@cheryanne@aus.socialNot In Print: Playwrights Off Script - On Inspiration, Process And Theatre Itself
We're talking to Australian playwrights about their work, getting insights straight from the source...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/not-in-print/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHa ha — but also note that the 21% figure is itself •generated by an automated tool•:
❝The next day, he got a response from Max Spero, chief executive of Pangram Labs in New York City, which develops tools to detect AI-generated text. Pangram screened all 19,490 studies and 75,800 peer reviews.…Pangram’s analysis revealed that around 21% of the ICLR peer reviews were fully AI-generated, and more than half contained signs of AI use.❞
The word “revealed” is doing way too much work there.
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Re this from @…:
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115632304917619952
@cdarwin@c.imAn open admirer of Adolf Hitler,
#Nick #Fuentes preaches to his 1.2 million X followers that the MAGA movement’s biggest problem is that it’s not racist enough.
Since the death of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA,
Fuentes has been attempting to take his place as a major MAGA leader.
F…
@playinprogress@assemblag.esSince a few weeks I have a Hippeastrum bulb standing on my desk, so I can watch something grow even at this time of the year. Two days ago it finally burst open. Here are some views from before.
#photography #bloomScrolling
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThe last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social"Etwa 80 % der Amerikaner sind der Meinung, dass #KI stark reguliert werden sollte, und weniger als 20 % der Amerikaner glauben, dass KI in den nächsten 20 Jahren einen positiven Einfluss auf Amerika haben wird. Das sind schockierende Zahlen, um es gelinde auszudrücken. KI liegt in der öffentlichen Vorstellung nur knapp vor Kinderschändern. Und doch besteht die wichtigste KI-Politik des Weißen H…
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@edintone@mastodon.green#SilentSunday Wiggonholt Parish Church, #WestSussex. The church's dedication has been long forgotten, if it even had one. The parish itself was even abolished in 1933, being merged with Parham.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFor #MonochromeMonday and #Photomontag ... I visited this spot twice now and it looked SO different. Once with a lot of fog in the evening, the other time earlier with less fog.
Not just was it the fog that ws different. But once there were NO birds at all. And the other time it w…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzReason Emerges for Trevon Diggs’ Release By Cowboys – Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trevon-diggs-reason-realease-timing/
@axbom@axbom.me
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOn Immigration, the G.O.P. Finds Itself in a Shocking Place: On Defense (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/minnesota-politics-immigration-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p107#a260127p107
@cdarwin@c.im#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… It happens once a year for a handful of people who setup the repository manually. We have maybe 5-10 reports a year and in all cases the user setup the repo by hand. Other users are all fine.
This makes sense as the deb itself can and will setup the repo if the user does not and it installs two keys. The current one and the next one. Then towards th…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey, this is my last photo from the hike last weekend. I didn't manage to capture the whole Vista so I tried to zoom in on some distant #mountains. In the mid you can see the #jochberg.
Usually you see epic photos from atop this mountain but not from the mountain itself.
And well, …
@teledyn@mstdn.caAll objects and some questions | American Journal of Physics | AIP Publishing
> In Fig. 2, we plot all the composite objects in the Universe: protons, atoms, life forms, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, giant voids, and the Universe itself.
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/10/819/2911822/All-objects-and-some-questions
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialPlanning for Christmas Lego has begun. Sets have been divided between my son and I. The one set by itself is new and we will alternate bags.
#Christmas
#Lego
#WinterVillage
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWetzel: If Belichick isn't first ballot, shut the Hall down https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47748034/belichick-first-ballot-shut-hall-down
@benb@osintua.euFOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY! Ukraine united the ENTIRE WORLD around itself, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/for-the-first-time-in.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI want to throw away all my computers, maybe even my ThinkPad. But who really holds the right to judge how I live? Authority itself is a chain meant to be shattered.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSanDisk's stock has surged ~1,000% since August, driven by AI demand for its data storage products; SanDisk has a cost advantage due to its JV with Kioxia (Matt Phillips/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/inside-sandisks-tr…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: She'll have had some help, of course, but not from the High Council of Vandor itself, or not deliberately.
AVON: There's an arms manufacturing cartel that looks highly promising as a candidate for co-conspirator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/596
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Academic Publishing and Academic Ethos – Looking Back to the Future": Analyse von Stefan Klein am Beispiel von Elsevier: "I use Elsevier as an example to illustrate the impact and risks of digitalization of academic publishing house, or ‘information analytics businesses’ as Elsevier has rebranded itself."
https://doi.org/10.308…
@pre@boing.worldDay two introduced again by Mad bitcoins .
Then the history of art on bitcoin includes satoshi and his original logo, ASCII art in the Blockchain, Cassius coins with scratch off keys, these pictured images of fake satoshi and 200 logos.
