The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

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The concern is that these organisms would evade both the immune systems of all natural life forms, and any human defences such as antibiotics, thus posing an existential risk to life

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Mark your calendars as the latest release date moved from February 11, 2025, to February 4, 2025

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“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

Merkel, who in her new memoir raises fears for the western democratic order with Donald Trump as US president, has also expressed deep concerns about the outsized role to be played in Trump’s administration by Elon Musk

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

Ein BDSM-Terminus als "Wort des Jahres"...

open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage

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China posts slowest economic growth in 18 months as optimism fades over stimulus

haha, heute Retro

street artists such as Stik, Inkie and My Dog Sighs, they say there’s a ton of groundbreaking work available to consume if you open your eyes to i

Jet Rocket was the world's first flight simulator game, the first first-person shooter game, and the first game in which the player made their way through a virtual world (known as an "open world" game)

Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

Olympic swimmers wear masks as concerns over Covid rise across camps

oh oh...

Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop