Trump cancelled the federal grant for this program, so it might falter in upcoming years.
This is absurd. The contemporaneous accounts don’t support this. We’re making up fake history based on feels.
Meanwhile, real black African history is basically never taught due to the shadow of colonialism.
Instead of reaching for some false valour, can we teach the full pre-colonial history of Africa?
smegtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHubEnglish
9·4 days agoFork it. Keep it open source. Enshitification is coming.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"English
81·5 days agoAnd if their percentage was unreasonably high, their competitors would sell at lower prices. Strangely, they don’t. Which tells us that Tim’s complaints are nothing but bullshit.
The cookie banners are the result of shitty web companies aggressively violating our privacy. It’s not the regulation’s fault that every company is evil.
The easy solution to eliminate the banners is for companies to stop being evil.
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Legal News@lemmy.zip•US | ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her faceEnglish
18·7 days agoNow they start taking away privileges from citizens for disagreeing with government policy. Next they jail them.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Where do you think we'd be in the current AI craze if the pandemic never happened?English
2·7 days agoContrary to fact hypothesizing.
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Technology@lemmy.zip•Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came fromEnglish
261·7 days agoAll of the AI tools know how to make CP somehow - probably because their creators fed it to them.
The term prediction markets is a way to brand away from the stigma and the social harms of gambling.
But it’s the same.
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news@lemmings.world•Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown loomsEnglish
31·9 days agoEven if the shutdown commences, the Democrats will cave when some small inconvenience occurs for wealthy people. Again.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Château Picard-oEnglish
91·10 days agoTuvix’s death makes the entire series A+. If Janeway had a choice between keeping Tuvix alive and getting home immediately, or killing Tuvix and having to slog through the entire Delta quadrant, then clearly the latter is the superior choice.
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Europe@feddit.org•EU Parliament delays decision to unfreeze US trade dealEnglish
20·11 days agoBy the time they unfreeze it, Trump will give them reason to freeze it again. Make a deal with a bad faith party, expect them to demand more every time.
I struggle to consider it scientific because it bakes in so many fundamental assumptions without questioning them. At least mainstream economics.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Murphy signs controversial e-bike law requiring registration, insurance in New JerseyEnglish
1·12 days agoAmsterdam is banning fat tire ebikes (that are really just low profile electric motorcycles). If there’s 1 thing that breaks the rules, ban it. I expect the rest of the Netherlands to follow suit because everyone here is complaining about them.
smegtoAMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND@lemmy.world•Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson, together, of courseEnglish
2·12 days agoWestern political elites are hell bent on legitimizing Saudi Arabia
From King Crimson’s first album:
- 21st Century Schizoid Man
- Epitaph
- The Court of the Crimson King
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•New York City’s new transportation commissioner said he is looking to cities like Bogotá, Tokyo and Paris for inspiration English
191·12 days agoWhy not Amsterdam and Copenhagen, if the goal is peak design? Paris is…not.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Murphy signs controversial e-bike law requiring registration, insurance in New JerseyEnglish
81·12 days agoThe only reason this would ever be necessary is because ebikes (and bikes) have to interact with cars in dangerous spaces. Instead of punishing people who are reducing traffic by cycling, they should be building safer spaces to do so.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump-appointed judge 'quickly' blocks admin from destroying evidence in new DHS killingEnglish
593·12 days agoEvidence isn’t necessary when the law doesn’t matter






South China Morning Post: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3263878/chinese-scientists-report-world-first-they-cure-patients-diabetes-cell-therapy