Clara Listensprechen @ClaraListensprechen4@social.cleverlibre.org

A splash of colours to brighten your day or evening. Courtesy of nature on #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia 💚​

#FallColors #Autumn #AutumnVibes #nature #photography #NaturePhotography

FRON was a multiplayer variant of the BASIC game Star Trek created at UCLA in 1975.

Two of its authors were future gaming luminaries:

-Don Worth created one of the first computer RPGs, Beneath Apple Manor.
-Vic Tolomei worked at Exidy on games like Venture and Crossbow. #videogamehistory

梅吉休業中(お散歩じゃないから)

Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in the Clouds of a Hot Gas Giant - NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-detects-tiny-quartz-crystals-in-the-clouds-of-a-hot-gas-giant/

Israel Gaza war: Missiles soar above Tel Aviv as sirens sound - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-middle-east-67127824

Yuga Labs, makers of Bored Ape NFTs, are boycotting OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, because it turns out smart contracts can’t actually enforce royalties.

Oops.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-16/nft-makers-mutiny-against-blur-opensea-over-sinking-royalties

Biden campaign joins Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ and immediately starts trolling Trump https://deadstate.org/biden-campaign-joins-trumps-truth-social-and-immediately-starts-trolling-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#YouTube is stepping things up with the #ad blocker warnings. Now instead of having the "X" right away, you get a little countdown timer in the corner before you're able to close the warning.

It's probably safe to assume the next step is to block access altogether.

#Google

Big Oil Is Only Getting Bigger - and Meaner

https://newrepublic.com/article/176237/big-oil-getting-biggerand-meaner

> Exxon’s big purchase of Pioneer Resources last week is a troubling indication that the industry sees little reason to change course.

Not surprisingly, this [asset] forfeiture regime proved highly lucrative for law enforcement, offering more than enough incentive to wage the war on drugs. According to a report commissioned by the Department of Justice, between 1988 and 1992 alone, Burn-funded drug task-forces seized over one billion dollars in assets.

–The New Jim Crow

#LEO #Police #Cops #Drugs #CivilAssetForfeiture #TheWarOnDrugs #Theft #Government #DoJ

Leonid Brezhnev became leader of the Soviet Communist Party OTD in 1964, while Alexei Kosygin became the head of government https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/getting-there.html?s=mb #travel #Russia

Faaaakin 'ell 😬
#USPOL
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanylewis/2023/10/16/house-democratic-lawmaker-floats-george-w-bush-for-speaker-of-the-house/

#Concert #Concerts #MusicBand #MusicBands #Peekaboo

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor

20% of LinkedIn's recent layoffs were managers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907433
#ycombinator