Exploded from there, trading cards, the rare Pepe's.
What makes it bitcoin art?
Symbology. The logo. Religious symbology. Is it a cult?
Memes. Memes catch and go in a fashion which is unpredictable and fits the whole history to a timeline.
Art builds culture and heros proliferate bitcoin culture for all.
Art traditionally goes up in value but none of it seems to outpace bitcoin itself.
Some is for sale in the gallery but it'll unlikely be a better but then 30 percent discount bitcoin today 😆
#bitfest #art #bitcoin
@Nathan@social.lostinok.comI think this assessment is quite true. These are the days when the titans of industry cower in terror of the execution of power backed by the threat of violence. Tom Wolfe’s Masters of the Universe laid low by the machine of their own making.
https://om.co/2026/01/27/a-ceo-captured/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialIn case anyone was wondering about the relevance of #LandBack in the current moment, via CrimeThinc an article on the Minneapolis resistance states:
"""
The Whipple, a federal building in Fort Snelling on the outskirts of the Minneapolis and St. Paul, has long been a regional headquarters for ICE, having previously housed other federal agencies. The complex is located across the street from a National Guard base, down the road from a military base, and next to the preserved fort itself. The fort sits on the sacred site of the convergence of two rivers. It was one of the earliest sites of colonization in the area; at one time, it was a concentration camp holding native Dakota people.
"""
If at any point in the past you ever felt that maybe Native soverignty was a niche issue, or so far from being realized that other causes were more important or relevant, things like this are a good reminder that that cause: overturning the colonial order, is the *same* cause as any meaningful change from the fascist status quo. Things like a "return to democracy" aren't necessarily bad, but the rot runs to the root of this nation, and any intervention that doesn't go that deep is going to leave us right back in this situation again later on.
The fact that ICE is detaining Native Americans is not at all a mistake given their white supremacist aims.
Article link: #ICE #LandBack
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialIsto é tipo um piolho a viver num milionšrio.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115612074984241756
@gwire@mastodon.socialIt's so mad to me that there is now an actual military AI drone company that named itself "STARK".
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/100-new-jobs-created-as-drone-factory-opens-in-swindon
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGreat blog about the current situation in the US.
#trump
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight. Does Anyone Care? https://www.404media.co/the-doomsday-clock-ticks-closer-to-midnight-does-anyone-care/
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.orgI built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @…
The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.
'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.
#linguistics
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself.
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf
saved 2021-05-24
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
ht…
@bourgwick@heads.sociala dozen years ago, i wrote liner notes for a reissue of callender's 1972 album, "the way," nixed by a former label owner just before it went into (re)production.
https://social.lol/@thetonearm/115587988828492685
@Dragofix@veganism.socialLahore's toxic winters: How smog is reshaping daily life in urban Pakistan #Pakistan…
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccRE: https://mastodon.world/@afouxenidis/115583740362305127
Marx's metaphor of vampirism has itself become the subject of reflection in journals that are part of this system.* I now find it difficult to use. It is much more important to make clear wh…
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgQuote of Carole Cadwalladr @… post, Monday 17th Nov 25, "Peter Thiel gets out of Dodge",
itself quoting...
“The CFO of OpenAI, Sarah Friar, gave the game away a week ago when she said that she was thinking that there was a role for the government to play in backstopping the future investments of companies like OpenAI, that is a terrible idea.[…]
You know, everybody on Wall Street is excited about this #bubble. 34% of the market value is in the big companies. The private ones have notional values that would make them, you know, Fortune 200 companies. ...."
Investors have to take the hit, not taxpayers/public services.
I have seen this film before.
I still don't like the ending.
➡️ #Edinburgh
Edited to add tag
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caAging gracefully is more than just life's milestones; it's an investment in the adventure itself. I am dedicated to helping seniors thrive in health and wealth. What do you believe is essential for a fulfilling retirement? Share your wisdom! 💡
#SeniorsLivingWell #RetirementGoals #LifeJourney
@rasterweb@mastodon.social“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyRE: https://mastodon.social/@eurocaro/115909635361024549
Europe needs to decolonise itself from the US, says Caroline de Gruyter.
"The US is no longer our ally; it no longer offers faith in progress or a vision for the future, and as a model of …
@jswright61@ruby.social❌🟢❌ I solved the #sumplete Daily 5x5 #1058 in 01:51.69
sumplete.com/daily
I made an error that did not reveal itself until late in my first pass and had to restart.
#WordPuzzle #MathPuzzle
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Phoebe Liu, Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202<…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialHere is the explanation of @… itself why it was down worldwide yesterday (again) and it styled a lot on the Internet.
»Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025:
On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflar's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic. […]«
☁️
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 Love, In Itself
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
@lilmikesf@c.im
@fgraver@hcommons.socialAI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"How the 15-Minute Sustainable City Model Cuts Carbon by 98% While Growing Local Food"
#Sustainability
https://happyeconews.com/15-minute-sustainable-city/
@cdarwin@c.imICE has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mdb7ue5f722x
@jake4480@c.imA definitive guide has been written and updated for 2026 by @…
for Xbox emulation on the Steam Deck: https://gardinerbryant.com/…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThis week's climate solutions digest: https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-9/
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialThe Broken & The Relics 🧱
断壁残垣 🧱
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialGOP pats itself on the back for not fixing a problem it created
#news
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading dishwashers, set to launch in beta in 2026 (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/memo-sunday-robotics-home-robot/
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialnew boots, new sign
#FuckIce #AbolishIce
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#EroticMusings Week 33
Craft: Is creating erotica an erotic act in itself?
It can be. As a hobby writer, it usually was because I wrote only for my own enjoyment. As a professional writer, I have a "craft mode" where I just get something written without needing the spark of inspiration or arousal.
What part, if any, does your own arousal play in creating or eval…
@felwert@fedihum.orgCompleting a PhD while coordinating a graduate school is no easy task in itself. So I’m delighted to hear that my colleague Maren Jordan from @… not only managed to achieve that, but that her dissertation “Temporalities of Reproduction: Fertility Transformations across Generations in the Sultanate of Oman” was also awarded the Frobenius Research Prize. Full statement …
@marcel@waldvogel.familyMeta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that renamed itself in the Metaverse craze less than five years ago, is reducing its Metaverse activity by 10% and laying off some 1500 employees.
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-reportedly-laying-off-over-10…
@cdarwin@c.imPutin wants to fool you.
Russia isn’t winning.
Administration officials say that the “fall” of the eastern Ukrainian city of #Pokrovsk is a bellwether for what’s to come for Ukraine.
⭐️Yet, Pokrovsk, whose population was only around 60,000 even before the war, has yet to fall.
And in the entire year and a half that the Russians have spent trying to take this relatively small city,…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIf you were in Carol's place in #Pluribus, what would you do? I'd probably have the talk of my life with the entire world's consciousness and then ask it to undo itself 😀 I mean, we know Carol has something in her that is a potential treatment for the virus. We also know the hive mind knows how to remove it and assimilate her. But it can't because that would make her unh…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioFor fans of #Steam games where you can build -really- broken mechanics like Balatro or Slay the Spire (#deckbuilders, #roguelikes, etc. - "Make the numbers go UP!"), LOOTPLOT has been *extremely* satisfying for me
It's like: "what if Incredible Machine, but Ballionaire" - you randomly get access to a bunch of items that each have their own mechanics and trigger/play off each other, which you build out on a grid - but the grid itself can be manipulated by the items. Some of the interactions are absolutely wild.
Plays a little rough on CrossOver - I think the dynamic scaling plays havoc with texture calculation - but is still enjoyable all the same. (It's written in LÖVE - I really hope the author releases a macOS build!)
The sale price of $3.49 is crazy good for the enjoyment value I've gotten out of it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057190/LOOTPLOT/
@StephenRees@mas.toHere is a link to Current Affairs to an article about the impact of AI on universities in the US.
It is a very long post, but well worth your time and attention
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-it…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialOr just use a solid rectangle selection tool and DELETE whatever you want to redact.
I’ve never understood how people can be so terrible at redacting pixel-based images. PDFs can be a special case (hint: redact, then Print as PDF)
https://todon.eu/@cf/115521875990737714
@vosje62@mastodon.nlExclusive: U.S. businesses are getting throttled by the drop in tourism from Canada | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2025/12/10/us-businesses-canada-border-throttled-drop-canadian-tourism/
The US is isolating itself...
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReddit launches Interactive Ads, letting brands create immersive, participatory experiences directly in the Reddit feed, now testing with select advertisers (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-interactive-ad-format-paramount-runni…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe last Volkswagen ID.3 has been built at the 'Gläserne Manufaktur' (Transparent Factory) in Dresden.
A symbolic end to a symbolic factory, itself an icon of early 21st-century Germany, when nothing but progress seemed possible?
https://www.instagram.com/vwmanufaktur_de/
@playinprogress@assemblag.es
@arXiv_csGT_bot@mastoxiv.pageStrategyproof Tournament Rules for Teams with a Constant Degree of Selfishness
David Pennock, Daniel Schoepflin, Kangning Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05235
arXiv:2512.05235v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the well-studied problem of designing fair and manipulation-resistant tournament rules. In this problem, we seek a mechanism that (probabilistically) identifies the winner of a tournament after observing round-robin play among $n$ teams in a league. Such a mechanism should satisfy the natural properties of monotonicity and Condorcet consistency. Moreover, from the league's perspective, the winner-determination tournament rule should be strategyproof, meaning that no team can do better by losing a game on purpose.
