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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Rim Kwaku Obeng:
🎵 Brushing Means Making Love
#RimKwakuObeng
https://rimkwaku.bandcamp.com/track/brushing-means-making-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/141tIkq6MXDf0aJsZ6tehI

Missing Link: Technikfolgenabschätzung trifft KI-Romantik
KI zwischen Illusion und Erkenntnis: Ein Gespräch über Bewusstsein, Emotion und das neue Verhältnis von Mensch und Maschine.
https://www.

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Tensor Polarizability of the Nucleus and Angular Mixing in Muonic Deuterium
G. S. Adkins, U. D. Jentschura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15999 https://arxiv.o…

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-mapping-reveals-hidden-mining-boom-in-laos-that-threatens-the-mekong/

New mapping reveals hidden mining boom in Laos that threatens the Mekong
BANGKOK — A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, including major tributaries of the Mekong, Southeast Asia’s longest river, heightening concerns about contamination of waterways that sustain local communities. Stimson has not ground-truthed the mine sites identified through satellite imagery, but Mongabay spoke […]

Just paid for a personal annual account with Photopea, the web based image editor. It's free to use and you don't need to login, but 50EU/year takes off the very large amount of ads.
It's got that Photoshop 3.0 design vibes that means I can still sort of use it. https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post

“In a recent meeting where BBC studio executives again voiced problems, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices. I chose the latter. It broke my heart.”
– @…
Told you folks he’s a good egg :)

“Survival is sometimes just squeak, squeak, squeak until the menace gets bored and leaves.”
I can't even begin to explain what I'm writing at the moment. There are hamsters, bodyless Voices, and hobnobs. The security chief is hiding under a rug, the manager is missing their clipboard, and someone is hosting a breathing class in the basement again.
It will be even less comprehensible if I try to explain. But I suppose it's a good sign that I laugh myself to tears when I…

So I’m using Facebook marketplace occasionally to look for interesting local stuff (e.g. retrocomputing), and this means I occasionally see the main timeline Facebook serves up for me.
It’s literally ONLY right-wing shit like anti-vaxx stuff, racism about brown people and videos with real or simulated violence.
To call it a cesspit would be unfair to actual cesspits.
How are we as society not making an end to this garbage?