How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It's Published - The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but ... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/06/29/1954252/how-review-bombing-can-tank-a-book-before-its-published?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #books
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Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/
The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.
US Approves $5.62 Billion Sale of F-35 Fighter Jets to Czech Republic (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-29/us-green-lights-5-62-billion-sale-of-f-35s-to-czech-republic
http://www.memeorandum.com/230629/p123#a230629p123
America's fastest-growing demographic groups https://t.co/aRT2m0La5y
Climate change: China's green power surge offers hope on warming https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66043485
Man with weapons and Jan. 6 warrant arrested after running toward Obamas' D.C. home
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-weapons-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home/
Well, it may be annoying to be stuck here in this airport lounge with a 3-hour delay (and counting) to get back to Chicago -- but at least I'm in the same boat as our former mayor! #AdjacentToGreatness...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PbdKSAiGQL0&feature=share
⚡️🇦🇿EU leaders meet for roundtable as states look for unity on Ukraine (Kanal13 - Azeri News in English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Azerbaijan #NATO #Press #News #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
I wanted to find a history book I could enjoy reading at bedtime with my history obsessed son…started Stolen History tonight and it’s just what I was looking for!
I studied history at GCSE, A Level and degree level and i’m embarrassed by how little I know about the British Empire. It has for decades been erased from our education system…it’s right that it’s now reinserted. Both parents and kids need to know the truth about it.
This is one of the most positively oriented talks about working as an animator for Walt Disney/Disney that I have ever heard. Usually it’s more along the lines of Walt Peregoy’s comments (https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disneys-crankiest-veteran-is-still-cranky-and-thinks-walt-disney-was-a-shit-79791.html)🙃
#TCMParty #FloydNormanAnAnimatedLife
DeSantis Vows to Eliminate Department of Education or Use It to Wage War on Woke
The Florida governor is taking his “war on woke” to dangerous new levels
https://newrepublic.com/post/173993/desantis-vows-eliminate-department-education-use-wage-war-woke
Ron DeSantis is taking his idiotic “war on woke” to new, extremist levels on Fox News, vowing to eliminate:
* U.S. Dept of Education / “woke ideology”
*Dept of Commerce
* Dept of Energy
* IRS
#RonDeSantis #2024PresidentialCandidates #neofascism #RepublicanParty #CultureWars #education #FloridaEducation #Florida #woke
First Battery-Powered Trains Arrive In Europe - An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A 20-strong fleet of Hitachi Masacci... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/06/28/217233/first-battery-powered-trains-arrive-in-europe?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #power
There’s a significant segment of the population in Canada who think they are centrists but have bought so deeply into an irrational hatred of Trudeau that they’re going to vote conservative the next time they have the chance.
“I like the liberals but hate Trudeau.” Great, so you’re going to throw the baby out with the bath water and vote to hand this country over to Poilievre’s far-right conservativism?
Rust language project revamps governance - Proponents of the Rust programming language have formed the Rust Leadership Council, t... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701230/rust-language-project-revamps-governance.html#tk.rss_all #programminglanguages #softwaredevelopment #opensource #rust
Madonna postpones upcoming Celebration tour due to 'serious bacterial infection' https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230629/p2g/00m/0et/002000c
Russian media ASTRA reports: "Between 22,000 and 37,000 mercenaries of Wagner PMC may have been killed or wounded during the war in Ukraine.
Putin stated that 110 billion rubles were spent on insurance payments to Wagner PMC - wounded and dead. [$1,279 billion]
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Russian #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey
Chimp Sees Open Sky For First Time In 28 Years https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/chimp-sees-open-sky-first-time-28-years?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.