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Wednesday 2023-02-22 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-02-22

22-Feb-2023 – The “AI Critic” Prompt – Prompt Engineering Tips

Brief Summary: “Today, we’re exploring the “AI Critic” prompt – a prompting style that promises to take your prompt engineering to the next level.

With this powerf”

22-Feb-2023 – Amazon closes $3.9 billion buy of membership-based healthcare provider One Medical

Brief Summary: “Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAmazon has closed its $3.9 billion acquisition of membership-based healthcare provider One Medical, which was o”

22-Feb-2023 – COVID Poses Severe Risks during Pregnancy, Especially in Unvaccinated People

Brief Summary: “Pregnant people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit or die than those who are uninfected, but vaccinatio”

22-Feb-2023 – Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets – Let’s Play

Brief Summary: “Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets”. Enjoy chill Lo-fi walks and fight bosses to K-POP, EDM and Hip-“

20-Feb-2023 – Privateer Easter Egg Bottled up for Thirty Years?

Brief Summary: “I think I might have found a neat reference. Ultima fans, follow me for a moment. Here are screenshots of (some of) bartenders from Privateer. The hea”

22-Feb-2023 – ‘Instant makes me physically sick’: Five twats who’ve gone too far down the coffee rabbit hole

Brief Summary: “GOT a friend who’s way too obsessed with coffee? They may well fit one of these categories of ‘coffee twat’.
Obsessed with beans twat
They’ve only bee”

22-Feb-2023 – I Explained To A Court How California’s ‘Kid’s Code’ Is Both Impossible To Comply With & An Attack On Our Expression

Brief Summary: “Last year, Techdirt was one of only a very few sites where you could find out information on California’s AB 2273, officially the “California Age Appr”

22-Feb-2023 – ChatGPT-Style Search Represents a 10x Cost Increase For Google, Microsoft

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Today Google search works by building a huge index of the web, and when you search for somethin”

21-Feb-2023 – ChatGPT-written books are flooding Amazon as people turn to AI for quick publishing

Brief Summary: “There were over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle store as of mid-February listing ChatGPT as an author, but there is no requirement to disclose the use “

22-Feb-2023 – Supporting beginner programmers in primary school using TIPP&SEE

Brief Summary: “Every young learner needs a successful start to their learning journey in the primary computing classroom. One aspect of this for teachers is to intro”

22-Feb-2023 – Daft Punk have announced a 10th anniversary edition of Random Access Memories

Brief Summary: “Daft Punk have announced the release of a special and expanded edition of Random Access Memories.

Marking its 10th anniversary in 2023, the record”

22-Feb-2023 – Gorillaz – Cracker Island

Brief Summary: “Label: ParlophoneReleased: 24th February 2023

Welcome to Cracker Island, the newfound home of Gorillaz. In search of a singular truth, Noodle, Murd”

22-Feb-2023 – Ava Max has announced a new tour in support of her latest album, ‘Diamonds & Dancefloors’

Brief Summary: “Ava Max has announced a new tour.

Performing in support of her latest album, ‘Diamonds & Dancefloors’, her ‘On Tour (Finally)’ run will kick off on”

21-Feb-2023 – Minecraft adds new Mega Man X DLC

Brief Summary: “Minecraft‘s newest DLC features the classic Capcom franchise Mega Man X. The DLC features 14 skins, a level pack where the player gets to eventually f”

22-Feb-2023 – Angry Birds will leave Android store, developer says it’s just too popular

Brief Summary: ”
The original Angry Birds is being pulled from Google Play due to its business “impact” on developer Rovio’s other mobile games.

