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I love how, on most Linux distros, you can just do an update and upgrade despite not having touched them for a long time, and you just wait for a little bit, potentially optionally reboot, and there are no nags or new things someone wants to sell you or settings that have changed back to vendor defaults. You just get on with what you wanted to do with shiny, freshly-updated software.
Arch-based distros have been the exception from the experience above for me, but I guess that’s the co…

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Check out my latest article - "The Psychological Architecture of Hope in a Warming World"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-psychological-architecture-of?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

“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.”
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When I heard the prisoners were to be released, a fragile pulse stirred inside...
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. They spoke of nights drenched in cold water while they slept, of wrists bound until flesh gave way, of blows that d...

As Storm Byron grips the Gaza Strip, heavy winter rains are turning fragile shelters and flooded streets into life-threatening locations. Families are facing freezing winds, soaked tents, and overcrowded spaces that offer little protection.
Please consider making a donation to UNRWA.
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DMEGC just solved a major solar installation problem: roofs too fragile for heavy panels.
Their new lightweight module weighs under 7.5 kg/m2—using thinner glass while still delivering 460W of power. This opens up thousands of square meters of older buildings and fragile structures that couldn't support traditional solar before.

DMEGC launches framed solar module weighing 7.5 kg/m2
In response to the growing demand for solutions for low load-bearing roofs, Chinese manufacturer DMEGC is presenting an IEC-certified lightweight 460 W module at France's largest PV trade show - EnerGaïa.

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Low Carbon Family Holidays
Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck