The Lemmy Club

To celebrate the release of the Pixelfed Mobile app going live on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store, we’re proud to be launching our first Kickstarter campaign. All funds raised will go toward continued development and support of the core Pixelfed Foundation applications and the ActivityPub ecosystem at large.

The Pixelfed Team builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses. We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards. Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.

nice to be back i think it's big to admit a mistake and reopen the community

You'd think a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players, would have some mechanism that would prevent itself from throwing down it's key ideology.

Is it really that the president is all that decides about the future of democracy itself? Is 53 out of 100 senate seats really enough to make country fall into authoritarian regime? Is the army really not constitutionally obliged to step in and save the day?

I'd never think that, of all places, American democracy would be the most volatile.

In addition to pursuing the death penalty where possible, the Attorney General shall, where consistent with applicable law, pursue Federal jurisdiction and seek the death penalty regardless of other factors for every federal capital crime involving:

(i)   The murder of a law-enforcement officer; or

(ii)  A capital crime committed by an alien illegally present in this country.

The Attorney General shall encourage State attorneys general and district attorneys to bring State capital charges for all capital crimes with special attention to the crimes described in Subsections (i) and (ii), regardless of whether the federal trial results in a capital sentence.

They are censoring a post over on r/technology about the fediverse.

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Solidarity throughout the generations! We are all working class.

he was in for life

Today, I saw real snow in my hometown for the first time ever. Florida's previous record was 3 inches in 1895. Today, we received about 6-7.5 inches of snow. And - I can't believe it - it's still there right now!

The implications of this are of course kind of terrifying, but seeing everyone so excited and playing outside has been nice. I've watched people introducing their pets to their first snow, making snow angels, playing with makeshift sleds. I've heard people cheering and having fun all through my neighborhood.

People are happy to be off work. Even the Waffle Houses are closed. There are no cars on the road. It's a nice little respite during a particularly horrifying time. I know it's a symptom of something much worse to come, but it's beautiful anyway.

I wish I was there.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53288701

Researchers at Durham University have successfully demonstrated long-lasting quantum entanglement between molecules, opening new doors for future advancements in quantum computing, sensing, and fundamental physics. The paper is published in the journal Nature.

In a world-first, scientists used precisely controlled optical traps, known as "magic-wavelength optical tweezers," to create a highly stable environment that supports long-lasting entanglement, a key capability for next-generation quantum technology.

Striking evidence that string theory could be the sole viable “theory of everything” has emerged in a new theoretical study of particle scattering that was done by a trio of physicists in the US. By unifying all fundamental forces of nature, including gravity, string theory could provide the long-sought quantum description of gravity that has eluded scientists for decades.

The research was done by Caltech’s Clifford Cheung and Aaron Hillman along with Grant Remmen at New York University. They have delved into the intricate mathematics of scattering amplitudes, which are quantities that encapsulate the probabilities of particles interacting when they collide.

The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: who’s most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume it’s the tech-savvy – those who understand how AI works – who are most eager to adopt it.

Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference in adoption propensity the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link.