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Meager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI
Some of Google's coolest AI features don't work on the 9a.
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Meager 8GB of RAM forces Pixel 9a to run “extra extra small” Gemini AI

Some of Google’s coolest AI features don’t work on the 9a.
Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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Considering that's six orders of magnitude greater than than twice the memory that shipped with the earliest mass-market home computers, it feels like "meager" is doing a loooooooooooot of heavy lifting, there. "Meager" is what the Sinclair ZX80 shipped with: 1 kilobyte of RAM. They got an effective chess opponent working in that space. ...just for a little perspective.

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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Shark Sushi Plate, on sale for 21% off.
It's the perfect plate to serve my specialty, seal avocado rolls.
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A blue rectangular plate with a shark sticking out of it. There is delicious sushi on the plate.

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I've been playing around with #reticulumnetwork lately and the more I look at it, the more it feels like the Right Way to do this shit.

It's a network protocol that's distributed, infrastructure-agnostic, always encrypted, with self-sovereign portable identities and no source data for packets.

It doesn't assume IP networking first - that's just another interface for it. It'll push traffic through TCP/IP, UDP, I2P, LoRa, packet radio, serial connections - Reticulum doesn't care. The spec even claims a minimum bitrate of 5bps, so theoretically you could send packets over telegraph if your keying is fast enough.

There's a few basic tools available using it, like a remote shell, a messaging protocol, and a spec for pages similar to Gemtext. There's even firmware for building rNodes, which are kind of like Meshtastic nodes but for Reticulum.

As a professional and hobbyist computer toucher, this is the kind of get-back-to-basics approach that I find wildly inspiring.

reticulum.network/

Reticulum Network

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#reticulumnetwork

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Trump praises 'good call' with President Zelensky, says 'we are very much on track'
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

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President Zelensky

Trump praises 'good call' with Zelenskyy, says 'we are very much on track'

In a post on the Truth Social platform, Trump said the call lasted for around an hour and aimed to align Ukraine and Russia in terms of their requests and needs.
Gavin Blackburn (Euronews.com)
#russia #ukraine #news #eu #press #nato #aurefreepress #headline #Putin #war #zelensky

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New! Bernie Sanders and AOC to headline five resistance rallies in three days headsupnews.org/p/bernie-sande…

Bernie Sanders and AOC to headline five resistance rallies in three days

Will they tell their supporters what to do next?
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#Oxford #CitizensAssembly votes for “a car-free city centre”

#bancars from #cities

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Citizens’ Assembly votes for “a car-free city centre”

An assembly of Oxfordshire citizens has overwhelmingly supported making the city centre car-free and turning some existing roads over to buses, cyclists and Blue Badge holders.
Oxford Clarion
#oxford #transport #cities #bancars #citizensassembly

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'AI Valley' author worries there's 'so much power in the hands of few people'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332234/ai-valley-book-gary-rivlin-trump-tech-regulation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Сербская оппозиция опубликовала фото полицейской машины, предположительно, со «звуковой пушкой»

Силовиков обвинили в ее применении для разгона демонстрантов. Президент Александр Вучич пообещал уйти в отставку, если это будет доказано
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Brightness recommendations for satellite operators: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.…

(Will they listen? Probably not. Worth a shot though, I guess.)

Radware Bot Manager Captcha

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A three-judge panel in US appeals court ruled, in a case involving AI generated poetry, that the Copyright Act requires human authorship for registration (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

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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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I am pleased #MARCHintosh
An Apple G5 iMac with a colorful desktop background, featuring a an original white keyboard, one button mouse, and an iPod connected by a cable. Two small speakers are positioned on either side of the computer. The setting is dimly lit.
#marchintosh
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Side note: I installed Rockbox on one of mine and had it plugged in to the PC, and wouldn't you know it, the scrollwheel behaved like a scrollwheel on my PC!

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They don’t seem happy with him. I wonder why.
X post by Alex Firer (@alexfirer .bsky.social), featuring a "Follow" option. The post reads, "EVERGREEN." Below this, there is an image of two people sitting at a table on the set of "The View," with mugs in front of them and a blurred background. Underneath the image, there is a quoted post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar .com), posted 1 hour ago, which says, "oh my goodness Schumer was getting death stares on The View today."

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Work in progress, a very sloshy #OilPainting technique, tackled mostly with putting the darks in first. It's going to end up a bit Rembrandt-esque, lots of dark shadows around the key features.

