Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 Girona
FundMECFSResearch 7 hours ago • 100%
Dominant psg performance but Girona’s doing well to put pressure and make shooting harder, hence why (coupled with a bit of luck) PSG hasn’t scored as of now
I got a COVID infection a while ago that permanently disabled me pretty bad. Bedridden, unable to move much, etc. The thing that really helped me was relaxing and listening to music. That’s what I spent my days doing as I couldn’t do much else. I became a real music nerd and just loved the bliss of hearing music. A little later (two years). I got another COVID infection — I was taking very strong precautions, and couldn’t see anyone. It turns out I got it from my doctor. Anyways, this infection caused some brain damage which has caused me to mostly loose the ability to hear. And now I’m still mostly motionless alone in bed, but I haven’t even got the comfort of sound or music. Just a mostly silent (tinnitus filled) world. I’m so scared of getting covid again. But mostly I miss the world and my old life. Being stuck alone in bed with only the internet for company sucks. People tend to be arseholes online. I can’t help but feel I got “natural selectioned”. Me and my wife were planning on having kids soon. Now I barely see her and I’m going to slowly die in a nursing home. There are specific genetic vulnerabilities to illnesses, and natural selection works with them (see what Europeans coming to America did). And I got fucked here. COVID was my end.
www.nytimes.com
Today I Learned
TIL of the continent "Zealandia", a large, mostly submerged continent in the Pacific Ocean which New Zealand is a part of.
FundMECFSResearch 13 hours ago • 100%
neither do I
Today I Learned
TIL of the continent "Zealandia", a large, mostly submerged continent in the Pacific Ocean which New Zealand is a part of.
FundMECFSResearch 14 hours ago • 100%
And I didn’t say feet?
Today I Learned
TIL of the continent "Zealandia", a large, mostly submerged continent in the Pacific Ocean which New Zealand is a part of.
FundMECFSResearch 18 hours ago • 100%
My favourite map without NZ, was a map that included the southern island but not the northern island. So the country was unrecognisable.
Today I Learned
TIL of the continent "Zealandia", a large, mostly submerged continent in the Pacific Ocean which New Zealand is a part of.
FundMECFSResearch 18 hours ago • 100%
80% of the US population is in the East. The high plateus of the US and the rockies are extremely sparsely populated
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Brentford 3-1 Leyton Orient
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 100%
Shit defence from brentford. But beautiful scissor kick goal from carvalhio
No Stupid Questions
Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 33%
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 14%
They you could have ignored my comment as it was not intended towards you
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 16%
Obviously it’s fucked up how it was used in the above article.
And obviously if you’re not black you should never use it. But you’re assuming I’m not black with your comment.
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 13%
Important caveat. It’s become a common word in some varieties of black-american english and black people aren’t racist for using it.
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 100%
“Guys the party switch is a myth we’re the party that abolished slavery”
FundMECFSResearch 1 day ago • 87%
lmao good one
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
Sorry I didn’t mean to sound cocky. It sounds like a byproduct of slow federation. As I edited my comment almost immediately (before you replied) after posting it, to correct said number and provide a source, but it doesn’t look like it got to your end.
Also MAU stands for monthly active users and not total users. But I realise that acronym may not be widespread.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
Wonderful comment. I’ve been thinking similarly for a while. Nice too see it put out there.
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
So bluesky has 5 million monthly active users while mastodon has 1 million?
Thats a fivefold difference.
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
True. So both have around 10 million total users. Bluesky has no monthly active user statistic. But around 1 million daily posters according to this https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
While Mastodon has ~1 million monthly active users.
So sounds like bluesky’s got a lot more activity with that many daily posters, as of now, anyways.
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
Even if your numbers are true. Mastodon has existed for 7 years. Bluesky for less than one.
So logically the precentage of users to active users should be much higher on Bluesky.
Also number of accounts is possibly a bad metric to judge mastodon because of the federation.
For example, I have 8 mastodon accounts (tried a couple different instances and programmed a couple rss bots to give me a news feed).
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
I mean thanks to bridgy you can communicate across blusky and mastodon. For example people can follow my mastodon account on bluesky.
And bluesky has gained > 8 million users in the past couple months. Mastodon has 900 odd thousand MAU.
So clearly the majority have gone to one.
www.bbc.com
Not The Onion
Putin encourages Russians to have sex at work amid falling birth rate
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
Newsflash. We’re talking about conservative Russia here. It already was :/.
Technology
Bluesky adds 8 million users in last ten months.
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 96%
More likely twitter users.
And yes it’s corporate which is less good than mastodon.
