It's Always Sunny in Proxima Centauri b(Seriously. It is. One half of the tidally locked planet faces the sun while the other hemisphere remains in perpetual darkness.)#ExtraterrestrialShows#HashtagGames #TIL

#TIL about the #IntegrityInstitute;"We’re a community-powered think tank transforming how social platforms impact society through public interest research, cross-sector collaboration, and community engagement."https://www.integrityinstitute.org/about-usSeems to be a cross between @iftas and the Center for Humane Technology. In that their focus is improving trust & safety on the "social Internet", and like #HumaneTech, many of them are former (or current) platform workers.#SocialMedia #TrustAndSaftety #IFTAS

@jpmens watch “ordinary sausage” on YouTube. After a few episodes, this will be intuitive.You also won’t be phased by what they do to poor Mark Ruffalo.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got?Today I learned it's gone.Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop#TIL #MisheardLyrics #JoniMitchell #WaitLetMeStartOver

TIL about Dazzle Camouflage which made ships extremely visible, but also made it insanely hard to determine their course and speed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qx04ve/til_about_dazzle_camouflage_which_made_ships/

This week I learned, from a blind acquaintance here, that when we write in ALL CAPS in alt text, their screenreader reads it all out, *one letter at a time*. Totally defeating the point of alt text making things accessible, right?Needless to say, I've stopped.Well, LOL remains LOL, of course! #TIL #accessibility #blind #deafblind

@Swann @livefish

@strypey there's also #GNUtaler. I just want fedi for fiat!

@todayilearned nothing "essentially" about it

TIL that in the 80’s Dolly Parton started a local program saying if two people partnered together and both graduated high school, she would give each of them $500, this dropped the dropout rates from 35% to 6%https://imaginationlibrary.com/the-dollywood-foundation/#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qn181j/til_that_in_the_80s_dolly_parton_started_a_local/

@Aaron_Davis How would you know tho?!https://bluebotsdonequick.com

@cassidy There are some big improvements to the multi-page functionality in the upcoming version of Inkscape - in case anyone runs into bugs.

TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same dayhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-lincoln-and-darwin-shaped-the-modern-world-45447280/#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qkds1l/til_abraham_lincoln_and_charles_darwin_were_born/

@LektoratWengorz War ja auch eine ausgesprochen hörenswerte Folge.https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-kaffeeroestverbot-preussen-100.html

#TIL that the dig terminal command stands for "digital information groper" and I will now forever giggle when I use it.https://www.ditig.com/dig-cheat-sheet

@mmu_man that's probably around as long as this feature has been in KDE @gnuplusmatt

TIL the EU has an Anti-Coercion Instrument, the Trade Bazooka, to take action in case a third country pressures a Member State into making a particular choice. It also allows the EU to suspend the protection of Intellectual Property rights. IP imports from the US amounted to 186 billion EUR in 2024https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-and-protection/protecting-against-coercion_en#til #todayilearnedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qfjyma/til_the_eu_has_an_anticoercion_instrument_the/

TIL that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”#TIL #Ireland

#TIL about Renfrew Christie - a South African scholar who worked undercover to discover their budding nuclear program. He was caught and conivcted on terrorism charges. After being tortured, he used his forced confession to relay to ANC how to sabatoge the program - and it worked, key infrastructure was bombed while he was still in prison.> Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/world/africa/renfrew-christie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.l_uO.quxTSV0lHbGV&smid=url-share

#TIL (von @Sascha) Es gibt https://podradar.de/ – Ein Dienst um in den Transkripten von extrem vielen Podcasts nach Stichworten zu suchen und damit neue #Podcast|s zu entdecken. Sehr spannend.