Last few days are the least functional kbin has been for me since the July exodus. Just me? (kbin.social)
Just curious if it's somehow got to do with anything on my end. I'm generally desktop-only, firefox-only.
Someone made an account just to harrass me. how do i report it? (kbin.social)
the acccount name is fuckyou and is downvote stalking me , account : https://kbin.social/u/Fuckyouzima
Feature Requests/feedback from a Kbin magazines' moderator. (kbin.social)
Been helping moderate some many huge communities here on kbin such as m/AskKbin, m/Redditmigration and so on, trying to contribute in ways I can....
Strange object found trapped near Uranus (www.livescience.com)
A distant comet trapped in orbit between Saturn and Uranus is accompanied by a transforming disk of icy dust, new observations reveal.
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
Up the Slope: On Mastodon and What Social Engineering Should Be (siderea) (siderea.dreamwidth.org)
The original mastodon thread with some conversation on the replies....
Feature comparison - kbin vs Lemmy (kbin.social)
There's a chance that I have forgotten something or missed something....
Can't block Hexbear communities - with workaround (kbin.social)
So to my immense joy, Hexbear has started appearing on the front page again. Instance blocking is not available, and even the regular block feature sometimes fails (on certain communities?) for no clear reason. I've already tried blocking their "DuNk tAnK" and politics sub, it errors in a way that doesn't seem to happen...
This psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm and curiosity (www.npr.org)
Roland Griffiths spent the later stage of his career exploring the ways that psychedelic drugs, specifically psilocybin, could help patients with depression, addiction issues and even terminal cancer.
Request: Remove ability to 'boost' your own comments and threads (kbin.social)
The ability to 'boost' your own comments/threads has been used by a very small number of users in a way that seriously degrades conversation on the platform. These users constantly move their own contributions to the top of the conversation without regard to their value. If allowed to continue it will likely become standard for...
Pleroma Blog - We got a grant from NLNet! (pleroma.social)
Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.
Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why (www.nature.com)
Neuron activity shows that the brain uses different systems for counting up to four, and for five or more....
New Alzheimer's disease pathways identified (medicalxpress.com)
Dementia, which includes Alzheimer's disease, currently affects around 1.8 million people in Germany. The exact cause has not yet been clarified, but genetic factors play a significant role in the development of the disease. Most previous analyses aimed at the identification of novel Alzheimer's genes used, a "case-control...
Ancient technology turns plant-based cheese into 'something we want to eat' (phys.org)
To produce plant-based cheeses that feel and taste like dairy cheese, scientists have their sights set on fermentation. In a new research result, University of Copenhagen scientists demonstrate the potential of fermentation for producing climate-friendly cheeses that people want to eat.
Thank goodness Kbin is working again! (kbin.social)
I tried messing around with other instances and all of their interfaces are terrible and confusing! I don’t think I could ever use anything other than kbin.
'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (finance.yahoo.com)
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
Federal judge rules Texas public drag show ban is unconstitutional - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Texas cannot enforce a new law that restricts some public drag shows, a federal judge said Tuesday in declaring the legislation unconstitutional.
Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani for 'total annihilation' of digital privacy (www.npr.org)
The lawsuit alleges that Rudy Giuliani and an associate's actions are unlawful under California law, and it says Giuliani and the associate have refused to return Hunter Biden's data.
How anti-abortion laws shape trans healthcare bans in the U.S. [Opinion] (www.opendemocracy.net)
The right paved the way for once-unthinkable bans by first pursuing goals that were more palatable to the public, using bathroom bills and school sports bans to normalise hateful anti-trans rhetoric in the American public sphere. This tactic has been effective....
Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it's legal (apnews.com)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — As Republican-led states have rushed to ban gender-affirming for minors, some families with transgender children found a bit of solace: At least they lived in states that would allow those already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to continue.
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)
Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another.
Rupert Murdoch, media mogul and force behind Fox, steps down (globalnews.ca)
Besides Fox News, Murdoch started the Fox broadcast network, the first to successfully challenge the Big Three of ABC, CBS and NBC, with shows like ``The Simpsons.''
How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything (fpif.org)
In Abdel Fattah alSisi’s Egypt, Telling the Truth Is a Crime. The president’s agencies have controlled, purchased, or coerced all mainstream media in the country, and opposition media in exile is largely partisan. So web platforms like Matsadaash play a valuable role as one of the last remaining voices for independent...
U.S., Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders (www.theguardian.com)
The school teacher was released after officials with Hamshire-Fannett independent school district said the teacher presented the “inappropriate” book to students. The graphic novel, written by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky, adapts the diary of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who wrote while hiding in an annexe in...