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A number of communities use scheduled threads to help get discussion started, and I thought this community could benefit from something like that. It reduces the pressure on individual users to be the first one to post a discussion post, since this community is mostly news/research articles.

It could be to chat about how things are going professionally, to share stories from that week, to discuss a piece of news/research in depth, etc.

If this sounds good to you, how often should the threads be scheduled? Any other considerations?

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

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Hey guys! As a little thank you to the community and in light of the current ongoing Steam Summer Sale, I would like to give a little back to the community: I'm giving away a number of soulslikes and soulslike-adjacent titles. I'm not made of money, so sadly, I can't give away the "best" titles there are (Edit: They're getting better by the hour now 😂), but there should be something interesting in the mix here. :D

I'm giving away copies of:

• 2x Hollow Knight (thanks to TheOakTree 💜)
• 5x Blasphemous (thanks to TheOakTree 💜)
• Nioh: Complete Edition
• Mortal Shell
• Thymesia
• The Surge 2
• Elden Ring (thanks to Demigodrick 💜)
• Dust: An Elysian Tail (thanks to p3e7 💜)
• Lies of P (thanks to an anonymous donation 💙)

Requirements:

• Post a comment here. Ideally, you'll include which of these titles you already have, so you don't get a duplicate in case you are pulled as a winner.
• You need to be from the EU. Because of regional pricing differences affecting which countri

A Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma.

Google’s carbon emissions jumped yet again as the company continues to push ahead in AI. The company’s 2025 sustainability report emphasizes that its “ambition-based emissions” grew 11 percent last year to reach 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution, marking a 51 percent increase compared to 2019.

That puts Google farther away from its goal of slashing planet-heating pollution in half by 2030 compared to a 2019 baseline. But what it calls “ambition-based” emissions excludes certain categories of supply chain pollution it considers out of its control or“peripheral” to the core business of Alphabet, Google’s par

A lot of the future of AI will be settled in court. From publishers to authors to artists to Hollywood conglomerates, the creative industry is picking a big copyright fight over the vast quantities of data used to train AI models - and the ultimate output of those models. (Disclosure: Vox Media, The Verge's parent company, has a technology and content deal with OpenAI.) This week, we got rulings in two early cases, involving groups of authors suing Anthropic and Meta. In both cases, the tech companies won. Sort of.

On [this episode of The Vergecast](https://l

Hello,

It’s more of a meta discussion, but any chance you could reach out to the [email protected] mod? They just posted a half 2025 thread with quite a few comments: https://lemmy.ml/post/31205768

I know you’re banned on .ml, but you could maybe ping them here, or create a thread on [email protected]

The Fediverse's collaborative pixel art event is coming back. Last year we successfully put down this championship belt, designed by me.

If people are interested in participating again this year I'm willing to design something else. Of course, if someone else wants to design something I'm down for that too.

Last year I just put together the belt as a suggestion and we went with it. This year I figured we could get some more community input on what the design should be. Another belt? A wrestling ring? Should we go all in on a Mr. Iguana mural? The world sucks, lets detract ourselves with some pixel art.

Plant/seed transportation services can be very useful for avoiding long delays or theft by customs or incompetence at the post office, especially when sending internationally. For places without a postal service, such private services are essential. (As an example, Jim West, the world-renowned fruit collector, uses the services of a Colombian woman living in Ecuador in order to get seeds in and out of Ecuador using the Colombian postal service.)

Related services, such as obtaining seeds from reliable sources (e.g. botanical gardens) and sending them with phytosanitary certification, also belong here.

If you offer such services, you can post about yourself here and provide some evidence that you are legitimate, such as a scan/photo of an invoice with your client's personal information redacted.

Please do not post reviews directly in this thread. Use the Review Thread for that.

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I recently had to realise that seeing the pictures of transition timelines of others is like literally an instant trigger for my Dysphoria. That's why I would really like if could put an NSFW Tag on The pictures, so that I or others dont have to see them if we dont want to. I would really appreciate that. :)

Midjourney has released the first version of its video generation model to the public. For now, the tool can generate short videos based on images uploaded or created on the platform, but Midjourney plans on rolling out more capabilities in the future.

After creating an image using Midjourney, the service will show a new “animate” button that users can press to create a 5-second clip based on a text prompt. It will also show the option to add an image you uploaded to the platform as a “starting frame” for a video. The tool will generate a generic prompt that “just makes things move” by default, but a “manual” button lets users describe how they want the motion to look.

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More details on the "zombie community" effect: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40256279

To see it in action: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Lemmy.film has been down for around 2 years. LW users still post there thinking that it federates, but that community is now only local.

A bit of sad news to report.

What many of you may not know is that the mod here, Jenny, is one of my oldest IRL friends. Earlier today I got a call from her husband letting me know that when he came home from work Saturday, he found her unresponsive. She has been in the ICU since then. She was awake and talking yesterday morning but is now in a medically induced coma (mostly due to secondary complications).

I'm intentionally skipping over the specifics, but suffice it to say she's got a fight ahead of her. Things were too hectic this evening to visit, but I'm hoping to go see her tomorrow or as soon as the situation stabilizes enough to allow for non-family visitors.

So please keep her and her family in your thoughts.

Thanks,

Patrick

Just a reminder that we have moved to piefed.social due to lemm.ee shutting down. Please head over to [email protected] if you are still subscribed here.

Thanks!