On iPhone, Angry Bi”

22-Feb-2023 – Rosario Dawson expects Star Wars: Ahsoka to premiere in the Fall

Brief Summary: “It is an exciting time for Star Wars fans as the third season of The Mandalorian will premiere next week, but there is much more on the horizon as pro”

Tuesday 2023-02-21 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-02-21

20-Feb-2023 – Amazon’s Delivery Estimate Update Emails Are The New “Thrill Of The Hunt” Store Finds

Brief Summary: “As we continue living through the unending hellish nightmare of Diseasney Star Wars, I do my best to look for whatever glimmer of hope, ray of light, “

20-Feb-2023 – Pokémon Go’s ticketed Las Vegas event marred by network issues

Brief Summary: ”
This weekend’s ticketed Pokémon Go Hoenn Tour event in Las Vegas received a poor reception – literally – due to phone network connectivity issues whi”

21-Feb-2023 – Uncommon Realities: The 16th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE 2023) Conference Takes Place in Second Life, March 23rd to 25th, 2023

Brief Summary: “The theme of VWBPE 2023 conference is Uncommon RealitiesOnce again this March, the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference (VWBPE for sh”

21-Feb-2023 – Magic: the Gathering Lord of the Rings Launch Date and More

Brief Summary: “Reading Time: 2 minutes In the upcoming set, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, players have the chance to join the Fellowship in adventur”

20-Feb-2023 – Is the Age of “Free” Internet Fading? This Might be a Good Thing!

Brief Summary: ”
There’s a new wind blowing through the Internet lately. We’re starting to see a push for previously free services to ask for money.”

21-Feb-2023 – Travel the World Looking for Retro Tech, Virtually

Brief Summary: “For those who have a passion for vintage hardware, whether it be a classic computer or a war-surplus ham radio rig, finding the things without resorti”

21-Feb-2023 – YouTube As Infinite File Storage

Brief Summary: “Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly “

20-Feb-2023 – Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)

Brief Summary: ”
Today’s links
Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?

H”

21-Feb-2023 – It’s A Mystery (Fest)

Brief Summary: ” One thing Steam does really badly, in my opinion, is promote its own events. Even though I log in almost every day, all I ever seem to see is the po”

Monday 2023-02-20 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Monday 2023-02-20

20-Feb-2023 – End-to-end encrypted Kitten Chat

Brief Summary: “Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download
Small Is Beautiful #27 direc”

20-Feb-2023 – Free 2D space exploration sim Endless Sky v0.10.0 adds new factions, gets better AI

Brief Summary: “If you love free and open source games keep an eye on the 2D space sim Endless Sky, which just got a new Beta release with version 0.10.0 giving some “

20-Feb-2023 – Minecraft 1.20 adding Archeology, Cherry Blossom Biome and a Sniffer mob

Brief Summary: “There’s lots to be excited for in the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 update, with many previously announced features finally landing like Archeology.”

20-Feb-2023 – Ask HN: What are these strange random strings spamming my blog?

Brief Summary: “Comments”

Sunday 2023-02-19 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-02-19

17-Feb-2023 – Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication

Brief Summary: “Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty ImagesFour hours ago, Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer tweeted a scoop: Twitter would begin charging for SM”

17-Feb-2023 – The Marvels is being pushed back to November

Brief Summary: “Brie Larson as Carol Danvers in Ms. Marvel. | Image: Disney Plus / MarvelThe Marvels — director Nia DaCosta’s follow-up to the first Captain Marvel — “

17-Feb-2023 – Roblox is working on generative AI tools

Brief Summary: “Image: RobloxRoblox (the company) is working on generative AI tools to help developers who build experiences on Roblox more easily create games and as”

17-Feb-2023 – All Your Base Are Belong to Us — Zero Wing (and other classics) hit Steam

Brief Summary: “Zero Wing along with other shoot ’em up classics Out Zone, Twin Cobra and Truxton from Toaplan and Bitwave Games have their brand new PC releases out.”

17-Feb-2023 – The full list of releases for Record Store Day 2023 have been revealed, with Taylor Swift, The 1975, Blur, Bastille, The Big Moon and more

Brief Summary: “The full list of releases for this year’s highly anticipated Record Store Day has finally been unveiled. Taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, the eve”

18-Feb-2023 – Gentle Scrabble hacks

Brief Summary: “Perhaps these might make a great game more fun:

Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as regular Scrabble, but focus on increasing the total”

18-Feb-2023 – Fast X Trailer: Bad Guys Have Families Too, Dom!

