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Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
On 21 July I noted that the TV app for #YouTube (e.g. Android TV, Chromecast with #Google TV) had become much harder to use since user-specific search history was no longer being shown, replaced with a list of (as far as I'm concerned) utterly useless "hot, trending" topics. This meant that users had to manually reenter their common searches with every use. Extremely bad user experience. I made my concerns about this change known to Google. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

I'm pleased to report that as of this morning, the original behavior has returned to the TV app, with user search history now appearing as it did before. Since this was not the case last night, and the app version is now dated 24 July, this clearly is an update.

Whether the obnoxious behavior was a bug or an intended "feature", thanks Google for reverting to the original behavior in this new version of the app.
Brian Hawthorne mastodon (AP)
I had mostly avoided Apple’s marketplace myself until now, except for their hardware, but I am far more comfortable with their corporate approach to user data and privacy than the direction my current provider of all things SaaS, Google, has been taking recently.

So, I’m moving all my data back in house to a local NAS and unwinding my intricate reliance on all-things-Google. Along the way, there are a few services, like streaming music, that I want to purchase from someone. Also, I have enjoyed literally everything I have watched on their streaming channel, AppleTV+, which I had already subscribed to.

I will miss ad-free YouTube, which really means I will miss YouTube since I don’t watch things with ads, but it is not worth the cost of YouTube Premium. If Google offered an ad-free tier unbundled from YouTube Music, I’d consider it.
Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
@bhawthorne Apple has always been hideously overpriced and monopolistic, especially with hardware. I've refused to use any of it whenever I've had a choice. Their so-called "privacy" stuff is mostly just self-serving misdirection to serve their own bottom line. They are deeply in bed with China, even to the extent of censoring at their request. Google has lots of troubles right now, but Apple is FAR FAR FAR worse.


Deniz Opal mastodon (AP)
Trump tells his supporters this is the last time they will have to go through the inconvenience of voting.

https://youtu.be/-0_xhkBAADk?si=WJY9pkucOFd4AH86
Deniz Opal reshared this.
I could brush this off as the blithering of an imbecile if Americans weren't so damn fond of 'convenience'.
#GOPfascists
#VotingRights
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CelloMom On Cars mastodon (AP)
"We measured #methane exchange on hundreds of tree stems in forests along a climate gradient spanning the Amazon and Panama, through to Sweden and the UK.

In total, our cautious first estimate is that trees take up between about 25 and 50 million tonnes of atmospheric methane each year, with most taken up by tropical forests."

https://theconversation.com/weve-discovered-the-worlds-trees-absorb-methane-so-forests-are-even-more-important-in-the-climate-fight-than-we-thought-235233
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Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Oh, that reminds me. I want to look up how much radon biochar can adsorb so that I can try to make the case that it should be deposited under every new building that gets built from here on out.

Raphael mastodon (AP)
Heute gibt's mal wieder Indisch, oder zumindest Indisch inspiriert.
#essen #vegan
Naanbrote mit verschiedenen Saucen und Beilagen.

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Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
They just haven't been watching Mastodon, have they?
https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-volunteers/
"the Harris campaign has signed up a whopping 170,000 volunteers and has scheduled over 2,300 events in battleground states."
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DB mastodon (AP)
Hell yes- I’m impressed it’s exactly what is needed

Tomi T Ahonen mastodon (AP)
We can be serious.. and still smile

We can make a serious point, also with a joke

We can laugh

Danish comedian Victor Borge used to say "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Kamala Harris knows how to deliver a joke and she can laugh. Her smile is contagious

SMILE FOR THE WIN

I haven't seen the new Civil War movie, but I think they missed a chance at setting it entirely in The Villages with entirely golf cart-based warfare.
:blobcatthink:
4d3fect mastodon (AP)
six hour chase scenes
Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
@4d3fect
Have you seen the videos of the soldiers that the Kremlin has been sending towards the front on golf carts in order to flush out Ukrainian positions?

