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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-11 23:15:54

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/f6edb22a-0b19-4

Sony launches cheaper Japan-only PlayStation 5 console
Region-locked version at 25% discount in move to boost domestic sales

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-12 22:54:53

One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied.
Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.”
In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says
“Due to ICE activit…

Church nativity displays on immigration draw praise, outrage in Illinois and Massachusetts
Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates. At Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus lies with zip-tied wrists in the kind of emergency blankets given ICE detainees. At St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, the manger sits empty, beneath a sign reading “ICE was here.” Supporters say Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees, comparing them to immigrant communities facing federal raids. Critics call the displays political and sacrilegious. The controver…

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-11-11 14:48:52

Anyone interested in following along with the brain dump before it's completely edified can feel free. It's the same one I've posted before.
Editing support (typos, corrections, questions) is always welcome.
anarchoccultism.org/building-z
Edit:
FYI, I've temporarily renamed it "Rainforest" but WriteFreely doesn't really support changing URLs or titles very well so it's stuck until I finish it. The temporary name is "Rainforest" because it's roughly the opposite of Desert. It is not simply optimistic rather than pessimistic... it's a plan.

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 10:08:00

After some time in preparation, and following an initial attempt to prioritise the allocation of network capacity, the Dutch NRA has now taken a (and this time: own) decision.
Priority for 'congestion softeners', safety, healthcare, housing etc.
officielebekendmakingen.nl/stc<…

Congestive softener A congestion softener is a party whose network operator, on the basis of the most up-to-date data from Annex 14, paragraph 1, determines that the allocation of transport capacity to this party leads to an increase in the available transport capacity, as referred to in Article 9.5, paragraph 4, for other parties and does not lead to an increase in congestion in another network part of that network operator or in the network of another network operator.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-11 11:45:52

UK sports publisher GRV cut ~60 staff since September, reducing its workforce to 94, citing drops in Google traffic; other sports sites report similar declines (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-bas

UK-based sports publisher cuts 60 staff due to Google updates
UK-based sports website publisher GRV Media has let go of 60 staff since September as a result of falling Google referral traffic.

@gray17@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 21:15:42

... stupid thing I'm stuck on: in order to make the type of personal website I want, I think I need to do server-side line breaking. I know this is carving against the grain of html, but I'm failing to see any good alternative. all the options are bad

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 14:20:16

Exactly how thoroughly is SCOTUS the lapdog of POTUS?
We'll soon find out whether they're happy to sort out his personal difficulties for him.
apnews.com/article/trump-carro

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out Carroll verdict
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court Monday that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propens…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-13 02:54:40

Not all flowers are colorful -- here are the flowers of a sedge deep in the Monkey Run Natural Area
#photo #photography #flowers

In the foreground: a plant that looks a lot like a grass with brown flowers that look kinda like a bottlebrush but irregular In the background: various sized rocks that are only partially rounded by flowing water that are just a little blurred out
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-11 18:04:31

#TIL about Benford's law where for some data sets of numbers, the first digit is usually 1 and rarely 9 (with descending probability in between). It's especially common in data sets following the power law (which is common in nature).
Seems a useful consideration when generating random numbers shown directly to players (like a multiple choice) -- even if they're unfamiliar, …

Two distribution curves with descriptions. Left: A broad probability distribution of the log of a variable, shown on a log scale. Benford's law can be seen in the larger area covered by red (first digit one) compared to blue (first digit 8) shading. Right: A narrow probability distribution of the log of a variable, shown on a log scale. Benford's law is not followed, because the narrow distribution does not meet the criteria for Benford's law.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-07 15:20:33

Rome Odunze not fretting over dad's shots at Bears following WR's catchless game vs. Bengals nfl.com/news/rome-odunze-not-f

Rome Odunze not fretting over dad's shots at Bears following WR's catchless game vs. Bengals
Rome Odunze isn't fretting about his father's shots at the Chicago Bears following the wideout's game in Week 9, adding that the 23-year-old speaks for himself and his dad's opinions are his own.