But it is add-free, has a working algorithm, is feature rich, is open-source, lets you self-host etc. Full defederation is coming soon too.
Having used both bluesky (self hosted) and mastodon. The experience is simply far better on bluesky.
Unlike lemmy vs reddit. Where (except for active user count) there isn’t really a tradeoff. Lemmy is simply far better.
World News
China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board; South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
cheers
News
China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board; South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 88%
If you defederate from lemmy.ml most these commenters dissapear
www.theverge.com
World News
China rams Philippine ship while 60 Minutes on board; South China Sea tensions could draw U.S. in
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
*“East West Philippine Sea”
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Arsenal
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
-football !football@lemmy.world Paris Saint-Germain - Girona
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Tottenham Hotspur 0-1 Arsenal
FundMECFSResearch 2 days ago • 100%
@LiveThreadBot@lemmy.world -football !football@lemmy.world Brentford - Leyton Orient
Chess Beginners
Is C4 a good move here? Or does white risk overextending?
FundMECFSResearch 3 days ago • 50%
But to be fair if it goes
c4 qxb4
xd5
and white’s up a knight and just down a pawn plus queen is in danger so they have to move it
As far as my beginner eyes see that’s a decent +2 advantage for white
Alternatively if they take with knight, than white can threaten the queen and block the queens defens of the knight with c5
Oh but I do see a line where you are correct.
If it goes
c4 Nxb4 c5 Qe7 h4 Na6
though maybe the Knight ends up blocked in that position and potentially lost. I don’t have the vision too see that far.
Chess Beginners
Is C4 a good move here? Or does white risk overextending?
FundMECFSResearch 3 days ago • 100%
Oh damn yeah I forgot black queen threatens it too lmao.
Chess Beginners
Is C4 a good move here? Or does white risk overextending?
FundMECFSResearch 3 days ago • 50%
Most likely continuation seems to be something like
c4 Nf6
c5 Qe8
Which gives white a good looking position. And cramps black. But should white avoid this kind of play for fear of black getting in behind their pawn lines?
FundMECFSResearch 3 days ago • 84%
Are we going to mention they chose the username diarrhoea?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16528678
AustraliaFundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
I tend not to be jealous of people making a racket but just want them to stop being an arse tbh
Chess Beginners
Does Black's defensive position here have a name?
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Nah. they’ve fucked up
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 73%
can we not post right wing tabloids
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16511967 > Someone got woken up on Sunday morning 🤣
Chronic Illness
Tips for chronic pain
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Do you have hEDS
General Discussion
Am I the only one who is worried about short form video content, and how prevelant the alt-right pipeline seems to be on there?
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Atleast when I was in school, we had class representatives too. But no one ever wanted to run lol.
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Manchester City 2-1 Brentford
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Last season half the starters were injured. We were absolutely ravaged. Barely made it out of relegation. So I think (even though we already now have 3 injured forwards) were going to do a decent bit better this season. Also the fact we had easyish fixtures helps.
I mean Man City def has better quality, but Brentford managed to play well, and do good both in posession and XG, beating man city, which is impressive.
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 Brest
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
I mean it’s decent but unless you’re a fan of either team probably can find a funner game to watch. PSG’s played really well, just a mistake from Nuno and Beraldo gave off a questionable Pen.
PSG are definitely funner to watch this season, the post-galacticos team has a nice feel to it.
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 Brest
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Dembouz unlocked headers this season hahah 1-1
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 Brest
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
This is what happens when half our defenders are injured and the other half are too tired from international break.
Football (Soccer fútbol fußball 足球 )
[✅️FT] Manchester City 2-1 Brentford
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 100%
Great game from the bees. Unlucky loss.
World News
Russia’s Medvedev threatens to turn Kyiv into ‘giant melted spot’
FundMECFSResearch 4 days ago • 95%
Seriously how the fuck does half the world think Russia are the good guys.
