I'm surprised the crowd here hasn't already left twitch. I haven't for a while, since I realised Amazon was involved and was becoming more aware of the online services I used.

The browser section needs expanding. Currently it only mentions Firefox, but there are more. Of the browsers I've personally used, mainly Vivaldi and Waterfox have been outspokenly against AI in browsers.

For those of us not versed in the Divided States... whatever it is, what does the state of the union usually do/entail?

If anyone's interested in the world curling statement, here. Basically, umpire decisions in the moment are final and cannot be changed from video evidence, the thrower may retouch the stone as many times as they want before the line, BUT they must release the stone from the handle. So a little bit dubious? But they can't change it even with video evidence.

I like one that really needs to be told in person, but here. What's the key to a good joke timing

41k new users in 4 days? Not too bad, but certainly not a mass exodus. Tiktok's user base is quite large, although I don't know the US specific user base size. It is a shame people don't choose better alternatives though.

11 mph? In the land down under 3 kph (~1.86 mph) is enough to be fined and get demerit points.

Strange that only 2 sources (from a quick internet search) are reporting this in the last 2 weeks. The Australian, and Skynews, both Murdoch media masks

I've taken to using horizontal bars on my laptop, since they either look identical or almost identical (depending on font) to emdashes. For comparison, — vs ― . they are encoded in unicode as u2014 and u2015, so are provably not the same.

“Not happy Jan!”

Wasn’t it crowdstrike? Close enough though