Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assaults and abuse (www.thetimes.co.uk)
California Senate Approves Unemployment Pay for Striking Workers (variety.com)
The California Senate voted on Thursday to grant unemployment benefits to workers who are on strike. The bill passed with a 27-12 vote. The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA have each expresse…
Kim Davis is ordered to pay $100,000 to same-sex couple she denied marriage license (www.npr.org)
The former clerk in Rowan County, Ky., was sued by two same-sex couples to whom she refused to grant marriage licenses, claiming it violated her religious beliefs. Her attorney says she will appeal.
Putin on Trump: Criminal charges are politically motivated (www.politico.eu)
Russian president also praises Elon Musk as ‘an outstanding person.’
Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests (12ft.io)
Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways
Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Yet more stability issues with fedia.io (fedia.io)
Yesterday, the fedia.io server locked up. I was able to reboot it remotely and it came up clean. After less than an hour, the server froze again. This happened several more times throughout the day. Unfortunately, there were no logs recording what happened, and nothing on the console - just frozen hardware....
Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars? (kbin.social)
A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don't see their posts in my feed, but I don't like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn't that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars....
Kbin /m/fediverse is over 90% spam (kbin.social)
Looking at the front page of this forum and many others, leads me to conclude that kbin has a ridiculous spam problem....
/kbin next March update (kbin.social)
Over the next few weeks, we're facing another server change. I'm doing everything to optimize costs and prepare the instance for long-term operation. More details are available on the status page I'm currently working on....
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
Threads’ fediverse plans are coming together.
A new study suggests that the amount of oxygen on Europa is on the lower end of previous estimates. The moon may be uninhabitable. (www.nytimes.com)
Improve my code - function to sanitize input fields (chat-to.dev)
i created this function to sanitize the input fields on my site, but i need it (the function) to allow the input of some html tags. how can i improve the function to allow this?
What's the quickest way to find a magazine/community you've subscribed to? (kbin.social)
I've been using kbin since the Reddit exodus and I still don't really know the path to finding my way into a specific community/magazine I've subscribed to. I usually search for the name using the search function, then hope I find a thread from there in the results where I can just click directly into it. Surely there must be a...
Testing to see if my posts still become invisible to me. (kbin.social)
Recently, I have noticed that when I make a post anywhere on the fediverse, I am no longer able to see that post, or any comments in it. If someone does post a comment, I will get the notification, and will be able to see the first few words of the comment, but if I click on the notification to see the full thread, it’ll not...
‘Daredevil’ Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Disney is apparently (re)discovering that they need to treat TV shows like…TV shows....
I'm having issues with being unable to post to Lemmy, commenting still works (kbin.social)
No real issue with comments, but my posts only show up on this server, and not on the remote one. This is so bad that I was thinking on getting a Lemmy account for posting there.
Brazil and Argentina turn to blockchain for citizen ID rollouts (www.biometricupdate.com)
Blockchain adoption is on the rise in Latin America as citizens in the region are increasingly inclined towards transacting using cryptocurrencies. The trend has been gaining traction since El Salvador became the first nation in the world to adopt Bitcoin as an official form of currency in 2021.
Pictured: Hero schoolgirl, 15, stabbed to death in Croydon 'when she stepped in to protect her friend' (www.lbc.co.uk)
A hero schoolgirl who was stabbed to death while protecting her friend from an ex has been identified as tributes were paid to the “beautiful soul”.
What's up with notifications? (kbin.social)
https://kbin.social/settings/notifications...
Property developer Tim Gurner wants unemployment to "rise to 40-50%" reminding people that "they work for the employer, not the other way around" [video, 2 min] (yewtu.be)
Remember you can donate to help support the development and maintenance of kbin and/or Ernest directly (kbin.social)
Ernest recently posted a site update, which included this note:...
Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of 'Beetlejuice' over reports of rude behavior (www.npr.org)
The Colorado Republican said she was guilty of laughing and singing too loud. A report from the theater, citing four complaints from the audience, said she was also vaping and recording video.
BBC: Tantalising sign of possible life found on faraway world (www.bbc.co.uk)
Nasa's James Webb Telescope may have discovered a molecule thought only to be produced by life.
Is there a way to have a feed of people you follow in kbin? (kbin.social)
I know you can follow kbin users from Masto and co and see their threads and boosts and I think that's pretty cool, but what does it do on kbin? I followed two accounts to test and it looks like the threads they create will show up in my subscribed feed. But what about their microblog posts and boosts? It seems like there is no...