Cracking The Cryptic has a decent community, as might be expected from a channel that mainly solve sudokus and cryptic crosswords. Wirtual (a Trackmania streamer) seems to have a vaguely sane community as those sort of people go.
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
Dunno about anything else, but I have Aspergers, and the only way I can think of really simulating that is giving disadvantage on basically anything that needs a Charisma check.
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows (www.theguardian.com)
UK set for eight-day snow event with just two places spared (www.birminghammail.co.uk)
Disgraced singer Gary Glitter refused jail release (www.bbc.co.uk)
Rishi Sunak says people ‘can’t be any sex they want to be’ in new swipe at trans community (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has launched yet another attack at the trans community by saying that people “can’t be any sex they want to be.”...
Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster (www.independent.co.uk)
Who Killed Jill Dando? (www.independent.co.uk)
Shot dead on her doorstep 24 years ago, and the killer is still at large.
The US military’s tiniest drone feels like it flew straight out of a sci-fi film (www.popsci.com)
This drone is small, quiet, and highly maneuverable. Back in April, it even explored the collapsed parking garage in New York City.
Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia will be livestreamed on YouTube (www.theverge.com)
Trump’s trial may appear on the Georgia court’s YouTube channel.
Woman’s mystery illness turns out to be 3-inch snake parasite in her brain (arstechnica.com)
It's the first time the snake parasite has been seen in a human, let alone a brain.
We risk being seen as the ‘nasty party’ again, warn senior Conservatives (www.theguardian.com)
England’s playgrounds crumble as council budgets fall (www.theguardian.com)
Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
A tentative but less nebulous step toward superconductor-fueled electronics.
The plastic lawn backlash: why people are pulling up their fetid fake grass (www.theguardian.com)
Time to ditch Twitter/X, what are you guys switching to?
He says X is for freedom of speech, and it is an everything app...
Apple warns iMessage and FaceTime could be withdrawn in UK over law change (www.theguardian.com)
What youtuber has the most wholesome community that you know of?
The youtube comments can be a very toxic place but if you know where to look there are also very wholesome communities.
Twitter content now behind login wall?
What's going on?
Instead of deleting your Reddit account, consider using chatgpt to make comments instead
And make sure not to click on any links. If enough people use chatgpt or other LLM's to generate comments that are wordy but clearly just filler, it'll give advertisers pause and tank the value of the site as training data. Reddit's response will probably be to start banning users it thinks are doing this but normal users will...
You are now an RPG character, what does your character sheet say?
And what skills or modifiers do you get?
TIL Fungi in Chernobyl appear to be feeding off gamma radiation and are growing towards the reactor core. (thebiologist.rsb.org.uk)
r/tattoo is now a fanpage for t.A.T.u. (www.reddit.com)
Donald Trump Just Got Dumped by His Lawyer Again (www.thedailybeast.com)
The lawyer wrote in a filing he could “no longer effectively and properly represent” Trump because of “irreconcilable differences.”
We should defederate from lemmynsfw
The mods there have decided to allow underage looking content, skirting close to CP. Unless we want such disgusting stuff on our feed, I think we should defederate from that instance....
What’s your favorite slang term from an earlier decade?
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Remembering Alan Turing, the gay British war hero who died after being persecuted by his country (www.thepinknews.com)
Alan Turing was a gay war hero and mathematician who broke the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in WWII, but his story ended in tragedy.