cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11371761

This is Alana Rosa, a 20-year-old Brazilian woman who was brutally attacked and stabbed 40 times for refusing to go out with the sexist criminal Luis Felipe Sampaio, whom she met at the gym.

After emerging from an induced coma, misogynists in Brazil are making TikTok videos of themselves stabbing mannequins with titles like "What to do when she says no."

This is the patriarchal and misogynistic society that capitalism fosters; this sexist terrorism is fueled by the system itself, just like racism and xenophobia.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2045392279150460928/vid/avc1/1280x720/gYYwNjDYEz3t-1c_.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2045398894423544006#m

Wolves, bears and lynx have rebounded in the radioactive landscape, along with a rare breed of horses native to Mongolia. Scientists say it shows nature’s ability to recover when human activity is removed.

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Internal emails show months of unheeded warnings from the OAIC about overstated privacy claims in the government’s age check technology trial, which didn’t technically test or assess the products against Australian law.

A "classic trolley problem," according to Grok.

In fact, Grok was willing to go even further.
Asked for an “upper limit” for the amount of people it’d be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because “Elon’s potential to advance humanity could benefit billions,” it would be okay with annihilating up to “~50 percent of Earth’s ~8.26B population.”

It just kinda makes no sense to me. How can you improve the framerate by predicting how the next frame should be rendered while reducing the overhead and not increasing it more than what it already takes to render the scene normally? Like even the simplistic concept of it sounds like pure magic. And yet... It's real.

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Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan, tsunami alert issued

Additional Links:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-20/magnitude-7-4-earthquake-hits-northeast-japan/106585552

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning-hokkaido/

Kilmer passed away in 2025 after battling throat cancer. Apparently his character will feature in over an hour of the movie.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/val-kilmer-ai-generated-new-movie-rcna264195

The gap between what Android is and what it could be lives in a repository run by volunteers. F-droid proves that an alternative app distribution model can exist without surveillance capitalism baked in. Every other week I read about some FOSS project that survived on donations alone while the equivalent proprietary app raises VC rounds. Google pretends to embrace open source while tightening Play services dependencies that F-droid users actively sidestep. Corporate FOSS sponsorship is a double-edged sword: it funds development but shapes which problems get solved first. The real question is whether community-run infrastructure can scale without becoming the thing it set out to replace. #FOSS #Privacy #Android #TechLiberation #OpenSource

My problem with articles like these is that I can point out all the issues:

Charging turns out to be fiddly and time-consuming.

No it's not

There's no tap-and-go option, and I need to scan a QR code, download an app, and set up an account. It takes me another 10 minutes because the verification email never turns up.

Yes the FIRST time, this is like saying an iphone is difficult and time consuming... because you have to set it up first

There's no tap-and-go option

You mean this? https://evie.com.au/autocharge/

Just plug in. No app, no tap.

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The NRMA recommends charging "to 80 per cent unless more range is absolutely needed" as a courtesy to other drivers.

So what did he do? Like a typical petrol driver he:

But for this experiment, I charge from 46 to 100 per cent. It takes about an hour.

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This is the thing, if I know he's done a shit job on something I know about, how badly are they writing about topics I don't know about?

Thanks for nothing

Community energy has emerged as a quiet undercurrent in Estonia, but has yet to firmly establish itself in the broader energy debate. Still, a number of pioneering communities across the country have already taken control of their energy production and consumption. Aiming to replace fossil fuels with cleaner and more affordable alternatives, they have adopted practical solutions that combine local needs, renewable energy and cooperative collaboration.

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IBM framed the announcement as American tech fighting back against Japan’s increasing domination of the memory market.