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Cartoon Network has dropped a trailer for Tiny Toons Looniversity, the modern reboot/remake of Tiny Toon Adventures.
posted by NoxAeternum at 10:49 PM PST - 33 comments

Non-profit writer/speaker/thinker Vu Le discusses a recent joint statement by philanthropic leaders "protecting pluralism." Vu Le previously and even more previously.
posted by Shepherd at 3:56 PM PST - 11 comments

Canadians describe surveillance, intimidation and terror 'under China's shadow'. In the UK, Alarm Over Chinese Businessman And 'Secret Police Station'. And in the Washington Post, Chinese police stations in NYC are part of a vast influence operation.
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posted by Rash at 1:34 PM PST - 43 comments

Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart: (Archive) A WaPo analysis of the C4 dataset used in training large language models like ChatGPT, LLaMA, and others. [more inside]
posted by Cash4Lead at 9:59 AM PST - 60 comments

Hate babies crying on the plane? Want to listen to your tunes instead of the brat screaming in the back of the car? BabyMute is here to save the day!
posted by slater at 9:47 AM PST - 65 comments

The club’s nine-decade history and its forthright, sporty name may convince you that Barbara Worth was a real person—say, a pioneering female golfer, a contemporary of Patty Berg and Babe Zaharias who founded the club after a successful pro career. That is not the case. Barbara Worth exists in the pages of a novel and in a silent film. She was the creation of Harold Bell Wright, the most popular and influential California writer no one today has heard of. Together, author and heroine propelled California’s favorite story about itself: that given will and engineering prowess and water, the state can be whatever it wants to be. from The Most Famous California Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
posted by chavenet at 9:15 AM PST - 6 comments

Judge tentatively OKs $725M Facebook settlement: How to apply for a payout
posted by crazy with stars at 8:25 AM PST - 58 comments

On the Goop Cruise (archive.is, Lauren Oyler for Harper's Magazine) [more inside]
posted by box at 5:29 AM PST - 41 comments

Flip, shuffle, sort by suit, play poker and sort. Just a deck of cards. [more inside]
posted by Faintdreams at 5:27 AM PST - 12 comments

Nintendo 'Hacker' Will Be Punished For The Rest Of His Life [Polygon] “A man sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a Nintendo Switch hack-selling scheme has been released early. But he says he will have to pay Nintendo a portion of whatever income he makes every month, for a very long time, as part of a $10 million settlement with company. In a podcast interview (first reported by TorrentFreak), Gary Bowser, 53, said he was let out of federal prison in Seattle early because of his age, medical condition, and nationality (he is Canadian). He will soon return to the Toronto area. But Bowser noted that his plea agreement calls for him to pay Nintendo $10 million in restitution. [...] In December 2021, he agreed to pay Nintendo $10 million to settle a civil lawsuit Nintendo had brought against him. Bowser’s criminal sentence also called for a $4.5 million fine, but since he is returning to Canada, Bowser said he is unlikely to have to pay that.” [Podcast interview with Gary Bowser about release.]
posted by Fizz at 4:52 AM PST - 94 comments

People Lived in This Cave for 78,000 Years. Excavations in Panga ya Saidi suggest technological and cultural change came slowly over time and show early humans weren't reliant on coastal resources.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:14 AM PST - 22 comments

A 1962 Soviet school documentary. PT.1 and PT.2.
posted by clavdivs at 12:04 AM PST - 4 comments