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I have a trick I call "The 1920 Method".
I resize most images to 1920 pixels wide before I post them to Mastodon or to my own web site. This has allowed me to keep things small, and fast, and not have to increase server space or feel like I'm putting a burden on other systems.
You'd be surprised how many images we share online work just fine at lower resolution.

Just watched the first part of the noclip series about the making of Disco Elysium. Really loved seeing the humor of the folks behind the game in the interviews!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6mUTHZ5C4

# O sšbio antigo e o século de Platão
Émile Bréhier
O presente texto de Bréhier é a primeira parte das conferências de 1920 pronunciadas em um seminšrio organizado pela École Normale de la Seine (antiga École Normale d’Instituteurs de Paris). As conferências foram organizadas em BOUGLÉ, Célestin; BRÉHIER, Émile; DELACROIX, Henri; PARODI, Dominique. Du Sage Antique au Citoyen Moderne – Études sur la culture morale. Paris: Armand Colin, 1921. Bréhier se encarrega do “sšbio antigo”,…

How "AI" is being actually trained: «It’s a model built for distance and deniability, Joan Kinyua, president of the Data Labelers Association, a Nairobi-based AI workers’ union, told Rest of World. “It’s capitalism and the height of digital colonialism. Oftentimes, supervisors don’t even mention who you are working for, but you’d be able to tell from the faces in the content,” she said.»
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

Cuando algunos estadounidenses intentan hablar sobre autenticidad. 😆
«Contó que había ido a Costa Rica a tomar ayahuasca –y cito– en un ambiente adecuado, con gente indígena, en medio de la selva. Aquí hay que aclarar también que la ayahuasca es una bebida que viene de una planta amazónica, no nativa de Costa Rica. Y tampoco es usada por los grupos indígenas costarricenses. Pero bueno…»
https://radioambulante.org/audio/doctor-iboga

Finally got an external screen, but I spent by far too much time this morning on getting it connected:
First it turned out that my USB-C hub doesn't play well with 4K displays and can only handle 30 Hz on them. So I thought I'd just dust off the HDMI card for my Framework laptop, but then it wouldn't work at all.
Until I finally remembered that the second slot on the left side of the AMD Framework models doesn't do video output. 🤦

«Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service» - welcome to @… instead 😊
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

I'm not at all versed in medieval Jewish clothing culture or the attention paid to such in Weimar Germany film productions. Are the fashions depicted here accurate for a sixteenth century Prague ghetto?
#witches #wizards #workwear
https://archive.org/details/der-golem-1920

Wow, I nearly missed that announcement! The CNRS (the main national research agency of France, that happens to be one of Europe's largest) will stop paying for Clarivate's Web of Science and instead turns to open databases like OpenAlex!
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

Bréhier, Emile. O fim do mundo antigo. Áskesis (12-12-2025). Translated by Marcio Miotto.
#Bréhier é a terceira parte das conferências de 1920 pronunc…

«Because people have varying needs across disparate contexts from assorted expectations with unequal skill levels using almost random technologies, never mind current moods and real-life distractions, to suggest one thing will be accessible for everyone in all those circumstances is pure hubris. Or lack of empathy. Maybe a mix.»
So obvious but underappreciated. AutSPACEs ran into that all the time. Often one person's accessibility is another person's barrier.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-cant-make-something-accessible-to-everyone.html

Ugh, after a while I wanted to use "Stirling PDF" again for some file merging and was greeted by lots of cookie warnings and a login wall. Turns out they've gone for an "open-core" model a few days ago…
Any recommendations for alternatives that don't suck (yet)?
#pdf #opensource
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Stirling-PDF-2-0-Major-update-of-the-open-source-alternative-to-Adobe-Acrobat-11095732.html

Bréhier, Emile. O fim do mundo antigo. Áskesis (12-12-2025). Translated by Marcio Miotto.
#Bréhier é a terceira parte das conferências de 1920 pronunc…

«These conditions suggest that Puerto Rico’s challenge is not only the frequency or intensity of natural disasters, but also the ongoing struggle to recover fully between these events. This leaves residents in a constant state of vulnerability that worsens with each disaster.»
Great post about the challenges of digital connectivity in PR!
https://citizensandtech.org/2025/11/what-puerto-rico-reveals-about-the-hidden-architecture-of-child-safety/

@… draw for me a picture in the format 1920 x 1080 of a terrifying clownface on a white background. The clown must look really scary and have an evil grin on it's face. I want only the head with a face but no body. Center the head in the picture

from my link log —
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: a cautionary tale.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w26480
saved 2019-11-27 https://…

Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

«The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it. Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.»
An excellent read about how/why uni admin pushes the use of "AI" and the impact
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

RE: #opensource labor recognized as "proper" volunteering.

Stedet hvor du hŸrer hjemme.
#NorskTut

«Roban unos 20.000 proyectiles de munición al Ejército alemšn» no me sorprendería si la munición es en las manos de nazis ahora…
https://www.dw.com/es/roban-unos-20000-proyectiles-de-munición-del-ejército-alemán/a-74979534

I just noticed: after starting my little link "blog" or collection back on June 1st, as of today it has now grown to 150 links! 🔗
My reason for starting it was two-fold: I thought some folks could be interested in following along with what I read (that's why you can also subscribe via #rss). But, it's also a really useful archive for myself!
https://tzovar.as/links/

RE: #panoramax

«In that way, every time Black Friday rolls around, we reach the bottom stage of the Tower, where that obscene cemetery lies. Twisted and deranged by consumerism, people become the “hyperorganisms.” They no longer relate to each other as human beings, but become creatures of pure consumption, willing to step over a man having a heart attack to reach the electronics aisle.»
I never had heard of Thomas Ligotti before, but now I'm intrigued.
Black Friday, Red Tower
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/black-friday-red-tower

This whole thing reads like a puff piece for that "AI detector" startup, but this quote by an researcher got me:
«Everyone in the community is aware that we are in a regime where all of us are doing significantly more volunteer work than we used to.»
I bet large part of that increase in work is due to "AI"-generated slop and not only due to a genuine, human increase in publications, but somehow that part of seems not discussed. Wonder why 😅
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

«In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?»
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

So, ACM will not only hold a conference in Dubai in 2026, but there will be a "Prompt Engineering Workshop" as part of the program. In case anyone was still under the illusion that academia isn't just shilling for tech. 😂

A good piece into how the polarisation of particularly US social media is due to the incentive programs by the social media companies themselves, and how/why they have no interest in fixing any of this
«The problem is not a lack of transparency, because being “transparent” doesn’t actually matter. The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a fuck about this.»
https://www.404media.co/americas-polarization-has-become-the-worlds-side-hustle/

In case you missed it, as it was posted on a Friday afternoon: I've written some notes on how to map & survey using @CoMaps & @everydoor when one is trekking without any internet & electricity for a few days!
#OpenStreetMap