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Earlier this month, CNN host Kasie Hunt interviewed antivax presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Although she did better than most journalists confronting him for his past antivax statements in that she played a clip of one of his antivax statements, she clearly hadn’t anticipated his response, which should have been...

Dreams have fascinated people for millennia, yet we struggle to understand their purpose. Some theories suggest dreams help us deal with emotions, solve problems or manage hidden desired s. Others postulate that they clean up brain waste, make memories stronger or deduce the meaning of random brain activity. A more recent theory...

“If you’d said in the wake of World War II that the United States would lose a war to guerrillas who didn’t have an air force or navy or even really heavy weapons, people would have just thought that you were insane,” says Major General Mick Ryan, commander of the Australian Defence College and author of the forthcoming...

I noticed something interesting about the Israel-Gaza war that seems to have generally been overlooked: The war hasn’t shown much sign of spreading throughout the Middle East. Yemen’s Houthis (one of Iran’s proxy militias) launched a few missiles in the general direction of Israel and bellowed a declaration of war, but no...

In 1999, an experimental Japanese artist released a horror point and click adventure game that was completely different from its contemporaries. Due to external forces beyond his control, the game was left in utter obscurity and was considered to be lost for many years. A decade later, forum users across the internet sought to...

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives.

From May 14th, 2023, but still spot on....

Meta’s social networks consider charging €13 a month on mobile [...]. Meta is also weighing a €17 charge to use Instagram and Facebook without adverts on desktop, according to sources close to the discussions. Accessing both apps on smartphones would cost about €19 a month.

A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it?

“We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy.”...

Imagine releasing a game for 99 cents under the personal plan, where Steam takes 30% off the top for their platform fee, and then unity takes 20 cents per install, and now you're making a maximum of 46 cents on the dollar.

The fact that these aren’t perfect correlations leaves plenty of room for outliers: body-builders with huge amounts of muscle who have a high BMI, despite very low body fat, say, or people with relatively low overall BMIs but a high proportion of fat. And it means that, at least in some studies, taking into account waist...

Google announced today that it is deprecating the standard Google Chrome Safe Browsing feature and moving everyone to its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature in the coming weeks, bringing real-time phishing protection to all users while browsing the web.

[...] that’s not how any of this works. At all. If the ADL is convincing advertisers not to advertise on exTwitter, that’s their free speech in the marketplace of ideas. And if that speech caused advertisers to bail, that means that Elon is losing in the marketplace of ideas. If you actually believe in free speech, you...

Musk’s public persona is an important marketing tool. Consider his appearance on Saturday Night Live: Tesla didn’t have to run advertisements because Musk is so closely associated with the brand that the entire episode functions as a car commercial. Meanwhile, every other EV maker bought ad time. You can think of Musk as the...

The moderators, subject matter experts who are paid a nominal stipend for curating and contextualizing the numerous infectious diseases reports ProMED posts to its website and pumps out to its mailing list daily, have been on strike since early August....

"My hypothesis is that, while the terminally-online are entirely aware of Twitter's rebrand to X, most consumers aren't," Seufert wrote in a post that accompanied his findings, "and their searches for 'Twitter' on platform stores surface ads and genuine search results that are in no way redolent of Twitter."

Simone Weil’s life illustrates the capacity to give up the things we feel we’re owed – such as a carbon-intensive consumer-driven lifestyle

W skrócie – chodzi o „kontrolowane wypożyczanie” e-booków przez serwis Internet Archive. Założenie jest takie, że jeśli w bibliotece mamy egzemplarz papierowy, można zamiast niego wypożyczać wersję cyfrową – tyle sztuk, ile mamy egzemplarzy....

To get a better sense of how researchers are currently interacting with the site formerly known as Twitter, Nature reached out to more than 170,000 scientists who were, or still are, users; nearly 9,200 responded. More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past six months and just...

One YouTube user has spotted this new timer in the top right corner of the popup, with the individual later sharing the screenshot on Reddit. Another user in the comments reports seeing this popup as well, so it could appear to more customers in the days ahead. While the duration of this timer isn't revealed, we expect it to be...

Users who clicked a link on Musk’s website, now called X, for one of the targeted websites were made to wait about five seconds before seeing the page, according to tests conducted Tuesday by The Washington Post....

It's difficult now to remember a time when the Switch eShop wasn't rammed with low-cost, low-quality games making it laborious to find the great new releases amongst all the dross. What began as an immaculately clean, functional store back in 2017 quickly ballooned and before long Nintendo was inundated with software submissions...

