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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Latest doodle

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  • Nice, has a very biological quality to it.

  • A quick Doggo Painting Study

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  • You nailed the oily/glassy look on the eyes. 100% huggable.

  • Skull octopus thing.(septapus) base sketch before importing into Procreate.

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  • Love this. Care to share the final digital image when you are done?

  • Einen Vogel Haben! Rare Ural Owl Spotted in Germany

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  • My head canon is that "having a bird" being equated with being crazy comes from these old mechanical wind up clocks where a bird quite literally jumps out to announce the passing of a full hour:

  • Owl-natomy: Eyelids

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  • That lower eye lid sounds so useful for sleeping. I have trouble falling asleep in rooms that aren't perfectly dark, to the point that I cover up LEDs from electronic devices with dark tape. To be an owl!

  • Scientists aiming to bring back woolly mammoth create woolly mice

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  • new Pokémon just dropped?

  • Continuously running screen recorder for linux?

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  • OBS Studio should be able to to handle that. You can set up hot keys for saving the buffer too.

  • Official page on the new EPA.gov, alleging that Biden gave $2 billion in "gold bars" to Stacey Abrams's group, linking to press coverage from some hilariously chosen press

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  • The Washington Examiner:

    In the Wednesday video, Zeldin accused the Biden administration of rushing out these funds and said they should remain under the control of the government.

    He referred to the funds several times as “gold bars,” referencing a December 2024 video put out by the conservative group Project Veritas in which a former EPA employee told an undercover member of the group that the administration was attempting to distribute as much of the promised funds as possible before President Joe Biden left office.

    So it's just someone using a metaphor. And shoddy journalism. Wrapping gold bars in quotes does not exculpate anyone from shoddy journalism.

  • TIL of a boy in Pakistan that would stab himself with knives to entertain others. Researchers found he carried a rare gene mutation that prevents pain nerves to transmit their signals to the brain.

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  • It's a valid question. I originally read about it in a physical book, then wrote the (misconstrued) headline from memory before finding a digital source that people could click on. I've corrected it now.

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  • Eye of newt... [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • Search engine optimization ruined the web. Change my mind!

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  • ¿Where is the hat coming from tho?

  • If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react?

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  • A lot of software is reliant on very precise timing. The world at large would notice immediately due to the many disconnects, glitches, bugs, desyncs, not to say anything of all the physical processes controlled by machines going wrong. As a simple example consider an industrial oven (or any process really) that is programmed to shut down at 4:39:20 but at 4:39:15 the 1 minute skip happens. An airplanes auto pilot that is suddenly missing the last minute of sensor data to. base its micro steering on. Any big internet service that has to deal with thousands to millions of clients trying to reconnect at once because their previous connection timed out. Bad stuff.

    This would be immediate world wide chaos and likely panic as the cause for all the chaos would be unknown and forever would be. Economic crash likely.

    Think of all the attention and effort the year 2k problem got, but this one is worse and there is no prep whatsoever.

  • So, is the USA screwed?

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  • Hmmm, it seems the modern way for autocracies to deal with elections is to control the information space. I don't see election being called off, but major social media platforms boosting one side while attenuating the other goes a long way. We know Musk is all in on this and the other big players like Zuckerberg & Co seem all too happy to oblige. Tiktok is an open ended question at this point.

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  • Never understood the whole conspiracy angle on the pyramids. When I was in school we always learned that the fascination with the pyramids wasn't just with the labor, engineering and man power required but with the division of labor, the social command and the economic planning required.

    Remember that the pyramids have no direct tangible return on investment and were multi generation endeavors. So the question encroaching a contemporary observer is: ¿What must the structure of a society look like that produces such monuments?

  • Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0

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  • The crowd was literally chanting "hang Mike Pence". Kudos to him for not going along with Trumps plan of overthrowing the election.

    Yet still I can't help but wonder whether he was secretly hoping for Trump to lose the 3rd election and the Republican party returning to its old ways somehow. Why? Because he's been suspiciously silent ever since when he had the cachet and moral standing to be one of his greatest detractors (from the Republican side).

  • Tribute to an owl

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  • Hmm, if I remember my Zelda correctly, that's a save point:

  • Cardi B Blames Trump for Ruining Her $3000 Shoes at Super Bowl — Demands Return of Deported Uncle as Payback

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  • Ha, reminds me of how grassy lawns started out as a status symbol to show off that you were so rich that you needn't use your land for agriculture or gardening.

  • Germany: nearly 90% of voters fear manipulation

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  • According to the study 37% of participants verify information before sharing it on social media.

    There you have it folks.

    Disinformation campaigns don't need to be super convincing with the latest tech or elaborate fake outs, although it certainly helps. For the masses (ie election interference) it's easy enough to to establish narratives, vibes by users simply sharing headlines to fake or manipulative reports. The people that bother to deep check and cross reference sources you typically couldn't convince anyway. Sadly enough, most users never read beyond the head lines (75% this Facebook study estimates).

    Think of your own feed: how many head lines // posts do you just scroll by w/out ever opening them? Even if you don't share actively it still can influence the your perception of the world today and shape your mood.

    Social media is eating away at the fundamentals of Democracy 🫠, change my mind!

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care”

    www.propublica.org /article/utah-supreme-court-sexual-assault-david-broadbent-ob-gyn
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    TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently.

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    ¿How to quickly select based on incremental color/channel/value threshold?