The subject is the fifteenth century tomb of Rahere, the twelfth century founder of the Priory of St Bartholomew the Great, and of St Barts Hospital.

#painting #Rahere #MedievealMoversAndShakers #StBarts

Very beginning of a painting. You can just see a few lines drawn on the canvas, and then there is a lot of sloshy, very thin paint indicating roughly where the light isn't falling. It's mostly in shades of brown.
Some of the darks are now in, so you get some sense of the carving of the tomb and the whole thing fading up into the dark. It's still mostly brown.
Very exciting stage - the colour has been added, little details on the tomb, the carved figures of the tomb, and the figure kneeling to the left of it. Those bits of colour are making quite a difference.
#painting #oilpainting #rahere #stbarts #MedievealMoversAndShakers

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Well this has come as a shock …. It turns out billionaires could pay more tax and still have a nice lifestyle 

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ToryCorruption #conservatives #trump #DonaldTrump #Musk #elonmusk #tesla
#news #politics #trump #Tesla #elonmusk #musk #eu #donaldtrump #ukpolitics #bbc #conservatives #keirstarmer #starmer #labour #brexit #tories #RejoinEU #tory #toryscum #labourparty #ToryCorruption

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I’m too sleep deprived to tackle the diodes today but I’ve soldered on the key switch sockets. The footprints allow either direct soldering of the key switches or socket mounting. Using sockets allows you to swap to different switches. It also saves a tonne of money when building prototypes 😂

#amstradcpc #mechanicalkeyboard

The rear of the board with sockets added.
Close up of the sockets.
#mechanicalkeyboard #amstradcpc

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@justine I wasn’t intending to do this, but I found some CPC styled key caps and couldn’t resist. At which point a keyboard became inevitable…
@Justine Smithies

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Today my sister and I are raising money for this family to stay alive during the brutal attacks on civilians the last few days in Gaza. Anything you have, especially a boost, is appreciated. As a reminder, we fully vet these campaigns. tiny.cc/HelpMohamed
Alt: A square graphic with a keffiyeh pattern on the right and text on the left, with a line drawing of a poppy in the background. The graphic is titled “Let’s keep Mohamed housed!” in black on green. Underneath says “Mohamed’s family needs our support with basic needs & shelter as they cope with numerous, compounding emergencies. Your amazing support has helped them get out of the deadly cold and into an apartment. But this family still needs us! Funds will go to: Urgent essentials for Ramadan (food, water); Outstanding rent (4.5 months, $3800 due by the end of Ramadan).” Below is the link https://tiny.cc/HelpMohamed

Help Mohammed's family bear the heavy burdens of life in Gaza

We write to you with hearts filled with sorrow and despair. I am Mohammed, writing on behalf of my family from our tent, where we shiver in the bitter cold of winter after our home was destroyed during this genocide in Gaza.
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Mentre Elon Musk continua a distruggere quotidianamente il marchio #Tesla, una nuova campagna pubblicitaria di "Led By Donkeys" con sede nel #RegnoUnito cerca di convincere le persone a non acquistarne.
Tremendi🤣🤣👇

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Ditching Tesla

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UKLed By Donkeys is 100% ...
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#Tesla #regnounito
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Israeli military launches a new ground offensive in Gaza
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333629/israel-military-gaza-ground-troops?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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A big decision came down in the federal courts, the first to address whether Musk was illegally appointed as head of DOGE and improperly dismantled USAID. The court smacked Musk down, but there are some limits to what it can do. My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statusku…

Stand Down, Elon Musk

A court ruling rips the billionaire head of DOGE for his unauthorized actions, but can only go so far to rescue a doomed agency.
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► FunHouseRadio.com
#tech #meme #relatable #memes #robots #android #smartphone

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
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#meme #android #Tech #memes #smartphone #relatable #robots

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Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder

A grant proposal that we have submitted at Knowledge Commons to build an independent and dedicated, not-for-profit, politically and geographically distributed, digital preservation system

@kfitz.info

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A life preserver ring against a wall

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Have you ever considered throwing a birthday party for one of your books?

I have a few months of planning available.

Screenshot of Amazon page for Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, purchased Sept 11, 2000.

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quote something that you still learn from it. I don’t know the book but I am immediately interested because of the title and the fact it has been so useful that you want to celebrate it’s anniversary. I need to have a look at my own books too. I am not sure if I can find something equally interesting. And 25 years in possession.
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@3DirkJS I was hoping for some loss of traction diagrams and some traction control advice. Not much for hte latter- according to this book, "As of this writing, traction control is beginning to be offered as a production option on higher-priced cars."

