something? Is it too low polymer? What do we need to blend in some cornstarch?
My partner found a hair care line that sells their products in the usual little pump bottles, and also in giant 1L refill bags. The idea is you buy the bottle first, then keep refilling it indefinitely.
Way less plastic waste, I have seen it a few times but I wish everyone did it.
The Curl Shoppe.
(my niece works here while attending umd. good stuff)
Ren Market | Zero Waste Refill Store | Duluth, MN, USA
Ren Market is Duluth's only zero waste and refill store. We offer affordable eco-friendly and ethical goods in an upscale apothecary environment.Ren Market
so if the object is not Instagramable you will trowit away?
Stop using paper. Plastic is almost eternal. The solution is very easy. Stop throwing away plastics. Use it until they last, inherit them is possible. If you switch to paper, have you think about how much paper will be wasted? Do you even know where paper came from? If that resource is done, we will al be done; instead, once the fossil fuels are done, we at least will have plastics.
@futurebird Yeah, plastics are amazing - so much so, in fact, that if they disappeared overnight millions of people would die; we'd be unable to maintain things like food & medicine logistics. This is why "just ge rid of it!" is overly simplistic; we need new materials & processes to replace them.
Also, molecular-recycling plastics is easy, i.e. pyrolysis, but environmentalists hate it for perpetuating plastics & oil & plastic industries hate it because of course they do, so... 🤷
Properly recycled plastic is not all that terrible. Nor is say aluminum cans (which are dirty to mine, but exceptionally easy to recycle since they melt easily and are reformed into other aluminum objects easily).
Also most brown paper is actually colored, since non-bleached paper is more gray than brown (speaking of greenwashing again).
Tone Mapping Overview
While working on Shade, I’ve been doing research on tone mapping and I wanted to share some findings. First, let’s get a good starting point, we have a cartoony scene with a basic directional light normalized to 1.three.js forum
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Comparison of different picture formation algorithms: native,TCAMv3,ARRIreveal,AgX,AgX.blender,AgXc,ACESv1.3-gm,ACESv2.0-gm,ACESv2.0,OpenDRT,2499DRT,Kodak2383mrlixm.github.io
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Medical supplies in great need as aid flows into Myanmar after earthquake
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/g-s1-57213/medical-supplies-in-great-need-as-aid-flows-into-myanmar-after-earthquake?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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While I distracted my mum with a trip to Bempton RSPB reserve, the innocent looking box I'd left in the corner of her living room was secretly printing an enormous blowfly. This may be part of a larger sinister experiment, that might involve Jeff Goldblum...
...or it might just be prep for Mondays 3d printing workshop involving @museuminabox artefacts scanned by the Natural History Museum.
As measles cases rise, some parents become vaccine enthusiasts
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5343997/measles-vaccine-hesitancy-enthusiasm-outbreaks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Automatically Crack Safes with this Autodialer
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Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer
When attempting to secure something, whether it’s a computer, sensitive data, or valuables, there’s always going to be a way to break that security. It might be impossibly hard, like ta…Hackaday
It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
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Extension Manager Update Brings UI Buffs, Support for GNOME 48
If you’re an avid user of GNOME Shell extensions then a) you’re in good company, and b) you’ll be familiar with Matt Jakeman’s terrific Extension Manager app since it makes ...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
XZ Utils 5.8 Introduces Performance Improvements in the LZMA/LZMA2 Decoder - 9to5Linux
XZ Utils 5.8 open-source complete C99 implementation of the .xz file format is now available for download with performance improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
30 March 1937 | Dutch Jewish boy, Isaac Beugeltas, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in September 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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