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It was never easier to support a band:
just click the link and LIKE THE COMMENT with our name in it:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYfHHi0DBUq/?carousel_share_child_media_id=3899863847308332045_11297…

Core Fest on Instagram: "💥 BANDCONTEST VOTING PHASE 💥 Es ist soweit: Ihr könnt euren Opening Act fürs Core Fest 2026 voten! 🤩 Über 90 Bands haben sich beworben und nach einer intensiven Auswahlphase präsentieren wir euch die Top 10 🔥
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In den Top 10 sind: 
@alteredrebirth aus Frankfurt, @darkk.band aus Aachen, @invokemetal aus Deutschland, @faintheartedband aus Freiburg, @peius.morte.official aus Schwäbisch Hall, @jawbreaker_thcbd aus Tirol, @allure.officiall aus Karlsruhe, @mayflowerxofficial aus Freibug, @sonsofsavage.de aus Nürnberg und @subjectdelta_official aus Hildesheim.
 Außerdem ein großes Dankeschön an ALLE Bands, die sich beworben haben! Wir waren überwältigt von der Resonanz und der Qualität eurer Einsendungen 🖤
 P.S.: Für alle, die entspannt reinhören wollen – eine Playlist mit den Top 10 findet ihr über den Link in unserer Bio."
688 likes, 192 comments - corefestgermany on May 18, 2026: "💥 BANDCONTEST VOTING PHASE 💥 Es ist soweit: Ihr könnt euren Opening Act fürs Core Fest 2026 voten! 🤩 Über 90 Bands haben sich beworben und nach einer intensiven Auswahlphase präsentieren wir euch die Top 10 🔥
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lately been playing "liked music" on shuffle and thinking, yeah I've heard that enough, time to remove it. just dropped a string of 90s hits
of course I need to add new liked music to keep the warp drive from imploding, so I alternate with yt music's "discover mix", which ~20% of the time finds a cowpath that works for me, and ~40% of the time makes me go, ugh this sucks, back to shuffling likes.
sometimes I try a mix from a liked song, but that doesn&…

@… It's still on my to-read-pile. I bought it last fall because I liked the previous one “Babel”

This. So much this.
Heinlein wrote to pay off his mortgage…and then he did it cos he enjoyed it.
I mean, c’mon:
“Starship Troopers” (Heinlein’s a fascist!!) - 1959
“Stranger In A Strange Land” (Heinlein’s a Hippie free sex freak!) - 1961
@… Knows of which he speaks.

John Scalzi (@jscalzi) on Threads
Saw another whiny right-wing dweeb assert that Robert Heinlein couldn't get published today, presumably because of "woke," and I'm all, motherfucker, you don't think that the most commercially savvy science fiction writer of his era wouldn't understand how to read the room in 2026 and then write to it? No, of course you don't, because your Heinlein is some weird fetish object instead of an actual working writer who liked money AND telling stories. Heinlein understood commercial storytelling...

Just finished "Forgive Me Not", a beautiful and touching fairy tale graphic novel by Mari Costa. Only thing I dislike about it is the royalty, which it honestly could have worked just as well without...
I actually liked the resolution of the climax a lot; many writers would have created a lesser scene for one or both characters.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

I saw Mortal Kombat 2 tonight. That was pretty good. I liked it.

Friday Links 26-16
Some good podcasts this week, I liked the ones about aging programmers, bees, and GLP-1s.
Also some scientific insights into super blocks.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/05/friday-links-26-16.html

There are new episodes of the anime series Vox Machina on Amazon Prime! I liked the show. Good writing. Lots of elements reminded me of other shows that I liked which could be seen as a bad thing at first: a bantering team of RPG tropes (Dungeons and Dragons) in a rough fantasy world with dragons (Game of Thrones) and a simple drawing style (Invincible). But it felt like more than the sum of that. But I thought the story arc had a finale. Let's see if the new season 4 is any good.
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RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116913952636548872
When this specific phase of history is over, and, perhaps, we've turned NWDC into some artist space like Seattle's Inscape, we'll put a statue of Willem in the center of the garden where those buses once were. It's not something he'd probably have liked much, but memorials aren't for the dead. They're for the living, to help us remember what to aspire to.

