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TheDailyBurble

@TheDailyBurble@mastodon.social

Cabbidges from Twitter. Interested in gamedev, traditional art, digital art (particularly environmental and lighting) news, current affairs, and a bunch of other random stuff.
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arstechnica, to random
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After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

No, really, drinking raw milk during the H5N1 outbreak is a bad idea.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/after-mice-drink-raw-h5n1-milk-bird-flu-virus-riddles-their-organs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TheDailyBurble,
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@arstechnica It depends if the milk is infected, that bit is quite important. Not drinking raw milk is the quikfix for not dealing with infected cattle, which even if we did would be the quikfix for not doing disease prevention.

It would help us all if our food wasn't so utterly degraded and denatured and full of dodgy chemicals. But that's apparently too hard.

  • I drank raw milk up until age 15 or so. But it was a long time ago when cows didn't eat fishmeal or whatever it is nowadays.
arstechnica, to random
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After you die, your Steam games will be stuck in legal limbo

So much for your descendants posthumously clearing out that massive backlog...

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/after-you-die-your-steam-games-will-be-stuck-in-legal-limbo/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TheDailyBurble,
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@arstechnica
Always wondered about this. Seems a bit of a rip off that you pay for things that then disappear when you die, which I assume is what Steam is hoping for.

arstechnica, to random
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Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/bing-outage-shows-just-how-little-competition-google-search-really-has/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TheDailyBurble,
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@arstechnica I know we'll only get corporate fluff from themselves but anyone know what happened to the web giants this time?

TheDailyBurble, to random
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I see "workingpeeple" is back in the speeches. Need to learn to say "people", just "people". Some are working others too young, too old, between jobs, ill, moving, changing career or busy with other issues one way another. They exist too and shouldn't be excluded from any politician's election speech.

Work is not people. People are not work. No matter how often you try to jam them together verbally and conceptually, they are different things and will remain different things forever.

luckytran, to random
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A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

  • masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

  • N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

  • mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

TheDailyBurble,
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@luckytran
We knew all this early on but it was ALL deliberately ignored.

stux, to random
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They shouldn't be cheaper, the company should pay you by the hour if you're wearing a shirt with their logo in public

TheDailyBurble,
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@stux My dad used to turn branded shopping bags inside out. I still sometimes do that - he was way ahead of his time.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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I prefer Mastodon but the "explore" page is just the same old people pushing the same old lines every day, it seems to be sort of shrinking? Is that just me though. No idea, but I find myself with that "oh yeah them again" scroll scroll thing going on.

cigitalgem, to random
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Oh look. Data feudalism is everywhere. https://www.engadget.com/yuck-slack-has-been-scanning-your-messages-to-train-its-ai-models-181918245.html?src=rss&utm_source=press.coop

TheDailyBurble,
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@cigitalgem
"datafeudalism" - yes, I think that's it.

rodhilton, to random
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Tipping and Square ipads have gotten out of control in America generally but I think the most ridiculous one is the suggested tip at soft-serve ice cream joints.

I grab my cup, I fill it with ice cream, I spoon on the toppings, and I'm the one to put it on the scale. You literally press one button and then tell me how much I owe, and then I tap my own phone on the reader. I did all the work, why aren't you tipping me?

TheDailyBurble,
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@rodhilton
There's quite a lot of stuff like that now.

JimsPhotos, to nature
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Juvenile Long-tailed tit flying between branches

TheDailyBurble,
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@JimsPhotos
Flying Teaspoon!

ai6yr, to random

AP: North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons too.. " According to the bill’s summary, people could no longer wear masks in public for medical reasons." https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-covid-masks-gaza-protest-b0c6ea89a5d08a8d2f2b21e793e8a6d7

TheDailyBurble,
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@ai6yr
Oh you just nailed every "children's mental heath" law in existence.

rodhilton, to random
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There's so much that GenAI can do and so many threat vectors it creators, I'm not sure people fully appreciate how utterly broken it's going to make the internet.

Think about how many web sites you use where all they do is provide a place for human beings to upload things, and show them to you next to an ad.

