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Just completed ATLA. What is next in the series?
  • Not that I know of, I've only seen it in book form. But there are some people who quasi-animate it on Youtube while "reviewing" it.

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    Just completed ATLA. What is next in the series?
  • There are a number of graphic novels that continue the story, so you can kinda watch the gaang grow up. The first series, I believe, is called The Search, and it's about finding Zuko's mom. There are also a ton of spinoff novels about the other avatars if you want more lore.

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    Anatomy of a Hurricane
  • I was under the impression that the number of hurricanes that made landfall had been increasing in recent decades, but the bottom chart suggests it’s about constant. Maybe it’s just the total number of storms then?

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    The People Fleeing Climate Disasters Are Going to Transform the American South
  • If property values in high-risk areas start declining I wonder if there would ever be class action suits against the government or specific bad actors.

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    How the seasons work in the UK
  • Lucky, you get 4 seasons!? Here in South Florida we get "holy fuck it's so hot!" with hurricanes, and "oh, this is kinda nice" with hurricanes.

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    People often point to the terrible things in the world as evidence we're living in "the worst timeline". What examples are there of things that suggest our timeline is actually better than it seems?
  • I try to be a "silver lining" type of guy whenever possible, and a recent example that I've been using is mRNA vaccines. They were advancing achingly slowly before CoVID-19 basically turned the whole world into an mRNA lab. Now, thanks to that, there are vaccine trials underway for seasonal influenza, Epstein–Barr virus, HIV, RSV and several types of cancer. There's even talk of a bona fide cure for the common cold.

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    Capsela Toys!
  • I gave my kid my big crate of capsela a few years ago. Aside from having to sand a few contacts it all worked great after 25 years of non-use and also led us into some cool 3d printing projects. I wish they made more toys like this today.

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    Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly of Carbon Capture
  • The argument was that before we drilled holes into them, those stone formations had held similarly sized pockets of natural gas for eons, so just refilling them with CO2 would be fine. It sounds not completely stupid on first thought.

    On second thought it sounds completely stupid tho.

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    People who grew up in Manhattan (or other heavily urbanised area), how did your childhood look like?
  • I spent my childhood in Brooklyn (just a bridge away from Manhattan) just before the internet was a thing, and it seems pretty normal relative to what friends from other places describe. In fact, better in some ways. It was always easy to get a group of kids together to do whatever. We had pickup baseball (usually stickball), basketball, hide-and-seek and other games. There were 2 nice parks and several pocket parks in easy walking distance. Most of us had and rode bikes everywhere. A lot of my friends went to different schools (because of the density you might walk 3 blocks to the elementary school north of you, or 4 to the one south), so there were always new pools of people to interact with.

    Though I moved away my sister still lives there and has kids of her own, and it seems pretty much the same now as it was then. Since the density of the place hasn’t changed too much it actually seems more the same than where I live now, which has significantly changed in terms of population and traffic (and is heavily car-dependent) in just the last 15 years.

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    Stay in your lane*
  • wasn't there some research recently that said that like 20% of what your brain does was actually controlled by your gut microbiota?

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  • I've had a lot of fun making stupid songs using Suno, but one of their biggest limitations -- not being able to use a specific artist or group as an example -- seems intentionally added to escape this kind of lawsuit.

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    Though I guess "Saudi Arabia" and "dystopia" is a little redundant

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    bigthink.com How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?

    The all-time record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds, set in 2009. What is the fastest time, ultimately, for an ideal human body?

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    apps.npr.org The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail

    There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

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    thenextweb.com Swiss startup to advance collaborative robots with GenAI humanoid hand

    Zurich-based mimic has raised $2.5mn to further develop its AI-powered humanoid hand that can perform repetitive and demanding manual tasks.

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    hothardware.com Orthopedic Doctor Uses Apple Vision Pro For Game-Changing Surgery Assist

    The ability to see and highlight critical details more easily or have surgery-aiding software could improve medical outcomes for all.

    In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.

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    www.nbcnews.com Earthquake hits U.S. East Coast, shaking buildings from Philadelphia to Boston

    The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the earthquake at a 4.8-magnitude.

    Raw data from the USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive

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    phys.org Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds

    The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we're taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature.

    Graphene: is there anything it can't do (aside from be manufactured at scale, anyway)

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    phys.org Possible atmospheric destruction of a potentially habitable exoplanet

    Astrophysicists studying a popular exoplanet in its star's habitable zone have found that electric currents in the planet's upper atmosphere could create sufficient heating to expand the atmosphere enough that it leaves the planet, likely leaving the planet uninhabitable.

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    www.tomshardware.com This Raspberry Pi volumetric display is a new spin on LED 3D animations

    The Raspberry Pi powers the show, but the real star is the exquisite build and test process to achieve 600 RPM

    Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!

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    arstechnica.com FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law

    Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

    Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

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    SpaceX's laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions when there are no ground towers nearby (like when they're going across oceans).

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    www.theregister.com Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech

    It's not just you – things really are getting worse

    Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

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    Noticed I was logged out of lemmy.ml this morning. When I logged in, everything looked the same, but... "All" loaded instantly. Switching to "Subscribed" was just as fast. Post thumbnails came up as quickly as I could scroll.

    I don't know if it's the new software or if y'all cleared out some cruft when restarting the services, but from this end-user's perspective, Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.8 flies. Nicely done!

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    www.wired.com The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever

    Copyright activists are on a mission to wipe a popular generative AI training set from the internet. Success could alter the industry—and who controls it.

    Increasingly, the authors of works being used to train large language models are complaining (and rightfully so) that they never gave permission for such a use-case. If I were an LLM company, I'd be seriously looking for a Plan B right now, whether that's engaging publishing companies to come up with new licensing options, paying 1,000,000 grad students to write 1,000,000 lines of prose, or something else entirely.

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