The researchers also note that 25% of active-duty US Marines developed Long Covid "after mostly mild or asymptomatic infection."
Trivia: it got referred to as the "Spanish Flu" b/c only Spain talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic: Western wartime censorship prevented discussion of the disease.
Charmed and fascinated by Chess Wars, a DOS game released in 1996 that features live-action cutscenes of medieval melee when playing pieces engage one another in battle.
ly on privatized communication networks and data storage facilities to access and manage an array of goods and services, from personal documents and music files to online shopping and e-mail. It is presaged by applications like Gmail and Google documents, which provide users with large amounts of storage space on Google’s servers to store their personal documents and correspondence. In return for this convenience, Google reserves the right to mine its rapidly expanding databases for commercial purposes. If this business model is still in its infancy, one of its dominant emerging characteristics has become evident—a reliance on the interactive capability of networks to gather information about users. The terms of access to the “cloud” will include the capture and commodification of information about how, when, and where, we make use of its resources, a fact that renders the metaphor doubly misleading. The portrait of user activity made possible by ubiquitous interactivity will not be ephemeral, but increasingly detailed and fine-grained, thanks to an unprecedented ability to capture and store patterns of interaction, movement, transaction, and communication. Patterns of users’ Web browsing, for example, could be correlated with those of online shopping, communication, and, eventually, advertising exposure. The information clouds here are far from ephemeral, fleeting forms: their details are captured and fixed in a manner
whenever i read pieces critiquing the adoption of cloud computing from the early 2000s, it's invariably soundtracked by the jaws theme
I am, by no means, a Qud expert. Love the game to death and have maybe 40 failed runs- never beaten the game once.
This is, by far, the funniest single screenshot I have ever seen of this game. Ever.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
alright let's do this
bimbo beta is now available on itch. check it out and tell me if this shit works at all iznaut.itch.io/bimbo
me: i just think she has yet to show the staying power of a rihanna or justin timberlake
BIL’s fiancee: *tightening the ropes around my wrist while the others gather fuel for the pyre*
tried to express that chappell roan isnt beyonce-famous and inadvertently called her mid-tier, immediately resulting in my public execution at the family nye party
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
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Crystal reviews HORSES, the unjustly censored latest release from experimental game studio @santaragione.com!
extremely sharp thoughts on horses and the discourse around it, from harper
16 years after his creation and 11 years after the incident in Wisconsin, I have revisited my old friend The Slender Man.
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DNGN Club Birthday Bundle Today I turn 39. For the next 24 hours, 16 of my games are free!
In the spirit of hobbit birthdays, have some free games!
this campaign to revive a piece of important gay history is closing soon and could still use some help if you’ve got a buck to spare www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...
now wait a minute just what the hell is happening here
You can listen to him lay this all out here
Thinking about these blogposts again with Shelved By Genre announcing they're covering tolkien
the idea that someone in the 70s-80s would write up a screen by screen adventure game recreation of the ENTIRETY of the books' middle-earth (map from said blogpost seen here) endlessly fascinates me
Guess dude should've run for Staten Island borough president
holy shit lmao
i can't believe they have to play again today.
Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure
stayed up too late tonight finishing this, a fun time that i definitely recommend
This is why you need to not just mask, but mask consistently in public.
the phrasing here is like apple sauce for babies but a good reminder that wearing a mask is hands down the most effective way to keep yourself and the people around you safe from both "severe virus season" and the debilitating plague that hasn't actually gone away at any point in the last 5 years
