@memeorandum@universeodon.comPentagon's plan to limit contact with Congress is 'not going to work,' lawmakers say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pentagon-limit-congress-not-going-work-lawmakers-rcna239127
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p120#a251022p120
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.
@jake4480@c.imCompletely sick of the prudes and their bullshit in the USA. Fuck these phony fucks and their bullshit morals. Still say the ISPs do NOT want to monitor this shit. Most people do NOT want this fucking garbage. https://
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itOof, fuck microsoft.
But also, there's no reason to use permissive licenses any more. "Open source" has taken over the world. We no longer have to work with billion-dollar companies in order to get our stuff used. Now we need to protect ourselves from being taken advantage of by them.
https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioLLMs don't have physicality, they are (and this is a huge inaccurate stretch) a simulation of how maybe a small part of brains might possibly work in a hugely simplified and abstracted way; an algorithm that is executed on a bunch of graphics cards—the same algorithm could be done manually on paper (with enough time).
Because they're not physical they don't exist.
Therefore there's no epistemology to be had about "do they have sentience or consciousness".
@brian_gettler@mas.toEvery now and then I assign something that sounds great but that just doesn't work. Sometimes this involves students just not getting it and submitting work that's wide of the mark. Sometimes, though, students produce fine work but, because I didn't do a great job designing it, the assignment is virtually impossible to grade. That's what happened this time. Everyone did the work and I can tell they learned something, but the results are all over the place. High marks for all,…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAtmel ATSAMA5D27. Also not my best work, but hey it's a sample I have so might as well photograph it.
It was desoldered from something but I have no idea what the origin was.
https://siliconprawn.org/map/atmel/atsama5d27/azonenberg_mz_mit20x/…
@teledyn@mstdn.caI do like #NextCloud but sometimes it can drive me crazy. For example, fresh update, hundreds of errors with astoundingly unhelpful messages. Consider:
chmod(): Operation not permitted at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/recognize/lib/Migration/InstallDeps.php#169
ok, so what do we find at line 169? a call to chmod() on presumably a filename, wrapped in an exception Catch.
I realize this is very much non-trivial software with oodles of hours of difficult work by so many kind people, but, really, how much effort would it have been to include the errant target FILENAME in the exception message?
Similarly, a deprecation warning is, by definition, a Warning, not an error.
None of this affects my using Nextcloud, but it does really clutter the log and who knows, maybe some of these Errors are actually important?
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialMy "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.
@cdarwin@c.imThe people who succeed in the new media environment
are the people who figure out how to work its mechanics,
which selects for skills that are only loosely correlated with genuine intellectual originality.
🔸You need to be good at social media,
🔸good at building a personal brand,
🔸good at identifying topics that will generate engagement.
These are real skills,
-- but they're not the same skills that lead to developing genuinely new ideas.
@trochee@dair-community.socialPushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The most reliable predictor of future conflict in a place is past conflict in that place. In large part, this is because of unresolved injustices. Resentments over past crimes simmer. Then, they boil over.
In other words, 'they got away with mass murder' is not a great way to build a lasting peace" -- @…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI don't think at framework they are racists or transphobes or xenophobes or fascists in general.
I think it's just a living example of the parable of the Nazi bar. They might not believe in it, but that does not change that they are going in that direction.
I wonder how the work culture will be influenced by this. Will people leave and will they hire more white supremacists as a replacement?
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
@usul@piaille.frNot good at all
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
#aibubble
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgbeen faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
(…
@anneroth@systemli.socialIt's not unusual to run into people who live in Berlin but speak no German. Even when they work in bars, restaurants, at reception desks.
Just came across a person running an event including welcoming participants who replied "Not my preferred language though" when asked whether she speaks German.
Maybe not the best place to be then?
@luana@wetdry.worldThe background makes ir better than systemd-boot at least. Still not nearly as good as what I had on grub tho. Now I need to figure out if I can customise the rest of it too and if I can send old generations to a separate menu.