So it does show its age. But the definitions are all legit and the advice it does have makes sense and prepares me to read some more modern papers, relevant to my actual problem.

@3DirkJS

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Use the browser and web developer tools as an artistic and performative medium with @joanachicau in this Creative Code Club workshop special Web Choreographies: browser glitches and web remixes! 🌀

📅 Wednesday 19 March
⏰ 7pm — 9pm
📌 The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1AL

What happens if we think of algorithms as choreographies and interfaces as stages? In this workshop, we will look at web environments through the lenses of choreography. We will use the web browser as a performative medium to interact in real-time with online environments and their content. 🌌

No need to book!

thenewbridgeproject.com/events…


Web Choreographies: browser glitches and web remixes - The NewBridge Project

The NewBridge Project
@Joana Chicau

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Here are all the ways people are disappearing from government websites
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5317567/federal-websites-lgbtq-diversity-erased?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What DOGE thinks of peace.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ejihl…

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United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, none of the diplomatic immunity, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51…

#photography

A glass curtain mid-century modernist office building, with a plaza and fountain in front.

United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC

15 August 2021 The 39 story UN Secretariat building, at 43rd Street and 1st Avenue, is an iconic example of modernist "International Style" architecture and NYC's first major skyscraper built in the genre.
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#photography

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@mc Yep! I got invited to visit and operate it once, a few years after it became 4U1UN. Easily the best HF station in Manhattan!
@mc

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Marina By Warmics

Source: deviantart.com/warmics/art/Mar…

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart #dndart

The image depicts a fantasy character with elf-like features, including pointed ears. The character has short, light blonde hair with a side parting, and a subtle sheen that suggests a metallic or magical quality. The character's eyes are a light blue, and they have a neutral expression. The character is wearing a deep red dress with gold accents, featuring a low neckline and intricate gold designs that resemble vines or tendrils, wrapping around the neck and shoulders. The dress has short, sheer sleeves. The background is dark, with a gradient from dark green to black, enhancing the character's features. The overall style of the image is digital art, with a focus on realism and fantasy elements.

Marina by Warmics on DeviantArt

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#ttrpg #DigitalArt #art #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #character #characterart #dndart
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The image depicts a fantasy character with elf-like features, including pointed ears. The character has short, light blonde hair with a side parting, and a subtle sheen that suggests a metallic or magical quality. The character's eyes are a light blue, and they have a neutral expression. The character is wearing a deep red dress with gold accents, featuring a low neckline and intricate gold designs that resemble vines or tendrils, wrapping around the neck and shoulders. The dress has short, sheer sleeves. The background is dark, with a gradient from dark green to black, enhancing the character's features. The overall style of the image is digital art, with a focus on realism and fantasy elements.

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Karen Russell's 'The Antidote' is an American epic — and well worth the wait
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332088/the-antidote-review-karen-russell?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@books-npr

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This from @nini and @aral — and without any nods and winks! All cars have some fire risk, all EVs burn extra hot if they catch fire, but Teslas seem to be •uniquely• prone to catastrophic failure.

1/ #TeslaTakedown
oldbytes.space/@nini/114189055…

Nini (@nini@oldbytes.space)

@aral@mastodon.ar.al They keep saying "attacks" but I don't see any attacking, just cars failing spectacularly. If you saw anything, no you didn't, that car had a fault.
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#teslatakedown @Aral Balkan @Nini
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@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6
Yup. Lots of “we can ride this out,” “we can be the ones who win favor,” “leopards won’t eat •my• face,” “it’s just unhinged leftists,” “it will evaporate,” “smart people behind the scenes have a plan,” etc.

One of our best hopes now is making that confidence crumble •before• there’s nothing left anyone can do about it.

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@paul_ipv6 there is some movement happening, though, my very boring liberal father in law went from "why are you so worried, it's just four years" to "I'm not sure you should travel internationally, do you have lawyers on call, I'm very worried" within 2 months. And I'm pretty sure lots of people are going through that right now, and gracefully accepting them into the fold will be key for any left alliance to succeed in stopping fascism.

