Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 6 cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Twin Lakes is a cursed city. Less cursed than say, “Demons are tearing it apart” but more cursed than “always loses its keys” or “often steps in puddles”. It’s roughly in the middle of the cursed scale, is what we’re trying to say. Cursed enough that it’s a nuisance. Cursed enough that somebody has to deal with it…

That’s where The Darkside Detective comes in. Whenever you hear a bump in the night, feel a tingle up your spine, or smell something fishy, Detective Francis McQueen isn’t far behind. No, he doesn’t smell of fish - it’s a phrase, come on...

Picking up after the events of The Darkside Detective, McQueen has to save his usually-present (in body, if not mind) sidekick Officer Dooley from the Darkside, so the two can get back to what they do best - investigating the city’s many strange, often paranormal, always paradoxical goings-on.

Join them in this frighteningly funny point-and-click adventure as they investigate six more standalone cases bringing them to a carnival, the local retirement home, an amateur wrestling circuit and even as far away as Ireland as they do what they can to keep the Darkside at bay.

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The ACLU marked the occasion of the New Mexico state Senate passing the Immigrant Safety Act a week ago. With NM governor Michelle Grisham signing the Act into law a couple days later, the state marks its intention to shut down its three ICE detention facilities, ban new ICE contracts, forbid the use of state-owned land for collaboration with ICE, and forbid county and local governments from collaborating with ICE. This includes a ban on 287(g) agreements between ICE and local sheriffs.

ACLU quotes Immigration organizer Fabiola Landeros of El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos: "This is a watershed moment for New Mexico — a testament to years of organizing by immigrant communities and allies who refused to accept our state's complicity in mass deportation… The Senate's passage of the Immigrant Safety Act shows that when communities unite and demand change, we can stand up to even the most powerful forces.”

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

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Hi everyone :)

The first fediverse hackathon ended. We did translation, some wanted to create a new software or feature. Pretty cool for a event announced the last minute. :)

Usually the hackathon last few days and everyone spend their whole week-end on developping few features, documentation...but that's not how i imagine it.

Two days is kinda short and only give a little boost. 😁

We will organise the fedihack at the beggining of every month. Our aims is to invite new users to contribute to the fediverse and of course meeting each other IRL and have fun like CHATONS do.

CHATONS (kittens) is a collective network of associations that purpose service based on free software. However, we also organize meeting, coordinate our skills for managing the server, or take action against big tech service as gmail, meet people and invite them to the fediverse.

That would be my dream for the upcoming year. ☺️

• meeting at a coffee, associations...
• translation
• wiki : admin & user documentation
• coding apps & software
• creating new software
• talking to people on the street
• fediparty

But i can't achieve it alone, i need your help. I can't organise it, that's not my best skill. I prefer writing wiki, organize structure and suggesting ideas ☺️

If this project interest you, you can follow our chat on zulip. What do you think ? :)

https://fedihacks.zulipchat.com

Keepers of concentration camps prefer secrecy because they do not want public scrutiny of their heinous acts.

The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly barred members of congress, as well as Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark, from visiting ICE facilities in their districts. Most recently, three Minnesota lawmakers were barred from touring the increasingly notorious Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where all signs point to deprivation of food and medical attention as well as overcrowded conditions.

On Monday, a federal judge ruled such denial of access illegal. While longstanding federal policy requires DHS to allow the unfettered scrutiny by congress members to ICE facilities , Kristi Noem has insisted that the massive infusion of federal funds to DHS somehow allows the agency to forbid such access. But now Democratic lawmakers have no excuse not to give these gulags the exposure they have long needed.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

Eclipsed is a 2D action platformer with mouse-aim shooting. You play as Quinn, sent in to retrieve a trapped scientist. Move fast, stay alive, and make every shot count.

Along the way you can hunt down Nuclear Artifacts, push through the hordes of infected , and unlock the door to the labratory with the key thats dropped by the infected boss.

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“You don’t have to torture people. They’re not going anywhere—they’re on a plane.”

Just before her deportation flight to Hanoi, Melissa Tran’s wrists and ankles were shackled to a chain around her waist. It had been more than 10 hours since she’d been given any food or water; for the last seven, she had been sitting on a bus on the tarmac.She was told she wouldn’t arrive in Hanoi until Thursday. It was Monday night in Louisiana.

Though there was no company name or logo on the plane, she learned the airline was called Omni Air International. Information about Stonepeak’s April 2025 acquisition of Air Transport Services Group, Omni’s parent company, is scarce. Nowhere do they say that for years, Omni has been the only large-jet airline flying shackled passengers on long-haul ICE flights to Africa and Asia.

Omni’s flights are becoming increasingly inhumane. Of the 77 trips carried out between Stonepeak’s mid-April purchase and the end of 2025, 31 lasted between 24 and 50 hours. Migrants onboard spent all that time shackled. Shackled passengers are at risk of developing deadly blood clots in their legs.

An ICE document obtained by Quartz shows the agency paid Omni $33,500 an hour for a 2019 flight to Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. With expenses, the trip cost $1.8 million, prompting a flight broker to complain Omni could charge high prices because other airlines “are discouraged by the potential of public backlash.”

Time for Omni to face public backlash of its own.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)

Australia and the European Union are on the cusp of finally reaching a free trade agreement after years of sometimes fraught negotiations.

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I want to build a small site which acts as a broad, searchable FAQ for a certain topic.

Consider I have the FAQ:

What is the approximate mass of Earth?

It's 5.9722 × 10^24 kilograms, wow!

I want the user to have a chance at finding this FAQ by asking How heavy is our planet

Looking at this basically, the two similar questions have only one shared word, "is", which is an extremely common word. So using something really simple like word comparison or even stemming/lemmatization alone won't help.

On the very other end of the spectrum, a search engine's AI feature can interpret this effectively, rephrase the question and give a similar answer. So, what strategies are are in-between these two extremes?

1. A few people will be adding questions to the site regularly.

2. If possible, no external services, just self-hosting on an affordable server.

3. Simpler and lighter solutions are preferred.

Are any of the features in OpenSearch (ElasticSearch/Lucene fork) able to do this? Is it overkill?

Since the site will have new questions to match regularly, will a solution require the repeated, wasteful retraining of NLP models to to create weights? Or is training so efficient for small-scale text datasets that it's responsible and reasonable to do on a cheap low-end server?

edit: Just spitballing here, I could try a solution which does the bulk work at insert-time rather than runtime, by asking a general pre-trained language model to rephrase the question many different ways, or generate keywords, then use those responses to generate tags for a basic keyword search to match. This would avoid making a heavy search function or retraining any model on the server.

GPT-4o mini

Here’s a list of synonyms for the keywords in "What is the approximate mass of Earth?" formatted as an array of strings:

json

[
  "weight",
  "heaviness",
  "bulk",
  "load",
  "volume",
  "estimated",
  "rough",
  "approximal",
  "near",
  "close to",
  "planet Earth",
  "the globe",
  "the world",
  "Terra",
  "our planet"
]