ch1m3r4c0mpl3xHow many Lowe's would Rob Lowe rob if Rob Lowe could rob Lowe's
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Wonder of ScienceFascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.
Credit: David Rogers
https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria
@georgetakei And Trump didn’t want to take Antifas guns away and wanted to March to the Capitol with them. He also didn’t want to put out a statement telling them to stop.
Dan Fixes Coin-OpsIf you're in the US and you've also been idly wondering why "I don't like to drive at night" has become such a common thing to say in the past few years, stand near to a modern LED streetlamp and block it with your hand. In about two thirds of a second, the whole road brightens up as your pupils open.
You're not just getting old; between over-bright streetlights, over-bright headlights of oncoming cars, over-bright instrument clusters, over-bright porch lighting, nobody can see in the dark anymore.
Just in the last decade we've made it much harder and more dangerous to drive at night. Oh, and we also gave up the stars.
~n@cstross Generally the concept of ads (not only ad financed services) needs to be treated as something with a negative impact on society. Ads are not contributing anything to a more livable world. On the contrary - they intrusively tell you why you should be unhappy (unless you buy this or that). The whole impact of the entire ad industry is net negative.
schrotthaufen@cstross We also should socialize any and all search engines, and completely decouple them from any corporation. A search engine is a public utility, and must never have a revenue motive. (I wanted to say profit motive, but felt that’s not strong enough.)
Charlie StrossAbout YouTube and ad-blockers:
YouTube is owned by Alphabet, aka Google's umbrella corporation. Google in turn was devoured by DoubleClick, the largest advertising company to come out of the 1990s web.
When you use Google, you are feeding the attention monster that is the advertising industry.
We should aim to criminalize behavioural advertising and break up the Google monopoly, not tolerate their shit and work around it by using adblockers.
Amanda HugankissDear USA. Donald Trump became your President. Don’t lecture any other country about anything. Ever.
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Mastodon MigrationIt has been just over one year since Elon Musk walked into the Twitter lobby on October 21, 2022 carrying a bathroom sink and proceeded to transform the platform into a bastion for fascist influence. That transformation is now complete and yet 90% or more of mainstream journalism remains on the platform, their influence muzzled by algorithmic demotion and the fear of even further marginalization. A crucial election approaches. We are out of time.