Futurology Today

Summary

Simon Vickers, 50, is on trial for the fatal stabbing of his 14-year-old daughter, Scarlett Vickers, during a kitchen play-fight at their Darlington home in July.

The court heard the family was throwing food and utensils while making dinner, and Vickers claims Scarlett accidentally impaled herself on a knife he was holding.

Prosecutors argue the wound was too deep to be accidental, alleging deliberate action.

Vickers denies murder and manslaughter, describing the incident as a tragic accident.

When outdoors, I mean.

How does it differ culturally from here? Should I avoid some things or are there Chinese social media norms I should be aware of?

Summary

Special counsel Jack Smith's report asserts sufficient evidence existed to convict Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election but cites Trump’s 2024 presidential victory as the reason charges were dropped, due to constitutional protections for sitting presidents.

Smith detailed Trump’s actions, including pressuring officials, spreading false election claims, and encouraging protests.

While charges against co-conspirators were considered, no final conclusions were reached.

Smith denied political bias, emphasizing adherence to facts and law.

The report also references challenges like expanded presidential immunity.

New users have piled in to the Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed US ban on the popular social media app TikTok, as the lesser-known company rushes to capitalize on the sudden influx while walking a delicate line of moderating English-language content.

in reply to https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t

which is in reply to https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I'm making a language with a lot of inspiration from rust and was experimenting with alternative enum syntax. It relies on literals to be types in order to convey information on the different options.

I don't really get on well with Typescript but having the ability to use literals as types is something I really liked as a lot of the times I use static string literals as errors. and having all the variants upcast through types makes it easier to do pattern matching.

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// using rust like enum syntax
Option<T> (
  | "Some" T
  | "None"
)

fn match_demo() {
  let some_option = Option "Some" "text";
  let none_option = Option "None";

  match some_option {
    "Some" "hello" => print("oh hi there"),
    "Some" text => print("Option is {text}"),
    "None" => print("Option is {text}"),
  }
}

// Or maybe more experimental syntax
Option<T> (
  | T
  | ()
)

fn match_demo2() {
  let opt = Option "something";
  match opt {
    "text" => "matching directly",
    var => "bind to variable",
    () => "nothing",
  }
}

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2025-01-15 17:32:43+00:00.

Original Title: COVID-19 Infection associated with nearly eightfold increase in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. New incident cases of ME/CFS are 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. Findings highlight the urgent need for healthcare providers to recognize and address ME/CFS as a diagnosable and treatable condition

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-01-15 16:52:46+00:00.

Original Title: Increased surgeon stress in the first 5 minutes of surgery was associated with a significant reduction in major surgical complications after controlling for patient, surgeon, and surgery characteristics. Results suggest optimizing surgeon stress may offer an avenue to improve surgical performance.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/OregonTripleBeam on 2025-01-15 14:54:43+00:00.

gentrification stops with me

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/CherryTwinkleDream on 2025-01-15 17:17:37+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/SunsetToGo on 2025-01-15 14:43:37+00:00.

According to videocardz the RTX 5080 is around 15% faster than the RTX 4080 (not RTX 4080 Super, which is around 10% faster than RTX 4080) in two selected games by NVIDIA using RT or DLSS without MFG.

The RTX 5090 is around 33% faster than RTX 4090.

This is suprisingly quite a bit lower than hoped by many people and for me it looks like that there is very little efficiency gains for this generation. What are your thoughts?

Change edit: Exchanged expected by hoped.

Like it or not, horror gaming is often built on jump scares. Deriding a good cheap scare ignores the endorphin rush that draws so many players to the genre, in the same way that the "elevated horror" trend forfeits some of the soul of schlocky slasher flicks and ghost movies. Don’t get me wrong, Silent Hill and Alan Wake deserve their flowers - but even those games would wither on the screen if Pyramid Head didn’t bust through a wall from time to time.

One unsung jump scare game in particular pioneered horror in the internet age, blazing everywhere from nascent social media to major television networks. In fact, if you had an internet connection circa 2005, there’s a good chance you played it. Alas, it was too ahead of its time, too successful at leveraging virality before viral horror was sought after. Next time you see a streamer throw their headphones across the room in fright, beware: the spirit of Scary Maze Game is right behind you.

Like Rick Rolls and chain emails, "screamers" propagated from the ability to share media with little pretext. Screamers existed before The Maze in the form of short animations and videos—even inspiring a series of German energy drink commercials—but Winterrowd’s game set itself apart by dint of being a game. You had to initiate the jump scare yourself, and doing so required sharp focus. It was less like watching a car crash and more like cranking a jack-in-the-box.

Understandably, reactions were big. And if you couldn’t stand by your victim and watch their freakout yourself, you were in luck, because there was this shiny new website called YouTube. Reaction videos are The Maze’s first milestone contribution to online horror, and they were responsible for the game’s mainstream popularity. Internet historian Jake Lee found Maze reaction videos as early 2006, which were shown on Web Junk, The Soup, and America’s Funniest Home Videos (which was the style at the time) and parodied on Saturday Night Live in 2010.

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The original was posted on /r/portugal by /u/Ok_Neighborhood2239 on 2025-01-15 14:14:18+00:00.

The upcoming Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake, reportedly developed by Virtuos and powered by Unreal Engine 5, is set to feature significant graphical and gameplay overhauls, making it a full-fledged reimagining rather than a simple remaster.

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The original was posted on /r/portugal by /u/Ta_bem_ta on 2025-01-15 11:36:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/portugal by /u/OGVicious on 2025-01-15 09:17:41+00:00.

Bom dia, preciso da ajuda dos literados em leis de trabalho.

Resumidamente, aconteceu uma falha na abertura da receção (abertura às 7h, colega das 6h30 atrasou-se para além da abertura e avisou o colega que ia entrar às 7h em cima da hora, o das 7h chegou às 7h06) e por "azar" estava o diretor presente no sitio a essa hora.

O colega das 7h levou nas orelhas por ele e pelo outro, e argumentou que foi uma reação excessiva para com ele visto que assume que chegou atrasado mas dentro dos limites, ao contrário do colega.

O que leva à 1a pergunta: Sempre foi falado que existe uma tolerância de 10 minutos na entrada. Essa tolerância existe legalmente falando? Ele pode usar essa defesa ou + valia estar calado?

Está situação leva à maior questão que trago para debate; No dia seguinte foi enviado um email pela supervisora a dizer, entre outras coisas, que "a partir de agora devem chegar 5 a 10 minutos antes da hora designada no horário para se fardarem, guardar a marmita, etc", e que "não existe tolerância de 10 minutos", "e que as pausas para fumar, beber café, ir lá fora um instante são benesses e não estão legalmente contempladas, tudo deve ser feito durante a hora de pausa/almoço".

O que opinam sobre este e-mail? Podem exigir tudo isto?

Obrigado desde já.

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its new rules that came into effect this month. It’s looking into the market dominance of Google in search, including the new work it’s doing in AI search as well as its giant search advertising business, and what remedies it might impose to improve competition in the space.