Study Finds Potential Downside to Vigorous Exercise We Didn't Know About (excessive vigorous exercise could muffle your immune system. At least, that's what a 2023 study analyzing over 4,700 post-exercise fluid molecules from firefighters suggests.) sciencealert.com/study-finds-p…
"I've been forced to explain homosexuality to my kids (aged 3 and 4) because their uncle is gay. This incredibly difficult and traumatic experience went as follows: Child: Why does Uncle Bob go everywhere with Pete? Me: Because they're in love, just like Mummy and Daddy are. Child: Oh. Can I have a biscuit? We're all scarred for life. Scarred, I tell you!"
xAI will build the world’s largest supercomputer, according to President and CEO of Greater Memphis Chamber Ted Townsend, who made the announcement during a press conference Wednesday.
@JEkis oof yeah, I'm more worried for the environmental impact of another datacenter there, and the article to me plainly reads as though money was a big motivator for why it got approved so fast (considering it's only creating a few hundred jobs)
I know I've mentioned this before, but one of my favorite features on the Mac that has no equivalent on an iPhone or iPad is adding new words to the system-wide spelling dictionary. The feature dates back to Mac OS X 10.0 and I'm pretty sure was in NeXTStep a decade before that.
And, even better, the custom words you add to the dictionary are stored in a simple text file, one word per line, at:
The "direct-to-watch" feature eliminates the need to keep your phone near for readings. Dexcom is looking into other smartwatches too, the company's COO says.
The "direct-to-watch" feature eliminates the need to keep your phone near for readings. Dexcom is looking into other smartwatches too, the company's COO says.
The Eleven Labs sound effect generator is completely useless, and mostly doesn't even succeed at putting out sounds that are wrong but at least entertaining. If that is our baseline of quality, I think this particular area of machine learning is far off its prime time.
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
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At sunrise May 16, in the year 218AD, a woman named Elagabalus was declared Emperor of the Roman Empire by the commander of the Roman Third Legion. She would reign for only four years.
Somewhat understandably, this declaration was very concerning to the current emperor, a man named Macrinus. Macrinus had risen to power by assassinating his predecessor, a man named Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, but better known by his nickname Caracalla. So, to strengthen her claim to the throne, Elagabalus took the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and claimed to be the illegitimate son of the assassinated emperor. This was untrue - Elegabalus's grandmother was merely cousin to emperor Caracalla. But Caracalla was so beloved by certain factions that merely the claim was enough.
What followed can only be categorized as chaos. Another praetorian prefect declared war on the Third Legion, but his soldiers killed their officers and joined Elagabalus' forces instead. Emperor Macrinus then tried to convince the Roman Senate to declare Elegabalus to be a "false Anoninus". When they complied and declared war on Elegabalus, her armies, and her family, Elegabalus responded by sending a messenger to deliver the severed head of his defeated prefect Julianus to him at a banquet. After this, the Second Legion shifted its loyalties to Elegabalus, forcing Macrinus to retreat to Antioch, fearing for his life.
On June 8th, 218AD, just one month after declaring herself emperor, Elegabalus' legionnaires defeated Macrinus and his Praetorian Guard at The Battle of Antioch. Macrinus attempted to flee but was captured and executed.
Thus began the short, strange reign of Emperor Elegabalus. That month, Elagabalus wrote to the Senate, assuming the imperial titles without waiting for senatorial approval. Elegabalus extended amnesty to the Senate which had declared war on her, and officially recognized its laws and authority. The Senate responded by acknowledging Elegabalus as Emperor of Rome, and by accepting her claim to be the son of Caracalla.
The memory of Macrinus was officially expunged from the record, showing Elegabalus as directly succeeding Caracalla, and both Caracalla himself and Elegabalus' grandmother were deified by the Roman Senate. The very next month, Elegabalus was named both "Pater Patriae" (an political honorific roughly translating to "Father of the Fatherland") by the Roman Senate, and also inducted into the Roman priesthood as "Pontifex Maximus" (the highest religious office in Rome, roughly akin to "Pope").
Elegabalus returned to Rome from Antioch, and using the religious authority granted to her, began making significant changes to the official Roman pantheon. She instated her own god, Elegabal, as prime deity above Jupiter, and began holding religious ceremonies and chariot parades celebrating this new sun god. A lavish temple, called the Elegabalium, was built on the eastern face of the Palatine Hill to house Elegabal, who was represented there by a black conical meteorite. Sometimes she took this meteorite out of the Elegabalium on chariot parades through the streets of Rome so that all the citizens could see the new god and worship.
Around this time, Elegabalus was viewing a chariot race when an enslaved man named Hierocles fell in front of her. She was so captivated by his beauty that she granted him his freedom and took him as her lover and husband. She reportedly even wanted to declare him Caesar, but her grandmother was deeply opposed to it.
Elegabalus began wearing wigs and dresses, and stylized herself as the Lady Elagabalus. She is credited in several sources as having declared "[I am] delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles." She reportedly even offered vast sums of money for any physician who could provide her with a vagina by means of incision. Though some historians treat these tales with caution, saying that accounts of Elagabalus' life can tend to be antagonistic and untrustworthy, this claim has caused many to credit Elegabalus as being the first trans woman in recorded history to actively seek sex reassignment surgery.
Later that year, another athlete, a man named Zoticus, also caught Elegabalus' eye. In addition to being known for his beautiful body, Zoticus was also famed for having large sexual organs. When the emperor's envoys, sent around for this purpose, learned of this fame, they had him accompanied to Rome with a gigantic escort.
At the capital, he was adorned with garlands and declared "cubicularius", a title meaning "attendant to the emperor's bedroom". Elagabalus opened the doors of the palace dancing and, when Zoticus greeted her calling her "Lord Emperor", Elagabalus replied: "Call me not Lord, for I am a Lady."
The accounts on the outcome of this evening vary. In one account, the two retired to the baths together, and Elegabalus prepared for an evening with Zoticus as her lover. However, Hierocles, fearing that Zoticus might supplant him in the favor of the emperor, drugged his drink. Zoticus, unable to satisfy his lover, was stripped of his titles, and banished from Italy. In the other account, no such attempt occurred, and Elagabalus publicly married Zoticus as his bride, even having a female bride's maid which would be traditional in a Roman marriage, and then the two consummated their union. It is this second account that is thought to be accurate.
Popular support for Elagabalus had begun to wane, primarily among Rome's elite. Some were uncomfortable with her perceptibly foreign conduct. Others were upset by her religious proclamations. Many were outraged that she had lifted the ban on women in the Senate. Sensing this waning of public favor Elagabalus' grandmother decided that she and her mother both needed to be replaced. She arranged to to have the son of another of her daughters, a fifteen year old boy named Severus Alexander, declared Elegabalus' successer and granted the title Caesar. Alexander was elevated to Caesar in either June or July of 221AD, and both he and Elagabalus were each designated consul designitus (a political title involving representation in the Senate) for the following year.
Alexander shared the consulship with Elagabalus until 222AD, but she began to suspect that the Praetorian Guard preferred his cousin to herself, and became dissatisfied with the arrangement. After attempting and failing to convince the Senate to strip Alexander of the title, Elagabalus spread a rumor among the Praetorian Guard that Alexander was near death, to see how they would react. A riot ensued, and the Guard insisted on seeing both Elagabalus and Alexander in the Praetorian Camp.
The emperor complied. On their arrival the soldiers started cheering Alexander while ignoring Elagabalus, who ordered the summary arrest and execution of anyone who had taken part in this display of insubordination. In response, members of the Praetorian Guard attacked Elagabalus and killed her.
Following her assassination, many associates of Elagabalus were also executed, including her mother and her lover Hierocles. Her religious edicts were reversed. Women were again banned from attending the Senate. Coins bearing her likeness were seized and melted down. Many of her images, including a life-size statue of herself in Naples as Hercules were re-carved with the face of the new emperor, Severus Alexander. She was systematically erased from public memory. It was as if she had never existed.
We've opened an additional call for #GUADEC2024 BoFs and Workshops! If you would like to host an in-person or remote session make sure to submit your proposal by June 15. foundation.gnome.org/2024/06/0…
41% of people in #Slovakia don't agree/know that the Earth is round. In #Czechia it's only 10%. We were the same country 30 years ago. Not quite sure what went wrong there. But it's not pretty.
Jsem Pirát, digitalizaci rozumím. Zároveň si moc dobře uvědomuji, jakým hrozbám v digitálním prostoru čelíme. Jedním z největších rizik je ztráta soukromí.
Internet má být svobodný, nesmí podléhat kontrole korporací, úředníků, ani politiků. Je čistě naše věc, co si na Internetu vyhledáváme, o čem si chatujeme s blízkými. Odmítáme prolomení koncového šifrování - to je jako bychom posílali dopisy a pošťák si mohl otevřít zalepenou obálku. Přesto sílí tlaky nám tyto pomyslné obálky otevírat.
Interessant dass diejenigen, die das am lautesten fordern, ihre Chats so gerne löschen – statt sie auf Vorrat zu speichern. Könnte ja sonst jemand auf den Gedanken kommen, selbige nach Anzeichen möglichen Missbrauchs zu durchsuchen…
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
⭐ Count of unread messages in accounts other than the active one ⭐ Convergence: App automatically switches to multi-column mode depending on its width ⭐ Option to send with Enter; Ctrl-Enter always sends
@Tusky cannot receieve any notification count on ring icon on grapheneOs. Please add this feature or remove the bug to get notification bell icon counts.
thankyou tusky team/ dev. I have mentioned this issue many times. It would really be good if we all get over with this annoying bug. Bell icon notification counts is a priority thing to implement asap.
one other setting feature need to implement, an option for push notification via conversations app. A separate toggol implemention is worth considering.
Oh hey, nichts schlimmes kann daraus erwachsen, dass KI explizit auf Zeitungen trainiert wird, die dafür da sind, die Interessen von Reichen zu schützen....
Die Macher von ChatGPT kündigen eine Kooperation mit dem Murdoch-Konzern an. Der Deal umfasst den Zugang zu aktuellen Artikeln und Archivmaterial unter anderem vom »Wall Street Journal«. Auch mit Axel Springer gibt es eine Vereinbarung.
All the electronics of the Liberty Phone is made in our USA facility, and the entire phone is assembled in the USA, using the same manufacturing process we used for the Librem 5 devkits. Get yours today! puri.sm/products/liberty-phone… #LibertyPhone #Purism #USA #Phone
If you are looking for a tool to let you benchmark your PipeWire pipelines, test things during development or realitime performance graphs then maybe coppwr is the PipeWire tool you been looking for, check it out on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/io.github.dim… #linux #pipewire #flatpak #multimedia
Please boost for reach: There's an open issue on Github about adding scripting support to Retroarch. This would enable scripts like the Pokemon Access mod to be ran on Retroarch, hopefully allowing blind people to actually play the game while mobile. I tried it out and am already making a team in Pokemon Emerald, and in the woods in the first few areas of the game! If anyone is good with adding Lua to things, or if anyone is good at modding games and wants to enhance the Pokemon Access scripts, I'd really appreciate you looking into this.
Description New feature: Lua scripting, like other emulators. Provide functions to read/write game memory, display graphics on screen, poll input, control emulator, etc. (Not Lutro! Scripts running...
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