#geekamovie Die Hard Drive #HashtagGames
The Shape of H20
"On Thursday #Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. But the offer won’t apply to all creators...
So far, the influencers who have publicly revealed that they’re part of the program are prominent figures on the right. Andrew Tate, for example, who was recently released from jail on #rape and #HumanTrafficking charges, posted that he’d been paid over $20,000 by Twitter."
~@taylorlorenz
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
Paranannizziopsis spp. associated with skin lesions in wild snakes in North America and development of a real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of the fungus in clinical samples http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.13.548879v1?rss=1
FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm
Link: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187532997/ftc-investigating-chatgpt-over-potential-consumer-harm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36717593
Taiwan is having its own #MeToo moment, and the government is racing to update its equality laws ahead of a critical election. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/taiwan-metoo-scandals-tsai-before-election/?utm_content=buffer84258&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #politics #taiwan #election #sexualharassment #tsaiingwen #metoo
Record-breaking Heat Bakes US, Europe, China
Extreme weather resulting from a warming climate is "unfortunately becoming the new normal," warns Secretary-General Petteri Taalas of the World Meteorological
#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecologie #environnement #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #US #Europe #China
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights
see also: text to speech
actually this is more shocking to me...
> Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.
Missing Girl in Millet, Alberta - Ava Rose Threefingers, 14 - #Millet #Alberta #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada
Ava Rose Threefingers is described as a female with a medium complexion, standing approximately 5'3" tall, and weighing around 121 lbs. She has black shoulder-length wavy hair, brown eyes, and wears glasses. At the time of her disappearance, she was last seen wearing a...
More Info: https://missingpeople.ca/missing-girl-in-millet-alberta-ava-rose-threefingers-14/
Lincoln Park, east of downtown Los Angeles, is a public park with a lake that was once used as a reservoir. It was originally called Eastlake Park when it was built in the 1880s.
MacArthur Park, named after the WWII general and lying west of downtown, also has a lake that was once a reservoir prior to being developed into a park in the 1880s. It was originally named Westlake Park, after the landowner who deeded it to the city, Henricus Wallace Westlake.
Biden authorizes military to order up reservists for active duty in Europe https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/07/13/biden-authorizes-military-order-up-reservists-europe/2511689299373/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Biscuit: first known use in 14th century.
From earlier bisket, from Middle English bisquyte, borrowed from Old French bescuit Old French bescuit, from bescuire, or a calque of Medieval Latin biscoctus, from Latin bis (“twice”) coctus (“cooked”).
Cookie: first known use in 1779. Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”).
Youth pastor who filmed minors in church bathroom also filmed brides changing at wedding parties
The format of how the error displays seems to be Mastodon-type because after I deleted my account at Universeodon, then verified the delete by attempting to access the account, Universeodon delivered an accessing error in that exact same form.
Okay, trying to solve a mystery that crops up only on #QOTO. This time my screen shot includes the time stamp. QOTO was behaving itself until, coincidentally, someone's posted video came up in my Federated feed--then for an extensive time, it was nonstop....til I got off the Federated feed, then it cleared up.
Of course, students of modern American politics are aware that the GOP politicians most focused on defunding the police are the ones that begged Trump for pardons over #J6 https://youtu.be/AyQf-_e2JEk
2.6 million square kilometers of lost sea ice in Antarctica
3 Hottest days in 125,000 years
90 million Americans under dangerous heat alert
Mediterranean is being cooked
Ocean heat off the scale
Canada more than 22 million acres forest burned so far
World climate Emergency now
#Climate
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.