Potrzebujemy zrównoważonej sceny muzycznej. Skupionej na lokalnych zjawiskach, wstrzymującej się od eksploatacji środowiska w imię zysku, przystępnej cenowo. Takie festiwale to nie tylko ulga dla planety, ale także ochrona przed katastrofami o wielkiej skali, które ciągną za sobą kolejne bankructwa.

The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms.

Przepaść dzieląca Internet na dwie części rośnie. Po jednej stronie znajduje się Internet komercyjny, opanowany przez monopolistów, skupiony wokół mediów. Internet mający tylko jeden cel: zmusić nas do klikania. Mierzy kliknięcia, optymalizuje kliknięcia, generuje kliknięcia. Zbiera o nas tak dużo informacji,...

Wychodząc z Unii Europejskiej Wielka Brytania chciała odbudować swoją imperialną potęgę i znów stać się jednym ze światowych mocarstw. 3,5 roku po opuszczeniu Wspólnoty po wytęsknionej świetności nie ma jednak śladu, natomiast problemy, zwłaszcza dla brytyjskiej gospodarki, piętrzą się lawinowo. - Brexit...

Prawdopodobnie taki nadprzewodnik istnieje, choć na potwierdzenie trzeba jeszcze poczekać. Ale czym w ogóle są nadprzewodniki? I dlaczego odkrycie nadprzewodnika działającego w normalnej temperaturze nie tylko fizyków ucieszy?

Browsers also let us style how visited links look, using the :visited pseudo-class. This is also pretty helpful, as the purple links don't match the style of every website....

There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks optimise clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life with ads,...

Twitter has finally changed its app name to 'X' on the App Store. This is likely an exception by Apple, which forbids single character names.

When Elon Musk announced that Twitter would become X—a “one-stop-shop” for finance and social media—many commentators were surprised. The idea seemed to come from nowhere. For those familiar with Musk’s history, however, both the name and the idea would have sounded familiar.

Musk is the loser’s winner — a charlatan that is able to make unfathomable amounts of money despite being nakedly full of shit, using his massive fame and fortune to test society and the markets’ limits. He believes he can get away with anything because he always has, other than one major exception — Twitter.

In person Elon is oddly charming and he’s genuinely funny. He also has personality quirks like telling the same stories and jokes over and over. The challenge is his personality and demeanor can turn on a dime going from excited to angry. Since it was hard to read what mood he might be in and what his reaction would be to any...

Hundreds of conservative operatives outlined a plan that Donald Trump, or any Republican, could use to purge climate action from the federal government.

KOSA’s supporters might want to ignore the fact that it’s a censorship bill in disguise, but the Heritage Foundation is saying the quiet part out loud. The hard-line conservative organization has openly said KOSA will help them censor the content conservatives don’t want young people to have access to.

Stickers with their pictures and the caption “Piss off to Berlin” plastered light-poles near campus. On social media, someone declared a desire to “hunt them down.”...

"[I] got an email basically saying they are taking it," Hwang told Mashable in an email exchange.

Jako że nie mam Twittera Blue i mieć nie zamierzam, tym bardziej po tym, o czym przeczytacie w niniejszym tekście, dosyć szybko została mi zablokowana możliwość korzystania z Twittera. Wiedziona ciekawością, wolny czas poświęciłam zatem temu, co do tej pory zaniedbałam, mianowicie poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi,...

Lawyers say the letter X may be too generic to trademark — and hundreds of companies are already using it.

In a series of late-night tweets Saturday, Musk shared that the company’s famous bird logo and name would soon be no more. The company, it seems, will simply be known as “X.”...

"Underground climate change is a silent hazard. The ground is deforming as a result of temperature variations, and no existing civil structure or infrastructure is designed to withstand these variations," lead author Alessandro Rotta Loira, assistant professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, said in a...

On its best day, July 7, Threads had more than 49 million daily active users on Android, worldwide, according to Similarweb estimates. That’s about 45% of the usage of Twitter, which had more than 109 million active Android users that day....

Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social media can’t agree whether to welcome or fear it.

Threads offers brands and celebrities a Twitter alternative with deep ties to Instagram, an app that isn't fun either.

During Threads' first two days online, Twitter traffic dropped by 5 percent compared to the same two days in the prior week, web analytics firm SimilarWeb reported. When measuring year over year, Twitter's traffic dropped by 11 percent.