Today’s goal was getting remote boot to work before traveling tomorrow tho, so that’s good enough for now.
Commit: https://github.com/LuNeder/nixos-config/commit/01ea9893235654c716ad4200ae0405e031b42b6c
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialDie skandinavischen Länder geben den passenden Ton vor, Herr Bundeskanzler:
Der ehemalige dänische Justizminister SŸren Pind: „Die nordischen Länder allein haben eine Wirtschaft wie Russland. Wenn die USA uns im Stich lassen wollen, dann sollen sie doch zu dem Land werden, das früher Mut und Willenskraft hatte und jetzt ein Land der Feiglinge ist."
Via @…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThere's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. #AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?"
It turns out that the result is bad for everyone. Systems lose their ability to evaluate whether outputs are fit for purpose. Shared intent disappears.
Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work tha…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
@timbray@cosocial.caHere’s my 35th “Long Links” outing, curation of long-form offerings, which assume that nobody has time to read all this stuff but one or two of the pieces might brighten your day. This one is mostly political but some of the politics are from France and China. Plus a way-cool analytical history of blogging and a section labeled “wonderful things”.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe CSA says Matter will support video cameras for the first time with Matter 1.5; Amazon and Google have not committed to making their cameras interoperable (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com3 days ago the RSS feed of planet.ubuntu.com stopped working due to a TLS cert error.
I THINK it's due to them overhauling & moving it to a github-hosted replacement, but as this was done just by redirecting DNS the new host doesn't have a TLS cert with the correct name. If so, this means that people following the old RSS feed can't do so any more and they got no notice that this was going to happen.
I don't know for sure though because my query remains unansw…
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialWonderful work Albion, throwing Linux users in the ditch
Your Linux version is modified from the original Windows version which only allows Linux users to log in with Steam.
I'm not gonna play your game until you fix this or this changes significantly.
I'm not gonna be a 2nd citizen, no thank you.
I'm gonna look for a game that will replace my Albion Online activity.
Games are mostly trash cause you can't trust the developer.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialI'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialI'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it
@jake4480@c.imWow, a whole 46 minutes a day saved. Write it in the history books. Call Guinness https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/lloyds_banking_copilot
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub
16. How much does your working vocabulary change between works?
17. What is the significance of a work's dedication?
18. Do you tend to incorporate supernatural elements in your work?
---
16. Not much, for better or worse. I adapt to the setting, of f course, but beyond that my vocabulary is a part of my writing style.
17. Such dedication.…
@cdarwin@c.imArizona’s attorney general is suing to force the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September.
Grijalva was elected on 23 September in the southern Arizona district that her father, Raúl Grijalva, held until his death earlier this year.
Kris Mayes, the Democratic attorney general in Arizona, had promised to sue if Johnson would not let Grijalva get started on her work. She sent a letter to J…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere’s a lot to be said about that story beyond just “Spotify sucks:” how internships can be exploitative, how creators in general do not receive (and historically long have not received) proper compensation for their own work, how orgs especially treat women and especially Black women as disposable free labor. Details left as an exercise for the reader.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alAre there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAnyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that. But in the field of knowledge work, “I’m just not a tech person” has become a permanent identity instead of a temporary gap to be filled»
Tech is partially to blame, but totally agree on the "permanent identity" bit of where people refuse to learn the tools of their trade
/HT @…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/
@threeofus@mstdn.socialWas talking to an acquaintance at church yesterday and she mentioned that things are not good with her job. She’s a secondary school biology teacher. She said more by what she didn’t say. She just clammed up and looked lost. Next time I see her, I want to tell her that it doesn’t have to be that way. That she has transferable skills and can find work that pays the bills without destroying her soul. That there are other places that will value and support her.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
@brichapman@mastodon.socialYour Nervous System is Not a Machine — https://www.brichapman.com/p/your-nervous-system-is-not-a-machine?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
@hippyjo@c.imUPDATE: POKROVSK, Ukraine...
