Title says it all, really.

Following the investigation, local prosecutors brought charges against two students for theft of advertising services. The little-known statute appears to only exist in Illinois and California, where it was originally passed to prevent the Ku Klux Klan from distributing recruitment materials in newspapers. The statute makes it illegal to insert an “unauthorized advertisement in a newspaper or periodical.” The students, both of whom are Black, now face up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

“I have never seen anyone charged with theft of advertising,” said Elaine Odeh, a lawyer who formerly supervised public defenders in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Evanston, where Northwestern is based.

I ask anyone who stands against the ongoing crackdown on the free speech of anti-genocide protestors, or against the disproportionate criminalization of Black people and their speech, or for the freedom of the press and the freedom to parody, to consider signing this student-led change.org petition.

It just feels exhausting and hopeless lately and I'm afraid I'll just end up being lonely forever.

/vent over, thank you, carry on. Please don't absorb my upset into your own heart.

Examples include: Scary Game Squad, Gamegrumps, Team Double Dragon, and the like.

I just find let's plays a lot more entertaining when multiple people are playing and chatting than when it's just one person rambling. But these are weirdly hard to search for!

As the title says. I'd like to track my movie/tv watching like I do my reading, if anyone knows of a good site for this?

I know I could just track it on my own with paper or an offline spreadsheet or app, but the social aspect of stuff like goodreads (and now bookwyrm) is important to me.

I have a lot of time to fill with audio, but audiobooks are challenging for me because I have trouble paying attention consistently enough and processing physical descriptions fast enough to keep up with the narrator. I end up losing my place or having to rewind a lot. Slowing down playback doesn't help/introduces other problems.

I'm also easily put off by narrators that have repetitive quirks (e.g. ending every sentence like it's a question, or doing goofy voices) or that read in such a flat and consistent way that it becomes droning. So my preference, by far, is for narrators who basically act the book like they're in an audio drama or a movie. This seems more often the case for first person books.

On a similar note, audiodramas with full casts and music or sound effects are especially welcome.

I'm looking for something short because that makes it much more likely I'll finish. Long series are fine though if each book ends well, not on cliffhangers.

YA and even middle-grade are fine.

I'll also take "so bad it's good" suggestions.

Scifi and fantasy are my usual go-to's, but I'll take any genre, especially since adult fantasy and scifi usually has too much description for my audiobook tastes.

Horror would be good. Or maybe a comedy? Something gripping. Page-turners.

Basically I just really need something entertaining but snappy and very easy to follow, with a narrator who sounds like they're acting instead of like they're reading a script.

I'm already aware of actual play d&d podcasts - those are sometimes great, but I can get tired od them after a while and I'd like to find more variety/options with this post.

Thank you for any suggestions!

I thought the ADHD meds shortage was more than awful enough on its own, but holy crap this is horrifying.

Apparently the current shortage is in large part because an Indian drug manufacturer that was "was supplying the U.S. with half of its cisplatin, half of its methotrexate, 20 percent of its carboplatin" was investigated by the FDA last November, and it was found that quality control and safety measures was neigh nonexistent. Purity and dosage were thus unreliable. And since these drugs are injected directly into the bloodstream rather than digested, even a little contamination with bacteria or other harmful substances can be very, very bad.

There are hospitals rationing cancer drugs right now, lowering dosages or denying them altogether:

"Currently, what I’ve heard from a lot of oncologists is that hospitals around the country are trying to make this work, and they’re succeeding, but just. Sometimes they are lowering the dose that patients receive. Sometimes they are spreading out the doses over longer intervals. They’re really doing everything they can to make their meager supplies last for as long as possible. They’re pulling every string possible to get more of these drugs. But some of the oncologists have told me that their colleagues are starting to have to ration care. Some of them are having to ration care themselves. An oncologist named Patrick Timmins, who’s a gynecologic oncologist, told me that at his hospital, he can treat people who come in with primary ovarian cancer who just had a new diagnosis, but he no longer can offer these drugs to people with recurrent cancer, because he doesn’t have enough. Even though giving them cisplatin, or carboplatin, might really help to improve their quality of life, might give them a lot more months, or even years, of good-quality life."

This slate article is mostly an interview transcript; I found it worth the read, although I wish they had at least mentioned the concept of socialized/single-payer healthcare in their discussion, or that they talked about what might be feasible to do about the current shortage in the short term instead of just about how to change the system to avoid future shortages.

Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

I love that we can have screen names as well as the unique account username, but I'm wondering: if I look at a comment thread containing two people using the same display name (in the worst case, where one is trying to impersonate the other) is there a clear indicator to see that Person A is not Person B?

In discord this used to be done with the four digit number after the display name, but that doesn't seem to be a thing here, and so far as I can tell it's not displaying my account name on my comments and posts.

I worry that, as Lemmy grows, perhaps an issue with impersonators could develop if distinguishing between different users with the same display name requires checking their account pages, since most people won't check. But maybe I'm missing something?

To be clear, I'm not remotely arguing for getting rid of the display names. I love the display names, keep the display names. Especially when I'm just imagining a hypothetical future problem that may not even turn out to be much of a problem.

And what specifically makes it special, appealing, or interesting to you?