A dollar bill folded into a tiny shirt.

A classmate folded it into a tiny shirt 20+ years ago, I put it in my wallet (which I generally have on my person every day) and I often forget about it. It hides behind my ID so I only remember I have it when I get a new ID.

That was my initial thought, but after reading the article it’s unclear.

The city said in a statement that restrictions ​under ⁠the law “include certain programming and activities designed or implemented with reference to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”

Ok. So the city says it is restricted by the law.

However, Mayor ⁠Tom Carney said on social media the city was “working feverishly ​with ⁠multiple entities to ensure the ‌2027 St. Patrick’s Day parade goes on as scheduled.”

Does the Mayor not represent the city?

“I cannot go into details now, but I will bring you the updates as things progress with our negotiations."

Who is the city and Mayor negotiating with?

By best guess is city lawyers recommend to the Mayor that all parades be cancelled, because providing funding could open them up to a lawsuit. I’m guessing the negotiations are with a third party who can provide the funding.

7,879 servers sit behind a CDN, so their real location can’t be placed.

I’m guessing anything behind a CDN isn’t shown, and that would explain why lemmy.world is missing.

Brownley D-CA

Did not run for reelection. Retired.

Correa D-CA

Won reelection.

Gillen D-NY

Won reelection.

Horsford D-NV

Won reelection.

Jackson D-IL

Won reelection.

Pelosi D-CA

Did not run for reelection. Retired.

Pettersen D-CO

Won reelection.

Stansbury D-NM

Won reelection.

Stevens D-MI

Did not run for reelection. Retired. (For clarification, ran and lost again El-Sayed, endorsing his opponent,)

Strickland D-WA

Won reelection.

Wilson D-FL

Did not run for reelection. Retired.

I’m going to give those outgoing representatives a pass, which is generous and undeserving because people are elected until they’ve finished their term, not months before. But everyone else, who were just reelected, the fuck? You had a job to do and you just won an election, do your job.

Not to mention as much as this stock fall is “a big deal” it’s just fallen to where it was back in March. And of course that March fall was also a singular moment, because before that were just back to October 2025.

So sure, they’ve lost a year of stock growth, and in a world of “line must go up” falling back a year of stock growth isn’t nothing… But it’s also far from the end of the world.

Which is all to say, Google’s fine in the long run. Day traders don’t look at the long run, so for the moment “panic”, but ultimately it’ll pass.

Zombie Jamboree!

There are a lot of different versions out there, the version by Jack Jeans is my favorite.

but where is the problem here? You are getting ports of games.

One of the questions the author asks is exactly that, are you really getting ports of games?

how many people are actually playing these AI-assisted ports? Not watching demonstrations, not congratulating their creators, but installing them, putting significant time into them and enjoying the games themselves.

The author doesn’t have an answer, but it is a question that requires further investigation.

If instead of AI we had a magical machine that gave you a bike. That’s great! You can do all sorts of things with your bike. So you hop on down to the movie theater, but the wheels fall off half way. You can’t fix the bike, so you walk home and miss the movie.

Now you’re right that any hobby project might get abandoned. But there were also generally only a few hobby projects. They had different reputations and track records.

Back to our bike example. Now we have hundreds of thousands of different bikes being printed from our magical machine. How do we pick the right one? What if all the bikes fail? What if there are a few that are good? How do we find the good ones?

The answer here might just be waiting to see how this all shakes out. Everyone has an oven at home, and everyone can make cookies. It’s great that everyone can do that. But not everyone can be a baker. Or I’m wrong. Maybe with AI everyone can be a baker. That is one of the arguments.

I know a lot of films and TV pilots start as a writers original idea, sometimes even a great idea, but for one reason or another never get picked up. Or even worse it does get picked up. But in both cases someone says, “This won’t sell, can you make it Super Mario themed?”

The writer, creative as they are and just happy to get work, then mashes the two together.

I think a film featuring a parallel New York ruled by evolved dinosaurs and deevolution guns is a wild but potentially interesting film. What it has to do with Mario… I have no idea.

Finding communities can be confusing: There can be multiple communities about the same topic on different servers: For example: [email protected] and [email protected]

I agree that finding communities can be confusing, but I don’t think the problem is the naming.

For example on Reddit if you wanted to talk about video games you’d look at /r/gaming. However over time, since that was a “default sub”, it became a bit of a mess and instead /r/Games was the community to have real discussion about video games. But of course over time that too became a bit of a mess and /r/TrueGaming was the best place to talk about video games. In fact for a long time /r/True<topic> was a common way to find the better community.

Of course the name of a community might be confusing to an outsider. On Reddit if I’m a fan of Game of Thrones there is /r/GameOfThrones, but what if I’m looking for something a bit more meme worthy, well that’s /r/freefolk.

And that’s true even on Lemmy. What if I want Star Trek memes? Well that’s [email protected]

I think discoverability is something that can be improved. Of course at the moment so many communities are so small, so looking at all of them isn’t really much of a problem. You can usually find what you’re looking for.

Exactly! I’d be curious to see the reverse poll, asking Lemmy users “Why does nobody use Mastodon?” (and include Bluesky and Twitter in the poll.)

I use Lemmy (and in the past Reddit) because topic based conversation is what makes sense to me. Anytime I try to use Mastodon or Bluesky I lurk for a bit and then just come back here.