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WotC Denies Using AI Generative Art In Promo Materials, Later Admits, Yeah, It Did (www.techdirt.com)

Baldur's Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I'm running out of headline space (www.pcgamer.com)

It just doesn't stop.

KDE 6 Megarelease - Release Candidate 1 (kde.org)

Israeli prime minister says “no intention of permanently occupying Gaza” – as it happened (www.theguardian.com)

Sure, kid. Whatever. I'm in a fight for my life over here. (slrpnk.net)

Feeling a lot like Gonald lately (slrpnk.net)

And your father smelt of elderberries! (mastodon.social)

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Kitchen Nightmares (lemmy.zip)

Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)

The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....

Introducing Spiel (blog.monotonous.org)

A new speech API for the free desktop stack that hopes to improve upon speech-dispatcher and implement more speech options to better fit the different text-to-speech needs of today.

Meet Tom the Dancing Bug's newest character: Mickey Mouse! (lemmus.org)

Tom The Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling, for January 1 2024.

Stalwart v0.5.0 (stalw.art)

Elevating Performance and Flexibility...

Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows (theintercept.com)

We need jungle, I'm afraid (mixmag.net)

“Can We Talk About Cars?” (2011) (ia600206.us.archive.org) Dutch

old but still relevant vlog - opinion - rant on the dangerous reality of cars

Doggo’s Nap Time, Sleepy Kitty (ia601208.us.archive.org)

Ancient Egyptian mummy masks, tombs and 'god of silence' statue discovered at Saqqara (www.livescience.com)

Belarus accused of illegally transferring Ukrainian children (www.euronews.com)

Pinry, the open-source tiling image board (docs.getpinry.com)

Pinry is like Pinterest, but open source and you can very easily self-host it. I just installed it a few days ago and it’s really easy to learn; I’ve saved a few images in it that I wanted to keep. It’s very handy, IMO....

When /some/ YT videos get special download-resistent treatment but not others (fedia.io)

For example, this invidious instance offers a download option for a YoutTube video, as that instance does for all YT videos:...