PumpkinDrama

It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/53712828

For over two thousand years, dominant empires have followed the exact same collapse pattern. Not through military conquest. Not through revolution. Through e...

In the mid-19th century, a wave of health reform swept through America. At the heart of it was James Caleb Jackson, who in 1863 created the first dry breakfast cereal, Granula, at his sanitarium. He believed digestive “cleanliness” was key to wellness. (Wikipedia) Soon after, John Harvey Kellogg and his brother Will, working at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, developed what became cold flakes of grain designed to be lighter and easier to digest than heavy breakfasts. (National Geographic) These cereals were marketed not just as convenient foods but as remedies for modern ailments — dyspepsia, sluggishness, even moral ills. (PBS) By the turn of the 20th century, ready-to-eat cereals were being mass-produced and marketed with claims that stretched far beyond nutrition. (HISTORY CHANNEL ITALIA) In short: what began as a dietary reform experiment rooted in wellness ideology turned into a mass-market breakfast staple built on convenience and health claims whose scientific basis was weak or speculative.

I’m trying to find a pair of blue-light blocking glasses to use before sleep — ideally something that blocks a lot of blue light (orange or red tint is fine) and gives full coverage around the eyes (wide or wraparound styles).

Does anyone know a good model I could buy from Spain?

Figures like Maduro, who is being vilified now by Western propaganda.

I used to hear about pickup artists all the time—books, forums, “negging,” the whole thing. Now it seems like they’ve vanished, and the only people left are “alpha male” influencers selling courses. Did the pickup artists go extinct, rebrand, or achieve enlightenment?

Fireship, Matthew Berman, The Hill, The Deprogram, Grayzone, FRANCE 24 English, Thunderf00t, Geopolitical Economy Report, Russell Brand, Glenn Greenwald, The Jimmy Dore Show

Specially some european news, I hear too much about the US already.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/53555823

How would I build a Python bot that automatically reposts or highlights statistically outlier posts from my Lemmy subscriptions—like anything more than one standard deviation above the average? I’m looking for a general approach covering data retrieval from the Lemmy API, outlier detection, and reposting mechanics.