Hands On With the New HP Omen 16 Slim: I Felt the Future of Thin Gaming Laptops
I test-drove HP's trimmed-down version of its 16-inch Omen flagship. With an Intel Core Ultra 200H CPU and a GeForce RTX 5070 GPU, it looks like a fierce competitor to the Razer Blade and Asus Zephyrus.Matthew Buzzi (PCMag)
Dogs dig 'Flow.' A researcher explains what might be catching their eye on the screen
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5323763/dogs-tv-screens-flow?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Some ships are lost at sea.
But "lost" does not always mean "gone".
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
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📉Vamos ya con el observatorio de esta semana:
😭 Al menos 20.000 niños gazatíes han perdido a sus progenitores
▶️Más de la mitad de los menores de Gaza presenta signos de trastorno de estrés postraumático, ansiedad o depresión, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud.
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Mahmoud Khalil's immigration case moves to New Jersey from New York
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/g-s1-54663/columbia-mahmoud-khalil-new-jersey?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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mmmm I should write a little "chain pharmacy" themed level for the #backrooms wiki. I've never contributed before but this might just motivate me.
(But only AFTER I complete "the short story I'm not allowed to talk about until it's done")
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It's just not safe or practical!
Especially in NYC. Even with how horrible they are when I've gone in over the past 3 years once or twice there is always a long line. And people getting mad and leaving since the line isn't moving.
I tried to buy some allergy medicine once and gave up and went to the bodega. I was worried the bodega might not have allergy medicine but they did, and no line. (They have everything, I don't know how they do that.)
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There are lots of shops making lots of money everyday in NYC. Foot traffic is high and people are spending even with the inflation.
If you can't make money it seems like a "skill issue" as the kids say.
Sephora is *mobbed* everyday and it's kind of shocking how much makeup they sell. It's also all some of students will talk about. I don't even think they know that pharmacies have makeup sections. Why would a young person enter such creepy empty, spaces with everything locked up like you are in some kind of automat from a dystopian novel.
But not an *exciting* dystopian novel.
They are "open" but not trying at all. Not even in their locations near Times Square and Soho!
It is a lost opportunity. Once upon a time, drugstores like Walgreens aimed to be the one-stop neighborhood store on the way to work and the way home, with slightly higher prices/margins on things you might not ordinarily get at a drugstore but would because you didn't want to make multiple stops. Having a friendly professional who could sell you the right shade of eyeshadow was *important*.
They completely screwed it up.
I'm the biggest introvert, two people just isn't enough to run these stores, they take up a whole city block. They are almost as big as a grocery. And they will have one person in the pharmacy and one at the front. That's not OK.
Computer scientist won't give up fight to copyright AI-made art after court loss.
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Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works
Computer scientist won’t give up fight to copyright AI-made art after court loss.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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> Thaler is therefore both the founder and architect of confabulation theory and the patent holder for all neural systems that contemplate, invent, and discover via such confabulations.
What an arrogant ass.
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was luckyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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I'm working on a new parametric design to hold micro:bit boards... You can change the number of boards, space between them, and angle they insert... they also snap into place with a nice little "click" and don't fall out.
#openScad #3Dprinting #microbit
@justindkruger.bsky.social I've been using OpenSCAD for like 13 years and do like it quite a bit. I tend to run a nightly snapshot as well.
I literally hate JavScript so I will avoid anything JSCAD. ;)
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You and your friends can remake the films that disappointed you, just like the pros do on popular #ActualPlay podcast "Roleplay Retcon." The only additional gaming equipment you need is a standard deck of playing cards!
#Tabletop #Movies #BadMovies #Filmstodon #Gamestodon #Kickstarter
If you're like me (and I know I am) you're still into physical media and would be interested to know that while the game will be for sale as a PDF on digital storefronts after the campaign, this is likely your only chance to get a print copy.
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If you enjoy my style of writing but would prefer to read it as fiction rather than whatever the hell it is I do on fedi, my profile contains a link to my extremely sporadically updated collection of such fiction. There's also the occasional poem, and some things are funnier than others.
What, you're too lazy to go to my profile (wherein you can verify that I am telling the truth and the collection does in fact belong to me? You want a call to action?
Fine. Visit theoppositeofblog.blogspot.com… and read it. It's a blogspot blog for God's sake. Those are thin on the ground these days. It's retro cool. Plus if you visit in desktop mode, you can click the subheading and it'll change to various random things, so that's a fun way to kill fifteen minutes.
The image shows a countertop with a structure made of white PVC pipes and blue connectors, resembling a framework. On the left side, there are several Red Bull cans, and on the right side, there are bottles of Jägermeister. The PVC structure is arranged in a way that suggests it is holding the cans and bottles in place. The text at the top of the image reads, "Trust me. I'm an Artificer." The background includes a couch and a wall with a mounted light fixture, suggesting an indoor setting.
