TIL that after psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to prison, he had to take a test that he himself created. He used his knowledge to be assigned to a lower-security prison and escaped. - Feddit

>On January 21, 1970, Leary received a ten-year sentence for his 1968 offense, with a further ten added later while in custody for a prior arrest in 1965, for a total of 20 years to be served consecutively. On his arrival in prison, he was given psychological tests used to assign inmates to appropriate work details. Having designed some of these tests himself (including the “Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory”), Leary answered them in such a way that he seemed to be a very conforming, conventional person with a great interest in forestry and gardening.[108] As a result, he was assigned to work as a gardener in a lower-security prison from which he escaped in September 1970, saying that his nonviolent escape was a humorous prank and leaving a challenging note for the authorities to find after he was gone

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Gallery of the making [https://postimg.cc/gallery/HpPTn4f] I posted this to Reddit a few years ago.

New idea I'm gonna try out - /kbin meta - kbin.social

One thing I really liked reddit for was reading news and talking about it. I have stopped posting or commenting there now and am in the process of slowly wiping my posting history... but I still browse it for current events a decent bit as it's just a lot more active than over here....

Developers had direct influence over Ontario Greenbelt land removal, AG finds | Globalnews.ca - Lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2995708 [https://lemmy.ca/post/2995708] > The report, makes a definitive link between the Premier’s Office, the housing minister, a central political staffer who drove the project, and developers who benefitted from the deal. > > The end result: the owners of 15 parcels of land removed from the Greenbelt will see the value rise by $8.3 billion, according to the auditor general.

BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. The CBC should do the same. - Lemmy.ca

As it says in the title, the BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance [https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub]. I think the CBC (and other news networks) should do similar. Particularly with the recent passing of Bill C-18 it seems like a world where the links we share are crossposts to news organization’s own content is the perfect resolution to that whole issue.

Musk threatens to sue researchers who documented the rise in hateful tweets

A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been threatened with a lawsuit by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. An attorney for the platform recently wrote to the Center for Countering Digital Hate accusing the group of trying to hurt the site's advertising. The center has published numerous research reports documenting an increase in hate speech on the platform since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk. The center says Musk is trying to silence his critics, despite his claims to support free speech.

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web - Feddit

Where is the superstonk bot instance? - Lemmy.world

I was made aware recently there was an instance with a bot copying across all the superstonk posts. Helps keep up to date without me having reddit. Anyone know of the url for that instance?

Love seeing our lemmy grow! - DRSGME/WhyDRS Lemmy

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