Giorgio is an Italian journalist working in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall so that the world can get a glimpse of truth beyond the distorting propaganda of corporate media, who dare not venture into the danger zone where truth lives...
Please support his work and Ukraine, share the link, watch his YouTube videos, witness the warcrimes Russia commits daily in Ukraine.
@chrysn@chaos.socialMy batteries are always low after a long day of work.
No, not emotionally. The devices I work with just take up all my USB ports, leaving my phone empty.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialA guy I know said he was way more productive when using AI.
My question:
"Are you able to get your work done in fewer hours and spend that time not working, maybe spending it with your family, or doing hobbies or other pleasurable activities? Or do you just do more work?"
Their Answer:
"I work the same hours but now productivity is up so it is not a benefit to myself or society. However, I think the opposite. The quality of work I produce in that time is…
@hex@kolektiva.social#DearLazyWeb: Hey #Nederlanders ik heb en expat vrag over mijn #VvE. Our management company is absolute garbage. Our VVE management company recently scheduled repainting, during winter, with the most incompetent company possible, who did a horrible job, some of which didn't need to be done. Our windows had just been repainted since they were painted before we moved in, so 1/3 of the work they did was unnecessary, and now they look much worse than they did before. I could go on, but generally lots and lots of complaints along with absolutely terrible service.
Our upstairs neighbor (also an owner) also hates them and wants to switch, but a rental company owns the top half of the building and seems to be trying to force us in to staying. Basically, this management company is super cheap and the rental company are absolutely trash absentee leaches. (They *may* also have not been paying their part of the VvE fees for a while, but I'm not totally sure I understood everything.)
Unfortunately, I am way out of my depth and can't seem to get much help from google. Can anyone give me some advice about what to read or who to talk to, or are we actually stuck?
@makeratschool@kanoa.deUpdate: Phanpy is NOT supporting the official Mastodon quoted posts at the moment. They are still using their own implementation, means quotes are only shown in Phanpy and for example when using Moshidon as a client.
[When you click the little rocket under a toot a dialog pops up, asking whether you will "boost" or "quote" the toot. In this toot I have chosen "quote"]
(and I don't know if this will work 😄)
@pre@boing.worldAdded a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaBartleby the Scrivener be like
"I prefer not to work it, work it
I prefer not to work it, work it"
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaFridays I work from home. Do I work? Of course, of course, but not really of course 😆
Looking forward to prepping the travel laptop; in two weeks I'll head back for a couple of days.
What's on it? FreeBSD and the River window manager.
And then the mystery of the liveslaks; dloading the latest KDE iso as we speak, so I can install it on the work laptop. If it works, that is.
That's all the real work I'll be doing 🤣
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThat’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…
@cdarwin@c.imWhat's Next After No Kings?
Tuesday, October 21
8 – 9pm EDT
Virtual event
Join from anywhere
About this event
No Kings was massive, powerful, and meaningfull, but it's not the end of our work.
Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to celebrate what we accomplished, and learn about what’s next.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'the focus on creating is just the little capitalist devil sitting on our shoulders telling us to produce more.
...
the most radical act today is to just make something. Especially if you are not good at it or if it’s a bit of a struggle. Draw if you’re not good at it. Play the piano even though you’re not great. Make something just for the fun of being in this world, touching it, being in it. Becoming you. Let this radicalize you a bit.
Fuck creation. Love making.'<…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAs promised, over the past few days I've been scouting for accounts on several Mastodon and Pixelfed servers related to #AltProcess photography & print making, in the hope to get more insights into each others' work/creations/experiences, successes & failures etc. Obviously the list below (in A-Z order) is NOT meant to be exhaustive in any way or form and if you feel you'd…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comTax wealth not work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9dTjY3uWU&t=824s
@eyebee@mstdn.social
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaI'm not usually one to get excited over #motorcycle gear, but I just picked up a Nelson Rigg Stormrider rain suit on closeout for about 65% off and I'm totally impressed with it so far. I rode 24 miles to work today in a driving rain with high winds and arrived completely dry and comfortable. First impressions are that this was a fantastic buy, and something I'm going to use un…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Taking small steps is crucial. You might start by just learning about your immediate neighborhood, how things actually work, finding ways to intervene in things that are not working well. Understand the water supply and how to keep it clean. ... Share. Share what you have."
