Carolyn Leagues
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Writer. Migrating and setting up
Most people think Hades is the ruler of the underworld in Greek myth, but, in actual ancient sources, Persephone holds greater prominence and authority. In this post, I argue that she is the underworld's main ruler. #GreekMyth #Hades #Persephone #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/08/05/i...
Is Persephone the Main Ruler of the Underworld in Greek Myth? - Tales of Times Forgotten
Most people who know about Greek myth think that Hades is the ruler of the underworld. This is not wrong per se; early Greek poems do describe Hades as “ruler of those beneath the earth.” But, for the...
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This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.
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Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents
All systems based on chatbots can be prompt injected. You can always tell the bot to do things it shouldn’t. The AI vendors try to put in guard rails. The guard rails sort of work for about two sec…
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Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.
learning that the voices saying 'Connected' when I use my bluetooth headset belong to dorky women that love 2 get a lil silly with it has been so good for my mental health
Bluetooth Voice Actors: Our Devices Are In Love
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If you have ever wanted to play an RPG where you don't go on no adventures (bothersome things, make you late for dinner) but instead just tend your halfling hole's garden all summer, have I got the game the game for you: Under Hill, By Water riseupcomus.itch.io/under-hill-b...
Under Hill, By Water by riseupcomus
A TTRPG about halflings who don't want no adventures, thank you
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Stop saying "log into a portal." Sounds way too cool for what's happening.
It's @thexylom.com's 300th story! Woohoo!
The Xylom@thexylom.com · yesterdayNEW: The vulnerable peatlands that protect Kenyan communities on the edge of Lake Victoria from floods are also among the Earth’s richest carbon stores. Identifying them is easier said than done; conserving them, even harder. www.thexylom.com/post/kenya-l...
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
You can run the entire Windows 7 (32bit) Operating System in less memory than what the single web page "bsky.app" uses when running in a single Chrome browser tab. If you rendered BlueSky threads into PDF documents, those PDF documents would require less memory to display than what "bsky.app" uses.
Julia@foxgrrl.bsky.social · 2d agoThe combined Intel IA-32&64 Software Developer's Manual [ 325462-092-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd-4.pdf ] is 5363 pages long & Chrome only needs 426MB of RAM to display it in a tab Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2... only requires 387MB to display in a tab "bsky.app" needs 1GB
Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d agoPeople still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.
they've just made one so far but don't change the channel bsky.app/profile/nytd...
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 3d agoChange in URL
The recycling symbol is more like the wishcycling symbol at this point and advocates are right to push back on misleading usage. It also reminds me of the confusing food labeling around 'natural,' etc that consumers don't know is not regulated.
Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be.
The ruling pauses a California law dictating how the recycling symbol is used, teeing up a First Amendment fight over environmental marketing.
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Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
certainly this, and also i wouldn't wanna undersell the fact that the first time a lot of people DID emerge from the isolation of covid restrictions was to engage in mass protest that summer
Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d agoCovid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”
if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry