The AI boom has plunged a small Pennsylvania town into chaos by AernaLingus in c/technology@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

Valley View Estates isn’t far from Tiffany’s house, just up Eynon-Jermyn Road. Residents received their eviction notice last July, shortly after Project Gravity was announced. The facilities would cover the surrounding woods; more buildings would replace the junkyard down the street. They were hemmed in, and the park owner wanted out. When reports of the eviction hit local news, “people were so horrible,” said Matthew Bucksbee, a Valley View resident. “One of the kids that commented, he’s like ‘Yeah, just get rid of that place, it’s infested with drugs.’”

Most empathetic AmeriKKKan. Much smaller scale, but I was talking with someone who mentioned offhand how his neighbors were celebrating someone getting evicted, since that person had some minor eyesore on their property (car on blocks or something) and they hoped their property values would go up...obviously not even a nanosecond of thought for the person who is losing their home. The suburbs are truly breeding grounds for demons.

“I make about triple the Pennsylvania minimum wage — and I still freeze in my house,” said Jordan Moran, a student in cybersecurity at Lackawanna College, who also works a full-time job. “My thermostat is at 60 degrees, and my PPL bill is still nearly 20 percent of my monthly income.”

jesus-christ

Archbald resident, Tamara Healy, asked about Community Benefit Agreements — she’d googled them, and it seemed to her that something like that should be in place before things proceeded any further. “Now, it’s ironic that you’re Googling stuff and you’re against data centers,” said Farris. “Just for the record.”

very-intelligent (even more ridiculous when you consider that Google search worked better before all this LLM BS until it was intentionally destroyed in the quest for more advertising dollars)

I could quote about a dozen more things from the article, but I'll leave it there. Extremely grim stuff that's playing out all across the country. We can only hope that the AI bubble will burst soon and many of these projects will never come to fruition.

Oh wait, one more thing:

Some residents are reluctantly making plans to move. “These data centers have to go somewhere,” said Jim Schaback, who told me he would likely rent out his house in Archbald if the developments go through. “I hate that they’re going here.”

Fuck the media (not this article, but in general) for credulously parroting the word vomit of tech executives whose sole aims are to swindle investors and discredit any opposition, and thus normalizing the idea that "AI is inevitable."

NIH-awarded life scientist Shu Xiaokun abruptly shifts research from US to China by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Full textEminent life scientist Shu Xiaokun has received numerous awards and significant funding from the US government over the past two decades.

Earlier this year, he was appointed the prestigious Herfindahl Endowed Chair professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), capping a career that included pioneering fluorescent protein tools in Nobel laureate Roger Yonchien Tsien’s laboratory.

The motto of Shu’s lab is a quote from the Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman: “If you’re not having fun, you are not learning. There’s a pleasure in finding things out.”

He is bringing that curiosity back to China.

According to the Fudan University website, Shu has relocated to Shanghai.

As a distinguished professor at Fudan, he will serve as the founding director of the Institute of Chemical and Open Biotechnology Research and Application.

The institute will be launched this month.

It will focus on long-term, interdisciplinary research at the intersection of physics, chemistry and biology – developing next-generation fluorescent probes, chemical genetics tools and novel drugs for targeted tumour therapies.

“The cells’ inner life is like a glowing, beautiful world of Avatar, after we label many proteins in the cell with multicolour fluorescent reporters,” Shu says on the website of his personal lab at UCSF.

But his path to this vision was not a straight line. When he entered university, Shu’s major was neither biology nor chemistry – it was physics.

In 1996, he enrolled in the theoretical physics department at Sichuan University. After completing a master’s degree there, he moved to Fudan University in Shanghai, where he focused on condensed matter physics.

By 2003, he had left for the United States, entering the doctoral programme at the University of Oregon, where his focus shifted from physics to biophysics. During his doctoral studies, Shu focused on the luminescence mechanisms of visible fluorescent proteins – including blue, green, orange and red variants.