Book Review (with spoilers) - There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.quora.com/profile/Ben-Curthoys/Book-Review-There-Is-No-Antimemetics-Division-Here-be-spoilers-this-is-for…

Just watched « John Wick » and I liked it. Late to the party I know.

oh heh, in terminator 2 the animator liza keith used a classic CG checkerboard floor as a stand-in when working on the “head through floor” scene, before the background shots were available
james cameron liked the effect so much, they went back to the set and covered every other white floor tile with black…

#AI is slowing down but cannot afford to https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

AI Is Slowing Down
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The social media figure “Rathbone” became (or always has been) a horrible antisemite. Not sure how many people here are familiar with his videos, but I must admit that a few years back I liked them. They were often provocative and didn't speak too kindly on Israel's actions, using words like “apartheid”, “imperialism”, “zionism”, etc. The account didn't influence me on my knowledge of these terms, the books I read and my political activism did, but it certainly popped up once or twi…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elliott4mp/116902996518832436
Fuck this guy.
The limited volume of the Detroit-Windsor crossing has constrained economic capacity for 30 years and the “free” market never fixed that because one billionaire liked his …

“When the time comes, the AI industry must burn. It must be allowed to die. Generative AI has already been given far too much money, oxygen and attention, and if it cannot survive without continual venture capital and media coddling, it is unworthy and unnecessary, and must face the cold, hard reality that every regular person faces when they fail.”
Amen to that!

Let AI Burn
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Box office revenue is not a measure of the quality of a movie... and definitely not relevant to one's subjective opinion.
Steve liked "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". I liked "Waterworld". So what?
▶️ Why Do You Care How Much Money a Movie Makes? - Steve Shives
https://yo…

RE: #comedy

Friday Links 26-18
Again a few good podcasts, I especially liked the one about The Pre-Training Wall and the Mythical Man Month.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/06/friday-links-26-18.html

I liked her better as a rock.

Mark Davis Doubles Down on Commitment That Is Sure to Anger Other Owners https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mark-davis-grass-allegiant-stadium/

WOAH finally nice cool temperatures again after a day of rain!!
And thus I'm also motivated aain to post and devlop some more photos. And these are the last shots from the #worldOfBricks
I liked the 3d Settlers of Catan a lot, same as the Starwars figures or the illuminated large sculptures.
The whole exhibition wasn't overly large but it was a good visit and we …

liked, licked

Someone's builder is cracking out the 80s bangers - TFF, Eurythmics, Scritti Politti (shut up, I liked them). It's better than his usual 12hrs straight of Oasis.

So I had always thought that Erie liked to sit on laptop keyboards because of the warmth from the machine underneath.
But no, here she is sitting on a bluetooth keyboard (and it's not even on). She does it not for the warmth, but just to be a jerk. Though to be fair, I DID take her to the vet today, so I deserve it.
#CatsOfMastodon
(That's Clove in the backg…

Ed Zitron's new mega piece "Revenge of The Business Idiot":
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
Some choice nuggets & quotes:
"LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don’t want to code, the researche…

Revenge of The Business Idiot
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But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol

Wrote up my notes after using Bazzite for a few days. I've really liked this experience and may switch for real to using a Linux desktop for the first time in 20 years. But maybe not Bazzite, I'm not a fan of the atomic OS concept.

TIL¹: witr² – Why is this running?
An interactive TUI that shows all the details about processes, their resources, environment, parents and children. Like ps, htop, lsof, ss etc. combine for a process-centered view.
I installed the forky Debian package³ on Debian trixie and it just works.
I played around with it and immediately liked id.
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¹ok, technically it was yesterday. Thanks to @…

GitHub - pranshuparmar/witr: Why is this running?
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#Solidarity.
I’ve always liked the Polish #solidarność for how the first half of the Polish and English words for the idea are alike, but I’d need a #Polish speaking person to look up the …

AI is meant to be this ultra-powerful streamlining tool that changes the workplace forever, yet the practical result appears to be “we’ve spent a bunch of money on something that makes our least-sentient managers excited.”
🫣
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-…

Revenge of The Business Idiot
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#totp I liked this. But what's it about?

Just finished "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman. It was gripping (I basically barely put it down and finished in in a single day) but also feels flawed in some ways.
Things I liked: a protagonist that I really strongly rooted for, and a resolution that landed with a bit of complexity.
Things I'm feeling a way about: complete lack of depth in interrogating heritage, despite that being a huge theme, some tinges of deus ex machina in how the central conflicts are resolved, and a real lack of good messaging around consent.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

I just watched The Mitchells vs The Machines, which I liked very much.
Before watching it I was wondering why I had never heard of it before.
After watching it, I guess it's because Apple, Facebook and the rest didn't like it very much.