—YDS professor Willie James Jennings in this interview in the new issue of Reflections, focused on building hope for a living planet
@vyskocilm@witter.czTIL: Thorsten Kukuk works on no_new_privs/NoNewPrivs aka removing suid binaries from #openSUSE
Reading https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/no_new_privs/ I never realized how many such binaries exists.
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgFundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me. I'm just remembering the sense of confusion when I first joined twitter - the idea that you subscribe to a feed of everything that someone says, and not to topics or threads is just a bit bonkers. It must sort people into groups with weird niche common collections of interests. I've tried running more than one account for different interests but it doesn't really work for me.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaWhy should people be forced to work and not get paid?
https://apnews.com/article/duffy-air-traffic-controllers-shutdown-19d17aa18e15578e7aec60f409248e96
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@smashtie@mas.toI went to see the new Gilbert and George exhibition today, at the Heywood. It was a bit underwhelming, in an overwhelmingly huge way. They've not changed, and the techniques to do what they do have grown ever easier.
When I was young, they were controversial and provocative. Now I don't strongly connect with the work. They've not changed, but clearly I have. Or maybe the world has.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚠️ 🚨 Warning: do not use @FactoryAI ‼️
They are unable to handle any support.
Do not get fooled by their paid YouTube influencers.
Don't expect any help if something does not work.
Here's another "support from hell" story:
https://
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhy the Raiders Pulling Off Massive Upset is Not Impossible https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-pulling-off-massive-upset-not-impossible
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, loving our greenhouse - already have the first tomatoes turning red! Only a couple weeks into summer (not even proper summer, 22 Dec in Aotearoa, yet) Crazy! This is months before we've ever had ripening fruit pre-greenhouse.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it:
Microsoft is rewriting Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to.«
How does that happen when everyone in the office is babbling with the PC and how should people then work eficiently concentrated? M$ powers do not serve us, but listen clearly and openly to what it is already doing now − switching now to Linux desktop!
👉
@jake4480@c.imDoes anyone else have a weird thing happen when using Chrome (I have to for work) where if you're not scrolled just far down enough on a page, it doesn't let you click on things? Until you've scrolled down? It's a new type of bullshit for me
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSo, initial thoughts so far on the Clockwork uConsole:
- The trackball is pretty bad, would classify it as barely functional.
- Wifi does not work which severely limits things...maybe an antenna problem? Verified it was securely installed on the CM4 module.
- Install isn't bad, very solid device.
- The thermal pad for the RPi CM4 is waaaay too thick.
#clockwork…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialI shrank down SwiftGodot for those that just want to expose APIs to Godot, but do not need to control Godot, and added a template that you can use to make your own:
This leverages the new "barebones" SwiftGodot work:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodotAppleT…
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgI know, I know, I should not send work-related messages after office hours. But sometimes I forget to schedule the delivery for “tomorrow at nine.”
But then, colleagues (yes, plural!) accepting meetings at 23:14, what’s wrong with YOU?
#AcademicChatter
@brian_gettler@mas.toI gave the entire class an extension until 11:59 tonight, the last possible minute they can submit course work without going through the troublesome (and expensive) process of petitioning the registrar's office for permission to submit late. Half still have not turned anything in with just over 2 hours left on the clock. I'm starting to get nervous.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThis is why the OpenBastard team needs to do more community outreach and not just commit more PRs
#cloudflare #opensource #foss
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIn one case, it turns out that an all-male client group was giving vicious beratings (undeserved!) to a female project manager when they had her cornered alone. I had no idea.