After earning his PhD in 2007, he joined Tsien’s laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, to continue his work on fluorescent proteins.

Tsien was a pioneer in using light and colour to observe how cells function. He shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a palette of probes derived from green fluorescent protein (GFP) – work that illuminated cellular structures and transformed modern biology.

Shu played a significant role in that effort, contributing to the development of GFP mutants in Tsien’s lab.

During his postdoctoral research, he invented an infrared fluorescent protein for labelling in live animals – a breakthrough published in the journal Science.

“If you label a tumour in the body with an infrared fluorescent protein, you get a strong signal to see it from the outside,” Shu told the Chinese magazine Sanlian Lifeweek in an interview in 2019.

He also developed genetically encoded labelling techniques for electron microscopy, expanding the toolkit for biological and medical research.

These achievements led to an associate professorship at UC San Diego in 2010. Two years later, he received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award and a research grant of US$2.36 million over five years.

After launching his independent lab, Shu continued integrating physics, chemistry and biology.

His research spans physical biology, chemical biology, structural biology, protein engineering and drug discovery.

In 2019, Shu was awarded the Maximising Investigators’ Research Award, worth US$5.91 million over five years. This award provides support for the programme of research in an investigator’s laboratory that is within the mission of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

According to Shu, as quoted on the official Fudan University website, he has so far secured over US$20 million in NIH funding.

His Fudan lab’s webpage says: “We are an interdisciplinary lab, focusing on visualising the inner life of living cells and animals. Positions are available for highly motivated, independently thinking individuals.”

The South China Morning Post has reached out to Shu for comment.

Things ‘I do not like’ led me to quit US for Hong Kong, top mathematician says by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Full textWorld-leading Vietnamese mathematician Ngo Bao Chau has said his decision to leave the US was not just the result of the worsening academic environment there, but also a vision to transform Asia into the next global powerhouse for maths and science.

Ngo, the first Vietnamese recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, will join the University of Hong Kong in June.

“I want Asia to be the next America or the next Europe [as] a place where science and mathematics strive,” he said in an interview on the university’s campus.

“I believe that Asia and China … have a unique opportunity to grow to be one of the [top] places in science and mathematics. I am really eager to participate in that.”

Ngo, who has been teaching at the University of Chicago since 2010, said “many things that I do not like” were happening in the United States.

“American universities have been great institutions where knowledge, discovery and scholarship are cherished. It has been like that for 400 years,” he said.

“People are meant to be well-treated regardless of their race as long as they espouse this vision in scholarship and knowledge. But disheartening things have been happening for visas, for students.”

Ngo, who initially studied in France and spent nearly two decades as a researcher and teacher there, added: “I would rather be in a place where I don’t have to deal with or to hear about things that I do not like.”

He is best known for his ingenious proof of the Langlands Programme, a grand unified theory of mathematics proposed in 1967 and described by HKU as “one of mathematics’ most ambitious theoretical frameworks”.

HKU, which has been actively recruiting top-tier international talent, said Ngo’s decision to join its mathematics department as chair professor was a “defining moment”.

Ngo, who was born in Hanoi in 1972, said he aspired to foster bonds among mathematicians across Asia. “Mathematicians do much better when they have organic bonds. In any human endeavour there is collaboration and competition … but in mathematics, collaboration is much greater than competition,” he said.

“I really want to be part of the new development of mathematics and science in Asia, and I want Hong Kong to be the connecting dot of Asian mathematics – China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and so on.”

He described Hong Kong as a “great place for that”, adding it was also accessible for colleagues from Europe and America.

“What was lacking [in Asia] is just a critical mass of senior mathematicians who can give time to be devoted to training students,” he said.

“But China and Asia have huge potential because anywhere in the world in universities, many of the best students are from China.”

He said a lot of high-powered teaching and research could be done using nothing more than a blackboard and chalk, and “you don’t need a lot of machines [or] supercomputers”.

But he said he did not believe it “can be done in isolation” and international collaboration was important in allowing mathematicians to network and collaborate.

“New ideas come from exchanging ideas between colleagues, between peers and also between teacher and students,” he added.

“Exchanges – sometimes confrontations of ideas in a very peaceful way – drive us more to the edge of knowledge and give us the drive to go beyond that.”

Ngo also said longer-term appointments that did not require researchers to reapply for their jobs every two to three years allowed time and freedom for bright young researchers to pursue ambitious projects.

“The current system in China but also across the world is pushing very hard for KPIs [key performance indicators] to produce a certain number of papers every year to survive in academia,” he said.

But he warned that while KPIs might work in mid-level universities, the elites should be pursuing quality over quantity.

“Of course, pressure is good to a certain extent ... but it doesn’t push you to produce quality work or pursue ambitious plans because you just want to produce a paper every three months. [It is] not possible in mathematics to break through if you do that,” he said.

“That is something that we need to learn from the French system,” he said, pointing to his postdoctoral supervisor, who asked him not to write “bad papers”.

After spending most of his academic life in the West, he said it was the right time to return to Asia to be closer to his parents and roots, and because he missed the “Asian vibe” that he found in Hong Kong.

“Hong Kong has always been the place where the East meets West and it has tremendous opportunities to play that role,” he said. “In Hong Kong and China in general, there is a real thirst to develop mathematics and science,” he said, adding that Chinese students he mentored were “happy to work hard”.

Looking ahead to his new chapter, Ngo plans to continue his research in pure maths and work with students and young researchers in looking for ways to connect representation theory and number theory.

“The reason why I have been immersed deeply in mathematics is because I feel very fortunate to have received this intellectual heritage from back to antiquity. As mathematicians, we have the honour and duty to put some old stone in the beautiful garden, keep it clean, preserve it and transmit it to younger generations,” he said.

He also said he did “not see how it is possible” for artificial intelligence to replace mathematicians, whose work involves deep thinking and numerous layers of logic that were beyond the capabilities of the technology.

He expressed concern about “hasty implementation of AI” in schools, saying: “I really don’t want the first ‘people’ that children interact with to be AI [considering] the consequences for their development.”

“It needs to be thought out and very deliberate, not just large-scale experimentation that would lead to disaster.”

At least 16 US military aircraft have been lost since the start of the war with Iran by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

I really need to buckle down and memorize the most common Chinese particles, because with Japanese vocabulary + kanji I think I could at least get the gist for simple sentences. Like, from an earlier post I learned that 们 was the plural marker, so what I got was

others waste ?? I ?? ?-bullet/projectile

I don't think I'd be able to guess that 导 is a simplified form of 導^[Simplified Chinese was a scheme devised specifically to hamper the ability of weebs to achieve Chinese literacy, which...fair.] purely by inspection in the same way I easily guessed that 费 was 費, but if I knew that 了 was the perfective aspect marker and 的 was basically の the rest becomes clear.

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89%E7%A0%95

{玉砕|ぎょくさい} gyokusai: dying in an honorable defeat

From the Chinese idiom 寧可玉碎，不能瓦全. Literally means "broken piece of jade".

Especially associated with suicide attacks and levée en masse efforts by the Japanese military in World War II.

TIL

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2603 [GameCube/Wii Emulation] (dolphin-emu.org)
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Two blog posts in less than a month? They're spoiling us!

This is a real humdinger of a progress report, too. High-level summary:

