as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.
8,000 Afghan refugees, allowed into the country in 2021 under the slogan Operation Warm Welcome, are due to be evicted from hotels as early as August because of a government deadline, yet have nowhere to go.
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and policy are nothing new in Uganda or other former British colonies. The British Empire imposed its colonial penal code, including the anti-sodomy law Section 377, on the territories it had claimed. Since former African colonies gained independence in the 1960s, few have repealed the colonial anti-sodomy laws, instead enacting harsh policies including life in prison — a trend encouraged by American evangelical groups.
For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb jelly.
Which means that we have a winner! The sister to all other animals, the first to branch off, and the most genetically isolated animal is … drumroll please … the comb jelly!
We wait and see. My guess is the company looked at the number of 3rd party users verse official client and desktop users and decided: "Yep, we can lose them". It will all depend on how much of a dive the site takes. Similar to all the leave campaigns on FB, Twitter, Digg, etc.. it won't shutdown by this protest.
I look at it that the best users will be the ones to leave.
I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?...
just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10....
Why Dying People Often Experience a Burst of Lucidity (www.scientificamerican.com)
WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye (climatecasino.net)
Cause and Cure Discovered for Common Type of High Blood Pressure (scitechdaily.com)
No 10 Farm to Fork Summit fails to address the need for urgent shift away from animal agriculture to meet climate goals (www.vegansociety.com)
Animal Rights Switzerland Sets Out Vision to Make the Country Vegan - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine (vegconomist.com)
National Archives refutes claims Trump had two years to go through presidential records in rare public statement (edition.cnn.com)
US confirms China has had a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 (abcnews.go.com)
How to Read a Scientific Paper (medium.com)
What to focus, what to ignore, and avoid overwhelm
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills (www.reuters.com)
Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to be made homeless (www.theguardian.com)
Uganda’s extreme anti-LGBTQ legislation, explained (www.vox.com)
Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of Life (www.popularmechanics.com)
Sexual Harassment Still Pervades Science (www.scientificamerican.com)
Intel Open Sources New 'One Mono' Font for Programmers (m.slashdot.org)
Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report (techcrunch.com)
'Conspiracy theories have become normalised in Britain', says BBC disinformation correspondent (inews.co.uk)
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (arstechnica.com)
For Saudi Arabia, the price of oil is falling too low (qz.com)
So what's everyone doing for the long weekend?
I mean, other than procrastinating at work.
For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience?
I wanted to get a pulse check on how new members are finding the general experience/website. Is it more confusing than Reddit or are you finding the instance system a better way of doing things as it can give you more freedom of where you choose to create an account?...
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA (techcrunch.com)
a megathread for developments on Reddit and with third-party Reddit apps
just so this doesn't overwhelm our front page too much, i think now's a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let's try to keep what's happening in this thread instead of across 10....