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Reviving a Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From the 1970s
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Reviving A Maplin 4600 DIY Synthesizer From The 1970s
A piece of musical history is the Maplin 4600, a DIY electronic music synthesizer from the 1970s. The design was published in an Australian electronics magazine and sold as a DIY kit, and [LOOK MUM…Hackaday
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news #space #tech
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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.Marcia Dunn (AP News)
New: Facial rec company Clearview spent $1 mil trying to buy a database of 390 million mugshots, SSNs, and arrest records. It seemingly got scammed, is now trying to get its money back. Great to have @bmeson on 404 Media:
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.Freddy Martinez (404 Media)
re @404mediaco 's article here: 404media.co/facial-recognition…
I am 1000% in favour of purported sellers of personal data collections turning out to be scammers. If the rest of us have to deal with the enshittification of the internet through AI slop, it's more than fair for AI companies to face the same data quality issues.
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.Freddy Martinez (404 Media)
New: Facial rec company Clearview spent $1 mil trying to buy a database of 390 million mugshots, SSNs, and arrest records. It seemingly got scammed, is now trying to get its money back. Great to have @bmeson on 404 Media:
404media.co/facial-recognition…
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.Freddy Martinez (404 Media)
Massive parallel testing means Volvo can work through lots of unusual scenarios.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/v…
T-Mobile Claims New 5G Download Speed Record
The carrier’s test combined carrier aggregation with Qualcomm’s latest 5G modem to hit 6.3Gbps.Rob Pegoraro (PCMag)
Today discovered that Unity has a builtin function for intentionally causing the game to crash.
It is… possibly the best architected thing I've encountered in the Unity API. It anticipates my use cases and documents them clearly.
I am now willing to call crashing Unity's "core competency".
So this is why there are all those indie games that are pretending to be haunted or whatever.
Unity makes it super easy to put up a scary face and “crash” the game.
So here are some more parts of Black American military history this racist, autocratic oligarchy has tried to erase:
The 761st Tank Battalion
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Austin, Morgan Freeman Discuss Upcoming Documentary
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III met with actor and producer Morgan Freeman, who is featured in an upcoming documentary about the heroics of a segregated, all-Black Army tanker unit thatU.S. Department of Defense
In the ‘Sports heroes who served’ Category:
Jackie Robinson
(Yes, they bloody disappeared Jackie Robinson)
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#dontforget #404
Sports Heroes Who Served: Baseball Great Jackie Robinson Was WWII Soldier
Jackie Robinson became famous as one of the first Black baseball players in Major League Baseball. He also served in the Army during World War II.U.S. Department of Defense
My clock that picks up the UK's time signal decided to show a time about four hours ahead for a while. Cumbria been caught in a time slip again.
I Took the $499 Google Pixel 9a for a Spin: Here's What I Like Most
Google's Pixel 9a has a bigger screen, a better processor, and a brand-new design (without a camera bar!) for the same price as the Pixel 8a. I got a chance to check the phone out ahead of its release.Iyaz Akhtar (PCMag)
Zelenskyy says he plans to discuss Ukraine ceasefire violations in a call with Trump
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333234/zelenskyy-trump-call-putin-ukraine-russia-war?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wins for Science and Trans Rights in the EU AND the US
Transcript: It’s tough to find good news these days, so I’m very excited to bring you some today, and it’s all about our trans friends! First, 26 medical and psychotherapeutic organizations from acrosRebecca Watson (Skepchick)
This is a good start - the PCB mounts perfectly into the case and the connector positioning is spot on. But…
The ‘ride height’ (?) of the keys looks spot on without needing spacers or any other work arounds. And I’m very much liking the board as a whole. But I’ll have to build this out to fully test it before I can update the design.
BTW the slight space to the right of the enter key is intentional. The ‘464 uses a wider enter key and I couldn’t find a way to work around it with standard key sizes.
How vulnerable might humans be to bird flu? Scientists see hope in existing immunity
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5312998/bird-flu-h5n1-immunity-pandemic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#Alberta is already getting their knickers in a knot at the possibility that their man Pierre might not be running the show after all.
That province makes up about 12% of Canada's population, but their outrage & "hurt feelings" are always disproportionately high.
#cdnpoli #wexit #separation #canada
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Bell: If Liberals beat Poilievre all hell will break loose in Alberta
If Liberals under Carney win, many Albertans will go ballistic and no one knows where anger will lead — as far as a vote on leaving Canada?calgaryherald
that's not Alberta, it's some tool writing for US[LN]A media under the Canadian flag, trying to drum up division that is a lot smaller than he'd like.
It should come with a laugh track.
The first comment there was along the lines of "I live in Alberta and I'm switching to the Libs"; last survey I saw had "becoming a state is a good idea" at 19%; and with the way Smith is screwing the province, things are not looking great for the CPC. They'll probably take the province as usual, but it will be interesting to look at the winning margins and voter turnout.
Defeat the common enemy first then go back to our internal grievances, many of which are legitimate.
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