  • (link) Massive performance improvements to the two Rogue Squadron games through a combination of emulation improvements and settings changes, which now allow for it to run at full speed on high-end hardware (and very playable speeds on low-end hardware)
  • (link) Further improvements to the newly-added Triforce arcade emulation (check out the previous blog post for more info about Triforce)
  • (link) Core emulation improvement to an edge case of floating-point arithmetic that fixes a desync in Mario Strikers Charged; now, Dolphin can play online with real Wiis in that game. I think this was my favorite bit in the post—a real team effort with perseverance over many years!
  • (link) Rough timings implemented for Wii NAND management to allow for better performance on that menu
  • (link) The ability to preload entire games into RAM, a long-requested feature. The reason it hadn't been implemented earlier is that it's completely unnecessary with any modern storage, since even a crappy USB stick is faster than disc access on a GC/Wii, but this is apparently helpful for people who have their games stored on a NAS where disks might actually spin down, causing lag spikes.
  • (link) New GUI settings for SDL controller tweaks, specifically SDL hinting (apparently helpful for using Joycons as separate Nunchuck + Wiimote as well as fixing DS4 connectivity issues).
  • (link) Performance patches for a half dozen games, most notably Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (my beloved) and 007: Quantum of Solace. For those not in the know, there's a relatively new feature in Dolphin which allows for games to be patched on-the-fly to fix issues like uncapped framerates and complex idle loops that can bring the emulator to its knees even though it can otherwise run the games fine.

Aside from the interesting technical details, reading these progress reports always gives me the warm fuzzies. I love hearing about how all these different people come together and use their unique talents to improve emulation for everyone.

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Shigeru Miyamoto x Shigesato Itoi (creator of MOTHER/Earthbound) – 1989 Interview - shmuplations.com (shmuplations.com)
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Really interesting free-flowing interview, quite different from many of the ones I typically see, especially from Miyamoto. Even in '89 they were grappling with some of the same issues developers are dealing with today, including the trap of pursuing shallow "realism" and the perception that there were no fresh ideas out there.

Also, it features this prescient quote from Miyamoto:

Miyamoto: I think there are still plenty of possibilities in game design. For instance, imagine a game where you input something, and when you check back a month later, it's transformed into something totally unexpected. We don't have anything like that, do we?

Or, take how people living in apartments today can't keep pets. If someone who was obsessed with the joy of having a pet made a game that captured that feeling, I think it would become a huge craze. And since it's a simulation, you could even include the "unfortunate" parts, like the pet eventually passing away, as part of the experience.

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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation (gamehistory.org)
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Truly bizarre story—still completely unclear what the copyright troll's motive is—but it's cool that an organization like the VGHF fought back and won as well as detailed the process to help others facing similar issues.

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[Nintendo DS Fan Translation] The Series of Haruhi Suzumiya English Patch Trailer (youtube.com)
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Release information:

https://haroohie.club/blog/2026-01-01-chokuretsu-full-en-release

General information + patching guide:

https://haroohie.club/chokuretsu

About the game

Released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS, Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (The Series of Haruhi Suzumiya) is a partially-voiced visual novel/puzzle game based on the Haruhi Suzumiya series!

Play as Kyon as you work with the rest of the SOS Brigade to keep Haruhi from discovering the unnatural phenomena occurring all around you! Set during summer break after the second light novel, the SOS Brigade members must distract Haruhi while she investigates the Seven Wonders of North High and erase the evidence before she finds it.

Featuring over 38,000 lines of dialogue and many possible routes, this unofficial translation made by Haruhi fans from around the world seeks to make the game accessible to a non-Japanese audience. Please support the series by buying the original games & merch!

An impressive translation effort given the scale and complexity of the task! I've only done a bit, but I can already see how much care the team has put into this romhack—there was a background with a storefront that only showed up for about 5 seconds, but they still went through the trouble of editing the image to replace the Japanese name with an English translation. And it's really neat how they went above and beyond by adding little speech bubble translations for in-game audio that was never associated with any text

If you're studying Japanese, one thing you can do is set up two instances of melonDS (or another emulator, I suppose), put them side-by-side, and then use a controller to play (I use the advanced technique of blocking-the-English-translation-with-my-controller so I don't cheat). The controller will simultaneously send input to both games, so you can stay synced without much fuss. Granted, I haven't gotten past the pure visual novel section, so it might get dicier when there's movement involved, and I don't know if there are random elements in the game. but I don't think there's anything fast-twitch. The one thing to keep in mind is that, since Japanese is always going to have fewer characters, you can advance more quickly through the Japanese text, so if you're mashing you can easily desync.

