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  • Is there a federated fandom wiki alternative?

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  • Some franchises have significant fandom overlap and crossover, so somebody might want to use their Marvel wiki account to also do some work on the DC wiki.

    It would also make it easier to cross-link incidental mentions. For example, quite a few actors appeared on both Star Trek and Stargate. If the Stargate wiki can write "John DeLancey also played [[Q]]@startrek.wiki", it makes for a less seamful reading experience.

  • People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

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  • Yup. LLMs won't go away unless and until they collapse in on themselves, so I say let's accelerate it.

  • People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

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  • No, model collapse is the result. The process is more like if the Human Centipede was an ouroboros and also a vampiric fractal Markov chain.

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    People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

    www.newscientist.com /article/2531050-people-training-new-ai-models-admit-they-just-get-chatbots-to-do-it/

  • Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times

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  • I have a banana in my garage because I'm happy to see you.

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    Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times

    cowboystatedaily.com /2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-over-in-montana-driver-says-cops-have-stopped-him-100s-of-times/
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    Trump celebrates 80th birthday with cage fight, Iran deal

    www.newarab.com /news/trump-celebrates-80th-birthday-cage-fight-iran-deal
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  • Of course he isn't. Kings have way less power and authority than the POTUS.

    Honestly, I think it would be best for everybody if we just let Trump be an actual king. Let him wear a crown and sit on a throne while the prime minister actually runs the country.

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    Anthropic calls for pause of global AI development

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  • I'm so handsome and charming I shouldn't be in the same room as 90% of women and 10% of men lest they become so overcome with insane list they rip their clothes off and have hours of hard, passionate, energetic sex with me. I just couldn't bear to break up every non-lesbian couple I meet with my incredible animal magnetism, so for the good of society, people must only be allowed to admire me from a distance.

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • Christians have their own flag?

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • Tylee Durden is am allegory for toxic masculinity. He talks a big game about individuality and self-determination, but Project Mayhem is even more strictly conformist and anti-individualistic than the corporate culture it's rebelling against.

    People like Andrew Tate watch the movie and think Tyler Durden is an example to be followed but they don't even take on his critique of capitalism.

    Like. In his speech at the start, about how your possessions own you, he's not wrong about society. But instead of offering a real solution, all he does is gather men with social issues into a rage-fuelled terrorist cult which he can't even control. Much like the One Ring uses good intentions to corrupt its wearer to evil, so Tyler Durden uses genuine feelings of dissatisfaction and disaffection men feel in the late 20th century to pointlessly destructive aims, ultimately reproducing the very power structures they claim to fight against.

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • No, Bruce Wayne us the scientist, the monster is Batman.

  • Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

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  • NCR?

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    Christian man sues employer for forcing him to see a Pride flag on his way into work

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/06/christian-man-sues-employer-for-forcing-him-to-see-a-pride-flag-on-his-way-into-work/

  • Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests

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  • Here is the original paper.

    Mosquitoes are not evolving attraction to mosquito repellant. The mosquitoes described in the article were bred in a lab to see if it could happen.

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    Delaware court upholds voting by companies in small town's election

    www.reuters.com /legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/
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    AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate—Yes, Really - Decrypt

    decrypt.co /368866/ai-startup-pay-people-2000-month-masturbate

  • 'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell | CBC Radio

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  • Common history, so we know conquest and colonialism when we see it.

  • 'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell | CBC Radio

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  • The Irish view Cromwell the way Palestinians view Netanyahu. The English treatment of Ireland under Cromwell is a lot like the modern treatment of Palestine by Israel, which is why Irish people are so pro-Palestine.

    One thing that often surprises English people who move here is just how much we hate Cromwell.

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    'Smallest statue in the world': Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell | CBC Radio

    www.cbc.ca /radio/asithappens/smallest-statue-in-the-world-irish-councillor-proposes-monument-for-mosquito-that-killed-cromwell-9.7203480
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    Russia’s foreign affairs minister says Eurovision participation requires ‘outright Satanism’

    www.thejournal.ie /russias-foreign-minister-says-eurovision-participation-requires-outright-satanism-7043575-May2026/

  • Pastor leads leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump’s giant gold statue

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  • Oh it gets better.

    The statue — which rises 15 feet atop a 7-foot base — was commissioned and bankrolled by a collective of crypto investors seeking to boost visibility for their memecoin, $PATRIOT, according to The Daily Beast.

    Sculptor Alan Cottrill told The Times in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf.

    His suggestion went down like an offering of water “to a person dying of thirst,” he said. “Immediately everybody jumped on board.”

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  • There is a British comic strip called Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles. It is an absurd, immature joke about a man with ridiculously enormous spasmojesticles whose titanic sperm factories keep causing him trouble. It's fun when Star Trek predicts the future; when Viz does so, it makes me want to start liking alcohol.

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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    Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

    www.thetimes.com /us/american-politics/article/bison-trump-federal-land-montana-f95rsnmrj

  • Saudi liquor store runs short because of Iran war bottleneck

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  • I'm reading The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer. One of the numerous things he talks about is attitudes to wine in the Ottoman court, which set the time for all of contemporary Türkiye. Baer compares Turkish attitudes toward wine with similarly positive attitudes in Iran and the Arab nations, also noting that the Ottomans and Safavids both condemned each other as being drunk as good Muslims must never be. (The Ottomans and Safabids were constantly calling each other blasphemous for indulging in the very things they themselves loved doing).

  • Saudi liquor store runs short because of Iran war bottleneck

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  • The idea that all alcohol is haram is actually pretty recent. Muslims in the medieval and early modern eras interpreted the Qu'ran as forbidding specific types of fermented beverages rather than banning alcohol altogether, let alone all intoxicants as is generally the case today. Arab, Iranic, and Turkish poets wrote epic paeans to the greatness of wine and waxed lyrical about how it brought one closer to God and so all Muslims should drink it. Christian European diplomats complained that Muslim Turkish dignitaries outdrank them hard, and nobody could put away wine as well as the sultan.

    Ever since Muhammad, at least some Muslims have interpreted the Qu'ran as banning any consumption of alcohol, but it's unclear when this position became the dominant one. I know that wine flowed freely in the Ottoman court into the 17th century, so it was probably only some time in the Modern era.

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    Saudi liquor store runs short because of Iran war bottleneck

    www.newarab.com /news/saudi-liquor-store-runs-short-because-iran-war-bottleneck

  • Reducing methane in cattle burps among Agri research projects to receive €37.5m

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  • We raise our cows in fields.

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    Reducing methane in cattle burps among Agri research projects to receive €37.5m

    www.rte.ie /news/ireland/2026/0430/1571077-farming-projects-ireland/
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    National Lottery calls for ban on betting on its games

    www.rte.ie /news/2026/0428/1570586-lottery-betting/
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    Israeli police confiscate Hungarian flag from Haifa protester due to Palestinian 'resemblance'

    www.newarab.com /news/israel-police-confiscate-hungary-flag-over-palestine-resemblance
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    Peacock terrorises 92-year-old Suffolk farmer's chickens

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cly6p86d4ljo