Brief Summary: ”
At a time when the Star Wars movie franchise doesn’t seem to be making any headway, The Fast And Furious franchise is riding strong into its 10th mov”

17-Feb-2023 – Daredevil Movie Director Admits Backlash On Kingpin Casting

Brief Summary: ”
Did you know that a live-action Daredevil Movie exists? Daredevil is enjoying its 20th anniversary this year! That’s right, Daredevil had it’s openin”

18-Feb-2023 – Hasbro unveils new Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Classics figures

Brief Summary: “As Dungeons & Dragons prepares to make its big screen comeback with the upcoming Honor Among Thieves, Hasbro has unveiled three new 6-inch Cartoon Cla”

17-Feb-2023 – Universal Orlando Announces Super Nintendo World

Brief Summary: “New area planned for Epic Universe theme park”

Thursday 2023-02-16 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-02-16

15-Feb-2023 – Ghibli Park to Install Electric Catbuses This Year

Brief Summary: “The park has allocated a 6.5 billion yen (about US$49 million) budget for 2023”

16-Feb-2023 – LEGO lights it up with BTS Dynamite LEGO Ideas set

Brief Summary: “BTS Army can soon own their favourite South Korean boy band in brick form as LEGO has unveiled the LEGO Ideas BTS Dynamite set which allows fans to re”

16-Feb-2023 – [Epic] Warpips (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

15-Feb-2023 – [GOG] Alien Breed Trilogy (-100%, FREE)

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/Clownski_GOG [link] [comments] “

16-Feb-2023 – Five Lord of the Rings games in the works at Embracer releasing by 2024

Brief Summary: ”
Five Lord of the Rings games are in the works at Embracer, planned for release in the financial year 2023/2024.

The news comes from the latest finan”

13-Feb-2023 – Super Mario Bros. Movie launches Easter egg-filled plumbing advert

Brief Summary: ”
As the hype campaign for the Super Mario Bros. Movie ramps up, there’s now an advert for the brothers’ fictitious plumbing company to watch, and a t”

14-Feb-2023 – Minecraft 1.20 details new mob, archaeology, and a surprise new biome

Brief Summary: “Mojang have spent the week revealing new details of Minecraft’s 1.20 update, including two of the things pictured above: the new Sniffer mob, which wo”

13-Feb-2023 – Overwatch 2 accused of deliberately misleading players with the newest battle pass

Brief Summary: ”
Overwatch 2’s third season released last week with a new Antarctic-themed map, a promised Valentine’s dating sim, and, of course, another battle pass”

16-Feb-2023 – Paramore have shared their new video for ‘Running Out of Time’

Brief Summary: “Paramore have released the music video for their latest single, ‘Running Out of Time’, from their recently released album ‘This Is Why’.

Of the tr”

16-Feb-2023 – Lizzy McAlpine has shared a new video for second album cut, ‘ceilings’

Brief Summary: “Lizzy McAlpine has shared a new video for her single ‘ceilings’.

Directed by frequent collaborator Gus Black, it’s a cut from her second studio alb”

14-Feb-2023 – CHVRCHES have confirmed their new single ‘Over’ will drop before the end of the month

Brief Summary: “CHVRCHES have confirmed their new single ‘Over‘ will drop before the end of the month.

First teased last week, the new cut will arrive on Friday 24”

15-Feb-2023 – WordPress Apps are Juggling Features

Brief Summary: ”
WordPress is finally making the move to break their single app into two separate apps – which was something I heard was in the plans a good while bac”

13-Feb-2023 – Grogu to Play a Much More Central Role in The Mandalorian Season 3

Brief Summary: “For the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, Grogu was a cub that mostly needed to be protected and cared for by Din Djarin. While the little guy def”

16-Feb-2023 – YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years

Brief Summary: “One of Google’s earliest employees, she rented out her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they founded the companyThe CEO of YouTube, Susan Woj”