If you're interested in the romhacking process, check out the Haroohie Club blog as well as Janko's YouTube channel.

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512 [Emulation Dev Blog] (dolphin-emu.org)
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Christmas has come early with a new Dolphin Progress Report! There's some juicy technical details, so I definitely recommend that folks read the full report if that sounds interesting, but here's the high-level summary of user-facing impacts (click the ¶ symbol to the right of each heading to jump to the relevant section in the progress report):

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Don't Just Watch TV: The Secrets of Sega Channel (www.youtube.com)
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Great video for obscure retro gaming aficionados chock-full of brand new information—as usual, the VGHF has done some stellar preservation work. Bonus amazing fanart that some kids sent in ("VICTIM DISPOSAL" goes hard)

edit: article version for those who prefer a quick summary (it also includes links to relevant resources)

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Edge of Emulation: Wantame Card Scanner [Nintendo DS Peripheral Reverse Engineering & Emulation] (shonumi.github.io)
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New Edge of Emulation just dropped, hell yeah! If you're at all interested in reverse engineering and/or emulation, shonumi's website is an absolute treasure trove.

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"Yeah, I read philosophy." (hexbear.net)
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Image descriptionA Twitter screenshot which shows a quote-retweet and a reply to said QRT.

The quoted tweet from Alex & Books (@AlexAndBooks_) on November 5, 2025 reads,

Books men like to read vs. Books women like to read:

and has an image of a graph titled "Goodreads reviewers by genre and sex (Thelwall M., 2017)"; the data seems to be from the 2017 paper "Reader and author gender and genre in Goodreads" by Mike Thelwall. The graph has a list of Goodreads genres on the Y-axis and percentage of readers on the X-axis, with bars for "Males" and "Females" (representing the gender proportion of reviewers in a sample of books within each genre), and the list of genres sorted from highest male readership to lowest male readership. The most striking thing about the graph is that females overwhelmingly dominate in nearly all genres, with only four genres having more male than female readers (and only relatively small margins even then). The genre with the highest male-to-female ratio (roughly 59% to 39%) is philosophy.

I have provided tabular editions of this data below in two versions: an abbreviated version with only the genres and percentages, as in the graph, as well as a full version with all the data from the paper plus the percentages (since the percentages were not in the original paper, only raw numbers).

The QRT from august (@regularagust) on November 8 reads,

This becomes way funnier to look at if you know what the philosophy section in the average bookstore looks like.

The reply from 滿帖子乖謬之言觀汝似有瘋症 (@remmettmaxwell) on November 8 reads,

what we imagine: "phenomenology of the being and cognition" by j. j. r. von Grosseschleichen (1889)

what they mean: "locking in: 12 lessons on the meaning of life i learned from being with the operators in the coast guard auxiliary"

Data (abbreviated, percentages only)

Genre^[The symbol > indicates that the category on the right has been classified by Goodreads as being a subcategory of the category on the left.] Male % Female %
philosophy 59.1% 40.9%
sequential-art>comics 57.8% 42.2%
politics 56.4% 43.6%
sequential-art>graphic-novels 54.9% 45.1%
science-fiction 49.8% 50.2%
history 46.9% 53.1%
religion 42.0% 58.0%
science 41.4% 58.6%
literature 40.9% 59.1%
horror 40.8% 59.2%
classics 36.5% 63.5%
non-fiction 35.8% 64.2%
reference 35.0% 65.0%
novels 34.6% 65.4%
biography 34.2% 65.8%
adventure 33.9% 66.1%
psychology 33.7% 66.3%
short-stories 32.7% 67.3%
thriller 32.2% 67.8%
travel 30.9% 69.1%
mystery>crime 30.4% 69.6%
poetry 29.8% 70.2%
art 29.4% 70.6%
fantasy 27.8% 72.2%
autobiography>memoir 24.9% 75.1%
christian 24.4% 75.6%
fiction 23.9% 76.1%
humor 23.1% 76.9%
thriller>mystery-thriller 22.9% 77.1%
mystery 21.8% 78.2%
sequential-art>manga 21.1% 78.9%
suspense 21.1% 78.9%
historical 17.8% 82.2%
historical-fiction 16.9% 83.1%
fantasy>magic 16.8% 83.2%
romance>m-m-romance 15.8% 84.2%
young-adult 15.0% 85.0%
childrens 13.1% 86.9%
food-and-drink>cookbooks 13.1% 86.9%
animals 12.6% 87.4%
adult 12.3% 87.7%
fantasy>paranormal 11.7% 88.3%
contemporary 10.4% 89.6%
childrens>picture-books 9.8% 90.2%
adult-fiction>erotica 6.3% 93.7%
romance 5.4% 94.6%
romance>paranormal-romance 4.0% 96.0%
womens-fiction>chick-lit 3.6% 96.4%
romance>contemporary-romance 2.7% 97.3%
romance>historical-romance 2.5% 97.5%

