unless there's some reason you really, really want to go hard on privacy or something, Lineage is fine. If you're just wanting a current and maintained build of something on a phone, that's the one.
Police in UK can now take women's phones and check their period tracking app
Several women's health and safety organisations have spoken out against the 'shocking' new guidance, vowing to 'aggressively challenge' it
"New guidance in the UK has handed British police the power to trawl through women's phones if they suspect said individual has undergone an illegal abortion.
As per an announcement made by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) last month, officers investigating the causes of stillbirths, miscarriages and unexpected pregnancy losses will now be permitted access to check menstrual cycle tracking apps.
The alleged aim of the incoming procedure is to 'establish a woman’s knowledge and intention in relation to the pregnancy.'"
The "National Police Chiefs' Council" featured in this article is not a government body, it's the reworking of a very notorious privately-owned company called ACPO:
ACPO wasn't accountable to anyone and behaved very oddly, it was like a secret society for police chiefs, it even ran its own DNA database.
There was a BBC documentary in the 1980s about ACPO about how dubious and opaque it was, meddling in things that should have been under democratic control: archive.org/details/SecretSoci…
It wouldn't be surprising if they have got up to their old habits of ignoring public oversight to push hidden agendas.
This is Duncan Campbell's shocking BBC video documentary series Secret Society (1987) which shows the never broadcasted episodes on secret groups, committees...
someone was doing a "show off your transgender OCs and tag three people" chain letter post and i had to think for a bit to remember if i even had any cisgender OCs (i do but it's pretty slim). happy pride
Well, that's one way to reach your ICE quota quickly... "TICKET PLEASE! ID! HANDS OUT FOR HANDCUFFS!"
"The FIFA Club World Cup kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium, with InterMiami playing a team from Egypt. The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE and CBP personnel would be at the game providing security. "
The FIFA Club World Cup kicks off Saturday at Hard Rock Stadium, with InterMiami playing a team from Egypt. The Department of Homeland Security announced that…
If you know the state of webbrowsers on Amiga OS 4.x, you know that the last bunch of years have been lacking. It looks like though there is some hope.. ko-fi.com/post/The-Return-of-O… ... an updated Odyssey browser! #odyssey #amiga
Remember my goat that we named Cybertruck because of his various safety issues? He's been doing great, until earlier when he went offroading (in the barn) and high-centered himself and had to be rescued, again living up to his name. All hail Cybertruck!
My wife, who is paraplegic, is raising money for Spinal Cord Injury BC.
SCI-BC runs important life-changing programs for people with spinal cord injuries. From peer support programs to adaptive recreation programs for kids.
If my work has every inspired you, please consider helping. ❤️ b.link/sci
Things go from bad to worse for Elmo, the incels' favourite crush.
"French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol. A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administration and his support for far-right parties in Europe."
A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administrat…
Disney and Universal are suing the AI company Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that its AI-generated images include famous characters like Darth Vader and Spiderman. IEEE Spectrum was first to shine a light on Midjourney's visual plagiarism problem: spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-c…
"Democracies don't have to die at the end of a rifle. They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up or condemn threats to democracy. When people willing to give away what's most precious to them because they feel frustrated." Joe Biden Sept. 28, 2023
Throw in New England down to Maryland and I'm ready for this today.
Florida, Texas, and all those states with names like "Arkahoma" can have the United States. A little annexation for the rest of us by a nation of civilized, thinking people looks petty good right now.
I'm in. But please consider adding the bit of Wisconsin that accidentally became part of Michigan to the Canada map? I keep thinking a few hundred thousand folks just need to move up there and then vote to succeed and join Canada. It would be absurd for Michigan to want to keep it since it obviously isn't part of the state, and Wisconsin already lost it so there should be little resistance .
In all honesty, we'd gladly have the west coast. In addition to that, much of NE USA & the States around the Great Lakes. We know there's good Americans out there, largely so in those areas. :3
Aloha hoy, like we be bluer than all west coast and you just gonna leave us hanging out here in the Pacific? We stay warm all year, why the cold shoulder Canada?
I'm happy to announce I've entered into the Fediverse with a Mastodon account here at mstdn.ca
I've been learning about the fediverse for a few years and I knew I had to break away from corporate run social media.
I publish a regular column every two weeks so from now on, I will share it here in addition to everywhere else I get published and use this publicly controlled forum more often.
