Oh no. :( www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

World’s largest penguin colony loses two-thirds of its population

Number of breeding chinstrap penguins on Zavodovski Island fall from over a million to 400,000

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Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.

Ryan Estrada@ryanestrada.com · 2y ago

Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

The frequency of campus rapes, & their role in getting women to drop out of college, could be regarded as a 2nd stage in a process that starts by making it nearly twice as hard for qualified women to gain university admission compared to men. Excluding women from upward mobility is a policy choice.

Rebecca Tushnet@rtushnet.bsky.social · 4d ago

“UChicago’s national ranking for selectivity, currently No. 4, depends crucially on its rejecting so many women. Its selectivity of men alone would drop it out of the top 10. By contrast, Chicago’s selectivity for women alone would place it in the first position in the country.”

Case in point: that time I wrote a storyline about debt collectors, and had to write a special fallback option in case players were using console commands to give themselves infinite money

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · last wk.

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

Forschende haben erstmals seit mehr als 100 Jahren eine neue Pinguinart: den südöstlichen Eselspinguin. Die Art lebt auf den Kerguelen-Inseln, einer Inselgruppe etwa 4000km von Australien und Südafrika entfernt. 🐧🐧🐧 Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

ROAR!

A little music for Friday. "The Ancient Forest of Elves" by Luca Turilli of Rhapsody (of Fire) fame. The album "King of the Nordic Twilight" was my first contact with symphonic power metal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oct_... Enjoy!

The Ancient Forest of Elves

YouTube video by Luca Turilli (Band) - Topic

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Little Troubles in Spooky Town: There's little troubles, can you solve them? kenney.itch.io/little-troub... by @kenney.nl

Gunslingers, necromancers, Bridgerton, dead gods, murder debutantes, Battlestar Galactica, bisexuals, ballgowns, intrigue, bad boyfriends, body horror... it's THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN! Preorder now for April 27th via @barnesandnoble.com's ✨PREORDER SALE✨ for 2027's most unhinged science fantasy🖤

Ich erinnere mich noch an die Phase in den 90ern, als es "in" war, nach Vanille zu duften. Dieses Deo geht einen großen, einen sehnenzerrenden Schritt weiter.

Check out Apex's new T-shirt and tote bad design for this year's Kickstarter. Created by the amazing Ori Whipple!

This is, inevitably, how echo chambers get created. This is also why echo chambers are a problem. If you tend to see everyone else as the enemy and cannot recognize when you yourself are the problem, you're virtually guaranteed to begin hurting people who really aren't your enemy.

Man, they really love the Torment Nexus

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2w ago

No matter what happens I’m certain we’ll learn nothing from this

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, sculpture with Azores crocheted lace #WomensArt

Project Manager role in Munich #gamejobs chimera-entertainment.jobs.personio.com/job/2815233/...

Niemand: Die Linke sollte einfach mal regieren, dann wird sie sich schon von selbst entzaubern. Wir sollten die Sorgen & Ängste von Linke-Wählern ernstnehmen. Daher kopieren wir jetzt Teile ihres Programms und sprechen vor allem über ihre Themen Soziale Gerechtigkeit, Lebenshaltungskosten & Mieten.

I lost a bookmark and cannot find it again. 😩 It was for a book about dungeon crawler video games and I was thinking about making it my Christmas wish. It was a pretty big and expensive book. It look more scientific and informative than entertaining.

Marty McFly: Hey, I've Seen This One!

ALT: Marty McFly: Hey, I've Seen This One!

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Radosław Sikorski, Poland's minister of Foreign Affairs, has more balls than the entire Republican party. Meanwhile, our president is blaming Ukraine for diesel prices. What a fucking embarrassment.

Arv + Suikoden II is just awesome and I'm more than a little miffed that I don't have time to watch him right now. So please go and do so in my stead. Thank you! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

ArvanEleron - Live on Twitch

Arv streams Day 3 of Suikoden 2: HD Remaster! !arvtreon !icarus !grayshade !BLM !helpnow !ukraine | Streaming suikoden ii hd remaster: dunan unification war.

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Gregory A. Wilson@gregoryawilson.com · 2w ago

As mentioned last night, since we didn't get to stream, we're going to try a bit of a twist this morning and see what kind of response we get. Join us at 9:30 p.m. EDT for Friday Breakfast: Day 3 of Suikoden 2 HD: Remaster! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

A little music for Friday. "Been", one of the most famous songs by Oumou Sangaré. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFPt... Enjoy!

Oumou Sangaré Been (clip officiel)

YouTube video by Oumou Sangaré

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A wildlife rescue center posted a picture of a European wildcat they received that had previously been "rescued" and brought to an animal shelter, because people thought it was a lost house cat.

the chess game, print ad & cover art, commodore 64 (1985) www.mobygames.com/game/69568/t... archive.org/details/comm...

Good.

I always imagined Sisyphus as being under an inner compulsion (that they had "given" to him by Hades) to get the stone up that hill. It wasn't just because he was tasked to get it up there but he couldn't bear the stone to be anywhere else.

The Other Happy Place@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 3w ago

Orpheus just has ADHD and forgot what he was supposed to be doing and turned around to ask Eurydice and welp.

Ultima Underworld

Retro Blast 👻@retroblastpod.com · 3w ago

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

New art by Junko Kawano, Suikoden artist & character designer of Suikoden I, IV and Rhapsodia (as well as Eiyuden!) For Suikoden 30th Anniversary!!! Happy Birthday!!! 幻想水滸伝30周年おめでとうございます!!! Feliz 30º Aniversario, Suikoden!!! #幻水 #幻想水滸伝 #SuikodenII #SuikodenIII #SuikodenIV #SuikodenV #Tierkreis