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  • Texas students could soon be forced to read from the Bible in public schools

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  • To be honest, my junior year English teacher forced us to read the bible "to have a stronger basis for understanding western literature" and it had zero impact on my lack of religious beliefs. Literally, we spent like 2 or 3 months on that crap. Looking back it was a pretty obvious scam by her, but it had zero impact in the direction that she wanted it to have impact.

  • Dune: Part Three | IMAX 70MM Tickets

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  • They seem to be steering well clear of naming a price yet, I see…

  • This doesn't happen very often: I found a short story collection by Roger Zelazny that I'd never even heard of before, let alone read. Feeling exceptionally lucky.

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  • Oh yeah, that's a decent one.

  • The White House App’s Propaganda Is The Least Alarming Thing About It

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  • Rules are for thee not me…

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    Yet another reason not to give them a foot hold here…

    www.cnn.com /2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported

  • I tried Apple's new Playlist Playground feature. It's bad

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  • Meh, it sounds like the usual "AI will change everything!" bluster and disappointment.

    I would try it out myself, just for the sake of curiosity, but unfortunately, my $1/mo 3 month thingie I got with my last phone literally expired today, or course.

  • Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under national security law

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  • So the next level is a two password system? Password 1 gets you into your personal partition, password 2 wipes the personal partition and has a prepopulated curated surfing history, address book, etc. so it looks like a lightly but legally used phone?

  • Reddit Wants Face ID...

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  • Sounds great for Lemmy usage stats?

  • Think the fuck again

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  • thoughts on Ecosia.

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  • So no, I don't use a lot of those features. But having to go to $10/mo for unlimited searches is laughable pricing, IMHO. Even $5 for 300 searches is ridiculous. That's basically a week of searches?

    I respect the idea of it, but my feeling is that they will never grow the business past a very niche offering if that is how they're going to price it. And I say that as a very privacy oriented person.

  • Welp…

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  • 😹😹😹

    I mean, I like Mt Lemmon and the bike riding here, but you are closer to Sedona so it's a tough call… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Welp…

  • thoughts on Ecosia.

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  • Isn’t Kagi pretty expensive though? When I tested it vs Brave and DDG, I was basically unimpressed to the point where anything more than a buck a month seems out of line. (I can’t even remember what they actually wanted, just that it seemed like a lot more than that.)

  • Trump has new plan to ‘rebalance’ media to force them to air more patriotic programming, according to FCC chair

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  • To be fair, how will you tell the difference from FOX News?

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    Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin

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  • "I may not be a general or a civil engineer, but I play one on Twitter."

    EDIT: He does possibly get a lot of global cooling for free though. (Aka nuclear winter.)

  • Knickers in a twist

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  • The bad Cap'n Tight Pants.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • Yep. Maybe it could actually be "modules" that the individual devs submit with their game, essentially.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • Current DLSS intent: We can only render this at like 720p with enough frames, so let's do that and use AI anti-aliasing tricks so that when we present it at 4k, none of the jaggies are visible on-screen like they would be with raw 720p upscaling.

    DLSS5 intent: Using our pile of stolen artwork neural net that we can now render at 60fps+ let's "reimagine" the entire look of the game as we present it on-screen, even if it was already running at 4k just fine.

    TLDR; How big the neuralnet is and what your train it for matters.

  • Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game

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  • This was definitely something I predicted like a year or so ago. Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the default rally sim, but they will never bother to update the 2004 game engine. Rather at some point, AI will literally start MITM capturing all the 2004 graphical output and converting it to photorealistic modern graphics that are output to your screen instead.

    EDIT: But yeah, this is such a "fuck your game, fuck your artistic intention, eat our AI slop and like it!"

  • US officer having a ‘mild anxiety attack’ took ambulance meant for man shot by police

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  • It literally could have gone down that stupidly, but also, it smacks of "Is he dead yet? No? Perrotta—make the first ambulance go away however you have to."

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    Things To Do In Tucson, March 2026

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_5a083fb9-9785-404b-bb34-8e8e9f51f471.html

  • Congress to America: What War?

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  • Don't worry, guys! If some country bombed, let's say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we'd just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!

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    Things to do in Tucson, February 2026

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_5ee805c8-28a9-4cbc-9a64-f4fb4c44f3d4.html
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    Things To Do In Tucson, January 2026

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_db374766-b3cf-42ce-8e6d-fef422d8dbce.html
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    Happy Holidays from Mater

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    Finally some fall colors in Tucson!

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    Things To Do In Tucson, December 2025

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_59c84732-d711-4dd8-b6aa-5b10589d1644.html
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    Tucson Lights

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    Saguaros + Moonlight

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    Things To Do In Tucson, November 2025

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_112788cd-c30f-438b-a41e-bf8694cdbfbb.html
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    Things To Do In Tucson, October 2025

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_30214e64-89bc-4b54-9606-077479faceb0.html
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    Things to Do In Tucson, September 2025

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_65dd8dd1-d28b-49e1-a7d9-e0199468bcc6.html
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    Things To Do In Tucson, August 2025

    thisistucson.com /todo/article_b45dbbe8-e70d-43f0-ae81-f33bf7449cd2.html
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    Project Blue Ward 4 Assessment

    content.govdelivery.com /accounts/AZTUCSON/bulletins/3eca298
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    OK so it turns out Project Blue = Amazon Web Services

    azluminaria.org /2025/07/21/amazon-web-services-is-company-behind-tucsons-project-blue-according-to-2023-county-memo/
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    Project Blue Info — An alarming use of water and power with little control by the city or county over stopping them

    tucsonagenda.substack.com /p/lessons-from-project-blue
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    Tucson 4th of July Fireworks Shows List, 2025

    thisistucson.com /article_cb9dd0d4-1385-45b4-a2fa-fdbb59fa25b5.html