@vextaur Thanks for the tip .. it's neat wandering around the fediverse and I've often wondered about Friendica as several people have recommended it. I'll be looking into it for sure.
@X Kataquapit You're welcome. I am assuming the column is more or less a blog? Friendica has been described as first gen Facebook in design, though since I missed out on that, I compare it to LiveJournal m'self. There are some things that are better for blogs, particularly if interaction isn't considered important, but Friendica works good and has some neat features that aren't matched by the rest of the Fediverse. @Fedi.Tips could likely come up with a couple alternatives.
Don’t forget they still have to find a way to cancel the midterms where they would lose both houses and as of last week there still was no pretext for escalation.
I need some #Fiction Author perspectives / opinions / feedback on a #writing question. Please boost in the community so I can increase sample size.
I want to prepare a previously-written novella for publication (Through Blood and Tears 15K). It is a side-story for an unpublished fantasy trilogy (300K+). I don't expect to field the trilogy in the near term; it requires rewriting. The story is a completely standalone origin story of characters in the trilogy.
The question is:
Do I write out (i.e., remove) the few references to the trilogy from the story?This provides the cleanest manuscript.
Do I gloss over the references, but leave hints in so future trilogy readers can still glean them?
Do I simply leave the references in? They serve as history and provide backstory. They do add flavor.
Feel free to reply to leave opinions about what you would do.
Personally I would leave them as long as they fit the flow. I don't believe readers need to know everything. Life is full of unknowns. Favor is great. One caveat is if the reference seems important so a reader would expect an explanation. The difference between a character saying, "This is what Crom must have seen," and "Crom must have seen a battle such as this. How she must have delighted."
@NaraMoore Good point: minimize the expectations that something results from the extra details. A no red herring policy is always best. I shall keep that in mind. TY.
If the references would confuse readers, leave them out. But if not, lots of readers like a sense that there are more stories in the world of the one they're reading...though if the references make them feel too much like they're missing out by not having access to the other stories, they might be frustrated.
Do you have anyone who could give it a test read who doesn't know about the happenings of the trilogy? They could read & give an opinion.
@asakiyume Good advice. TY. I do think I gave the story to another person to read many years ago, and they liked it, but I got no mention of confusion. Of course, now after another cleanup I would put it out to beta readers a bit more professionally.
I'm not positive what *I* would do... but I know what one fantasy author *did* do, when he had a ton of background lore that he hadn't published yet:
He left all kinds of references to Gondolin, Varda, et al. in _Lord of the Rings_, didn't bother to explain them, and just let them be mysterious flavor. Until _The Silmarillion_ came out and we finally learned what those things were.
I never got through any of the Tolkien books, including the Hobbit, though I did like the movie (the Hobbit, NOT The Lord of the Rings) and did play Middle Earth Role Playing. I learned enough playing for ten years that I recognized places and themes in the movies. That said, I am almost an anti-fan (boring books) so I will interpret "we all know how that worked out for him" as the estate earned a lot of money but everyfan complained? 🤪
I get the gist that completely unexplained stuff isn't that much different from unneeded junk. One bit in the novella is a statue of a woman that is worshipped by people, but the people look nothing like the statue. The person looks remarkably like the MC who is sucked back into a fantasy world in the trilogy. I'll make sure it isn't more than color and not particularly emphasized.
Oh, I'd better clear this up, then! No, when I said "we all know how that worked out for him," regarding something he did in LotR, what I mean is:
His book became such a smashing success, it effectively *created an entire genre*. (While there had been fantasy *novels* before LotR, there wasn't really a fantasy *genre*. Certainly not in the form we know it today.)
Basically I'm saying, "it could not possibly have worked out better." By all means, put in lore references!
I would leave the references alone unless they interfere with the flow of the story -- and if they do interfere, I'd still say to leave them in, just polish them up with enough context to remove the rough edges so readers don't get stuck on them as they go past.
I like stories that flash little hints the world is a large place with a complex history, even if it's not relevant" to the particular plot.
The best pride logo has to be from #RockyLinux they just crop and rotate the pride flag into a circle cause the flag accidentally has the rocky Linux logo anyway. I love it. ❤
«The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.»
It's nice to see places where community can help course correct!
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
🪶 Four Ukiah High School students have become stewards of a once-dormant Indigenous language native to California after completing an intensive four-year course of study centered on Northern Pomo language and culture.
The last fluent speaker of the Northern Pomo language died in 2005. Twenty years later, four Pomo students are helping to revive their endangered native language.
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