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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-25 22:16:25

Barclays will block crypto purchases made with credit cards starting June 27, citing volatility and lack of consumer protections, following other UK lenders (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
theblock.co/post/359619/barcl…

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-06-26 19:24:49

There's obviously something like a Rule 34-C: no matter what your fetish is, there's a crowdfunding for a device to help you enjoy it.
Groove Thing | The World's First Internal Music Player kickstarter.com/projects/groov…

Facebook ad by Firstbacker showing a but plug subwoofer in the design of an Apple Airpod
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
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A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
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Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
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@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-23 14:58:02

"Trump demanded that energy producers keep down oil prices following US military strikes on Iran"
Trump Warns Against Rising Oil Prices Following Iran Attack | Financial Post
financialpost.com/pmn/business

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-06-27 14:12:09

"the operations at the two new Laguna Street sites will be contracted out which means they will no longer be eligible to work with their clients."
Somehow, I get the feeling that the great minds behind this project fail to understand the importance of community and trust.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-06-24 11:21:53

Poster No 857: Plastic changes in the occipital regions during pitch perception associate with blindness onset age; "Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness." doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1564197

Screenshot of abstract.

Conclusions: In conclusion, while the plasticity of the cerebral cortex gradually declines with age, the visual cortices of late blind individuals (vision loss after four years old) continue to be recruited for pitch processing attributable to cross-modal reorganization. Specifically, the primary visual cortex remains engaged in pitch processing tasks following late blindness. However, compared to individuals who are either congenitally or early blind, late blind indivi…
@arXiv_grqc_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-27 08:33:09

The Persistence of Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Memory
Robert R. Caldwell
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20751 arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-27 09:14:59

High-Throughput Mapping of Magnetic Properties via the on-the-fly XMCD spectroscopy in a Combinatorial Fe-Co-Ni Film
Y. Yamasaki, N. Sasabe, Y. Ishii, Y. Sekiguchi, A. Sumiyoshiya, Y. Tanimoto, Y. Kotani, T. Nakamura, H. Nomura
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20958

@arXiv_qfinMF_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-26 07:38:13

Stochastic Price Dynamics in Response to Order Flow Imbalance: Evidence from CSI 300 Index Futures
Chen Hu, Kouxiao Zhang
arxiv.org/abs/2505.17388

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-23 17:40:53

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
wired.com/story/elon-musk-comp