Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!...
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say (www.houstonchronicle.com)
Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as...
Big list of specialized instances
Updated 2023-11-12...
How ActivityPub is setting the stage to weave all your social media feeds together (www.popsci.com)
kbin Enhancement Suite: a community-curated script manager that lets you customize your kbin experience
A couple of weeks ago, @shazbot made this post about a project that they were working on. Since then, @shazbot, @ori, @minnieo and I have been hard at work, and we are excited to finally announce the official release of kbin Enhancement Suite (KES)!...
wtf is happening?
Why am I signed out every time I open this? Why can I hardly post anything anywhere? It’s like a dice roll.
Defederation, Threads and You
A lot of us are pretty new to the fediverse and we've arrived just in time to grapple with what is easily the biggest federation/defederation controversy ever to hit it. I've put this thread together to hopefully help communicate some of the more complex ideas that we're trying to get our heads around....
Is it normal to calculate how much money you spent running the AC today?
In case you’re wondering, the AC unit in our bedroom costs $0.16/hour. The living room costs $0.50/hour....
TotK interactive maps (WIP) UPDATED
Github (alpha/proto version of a datamined map)...
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YSK: Lemmy offers TOTP as a 2FA option
If you are an Admin of a Lemmy instance, please use it to help secure your account!
Tf happened to lemmy.world?
Went there and got some… less than savory images. Do not recommend going there....
About to start rolling out wave 2 of Artemis beta 👀
LET'S GO
Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation (mashable.com)
OC How do I DM someone on kbin?
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Why is it called a U turn and not an n turn
Basically the title but when we do a “U” turn we actually make a small n not a U.