I finally upgraded my phone and got back one of the things I liked and missed most about my phone in the last ~15 years --- a stylus!
A real shame that currently there are only two models of phones from two different companies that have integrated styluses --- and the second only sells theirs in the US and Indian markets!!
The other thing, more important honestly, was an unlocked bootloader and freedom to install whichever OS (ROM) i wanted. This, apparently, will have to wait --…

How is it that the Middle East continue being one of the world’s most war-affected regions to this day?
How is it that the people there developed this culture of encouraging conquest and holding grudges?
Then I remembered that it is the birthplace of the god of Storm and Warfare which became the most Worshiped god of all time worldwide. He created humans and declared it was all Good but, then because he didn't liked how things were going, he drown 99.9% of all humans and anima…

The unintended consequences of living on the edge of FreeBSD. Self inflicted damage done 😆
#freebsd #kde
https://…

Trying to really spec up front a personal project like write out a project overview etc.
Not really what I want to be doing with my free time but I think the outcome so far is already looking more solid than if I just winged it as per usual.
Certainly helped to pick better dependencies already - the one I really liked would have been a giant pain to build with now that I see the scope of the idea.
Ugh.

I saw the final episodes of "The Boroughs" and none of the earlier ones. It really vindicates all the criticism of modern Netflix productions: you can just start watching at any point because the plot is explained constantly. The series is ticking all the boxes of what viewers liked previously: a bit of an 80s vibe but set in modern times so you can do sci-fi elements as well, deus-ex-machina ET-style healing powers, the 100th iteration of spider monsters ... big yawn.

@… Yeah the students use Windows, but I of course also need to be able to use the IDE that's established in the course 😅 Took my a tad longer that I'd have liked to get it running, but as usual with NixOS, I now have something reprodicible and who knows how often I might need just that.
Python's strict indenting also trips me up and …

Just finished "You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty" by Akwaeke Emezi. I liked a ton of things about it but a few other things bothered me a bit, and I kinda feel like I need to read more of Emezi's work to figure out how I feel. There's a lot of grief and a lot of joy in this book, as well as some nice deep truths about relationships and grief, but maybe also some deep-feeling not-quite truths?
#AmReading #ReadingNow

One of my mutuals read and liked Alien Clay, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
I don't remember who she was (I think it was a she) but thank you, I got a copy and I'm liking it too.
#books #sciFi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Yottie:
🎵 miracle
#Yottie
#Christmas)

In summary then, it is indeed quite like being at school. Half hour lessons on things that probably won't ever actually be useful to know in your particular job of varying levels of interest. Mostly pretty low interest honestly. Bumping into colleagues between lessons.
Learned the names of a couple of tools I might try. One google search would have gotten me those but I guess it's a question of thinking to look for them.
If you can judge the mood of an industry from a random selection of talks from a single conference then the industry is very optimistic that they can make AI write a lot of software.
It seems to think this is likely to mean fewer programmers rather than there being more software meaning more workers.
It wasn't as AI heavy as I thought when I first glanced at the program. Managed to mostly be not-ai I think.
Nobody talking about the ethical implications or suggesting joining a union and only one talk about the environment issue at all, it not really noting how much power the industry is about to take.
Liked having a few meals in amserdam with colleagues I never usually see (mostly remote workers, including me). The boss is pretty good at picking people really.
Get a day or so of holiday now too.
#devWorld

Just finished "Hammajang Luck" by Makana Yamamoto. It's lovely in a lot of ways and was quite fun to read, even if there were some aspects I disliked. It's an #OwnVoices queer romance heist set in a dystopian future space station with megacorporations and brain implants and all that jazz. I actually liked the tech aspects of it (despite a few physics warts) and the romance was both sweet and dramatic; even though it failed the consent test I was just talking about, it had some reasons to do so (not that that makes a perfect excuse). The heist plot was good to my mind (but I haven't read a lot of the genre). The biggest thing I didn't like was the treatment of prison as a redemptive force, and the police as a semi-neutral entity with real principles, rather than what we know them to be in real life.
More and more these days in science fiction I'm especially looking at whether and how appeals to law or governments (especially the nice "league of worlds" that steps in to save characters from a corrupt local government) function, and to the degree they are mechanisms of real justice, In disappointed. To be fair, even Le Guin does this to some extent... In any case, this isn't a totally fair criticism because that's not really what this story is about, just something that bothers me whenever I see it.
Overall, the book was great.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

We liked our last cruise so much we're going on another! To Italy, Malta, and Greece with some time at the end in Paris.
I'll be sharing postcards in this thread. They will also be on a nicely formatted web page.

Ohhhh, this webtoon I really liked is back after an almost four year hiatus!! Yay, I'm so happy it's back!!

Badly zoomed phone pic, but I liked that moment.
A guy had his car stuck in the mud and was calling for help, I was stressed out for other reasons, but the bird was just enjoying the puddle.
#phonePhotography #birds #urbanNature #reflection #valencia