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What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums

What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Today in Tedium: Recently, I passed 20,000 followers on Bluesky, which I didn’t really say anything about. Sure, I thought about it, but then I had decided to myself, what’s the point? Soon, there will be another mark I can point to and feel weird about. The thing about social media these days is that the good stuff all too often pulls you in, but at the end of the day, you end up feeling hollow. Perhaps it’s for this reason that, when I spotted…
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R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13 million to housekeeper attacked by his dog | Chris Brown

R&B star Chris Brown ordered to pay $13 million to housekeeper attacked by his dog | Chris Brown

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Chris Brown,Music,R&B,Culture,California 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: R&B star Chris Brown has been ordered to pay $12.9 million in damages to a housekeeper who was attacked by a dog at one of his properties.Maria Avila was working at Brown's home in Tarzana, California, in 2020 when she was attacked by Hades, a Caucasian shepherd used as a guard dog. At the trial in Van Nuys, California, Avila said she suffered serious injuries to her arm and face, requiring dozens of stitches and skin grafts from her stomach to…
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Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO

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✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Today I’m kicking off my most ambitious Maker’s Pet project yet: oomwoo, an open-source home robot vacuum that you can build yourself. Open hardware, open firmware, open software — and built in public, from the first commit.No cloud required. No vendor lock-in. It maps your home with an affordable 2D LiDAR and navigates on its own, runs locally, and integrates natively with Home Assistant. If you’re into Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 3D printing, or just the idea of owning a vacuum you fully understand and…
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The Swamp Dwellers review – This rare drama from Wole Soyinka is a complete discovery | stage

The Swamp Dwellers review – This rare drama from Wole Soyinka is a complete discovery | stage

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Wole Soyinka,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ShTobia is the smallest of the theatres, and its 50-seat space is made more intimate thanks to a raffia ceiling and curtain-lined walls. However, this downtown unit houses the biggest characters on stage, a wooden platform designed by Sarah Louise Cole that floats above the ground as if avoiding the floodwaters of the Niger Delta.And it is big, in part because of Wole Soyinka, whose 1958 play, which has not been performed in this country for more than 50 years, is…
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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A sweeping global review led by researchers at the University of British Columbia has found that mRNA vaccines—now administered billions of times worldwide—are safe and highly effective at preventing infectious diseases like COVID-19, and have potential applications for a range of other diseases, including influenza, RSV, cancer and autoimmune disorders.  Published today in The Lancet, the review draws on laboratory science, clinical trials and real-world effectiveness data to provide one of the most comprehensive assessments of mRNA vaccines to date. It spans the full vaccine lifecycle, from…
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My review of Chemical Romance – Fire! Nuclear war! Killer parrots! This is stadium rock at its craziest | My chemical romance

My review of Chemical Romance – Fire! Nuclear war! Killer parrots! This is stadium rock at its craziest | My chemical romance

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: My Chemical Romance,Music,Pop and rock,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MChemical Romance takes the stage to the tune of The Carpenters' "Yesterday Again," its sweet but heart-wrenching tones offering a reminder that MCR's current tour is primarily about nostalgia: it celebrates the 20th anniversary of the release of the emo acts' third album The Black Parade. An hour-long concept piece about a cancer patient, it was a band throwing everything they could think of into the album, seemingly out of fear that the multi-platinum success of its…
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Short story accused of being written by AI wins overall Commonwealth Prize | books

Short story accused of being written by AI wins overall Commonwealth Prize | books

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Awards and prizes,AI (artificial intelligence) 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A story widely accused on social media of being written using artificial intelligence has won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Overall Short Story.Jamir Nazir's story The Serpent in the Grove went viral after it was chosen as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics of X and Bluesky claiming it showed "clear signs" of using artificial intelligence. The literary magazine Granta subsequently withdrew from its long-standing agreement to publish the winners in the Commonwealth.In the wake of…
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USAJOBS – Job Announcement

USAJOBS – Job Announcement

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💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: You will drive technical projects from problem definition through delivery, producing excellent work at a rapid pace. This may involve working independently as a technical contributor or leading a team, setting technical direction, and coordinating work across projects.Specific duties include, but are not limited to: Develop, adapt, or execute evaluations of U.S. and foreign AI systems to inform understanding of capability levels, international AI competition, including agent-based performance in domains relevant to national security. Conduct research and analysis on the state of AI, including tracking…
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Bruce Foxton, guitarist for The Jam, reveals his Parkinson’s diagnosis | Jam

Bruce Foxton, guitarist for The Jam, reveals his Parkinson’s diagnosis | Jam

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Jam,Music,Pop and rock,Punk,UK news,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Bruce Foxton, former guitarist for The Jam, has announced that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.Acknowledging the recent speculation about his health, Foxton posted on Facebook, explaining that complications from previous cancer treatment "caused some significant issues" for him, ultimately leading to a Parkinson's diagnosis.Parkinson's disease is a condition in which parts of the brain become gradually damaged over many years. The main symptoms include involuntary physical tremors, slow movement, and stiff and inflexible muscles.He added: "I…
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