Data (full)

Genre* Books Ratings Male reviewers Female reviewers Male % Female % Reviews for RQ5^[Review Question 5: Are there differences in the types of things that male and female reviewers write about male and female authored books in specific genres?]
philosophy 5131 95606 11234 7772 59.1% 40.9% 857
sequential-art>comics 8567 166331 13334 9749 57.8% 42.2% 1263
politics 3894 34030 12657 9790 56.4% 43.6% 490
sequential-art>graphic-novels 6961 169828 13204 10828 54.9% 45.1% 878
science-fiction 9967 261253 22221 22363 49.8% 50.2% 1614
history 16315 199503 33017 37310 46.9% 53.1% 4033
religion 5056 54552 11505 15890 42.0% 58.0% 676
science 4463 71467 9908 14006 41.4% 58.6% 938
literature 3697 77384 9679 13979 40.9% 59.1% 92
horror 5545 161636 9923 14398 40.8% 59.2% 914
classics 5187 664000 10818 18831 36.5% 63.5% 556
non-fiction 40208 507491 69899 125264 35.8% 64.2% 8215
reference 6039 27524 8862 16453 35.0% 65.0% 580
novels 4564 52933 11389 21551 34.6% 65.4% 76
biography 7925 103156 18571 35705 34.2% 65.8% 1627
adventure 4822 83352 13506 26298 33.9% 66.1% 180
psychology 3259 49520 6378 12558 33.7% 66.3% 617
short-stories 7834 96615 8555 17644 32.7% 67.3% 758
thriller 5003 86473 12521 26326 32.2% 67.8% 453
travel 2941 31811 4369 9781 30.9% 69.1% 654
mystery>crime 4786 72899 11691 26793 30.4% 69.6% 272
poetry 7011 111621 5686 13389 29.8% 70.2% 1943
art 4469 30879 4043 9718 29.4% 70.6% 876
fantasy 19909 1057426 26409 68596 27.8% 72.2% 2758
autobiography>memoir 3673 67055 8576 25807 24.9% 75.1% 480
christian 4356 45478 7915 24530 24.4% 75.6% 796
fiction 41475 1218673 69470 220826 23.9% 76.1% 5187
humor 6409 87725 10417 34633 23.1% 76.9% 516
thriller>mystery-thriller 3167 26621 7562 25407 22.9% 77.1% 30
mystery 13093 389375 20210 72440 21.8% 78.2% 3645
sequential-art>manga 6623 285353 349 1306 21.1% 78.9% 162
suspense 3829 41560 6874 25647 21.1% 78.9% 79
historical 8654 137803 12514 57776 17.8% 82.2% 260
historical-fiction 9243 309406 12213 60237 16.9% 83.1% 1909
fantasy>magic 3028 60821 3188 15762 16.8% 83.2% 70
romance>m-m-romance 5729 125520 1100 5847 15.8% 84.2% 525
young-adult 11286 621919 10739 60915 15.0% 85.0% 1943
childrens 14147 163267 11264 74404 13.1% 86.9% 1989
food-and-drink>cookbooks 3642 36381 1183 7833 13.1% 86.9% 899
animals 3280 29674 3501 24264 12.6% 87.4% 294
adult 7043 72240 7151 50876 12.3% 87.7% 101
fantasy>paranormal 9094 261909 4556 34374 11.7% 88.3% 599
contemporary 13853 204599 8471 72730 10.4% 89.6% 227
childrens>picture-books 7410 131850 4754 43752 9.8% 90.2% 2945
adult-fiction>erotica 6981 78255 906 13487 6.3% 93.7% 427
romance 29205 676026 6805 119519 5.4% 94.6% 3342
romance>paranormal-romance 4239 110105 706 17100 4.0% 96.0% 288
womens-fiction>chick-lit 4072 91559 1318 35144 3.6% 96.4% 481
romance>contemporary-romance 7403 91478 868 30965 2.7% 97.3% 212
romance>historical-romance 3767 103730 555 21370 2.5% 97.5% 872
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason (daiz.moe)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/707234

