Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.

Artist: Poco | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52944835

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much more. The legality of this […]

They’re now claiming that trans women “stole” over 2000 gold medals from cis women. But if you look closer, that number should be much… higher?

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CWALAC doesn’t say those 2,293 gold medals were won in any specific time period, just that they were won at some point. But entries on the dataset go back as far as 1927 (doing a lovely job of emphasizing something we always say: trans people have always been here). If anything, with such a huge dataset, if trans people were dominating sports, you’d expect significantly more wins from trans people.

Even the notion of what they are considering a sport where trans women would have an advantage seems undefined. While there are major sports like swimming, soccer, and hockey, other sports included where trans people are supposedly dominating are bowling, disc golf, Irish dance, and competitive oyster shucking. This is all separate from their non-athletic section, which includes prom queens, best actress nominations, and Jeopardy! performances.

Not a fan of the new look. If you're in the same boat, plug:

about:config

into your URL bar, and search for:

browser.nova.enabled

Toggle it to false using the button to the right.

There are functional changes that Nova also introduced: this won't effect those - only the aesthetic.

Not sure what they are but they looked very cool.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1369361

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These diatribes by elected officials aren’t just isolated tantrums that remain in a vacuum. When people in power define queerness or transness as mental illnesses, it acts as a justification for rolling back the hard-won autonomy of LGBTQ+ people to be in control of their own careers, relationships, bodies, families, and beyond. If government officials can successfully convince the public that queer people do not have the mental capacities to control their own lives, it makes it much easier for the government to enact policies that restrict the decisions queer people can make for themselves, which is why it’s a widespread political strategy on the right.

Weird hill to die on but at least you're dead?

Before a transgender New York Times games engineer was fatally shot, he was engaged in a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife, court records show. His in-laws have been taken into custody.

Police in Dublin, California, arrested Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to commit a crime following the Saturday death of Jonathan McKinsey, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Witnesses told CBS News that the couple, McKinsey’s in-laws, took turns shooting him Saturday in the parking lot of Dublin Sports Grounds. Police have not publicly established a motive.

Context:

https://bsky.app/profile/sahilkapur.bsky.social/post/3mwo6sy2j2c2w

My main concern with the Frame was the inside out controller tracking. I play Beat Saber at a very high level, and I've never been completely happy with my Index. I've been able to try all the Quests over the years but none of them impressed either.

But holy valve!

The Frame controllers track EXTREMELY WELL!! I feel like I finally got my original Rift back, and on LINUX!

So if you, like me, worried that the controllers would not perform in fast-paced games like Beat Saber, don't. I can't tell if they quite beat the original CV1 touch controllers, but it's close enough that I've finally stopped pining for the CV1.

McDonald's has been using artificial intelligence to dynamically price menu items in the US and some global markets, according to a report by Reuters. This involves finding the "optimal price" to match what a particular store's patrons would be willing to pay.

This fluctuates according to location, and even stores in the same city can have different cost amounts for the same exact items, according to information reviewed by Reuters. This is basically surge pricing, like with ride-share platforms, but for hockey puck burgers that have been sitting under a hot lamp.

Reuters got a look at the interface that franchisees use to access this technology and it's pretty creepy. Messages show stuff like "your restaurant is showing MEDIUM SENSITIVITY to price" based on "customer willingness to pay in your area." Cost differences at nearby locations can be stark. Researchers found that a Bic Mac at a Fresno, California store cost $5.69, but the same burger cost $6.89 at another branch two miles down the road. That's a 21 percent difference.