www.politico.eu
It’s almost as if the threat of long range missiles is scaring the shit out of Russia. I hope NATO reply that if Russia turns Kiev into a melted spot, Moscow will follow. But to be fair it’s all ego saber rattling.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16485166
It was inspired by a speech by this man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Stanton
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16483707 > Drawing > > Marienberg/Saxony, 4. April 1943 > > 42x30cm > > © German Historical Museum, Berlin > > Inv.-No.: Thu 61/144 > > The hand-drawn and hand-coloured map sketch illustrates Great German fantasies of the “New Europe” under German rule: The “East” supplies the German Empire, enlarged by conquests, with products from industry and agriculture. > > (obligatory fuck Nazis)
Drawing Marienberg/Saxony, 4. April 1943 42x30cm © German Historical Museum, Berlin Inv.-No.: Thu 61/144 The hand-drawn and hand-coloured map sketch illustrates Great German fantasies of the “New Europe” under German rule: The “East” supplies the German Empire, enlarged by conquests, with products from industry and agriculture. (obligatory fuck Nazis)
www.cnn.com
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13315099
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16461348 > Gift Link
Gift Link
(This post is referring to tiktok, instagram reels, youtube shorts type content) So it’s no secret that for half a decade now we’ve had short form video content get increasingly popularised. To the point where your uncle probably watches them on some platform and so does your 6 year old. Now in terms of addictiveness, privacy falling through the roof, advertising down your throat, etc. we’ve reached new records. But that isn’t what this post is about. I never used this format much, except in 2020 during the pandemic, but I can’t help but notice when I do. Even if I make a brand new VPN’d account for it. Every 5-10th post or so wil be some kind of culture war propaganda. The kind of stuff that made me an edgy right wing bigot as a teenager because I got influenced by it on youtube. Luckily, I grew and changed. Unfortunately, many former friends, not so much. On a completely new account you’ll get bombarded with videos like: * “This is why women NEED real MEN” * “How to piss of a cyclist” * ”If a climate activist is blocking the road, you should be allowed to run over them” * ”When MEN were thrown a grenade, they reacted quickly, WOMEN got confused and scared. That’s why we NEED men in the army” * Wholesome looking video — homophobic caption: “This is why children need both a mum and a dad” These are all examples I got today when I decided to make completely new accounts on a new device with a VPN. I tried youtube shorts and tiktok for this and scrolled 20ish videos on each without liking anything. It scares me how much there is a strong rightward shift amongst the younger population. To the point where 18-24’s in recent german elections have voted the most for the borderline neo-nazi AFD party. I know these parties are by far the most active and very popular on tiktok. I know to some people these examples might seem anoying but trivial. But you are forgetting how impressionable children and teenagers are. There really is this thing called the alt-right pipeline. One very specific example which impacted me at a younger age, was you start with “mad karen” type videos, then after a couple you get recommended “mad SJW” videos, I think you see where I’m going with this, after a while you’re on “feminism debunked” and watching peterson/crowder/shapiro. I know many childhood friends who went down this pipeline and became insufferably racist bigot adults. I wonder what others think on this?
Is it recorded somewhere? I would be curious. I’m ofc aware chess engines are far from flawless. And humans have spent years analysing single sequences of 4 or 5 moves (openings) and written multiple volumes of novels. But I’m still curious.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19668622
cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/1878799 > Instance Admins: Check Your Instance for Vote Manipulation Accounts [PSA] > > Over the past 5-6 months, I've been noticing a lot of new accounts spinning up that look like this format: > > - `https://instance.xyz/u/gmbpjtmt` > - `https://instance.xyz/u/tjrwwiif` > - `https://instance.xyz/u/xzowaikv` > > #### What are they doing? > They're boosting and downvoting mostly, if not exclusively, US news and politics posts/comments to fit their agenda. > > **Edit**: Could also be manipulating other regional news/politics, but my instance is regional and doesn't subscribe to those limiting my visibility into the overall manipulation patterns. > > #### What do these have in common? > 1) Most are on instances that have signups without applications (I'm guessing the few that are on instances with applications may be from before those were enabled since those are several months old, but just a guess; they could have easily just applied and been approved.) > 1) Most are random 8-character usernames (occasionally 7 or 9 characters) > 1) Most have a common set of users they're upvoting and/or downvoting consistently > 1) No posts/comments > > #### What can you, as an instance admin, do? > Keep an eye on new registrations to your instance. If you see any that fit this pattern, pick a few (and a few off this list) and see if they're voting along the same lines. You can also look in the `login_token` table to see if there is IP address overlap with other users on your instance and/or any other of these kinds of