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The problem with Las Vegas is that visitors are now treated like marks rather than guests.
The $50 gotcha charge at Paris Las Vegas for unplugging a cord in the room to charge a laptop is a perfect example:
https://view…

“$50 Charge Because I Unplugged A Cord”: Paris Las Vegas Hotel’s Tiny Print Fee Sums Up Why Visitors Are Fleeing The City
A reader shares that the were billed "$50 to charge a laptop" at Paris Las Vegas, and they thought this was "an even more outrageous fee" than $26 for a bottle of water at Aria. Las Vegas executives can't seem to figure out why tourist visits are declining in the city.

Vox executives detail how Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interactions; sign-ups grew 350% in the first two months after Trump's inauguration (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/vox-patreon-interview/

How Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interaction
Explainer journalism brand Vox is using creator platform Patreon to help build a "two-way relationship" with its audience.

As part of an ongoing effort to keep you, the Fortune reader, abreast of
the valuable information that daily crosses the USENET, Fortune presents:
News articles that answer *your* questions, #1:
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: how do I run C code received from sources
Keywords: C sources
Distribution: na
I do not know how to run the C programs that are posted in the
sources newsgroup. I save the files, edit them to remove the
header…

Washington state cities turn off license plate reader cameras amid ruling on data access – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/washington-state-cities-turn-off-license-plate-reader-cameras-amid-ruling-on-data-access/

bulletty - The TUI RSS/ATOM feed reader that lets you decide where to store your data.
bulletty is a TUI feed reader (RSS and ATOM). Read your subscriptions within your terminal. It downloads the entries for offline reading so all the data is local and yours: your subscriptions, highlights, comments, etc. All in an universal format: Markdown. Backup and sync your data directory your own way.
📰

Pitchfork launches a $5 per month or $50 per year subscription that lets readers comment on reviews, rate albums, and access its archive of 30,000 reviews (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/pitchfork-subscription-reader-scores-comments…

Exclusive: Pitchfork allows comments with new $5 subscription
Subscribers can access its archive of 30,000+ album reviews.

The Historical Romance Review
The podcast where an avid romance reader and a reluctantly romantic historian discuss all things romance fiction...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-historical-romance-review/…

Kleiner E-Book-Reader nimmt Smartphones huckepack
Der Xteink X4 ist kompakt gehalten und hält per Magnet etwa an einem iPhone. Für Handys ohne Magnet gibt es Aufkleber.
https://www.heise.de/n…

Oh dear, the new Observer can't manage responsiveness, i.e. the ability of a web page to adjust to the user's screen. Not possible to fix it at the reader end.
A pity, I wanted to skim it.
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/a

moving all my email newsletter/rss reading to mastodon, so I have a single source of random noise to suffocate. (@… is pretty useful)
(consolidating instead to an rss reader might be ok if I could get non-public mastodon posts in the reader. since I can't, this way seems better for now.)
(treating non-public as a separate thing might be ok, but I didn&#…

Reclaimer, spare that tree!
Take not a single bit!
It used to point to me,
Now I'm protecting it.
It was the reader's CONS
That made it, paired by dot;
Now, GC, for the nonce,
Thou shalt reclaim it not.

Ich fange langsam an den @… #Browser zu mögen.
Schöne Integration von Mail, Mastodon, RSS feed reader schnelle Notizen und noch mehr. Nativ, ohne Plugins. Das macht es für mich einfacher.
Dazu noch sync über alle Geräte und einen einfachen ksotenlosen VPN.…

Question for people using Screen Readers in the Fediverse: Does your Screen Reader handle Inline Hashtags well, or is it annoying if the Hastag is read out aloud when placed inline instead of at the end? :BoostOK:
#poll #hashtags

ACLU Lawsuit Accuses Trump Administration of Racial Profiling - Legal Reader
https://www.legalreader.com/aclu-lawsuit-trump-dhs-racial-profiling-minnesota-lawsuit/

🎁 Looking for the perfect festive gift for the reader in your life? Give the gift of adventure this Christmas!
Dive into the epic worlds created by author Linda Teppler, including the compelling tale of Hunchback and the fantasy saga Champions of Falural.
Find them on Kindle today in ebook, audiobook, paperback, and hardback editions! Please hit Follow on her author page—it's the best digital stocking stuffer!

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

BJ Pryor is a professional Ben Franklin impersonator. Every day he distributes one of Franklin's writings. Today: Franklin reports on seeing "from the terrace of my house near Paris, the first flight through the air by human beings", and meets Montgolfier!
https://bjpryor.substack.com/p/flight

Flight!
Kind Reader,

Unsubscribing from a blog, that's been in my feed reader for probably two decades, because of the constant affiliate sales posts that describe things as "practically free".
(Ah, it got acquired around three months ago.)

Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/challenge-accepted-a-reader-wrote-a-program-to-find-fake-references-in-books/

Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books
Hermann/Pixabay Following our coverage this summer of a book with citations that did not exist, we asked you to send us examples of other books with similar issues. One reader took the request as a…

#Dooring-Unfall bei uns um die Ecke
Kein Wort, dass Menschen im #Auto mit einem scheiß-gefährlichen Gefährt unterwegs sind und verdammt noch mal die Augen aufmachen sollen! das Verhalten des Mannes, der in Dehme einfach das Auto geöffnet hat, ist tödlich!

Chicago Public Media partners with alt-weekly Chicago Reader for a six-month pilot to sell ads and sponsorships; CPM brought in $13.1M in ads in 2024 (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/chicago-public-medi…

Chicago Public Media teams up with alternative weekly Chicago Reader on advertising sales
The six-month pilot will include bundling placements across the Reader and Chicago Public Media’s Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ.

Look at my #ironfox icon. :blobnomcookie:
#Firefox #android

BREAKING:
Reverend Bizarre – They Used Dark Forces/Teutonic Witch
is truly awesome. Like, 29 minutes of solid riffs, bass and percussion, repeated beyond any reason, yet miraculously not boring at all.
Oh, that's just one song. The rest of the album is pretty good too.
Unfortunately, it's not on bandcamp and I don't know of any good music service these days, so I guess finding it is left as an exercise for the reader.
#MusicRecommendation #DoomMetal

I'm running an improvised tutorial on #Zotero at my work tomorrow. Do you all have useful tips that I could share with my "students" - beyond the basics? Or specific use cases that you might use it for, beyond citing references in papers that you write?
For example I recently moved on to using its integrated PDF reader for peer-reviewing and it works well…

make up your fucking mind

Updating the list of CLI apps I use regularly:
- castero: client for listening to podcasts.
- calcurse: personal calendar compatible with CalDAV servers.
- kew: music player.
- micro: text editor.
- toot: Mastodon client.
- newsboat: feed reader.
- w3m: web browser (and newsboat add-on, in my case).
- bat: like cat, but cooler.
- exa: like ls, but cooler.
- ncdu: tool for analyzing folder space usage.
- atool: tool for managing compress…

It's frustrating to see such high turnover in the city planning office. I encourage the city to take the complaints of its exiting planners more seriously and put greater effort into their retention. It shouldn't be taking this long to get form-based zoning in place. We could have hundreds more units in place by now if our planners were allowed to simply do their jobs.
#NHPolitics #NHHousing

Whoa, my #Kobo eBook reader was offline for so long, I've missed some quality of life updates. Progress bar, dark mode (I believe this is new), and they've replaced #Pocket with #Instapaper

beefy book boy!
https://mastodon.social/@ghoulszn22/115483756992507496

GhoulSeason22 (@ghoulszn22@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image i used to be a big time reader. covid broke my brain and i stopped for years. have gotten back into it the last few months and feel real good about it. thanks for reading Michael’s Musings for tonight.

Ist #Adobe nicht großzügig ...?

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Base pipe vs magrittr pipe: a thread by TimTeaFan: #rstats

Thread by @TimTeaFan on Thread Reader App
@TimTeaFan: I see still a lot of #RStats tweets about the base pipe vs. the {magrittr} pipe, often in favor of the former. I have to admit: I still stick to the magrittr pipe and here is...

CFP: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity (Source Reader)
https://ift.tt/E09rVKS
Critical Survey (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Dear Colleague, The latest issue of Critical Survey…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Taking care of all the Christmas sweets

#Fahrradfahrer aus "ungeklärter Ursache" gerammt!
Vorfahrt genommen, weil nicht genug aufgepasst ist die Ursache. Bitte liebe #Polizei, gern geschehen!

Fahrradfahrer aus ungeklärter Ursache gerammt
Polizei Mi-Lü vom 20.11.2025: Pedelec-Fahrer bei Abbiegeunfall schwer verletzt […] Nach derzeitigem Ermittlungsstand befuhr eine 43-jährige mit ihrem Toyota die Volmerdingsener Straße in Fahrtrichtung Bad Oeynhausen. Parallel dazu war ein 54-jähriger Pedelec-Fahrer auf dem rechtsseitigen Radweg in gleicher Richtung unterwegs. …

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 13:23:16

CFP: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity (Source Reader) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133856/cfp-between-flesh-and-water-documenting-global-story-je…

CFP: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity (Source Reader) | H-Net
Laura Arnold Leibman (Princeton University) and Anabella Esperanza (Tel Aviv University) are delighted to invite scholars from all academic disciplines to contribute to the forthcoming source reader: Between Flesh and Water: Documenting the Global Story of Jewish Women and Ritual Purity. 

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 11:55:51

Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel