Calckey rebranded as Firefish, versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 released
Calckey has been one of the more popular Fediverse apps for a while now, and just of today they did a major rebranding....
Firefox sometimes crashes when I'm on kbin.social: happens to anyone else?
As title suggested....
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads (www.reuters.com)
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.
Lab-grown meat: the science of turning cells into steaks and nuggets (www.nature.com)
Companies making cultured meat are attracting billions of dollars of investment. Here are their biggest challenges....
Anti-ageing protein injection boosts monkeys’ memories (news article & attached research article) (www.nature.com)
TL;DR...
A test post, also includes link to ProPublica and a cat pic (www.propublica.org)
This is a test post to see how kbin.social federates with my Calckey instance. I'm curious how formatting works......
Mew didn't want me to play video games
Will there ever be a way to add a content warning (CW) to a post?
As title suggested. CW culture is super prevalent on Mastodon and the Keys, so I'm wondering if that is even a possibility?...
YSK: a few ways to watch YouTube videos without using youtube.com
Invidious: an alternative front-end that is open-source and privacy-respecting. Here are a list of open instances. If you are reasonably familiar with docker/self-hosting you can also host it yourself, but be aware it's somewhat resource- and maintenance-heavy....
[Research article] Blue-ringed octopus-inspired microneedle patch for robust tissue surface adhesion and active injection drug delivery (doi.org)
TL;DR: Zhejiang Uni lab engineered succ & inject hydrogels + microneedles for drug delivery...
People who frequent(ed) "support group" subreddits: what do you think about the future of those places?
I've joined several immigration-related subreddits because of my own life-situation nonsense. With how unpredictable Reddit is behaving, I'm having doubts whether the future of such subreddits are bright for people who need legal help or need to flee war-zones or stuff like that......
Content moderators are just janitors of social media: Low-pay, low-respect, but one of the most important jobs of cleaning up human trash
So are automods just roombas?
TIL gerrymandering is named after the 1812 MA governor Elbridge Gerry, whose name is pronounced with a hard "G", disapproved of the district redrawing, and wasn't the first person to redraw districts for political gain
The "Gerrymander"
Potential for recovery of declining reef sharks: Data on shark populations in coral reefs raise concern and hope for recovery (www.science.org)
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OC Test post & photo of my cat on laptop
I'm a long-term Reddit lurker who is new to kbin & don't know what to post, so here is a photo of Mew sitting on my laptop looking gorgeous. Have a nice day