accounts. > > You can also check the `local_user` table to see if the email addresses are from the same provider (not a guaranteed way to match them, but it can be a clue) or if they're they same email address using plus-addressing (e.g. user+whatever@email.xyz, user+whatever2@emai.xyz, etc). > > #### Why are they doing this? > Your guess is as good as mine, but US elections are in a few months, and I highly suspect some kind of interference campaign based on the volume of these that are being spun up and the content that's being manipulated. That, or someone, possibly even a ghost or an alien life form, really wants the impression of public opinion being on their side. Just because I don't know exactly *why* doesn't mean that something fishy isn't happening that other admins should be aware of. > > #### Who are the known culprits? > These are ones fitting that pattern which have been identified. There are certainly more, but these have been positively identified. Some were omitted since they were more garden-variety "to win an argument" style manipulation. > > These all seem to be part of a campaign. This list is by no means comprehensive, and if there are any false positives, I do apologize. I've tried to separate out the "garden variety" type from the ones suspected of being part of a campaign, but may have missed some. > > ``` > https://lemy.lol/u/ihuklfle > https://lemy.lol/u/iltxlmlr > https://lemy.lol/u/szxabejt > https://lemy.lol/u/woyjtear > https://lemy.lol/u/jikuwwrq > https://lemy.lol/u/matkalla > https://lemmy.ca/u/vlnligvx > https://ttrpg.network/u/kmjsxpie > https://lemmings.world/u/ueosqnhy > https://lemmings.world/u/mx_myxlplyx > https://startrek.website/u/girlbpzj > https://startrek.website/u/iorxkrdu > https://lemy.lol/u/tjrwwiif > https://lemy.lol/u/gmbpjtmt > https://thelemmy.club/u/avlnfqko > https://lemmy.today/u/blmpaxlm > https://lemy.lol/u/xhivhquf > https://sh.itjust.works/u/ntiytakd > https://jlai.lu/u/rpxhldtm > https://sh.itjust.works/u/ynvzpcbn > https://lazysoci.al/u/sksgvypn > https://lemy.lol/u/xzowaikv > https://lemy.lol/u/yecwilqu > https://lemy.lol/u/hwbjkxly > https://lemy.lol/u/kafbmgsy > https://discuss.online/u/tcjqmgzd > https://thelemmy.club/u/vcnzovqk > https://lemy.lol/u/gqvnyvvz > https://lazysoci.al/u/shcimfi > https://lemy.lol/u/u0hc7r > https://startrek.website/u/uoisqaru > https://jlai.lu/u/dtxiuwdx > https://discuss.online/u/oxwquohe > https://thelemmy.club/u/iicnhcqx > https://lemmings.world/u/uzinumke > https://startrek.website/u/evuorban > https://thelemmy.club/u/dswaxohe > https://lemdro.id/u/efkntptt > https://lemy.lol/u/ozgaolvw > https://lemy.lol/u/knylgpdv > https://discuss.online/u/omnajmxc > https://lemmy.cafe/u/iankglbrdurvstw > https://lemmy.ca/u/awuochoj > https://leminal.space/u/tjrwwiif > https://lemy.lol/u/basjcgsz > https://lemy.lol/u/smkkzswd > https://lazysoci.al/u/qokpsqnw > https://lemy.lol/u/ncvahblj > https://ttrpg.network/u/hputoioz > https://lazysoci.al/u/lghikcpj > https://lemmy.ca/u/xnjaqbzs > https://lemy.lol/u/yonkz > ``` > > **Edit**: If you see anyone from your instance on here, *please please please* verify before taking any action. I'm only able to cross-check these against the content my instance is aware of.
https://apnews.com/hub/shootings
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19615874
I know of peertube, which is similar to youtube. But is there anything that is similar to instgram reels, tiktok type stuff. I imagine it doesn’t exist because the hosting costs would be exorbitant, but I’m curious incase something like it does?
www.swissinfo.ch
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16337814
www.swissinfo.ch
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19556196 > Average Online Conversation
www.livescience.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16248069
www.livescience.com
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/16759425 > https://t.me/astrapress/63733 > > >Lithuania installed "dragon's teeth" and mines in front of the bridge on the border with the Kaliningrad region > > > >"This is a precautionary step to ensure more effective defense," the [Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Twitter](https://x.com/Lithuanian_MoD/status/1831665611803402692). The ministry explained that the Queen Louise Bridge is Russian property, so Lithuania cannot install "dragon's teeth" and mines on the bridge itself, but only in front of it.
L’original sur r/switzerland https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/s/OwbIPoXrWM Je vois que la désinfo Russe aide les racistes à “s’éxprimer”.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28275057 > When he first emerged on social media, the user known as Harlan claimed to be a New Yorker and an Army veteran who supported Donald Trump for president. Harlan said he was 29, and his profile picture showed a smiling, handsome young man. > > A few months later, Harlan underwent a transformation. Now, he claimed to be 31 and from Florida. > > New research into Chinese disinformation networks targeting American voters shows Harlan’s claims were as fictitious as his profile picture, which analysts think was created using artificial intelligence. > > The account was traced back to Spamouflage, a Chinese disinformation group, by analysts at Graphika, a New York-based firm that tracks online networks. Known to online researchers for several years, Spamouflage earned its moniker through its habit of spreading large amounts of seemingly unrelated content alongside disinformation.
www.scientificamerican.com
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/15901115