In the moment, I found those men kind of obnoxiously self-confident in their ignorance, but nothing worse. Later they want on a Trumpian scorched earth campaign trying not to pay everyone for work already done and threatening lawsuits willy nilly. They turned out to be horrible people. Missing that early red flag of misogyny cost us all — but especially that manager.
2/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI did not get a bike ride in today or yesterday and can’t bike to work Monday or Tuesday but may try to sneak in a shorter ride Monday and Tuesday mornings if the weather cooperates.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis airs starting about an hour from now on MSNBC. Produced by Rachel Maddow, who is doing an hour now before the movie which starts at 9PM EDT
Andy Young was a critical collaborator of Dr. King and later Mayor of Atlanta. A great inspiration for everyone going out tomorrow. https://
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaIn appreciation of all great work being done on 15, I decided to go with 14.3, with the 'latest' branch. All pkgs available, my dots for River working flawlessly, very happy with all that.
Not always is the latest thing the best thing to happen for you.
#freebsd
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSo if your software is not a thing people have already written a lot of times "AI" can't help doing it?
I thought for coding it was supposed to be super capable now?
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social“A lot of times when we hear information about U.S. religious life, so much of it is based on polls, which do a particular kind of work,” YDS professor and ethnographer Todne Thomas says, noting that polls lack nuance and often focus on political dimensions of faith. “Religious life is important, whether we’re in an election year or not.”
Hear more from Prof. Thomas in the new episode of the YDS podcast series, which you can listen to here:
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgFundamentally, mastodon (and twitter, bluesky, etc etc) doesn't really work for me. I'm just remembering the sense of confusion when I first joined twitter - the idea that you subscribe to a feed of everything that someone says, and not to topics or threads is just a bit bonkers. It must sort people into groups with weird niche common collections of interests. I've tried running more than one account for different interests but it doesn't really work for me.
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
@luana@wetdry.worldTho... via Limine it doesn't seem to use UKI according to bootctl? How tf does it work then???
I imagine this is less safe than Lanzaboote then, since Lanzaboote makes measured UKIs, is it not possible to use UKI with Limine?
(terminal window is ssh to my NAS with lanzaboote, vscodium is my PC with Limine)
#Limine #NixOS #SecureBoot #Lanzaboote
@Techmeme@techhub.socialROG Xbox Ally review: great grips, good speakers, and Windows is easier to control with joysticks, but worse performance than the Steam Deck and unintuitive UI (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/799698/xbox-ally-x-review-a…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhat I don't get is why does DHH even need so much funding and sponsorships for open source projects. Tens of thousands from framework, cloudflare and god knows who else.
When I made the (then) probably most popular JavaScript open source framework I got zero funding and sponsorship and was doing fine?
I'm not saying that people shouldn't get paid for work, but that dude is a fucking multi-millionaire who drives race cars as a hobby.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@cdarwin@c.imStrikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI have a trick I call "The 1920 Method".
I resize most images to 1920 pixels wide before I post them to Mastodon or to my own web site. This has allowed me to keep things small, and fast, and not have to increase server space or feel like I'm putting a burden on other systems.
You'd be surprised how many images we share online work just fine at lower resolution.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://
@cdarwin@c.im“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-you-can-actually-do
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo what's a good alternative to Firefox (I'm using it when I'm not on my Mac). I don't want their new "AI Window" stuff and I don't want to support it.
It has to work on Windows and an iOS version as well, and can sync passwords between those.
Please only suggest things you personally use and like.
I'm ruling out Chrome (spyware) and Brave (homophobic owner).
(Wish Apple would still make Safari for Windows.)
@hex@kolektiva.socialSome leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI did not get to bike to work today due to having to bring a server to work, along with two packages, and rain. I'll get some rain pants this week so at least the rain will be less of an issue. (I was ready to move the server and packages via bike but the addition of rain made me decide not to.)
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgA few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@hex@kolektiva.socialOk, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
