Gaming is huge. According to Forbes business magazine, the sector’s global revenue is more than the music and movie industries combined. That is a lot of people engaged in game stories and game characters. So how does gender fluidity fit in and what, in gaming, is gender euphoria?...
Israeli authorities, who have blocked the entry of aid, food, fuel, and medical supplies into Gaza for 75 days, have reportedly decided on a plan that would include “flatten[ing]” buildings and displacing Gaza’s entire population into a single “humanitarian area” if no “deal” with Hamas is reached by mid-May 2025....
Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation....
OpenAI has released a new benchmark for testing AI systems in healthcare. Called HealthBench, it's designed to evaluate how well language models handle realistic medical conversations. According to OpenAI, its latest models outperform doctors on the test.
Xinbi Guarantee is a Chinese-language, Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams....
South Sudan’s authorities have not brought to justice those responsible for attacks on civilians three years ago by government forces and allied militias in Leer and other opposition-controlled areas in southern Unity state....
Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.
I already know about matrix and revolt, what I have in mind is a bit different, for years now, I've had a private server in discord that is just for storing images, info and other things quickly and easily, it's simple media picker, fast upload, categories/folders via channels and already being an app I had open all the time on...
That is a hard one, you might look into ope source drive solutions, but that would require some setup and if you use a lot of space then also money.
To answer your question, I don't endorse the following solution, but I think it would still be 1% better than using Discord:
If you already have Telegram, you can use Whitehole.
How video games can unlock euphoria for transgender players ( lens.monash.edu )
Gaming is huge. According to Forbes business magazine, the sector’s global revenue is more than the music and movie industries combined. That is a lot of people engaged in game stories and game characters. So how does gender fluidity fit in and what, in gaming, is gender euphoria?...
Gaza: Latest Israeli Plan Inches Closer to Extermination ( text.hrw.org )
Israeli authorities, who have blocked the entry of aid, food, fuel, and medical supplies into Gaza for 75 days, have reportedly decided on a plan that would include “flatten[ing]” buildings and displacing Gaza’s entire population into a single “humanitarian area” if no “deal” with Hamas is reached by mid-May 2025....
Japan set to fully cover childbirth costs possibly from April 2026 ( english.kyodonews.net )
How India's Cyber Scam Industry Causes Global Havoc ( inkstickmedia.com )
Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds ( theconversation.com )
Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors ( english.kyodonews.net )
May the Fourth (III)
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May the Fourth (III)
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One Side Routinely Uses Human Shields in Gaza—But Not the Side That’s Usually Blamed ( fair.org )
Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces ( text.hrw.org )
Scores of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome yet avoidable workplace-related accidents, including falling from buildings, electrocution, and even decapitation....
HBO, Which Was Always HBO, Is HBO Again ( press.wbd.com )
Europe’s onlyfans performers can’t get justice ( fullerproject.org )
Linux distro Nobara 42 ships with Brave by default and shifts to rolling release model ( nobaraproject.org )
Linux distro Nobara 42 ships with Brave by default and shifts to rolling release model ( nobaraproject.org )
Linux distro Nobara 42 ships with Brave by default and shifts to rolling release model ( nobaraproject.org )
Linux distro Nobara 42 ships with Brave by default and shifts to rolling release model ( nobaraproject.org )
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that designs and optimizes advanced algorithms ( deepmind.google )
Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews ( restofworld.org )
Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants....
Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors ( ethz.ch )
The new class of vulnerabilities in Intel processors arises from speculative technologies that anticipate individual computing steps....
OpenAI says its latest models outperform doctors in medical benchmark ( the-decoder.com )
OpenAI has released a new benchmark for testing AI systems in healthcare. Called HealthBench, it's designed to evaluate how well language models handle realistic medical conversations. According to OpenAI, its latest models outperform doctors on the test.
AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented ( www.commondreams.org )
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection ( go.theregister.com )
Xinbi: The $8 Billion Colorado-Incorporated Marketplace for Pig-Butchering Scammers and North Korean Hackers ( www.elliptic.co )
Xinbi Guarantee is a Chinese-language, Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams....
USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit ( knightcolumbia.org )
Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode ( www.seroundtable.com )
Mazda DMCA takedown of Open Source Home Assistant App ( consumerrights.wiki )
A UN Judge convicted for slavery: power, politics and privilege ( www.justiceinfo.net )
South Sudan: 3 Years On, No Justice for Abuses in Southern Unity ( text.hrw.org )
South Sudan’s authorities have not brought to justice those responsible for attacks on civilians three years ago by government forces and allied militias in Leer and other opposition-controlled areas in southern Unity state....
ANeko| Cute cat that follows your finger on the Android screen ( github.com )
F-Droid....
The Overwatch developer team has unionized ( cwa-union.org )
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected ( theconversation.com )
Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. ( www.hrw.org )
How to build a well-designed national basic income program – at half the cost ( policyoptions.irpp.org )
Starbucks sued for slave labor ( liberationnews.org )
The Unabomber’s Brother Turned Him In. Then Spent 27 Years Trying to Win Him Back. ( www.nytimes.com )
Ted Kaczynski, whose anti-tech rants are finding a new generation of readers, shunned the brother who called the F.B.I. in an effort to halt his campaign of violence.
How do alone people find each other online?
I am not joking when I say that I thinked for hours about how do people find each other in 2025....
[FOSS] Nobook: Ad-free facebook lite for Android. ( github.com )
The Fight for the Soul of Video Games ( www.thenation.com )
Genshin Impact Will Soon Require Age Verification in the United States
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Canada desperately needs a public insulin manufacturer again ( www.policyalternatives.ca )
Specific Alternative for Discord as quick Storage?
I already know about matrix and revolt, what I have in mind is a bit different, for years now, I've had a private server in discord that is just for storing images, info and other things quickly and easily, it's simple media picker, fast upload, categories/folders via channels and already being an app I had open all the time on...
Trinity Desktop Environment 14.1.4 released ( trinitydesktop.org )
openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Beta; Expected to be Wayland-only; new default Agama installer; YaST stack is retired in favor of: Cockpit for system management; Myrlyn to replace the YaST Software GUI. ( news.opensuse.org )