It's funny, but it is also not funny at all like so much is when dealing with organizations like the Kremlin and the GOP.

‼️🇺🇸US Secretary of State warns China about consequences of continued support of Russian military industrial complex (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/27/7467714/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Chris Wiegman mastodon (AP)
An unethical company has unethical data practices. Who would've thunk it? https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/26/x-grok-ai-tweets-auto-opt-in/
Nazani mastodon (AP)
The heirs & publishers of
Robert A. Heinlein should sue for theft of intellectual property.

DoomsdaysCW mastodon (AP)
Tsk, tsk... The hotter it gets, the more Paks (and other nuclear plants) will be used to cool off humans! The #DanubeRiver is already heating up and drying out because of #ClimateChange!

#Hungary to allow #NuclearPlant to exceed #Danube water temperature limit

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - "Hungary is planning to allow the temperature limit for a section of the Danube which receives cooling water from the #Paks #NuclearPowerPlant to be exceeded for security of supply reasons, the energy ministry said in a statement on Friday.

"The plant's four reactors operate by using the water of the Danube to cool its operations. Currently, according to the regulation, the river cannot receive water if its temperature exceeds 30 degree Celsius, in which case the operator must cut output and wait for the river to cool below the limit.

"'Due to climate change, weather conditions may increasingly lead to the limit being reached in summer, especially at low water levels,' the statement read."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/world/hungary-to-allow-nuclear-plant-to-exceed-danube-water-temperature-limit/ar-BB1qIFiI

#Europe #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #RenewablesNow #NuclearPower #RethinkNotRestart

Muss ich mir Sorgen machen, wenn mein Tiefkühlschrank beim Einschalten die ersten drei Noten des #Terminator-Themes spielt?

Carolannie mastodon (AP)
#Bookstodon #BookSky challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#20books #20books20days
19/20
A cover of Octavia Buter's book The Parable of the Sower


Chuck Darwin mastodon (AP)
I think a lot about this 2018 Rolling Stone interview with Pete Buttigieg (when he was still mayor of South Bend, Indiana)
in which he offers his thoughts on recasting “concepts that conservatives have traditionally ‘owned’
— like freedom, family, and patriotism
— in more progressive terms”...

You’ll hear me talk all the time about #freedom. Because I think there is a failure on our side if we allow conservatives to monopolize the idea of freedom
- especially now that they’ve produced an authoritarian president.
But what actually gives people freedom in their lives?
The most profound freedoms of my everyday existence have been safeguarded by progressive policies, mostly.
The freedom to marry who I choose, for one,
but also the freedom that comes with paved roads and stop lights.
Freedom from some obscure regulation is so much more abstract.
But that’s the freedom that conservatism has now come down to.

Or think about the idea of #family, in the context of everyday life.
It’s one thing to talk about family values as a theme, or a wedge
— but what’s it actually like to have a family?
Your family does better if you get a fair wage, if there’s good public education, if there’s good health care when you need it.
These things intuitively make sense, but we’re out of practice talking about them.

I also think we need to talk about a different kind of #patriotism:
a fidelity to American greatness in its truest sense.
You think about this as a local official, of course, but a truly great country is made of great communities.
What makes a country great isn’t chauvinism. -- It’s the kinds of lives you enable people to lead.
I think about wastewater management as freedom.
If a resident of our city doesn’t have to give it a second thought, she’s freer.

https://kottke.org/24/07/we-choose-freedom
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Chris Rowan mastodon (AP)

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Taggart :donor: mastodon (AP)

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Molly B mastodon (AP)

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mitten mastodon (AP)

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⚠️🇺🇦Ukraine's border guards on situation at Belarusian border and in Sumy Oblast (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/27/7467711/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Mx. Luna Corbden mastodon (AP)
I agree with a lot of people who disagree with each other. There’s quite a bit of “yes, and” up in this head.
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Mx. Luna Corbden mastodon (AP)
I miss Snek for President 🥺

