@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2026-05-28 11:18:41
You might be delighted to learn about German antifascists' love for humorous #antifa slogans. My attempt at translating some:
“Twitter down, but popular: Mastodon for Antifa”
(pronunciation: 'un-tea fuh, stress on 1st syllable)
“High up there, but popular: aircraft pilots' Antifa”
“Masked and vaxxed, but popular: Covid-19 Antifa”
“Long ago, but popular: B…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-28 11:40:00
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-03-29 17:21:34
This is the prediction market I'm here for: you can now bet on German train delays. Glorious stuff. Peak trolling.
https://bahn.bet/
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-05-29 12:19:50
“Accessibility question: is nesting interactive elements bad?”
https://christianheilmann.com/2026/05/27/accessibility-question-is-nesting-interactive-elements-bad/
Yes, bad.
• Reduced hit area;
• Extra tab-stops;…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-28 15:40:02
Friends! Finally! I got my day of #snowshoeing!! 😀
I didn't even plan to go very far but the snow and the weather were just wonderful and I felt confident to ascend further.
I didn't go to the summit. I just returned at a point where I admitted that I wouldn't do it for the fun but only for being there. So I returned and had an amazing snow day.
I also met a cou…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-28 21:25:33
The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event
on 14 June,
directly counter-programming Donald Trump’s 80th birthday celebrations and a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.
The centerpiece is a 90-minute concert at New York’s Town Hall featuring entertainer Bette Midler,
songwriter Patti Smith, actor Jane Fonda, musician Rufus Wainwright and commentator Joy Reid
– streaming free nationwide, while local groups ho…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-04-29 22:46:41
WHY in 2026 am I having to flip switches in Setup to a "legacy" boot to get it to boot from anything but the network???
OK, so these aren’t exactly new nodes. Supermicro X11 boards with Nutanix firmware(?) that are designed to drop into a cloud infra setup. But we don’t have that.
The boot order SAYS try disks of all flavors but it just doesn't do that.
I blame IBM. This whole architecture was a botch from the start and has just gotten slimier as we've …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-29 05:20:43
BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/byd…
@macandi@social.heise.de2026-04-30 06:03:00
heise | NeatPass fürs iPhone im Test: Eintritt, bitte!
Für weniger PDF-Papierkram: NeatPass überträgt Tickets und Fahrausweise in die Wallet-App von Apple.
https://www.heise.de/tests/NeatPass-fu…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-29 22:15:58
I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.