Every forum, every social media, every search engine, SO, Quora, they're all just places that slurp up human-submitted content.

AI can now generate all that content. They're all cooked.

TheDailyBurble,
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@rodhilton Seems the way it's going.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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Windows11 has decided FOR me that it's time I get a new printer by not recognising my admittedly not up to date printer. I don't think they should decide that, nor waste my time by me hunting for a driver on the increasingly unreliable web. Assuming Windows 11 even "allows" me to install such a thing.

It runs fine, this old printer off an equally ancient eee. One flash drive to transfer the file and we're done.

TheDailyBurble,
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@paul Oh I'll buy a brother when the time comes, if it's still reliable. The olde one is fine though and I don't mind if it can't call home anymore.

TheDailyBurble,
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@paul I managed to print using my eee (good grief), and until I've dealt with the things I needed to print and copy documents for, that's how this is going to work. But yes, I tried to manually add my printer, however I think I may have to manually download a driver for it and hope that the driver is compatible with Windows11 before I have a hope of getting that working. Right now, I just don't have the time.

Alas the cliff must hanger a bit longer

dangillmor, to random
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The solar storm is interfering with some tractors' GPS capabilities. https://www.404media.co/r/15913771?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30

TheDailyBurble,
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@dangillmor Remarkable that it has done so little damage, given it has at times been stronger than forecast.

ai6yr, to random

Happy Guilted Into Buy Flowers-And-Chocolate Day, And Maybe Stand In An Endless Line For A Horribly Crowded Brunch Day for those that celebrate!

(hint: if you truly want to celebrate your mother, do what we always did for my mom, and do the buffet the week BEFORE or the week AFTER, when the buffet is better and you don't have crowds; I also used to go to the chocolate/flower stores the DAY AFTER and had gotten flowers for 90% off and chocolates for 50-75% off... 😉

TheDailyBurble,
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@ai6yr I'm happy with a Happy Mother's Day and a big hug tbh. Some stuff is too big to be shovelled into consumerism and all the things you need to say are for all the days, not just one. Love is way to big for a mug or a bunch of flowers or a meal.

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

TheDailyBurble,
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@sundogplanets or mibbes some sleep :D

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Via Gavin Newsom:

What Donald Trump’s version of “quite well” means (Image below.):

Biden-Harris HQ:

Embedded video:

: They tried to cancel Roe v. Wade for many years. We did it. It’s working out quite well, actually

TheDailyBurble,
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@GottaLaff That's far too young and better hope there's no damage. Barbaric.

w7voa, to random
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Headline of the Day from the NY Times:
R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

TheDailyBurble,
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@w7voa And apparently it ate part of the brain, which isn't in the headline.

jwildeboer, to fediverse
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When I joined the via my own Mastodon instance back in 2018 (and with an identi.ca, status.net, pump.io history going far back), I never thought of it as a Twitter, Facebook etc alternative. I saw it as a new planet. A fresh approach to build a real social network. I still look at it that way. I want to explore new possibilities. Try new things. Escape the gravity well of the "old", centralised networks. Find a better orbit. That is why I block threads.net on my instance.

TheDailyBurble,
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@jwildeboer
hmm. Tempted to join your instance, but might be a bit enclosed for me.

TheDailyBurble, to random
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The people who lost grandparents and parents in the pandemic are expected to keep their grief private and to themselves, but like all the big scars this will sit. And before anyone starts, | also worry about all the other horrible things going on.

thejapantimes, to worldnews
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The West’s strategic overreach vis-a-vis Russia is not only alienating much of the rest of the world, but also providing a windfall for its real rival, China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/05/07/world/west-hastening-its-decline/

TheDailyBurble,
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@thejapantimes Europe doesn't fancy being plundered, it's not that hard to figure out.

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Old pagan symbols can sometimes appear in new and unexpected places.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #paganism @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/old-new-gods-28137976

TheDailyBurble,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
I looked for that but couldn't find a photo nor image, nor mention, which makes me wonder who wouldn't want it seen or known. Gadesbush looks like an interesting place though.

TheDailyBurble,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
Alas I am not close enough to go and see, was such an interesting story too!

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