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Frida Khalo was such a legend. I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, because she is so iconic. But for me, her self determination and control of her own image in the face of her illness and disability is the lesson we could all take from her. #Tate #art

Australia's planning a Great Koala National Park to save koalas from habitat loss and climate change—but here's the catch: protection only works if forests stay connected.
The park will link fragmented habitats so koalas and other species can move and adapt. Conservationists are cautiously optimistic, though logging pressure and enforcement remain real concerns.

Great Koala National Park tests whether protected forests can stay connected
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The case for Australia’s new Great Koala National Park rests on a practical point: koalas need more than scattered trees. They need connected habitat that can support populations over time. The national park, planned for the state of […]

Hej miasto domyślne,
Chodźcie na protest, bo jest kolejna chryja z dziką reprywatyzacją gruntów, tym razem na Kole w okolicach Górczewskiej i Księcia Janusza.
Za organizatorami:
"Prywatna firma deweloperska „Lokaty Budowlane” wykupiła roszczenia reprywatyzacyjne do gruntu pod naszymi blokami, szkołą i przedszkolem od reaktywowanej po latach przedwojennej spółki. Teraz ten prywatny biznes żąda od nas milionowych odszkodowań za to, że... nasze bloki stoją na tej ziemi! Ponad 1,5 tysiąca mieszkańców Woli żyje w ciągłym strachu, że straci dach nad głową"
28 maja, godz. 13:30 - 16:00
Sejm - wejście główne przy biurze przepustek. ul. Wiejska 4/6/8
Grafika: w_kolo_reprywatyzacji na IG
#warszawa

A look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighbo…

Your Friendly Neighborhood Newsletter
Local newsletters from the “Boerum Bulletin” in Brooklyn to “The Eastside Rag” in L.A. are providing a sense of community that’s missing from our algorithmic feeds, writes Kyle Chayka.

The air handler in the attic suffered a blockage in the drainage pipe. Water filled the pan and there is, apparently, no float kill-switch. And so, as water does, it sought the lowest point. Eventually that was the ceiling. 😱
A trip to the hardware store to by a wet vac and then a second trip to buy the foam filter required for wet vacuuming (in a frothy rage because why would you sell a wet vac without the ability to, I dunno, wet vacuum out of the box?!?)
Not a fun evening.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GroupNebula563/116742235971251712
as someone who knows the votv map by heart (for reasons that start with aso and end with kel) to the point where the dunkeltaler array seems like a genuinely familar place when i see it,…

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

So... not many people will be surprised, #Google has done it again, it has crossed a big red line this time.
They already made it so that using their "share" feature from Chrome browser in Android would introduce their own tracking link, betraying unsuspecting users. That in itself was infuriating, but at least we had an escape hatch, we could copy the web page URL and share that directly.... until now.
It is no longer possible to copy URLs from the browser's URL bar (in Android systems). They have reached an entire new level of perversity and anti-user behaviour.
At this rate, they will manage to kill the #www for good at some point, something else will have to emerge.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pointer Sisters:
🎵 Hot Together
#PointerSisters
https://ciava.bandcamp.com/track/pointer-sisters-hot-together-ciava-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KWhl75cqqKWEqTIHv1Zsd

It's not even clear what these people even want from us? Academic recognition? Co-Authorship on some follow-up paper? A cookie?
I think behind all this is a gross misunderstanding of how mathematics works and what the day-to-day conjectures in our papers mean.
They are not huge prizes like Jacobian conjecture or similar but they would serve as a little prize for the humans (often students!) who do point 2.
What do we do now? Keep our conjectures for ourselves? 2/2
https://thomas-kahle.de/blog/2026/just-42-tells-us-nothing/