The generational divide is just one instance of a broader phenomenon—similar divisions exist in adults between our constructed personas for family, work, friends, interest groups, etc.

Or maybe a server that lets you create multiple, “connected” accounts at the same time, together with a client that combines the accounts into one view.

I remember the steady turnover of social media networks leading up to Facebook—the joke was that kids would migrate to a new platform every time their parents joined their current one. I think there’s a kernel of truth there that’s still a potential weak point on Facebook: people want to have distinct, non-overlapping online personas for different social groups (family, work, friends, etc) without the overhead of maintaining multiple accounts. That seems like an avenue a potential fediverse Facebook alternative might exploit.

“We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks implanted and they’re all working well,” Musk said

I thought the first one had more or less stopped working.

So they’re basically asking scientists to pay for the destruction of science journalism?

I haven’t tried it because I’ve read a lot of negative discussions of it—and because (by my understanding) the only reasonable use case would be if there were a large number of users and each user is likely to have copies of the same files but don’t want to expose their files to each other (so you can’t just manually de-dupe).

it’s filled with deranged, violent criminals

For Doug Ford, that’s a bonus.

How about if we buy Alaska and throw in Minnesota and Minneapolis at the same time?

Joke’s on them—Minneapolis is in Minnesota, so they’d only be getting two regions instead of three. Sell them quick before they catch on!

Davis, a former police officer, was convicted for orchestrating the 1994 murder of a civil rights complainant

If Biden was trying to protect them from getting executed by Trump, I don’t think that one had anything to worry about.

Am I missing something, or does karma (as a cumulative per-user measure) not play any functional role in Lemmy anyway?

In his first speech of 2025, King Frederik said: “We are all united and each of us committed for the kingdom of Denmark. From the Danish minority in South Schleswig – which is even situated outside the kingdom – and all the way to Greenland. We belong together.”

Ok, so he rejected US interest in Danish territory… while simultaneously asserting Danish interest in part of Germany?

Sure—I thought the previous comment was just trying to identify any US coastlines not on the list, not filtering by reason for exclusion.

And Hawaii?

Between the various cortical layers and white matter, what part of the brain’s structure do these implants typically target? Do they sit on top of the outermost layer of some specific region of the cortex (effectively creating a new layer), or do they make long-distance connections to other brain structures?

It’s historically been applied at the level of societies rather than individuals, and targeted at common traits seen as undesirable rather than at specific genetic defects. And it tends to be based on misconceptions about evolution—e.g., that an ideal population is one in which all members’ genotypes approach some hypothetical optimum, and any genetic diversity within a population is deleterious.

It’s not an investigative article—it’s a discussion with an author teasing one aspect of her book. I assume the title was meant more as a description of the book than as a claim they were trying to fully substantiate within this particular discussion about the book.

I haven’t yet read Chan’s book, but I would recommend also reading Aubrey Clayton’s Bernoulli’s Fallacy—which catalogs how the principle founders of eugenics were also the founders of modern statistical methodology, and how they distorted the latter to justify their beliefs.

Thanks—I meant “formal” as in “formal grammar”, not that it wasn’t described in the published protocol. As in, there’s nothing in the protocol’s explicit form that distinguishes between this implied meaning and a real extra recipient—so it simplifies the parsing but adds an extra post-parsing step.

Why not a binary flag or something? Is it just to avoid making it a formal part of the protocol?

Does ActivityPub really send copies of all activities to www.w3.org?