⚠️🇺🇦Russian invaders kill civilian woman in Kherson Oblast (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/27/7467708/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow


taz mastodon (AP)
Ist ein Gipsy Village auf der Travemünder Woche problematisch? Sinti- und Roma-Organisationen sind sich uneins über den Umgang mit Stereotypen. https://taz.de/!6022836


Osteopenia Powers , mastodon (AP)
Republican conventions are well configured to secretly broadcast extremist messages to the insiders, and appear not-crazy to the rest of the nation, says Rick Perlstein of the American Prospect. Maybe you, the TV viewer, saw some Black guy you never heard of singing gospel at the 2004 RNC, but
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UFW mastodon (AP)
Lupe is a farm worker on the coast of CA. She has been a farm worker for over 25 years. Right now she is weeding the vegeatble field to ensure the fields are free from debris before the next planting. #WeFeedYou
Farm workers standing where she is weeding a vegetable field
Spooky Socks VOTED mastodon (AP)
If I may ask: why did she scrunch her hoodie in front? Was it too big?

Crystal_Fish_Caves mastodon (AP)
Team #USA take first medal in the #olympics today for women's synchronized #diving taken by team Cook / Bacon.

You heard me.


Zack Labe mastodon (AP)
Simulated reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice thickness since 1901. Watch for the last 10 years or so...

Information about this data set is available at http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/piomas-20c/. Note that it is only updated through 2010 due to ERA-20C forcing.
Fascinating to see the changes in Arctic sea ice thickness over the decades. 🧊📉 The last decade really highlights the urgent need for climate action. Thanks for sharing this insightful data! 🌍 #ClimateChange #ArcticIce

Dragonfly in flight over the river Nene in Northamptonshire today

#nature#Dragonfly #Wildlife#photography #NaturePhotography #DragonflyPhotography #DragonsOfMastodon #UK
A green dragonfly flitting around about 1ft from the river surface

#电视剧 The Victims' Game Season2 Episode8 watched at July 28, 2024 at 01:46AM

‼️🇺🇦Ukrainian Intelligence show how helicopters were destroyed in Russia (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3889540-ukrainian-reconnaissance-men-show-how-helicopters-were-destroyed-in-russia.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

SpeakEasy mastodon (AP)
Nazani mastodon (AP)
Where is Gardiner? NY or MT?

Kevin Leecaster mastodon (AP)
Americans should despise the Kremlin more than we do imo.

This film opens by summarizing one of history's earliest and most effective campaigns of deception. In 1983, a small New Dehli newspaper published an article promoting a rumor that AIDS was a U.S. invention designed to kill African Americans and homosexuals.

According to one ex-KGB operative, up to 85% of their agency's efforts are devoted to the spread of these false stories.
https://youtu.be/4R62ZEKRkdE

‼️🇺🇦Ukraine, NATO to create five rehabilitation centers for military personnel - DM Umerov (PHOTOS and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3889503-ukraine-nato-to-create-five-rehabilitation-centers-for-military-personnel-umerov.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

The holidays are upon us & many of you may be wondering just how many books to take with you (if, like me, you are an e-book refusenik).

Here's Tom Gauld's decision tool - enjoy.

And, you may need a bigger suitcase....

[This post is not intended to re-open the extended paperbacks vs. e-books debate that has played out in my timeline periodically over the last year]

#holiday #travel
@bookstodon
Cartoon: How many books should Take on holiday with me?

Presents decision tool that starts with 'Have you got a book in your suitcase' and then through a circular logic tied up with anxiety about running out of books requires the user to buy a bigger suitcase as they work their way round the process.

[Apologies couldn't see how to convey the 'tool' clearly in the alt.text]
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I have the limiter of, do I eat or buy that book....

sometimes the book still wins....
that is what they whisper to me, the cats however launch a pro food counter offensive....

Gail Waldby mastodon (AP)
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