@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr2025-11-09 21:01:45
Quiz : un zozio s'est caché sur cette photo, saurez-vous le retrouver ? level très difficile #birding
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-10 13:24:28
Monday mood: #n5MD records at its best: diamat — misunderstood pt. 2 (2013) — contemplating, harmonious, slow, epic build up...
https://soundcloud.com/n5md/diamat-misunderstood-pt-2
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-09 21:45:39
Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-10 23:24:22
Raiders coach Pete Carroll to address media after practice https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-coach-pete-carroll-to-address-media-after-practice-3535805/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-11 04:07:12
A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2025-12-09 16:35:29
This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 21:24:38
Hmmm, he want want to chat with farmers on this one.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-he-will-put-very-severe-tariffs-on-canadian-fertilizer-if-needed/
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-10-11 00:45:56
Portland's weird, effective resistance
We live in strange times, and the people of Portland are responding with their trademark whimsy. Despite US president Donald Trump's best attempts to portray the City of Roses as a "war-torn" "hellhole," folks who live there are demonstrating that these are lies – lies intended to bolster his authoritarian efforts to deploy the National Guard in cities that oppose him and his tyrannical policies
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-11 11:44:24
Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-09 01:44:42
Barstool Sports founder says he doesn’t really want Pete Carroll murdered https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/barstool-sports-founder-says-he-doesnt-really-want-pete-carroll-murdered-3592684/