That being said, "business leaders" are very different from "boring liberal"

@Paul_IPv6

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Israel beginnt Bodenoffensive im Gazastreifen

Kurz nach der Wiederaufnahme von Luftangriffen, hat die israelische Armee jetzt mit einem Bodeneinsatz im Gazastreifen begonnen. Das Rote Kreuz schlägt angesichts hoher Opferzahlen Alarm.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/is…

#Israel #Nahost #Gaza #Bodenoffensive


Israel beginnt Bodenoffensive im Gazastreifen

Kurz nach der Wiederaufnahme von Luftangriffen, hat die israelische Armee jetzt auch mit einem Bodeneinsatz im Gazastreifen begonnen. Das Rote Kreuz schlägt angesichts hoher Opferzahlen Alarm.
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#Gaza #israel #nahost #bodenoffensive

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People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spiders webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.

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Thou Must Live, Die, And Know [LV87 MSQ CUTSCENE]

. SPOILERS FOR ENDWALKER LV 87 MSQ ABOUND! My new favorite cutscene in the game!VENAT YOU GLORIOUS MADLADY!Venat sunders the world and becomes Hydaelyn whi...
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Look, is everyone who drives a Tesla a fascist?

No.

(They’re more than likely neoliberal and probably more ashamed than anything else right now.)

Similarly, is everyone who drives a Cybertruck a fascist?

You bet your sweet ass, they are.

#tesla #fascism #ElonMusk #cybertruck mastodon.social/@mattotcha/114…

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Violent Attacks On Teslas Surge Amid Musk's Controversial Role In Trump White House https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tesla-vandalism-spike_n_67daa557e4b0e3967487c74d
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#Tesla #elonmusk #fascism #cybertruck

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🚀 GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. 🎉

🔎 Check out what’s new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: release.gnome.org/48

GNOME Release Notes

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.
GNOME Release Notes
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Been using it for the last week and it's quite nice, thank you for your hard work on it!
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Can someone using this new release tell me if the battery charging limits work for them on dell laptops? It will require a newer kernel (patches went into the 6.12 kernel).
Preserve Battery Health GNOME 48 includes a new option which enhances the lifespan of the device’s battery. When enabled, battery charge is limited to 80% while the device is plugged in. Maintaining the battery change level at this reduced level keeps the battery working better for longer. This new battery health preservation behavior can be enabled in the Power settings, in the new Battery Charging option. It is only available on hardware which supports the feature.
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So good. The first time I have watched someone from the fediverse on YouTube talk about why Bluesky is problematic. He references @cwebber's blog. Niccolò can be found here @niccolove

youtu.be/D0wbCctcEIA


Ever heard of "Federation-Washing"?

You can find all of these videos as written articles, plus some extra content, at https://thelibre.newsYou can the channel grow by donating to the following ...
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@Christine Lemmer-Webber @Niccolò Venerandi
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"At the Sheriff’s Department, heads must roll,” an ACLU of Southern California attorney tells the Los Angeles Public Press in response to EFF's bombshell report that Los Angeles deputies misused state databases thousands of times in 2023. lapublicpress.org/2025/03/la-s…

Report shows LA Deputies illegally accessing confidential databases thousands of times

Records submitted to the California Department of Justice show deputies accessed the information while performing background checks.
Joey Scott (LA Public Press)

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European Commission sends preliminary findings to Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc… "takes the preliminary view that Alphabet self-preferences its own services over those of third parties, thereby failing to comply with the #DMA." #google

Commission sends preliminary findings to Alphabet under the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission sent two sets of preliminary findings to Alphabet for failing to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), regarding two services for which it has been designated as a
European Commission - European Commission
#Google #dma

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Got carried away making an elaborate page on a specific item in the basic first-aid kit for Rabbit Waves: Triangular Bandages.

This is one of many illustrations populating the page ^_^

rabbitwaves.ca/site/triangular…

illustrations of a white rabbit with a broken arm, with several steps showing how to wrap a triangular bandage into a sling to support the injury. The rabbit goes from being upset, to happy with a good sling

Rabbit Waves

rabbitwaves.ca

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After a rollercoaster rise and decline that started with Kickstarter and ended with Fitbit kicking the Pebble brand to the curb, co-founder Eric Migicovsky launches new 'Pebble-like' devices. pcmag.com/news/pebble-smartwat…

Nostalgic for 2012? Pebble Smartwatches Are Back With New 'Core' Features

Emily Forlini (PCMag)

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Rocket Man by Stewie (Original)

This is the original Rocket man song by Stewie Griffin. Enjoy!!
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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

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People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes

Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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