Past work considered settings in which each team is fully selfish, caring only about its own probability of winning, and settings in which each team is fully selfless, caring only about the total winning probability of itself and the team to which it deliberately loses. More recently, researchers considered a mixture of these two settings with a parameter $\lambda$. Intermediate selfishness $\lambda$ means that a team will not lose on purpose unless its pair gains at least $\lambda s$ winning probability, where $s$ is the individual team's sacrifice from its own winning probability. All of the dozens of previously known tournament rules require $\lambda = \Omega(n)$ to be strategyproof, and it has been an open problem to find such a rule with the smallest $\lambda$.
In this work, we make significant progress by designing a tournament rule that is strategyproof with $\lambda = 11$. Along the way, we propose a new notion of multiplicative pairwise non-manipulability that ensures that two teams cannot manipulate the outcome of a game to increase the sum of their winning probabilities by more than a multiplicative factor $\delta$ and provide a rule which is multiplicatively pairwise non-manipulable for $\delta = 3.5$.
toXiv_bot_toot
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOh! Look, we are getting Christmas visitors!
I asked if they aren't a bit late. But the Grey answered that a wizard is never late. He is also not too early. Wizards arrive just in time.
Well, let's see.
#Lego
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… I’m using a Brother HL-L5200dw with Macs, and I’m very happy with the printer itself and the quality.
It’s got a built-in PostScript interpreter; with very cheap printers, the rendering is typical…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… I’m using a Brother HL-L5200dw with Macs, and I’m very happy with the printer itself and the quality.
It’s got a built-in PostScript interpreter; with very cheap printers, the rendering is typical…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“They stood in a silence so heavy it seemed to bend the light around them.
Their smiles were hesitant — like doors that had forgotten how to open. And in that moment, I realized: freedom itself can be fragile.
We who survived war thought we had endured the worst — the bombs, the hunger, the endless waiting. But their stories shattered that belief.”
– @…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgA lot of companies in tech are non-profit if we're honest. But the issue really is that by being a "non-profit tech company" you kinda align yourself the the idea of the tech company itself and all the baggage that brings. It's where a lot of the issues (for example with Mozilla) come from
https://ma…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPanthers alone in first in NFC South, eyeing playoffs after Bucs' loss to Falcons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6884709/2025/12/12/panthers-first-place-nfc-south/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFederato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M (InsurTech Analyst)
https://insurtechanalyst.com/2025/11/18/federato-launches-ai-n…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood analysis, my initial personal take was too pessimistic I think.
The EU's decision to secure the funding of Ukraine's war for the next two years is one of the most important developments of the entire year. It is a disaster for Russia, and it shows what Europe exerting itself as a strategic actor looks like in practice.
https://
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFC West Makes History With 3 Teams In the Divisional Round https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfc-west-makes-history-3-teams-divisional-round
@brichapman@mastodon.socialthis week's climate solutions digest!
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-9/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI'm no math surgeon, but there's 342mil people in the US. 70 of 342 is around 20%, or 1 in 5 Americans.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3m4pc4toy7s2z
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialFor #mountainmonday AND #monochromeMonday , here's the start (well and end) of my hike the weekend before last.
Usually I'm not a fan of photographing roads, but this one made a nice line over the saddle and into the fog so I just gave it a try.
And heck was it c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPhysicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAeolian dune simulation (made in 2017) for #MeerMittwoch:
The images show a screenshot of the JavaScript application to create the simulation and some Houdini renders of exported height fields. The sim itself had 5 macro params to control the behavior of the interactive deposit/erosion/transportation process. It supported tileable patterns, customizable seed terrain (images) and ran r…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Inconsistency Continues in Disappointing Denver Defeat https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-inconsistency-continues-in-disappointing-denver-defeat
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs Europe rearms, Anduril is trying to break through in the UK by co-funding major programs, cutting manufacturing deals, and billing itself as "Anglo-American" (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@cdarwin@c.imTrump may end NAT0,
But he is well on the way to forming the Coalition of Shithole Countries
https://kolektiva.social/@EricLawton/115850715047482958
@Techmeme@techhub.socialxAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000 public schools, reaching 1M students in an "AI-powered education program" over the next two years (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/11/elon-musk-el-salva…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon is establishing itself as a center for quantitative finance; filings show trading firms XTX, Qube, and Quadrature each made £1B revenue in the past year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6502c3-f244-4b61-880b-b20cf03299cc