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I told him not to try. I told him he's not the one, but he didn't listen by AernaLingus in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 122 points 5 months ago

going to someone's memorial and saying "skill issue" chefs-kiss

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Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2509 [Emulator Development Blog] (dolphin-emu.org)
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Emudev sickos get in here sicko-crowd

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Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
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One key finding of the analysis is stunning: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity medical experts say is necessary to stop the spread of measles, which had once nearly been eliminated. The data further reveals that:

  • Since 2019, 77% of counties and jurisdictions in the U.S. have reported notable declines in childhood vaccination rates. The declines span from less than 1 percentage point to more than 40 percentage points.
  • Vaccine exemptions for school children are rising nationwide: As many as 53% of counties and jurisdictions saw exemption rates more than double from their first year of collecting data to the most recent.
  • Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak.

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Student enrollment in Saint Louis Public Schools has been declining as a growing number of people are moving out of the city or choosing to send their children to charter schools.

That puts tremendous financial strain on the school system. Average daily attendance primarily determines school funding, according to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. And the board of education is considering a proposal to close half of its schools for the 2026-2027 school year.

Boleyjack blames steep budget cuts for lax vaccination enforcement. She said that some administrators allow noncompliant children to stay in school to keep enrollment up to be eligible for tax money.

"They got to get their dollars. So they're going to let in students who may not be completely compliant," she said. "I don't agree with it, but that's what it is."

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You couldn't make a Mario like this today, because of woke (hexbear.net)
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Found thanks to a Video Game History Foundation tweet (Xcancel link, Bluesky link); you can browse the magazine (the November 1983 issue of Electronic Games) and do full text searches in their archive.

Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 81 points 10 months ago

US Naval assets in the Red Sea have repeatedly come under Houthi fire since the Houthis began their attacks against Red Sea shipping in November 2023.

No mention of why they're attacking, of course.

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next" "You're gonna need to build about 5 more places" by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 81 points 11 months ago

There's a lib reply to the Bluesky post that calls it "un-American," and I'm just thinking, "Buddy, ever hear of a little thing called Japanese internment?" That was from one of the best presidents the US had to offer! It's as American as apple pie.

Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 103 points 1 year ago

Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,"

and to top it all off, they're goddamn leechers!

Piquant by AernaLingus in c/news@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jeff Bezos killed

bloomer

—Washington Post endorsement...

sicko-wistful

[CW: language, transphobia] They finally figured out why trans people love fallout so much by AernaLingus in c/games@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 105 points 1 year ago

Celeste - a platformer which gives gender-confused people unrealistic power fantasies (such as the ability to double jump, which they do not naturally possess).

You cannot convince me that this wasn't written by an infiltrator

The FBI loses their shit over the Russian Admin of Z-Library taking a vacation by AernaLingus in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 98 points 2 years ago

Wow, I'm so upset that these people providing an invaluable service to the world have a modicum of comfort in their lives!

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