@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC Radio 4 Today presenter Amol Rajan leaves after almost five years to start his own business in the creator economy (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/amol-rajan-to-leave…
@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.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzComments Show Cowboys WR George Pickens Remains Own Worst Enemy https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-own-worst-enemy/?adt_ei=[email]
@servelan@newsie.socialMAGA revolt: Trump supporters seen burning their own hats - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/16/maga-revolt-trump-supporters-seen-burning-their-own-hats/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ai-data-centers-desperate-for-electricity-are-building-their-own-power-plants-291f5c81?st=rJGSQZ
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p164#a251016p164
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust 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
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgA fantastic initiative to bring grass rots local venues in England into self-ownership, including the awesome Gut Level in Sheffield - 1 day left on the crowd fund
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venues
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI have become so used to not owning anything (beyond my electronics) that I feel anxious at the idea of buying big things like a car or even a house. When I used to have my own bike I was always going to check on it whenever I heard a noise outside. Eventually I moved on to those shared bikes and that's much more relaxing..
How do you all deal with owning things? If you own a car, or a flat / house, are you actually more happy than if you were renting it? If it got stolen or damaged in…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sepalot:
🎵 My Own Way
#NowPlaying #Sepalot
https://sepalot.bandcamp.com/track/my-own-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fZWCdpLnT98Lf5DeGkMSB
@benb@osintua.euRussia's own air defense missile hits apartment building in Rostov-on-Don, fire seen at nearby factory, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/russias-own-air-defense-missile.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Draft order after Week 11: Dolphins playing themselves out of QB hunt; Rams own top-10 pick via trade
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-p…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialToday, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.
@servelan@newsie.socialScroll down for the 🔥
‘Hahahaha!’: Gavin Newsom Just Flipped Trump’s Own Words Into His Most Brutal Clapback Yet — and Now MAGA’s Screaming He ‘Stole’ Their Lines
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/11/16/gavin-newsom-just-flipped-trumps-own-words-into-his-most-brutal-clapback-yet-and-now-magas-screaming-he-stole-their-lines/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGrid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pjm-unveils-plan-tackle-ai-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degoogle: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google
@brichapman@mastodon.socialEver notice how you're watching your own life from a slight distance?
Not depressed. Not burned out. Just... slightly absent.
When overwhelm lasts longer than we can process it, we adapt by feeling less. We function but don't fully inhabit our days.
The long dissociation kept us safe when feeling everything wasn't possible.
But survival was never the same thing as being alive.
What would it mean to gently come back?
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74jgvp1x49o
Keyless car theft devices used by criminals sell for £20k online
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaBut, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
@cdarwin@c.imA lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice,
which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialClippy Two
If you want to surf in the glorified past on your modern web browser, then I recommend this browser plugin / app that simulates the Windows 95 interface :P
(Apply on your own responsibility!)
📱 https://clippy.skyfall.dev
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngThis sentiment expressed by @… below and the aspect of slowing down is also very much part of my own reasoning for getting back into analog print making. The other large part is the conceptual overlap with (and my love of) process-based art in general. It was exactly that what has drawn me to generative/algorithmic/procedural/kinetic approaches/concepts for most of my l…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSelling Gas to Countries actively leaving it
(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on January 15, 2026) Dear Editor, I am actively watching, as we all should be, the travels of our Premier and Prime Minister in Asia. Both are touting their own version of Canadian fossil energy export diversification. Let’s focus on Premier Eby, India, and the market for BC LNG. According to Government of India documents, in 2014 India generated 708 terawatt-hours of electricity…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/BXM
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzRE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115733951845579974
Yup. The EU is orchestrating its own obsolescence, just like the US has.
@steve@s.yelvington.comFour gunshot wounds, suffered in her own neighborhood, all for the entertainment of magats.
https://www.startribune.com/renee-nicole-good-ice-shooting-injuries-incident-report-details/601565066
@roland@devdilettante.comwe should (sorry for the "s" word :-) ) have our own ice hockey league just like the CFL, let's call it the Stanley Cup in Canada league :-). #BringStanleyHomeToTheStanleyCupInCanadaLeague
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIt shouldn't be surprising at all that Megyn Kelly and other republicans think 15-year-old girls are fair game for sexual predation. They're the ones who've been fighting to keep the age of consent to marry at 12 years. I wish someone would start asking republican legislators (and democrats, too, of course) who have teenage daughters how they'd feel about their own daughters being targeted.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
[...]
After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comr…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI always know @… wil have a clear view.
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-of-grief?publ…
@jake4480@c.imNow playing - the new single from the upcoming EP from San Antonio weirdo synthpunks SEX MEX: #NowPlaying
@fgraver@hcommons.socialFrom Seinfeld to Shawshank, Rob Reiner changed Hollywood for ever https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/15/rob-reiner-director-this-is-spinal-tap-when-harry-met-sally?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialWithout exposure to the normal variety of bodies, we may become less comfortable with our own, more likely to mistake common characteristics for flaws—and more inclined to see every bare body as an inherently sexual object, making nudity even more charged.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/1…
@jtk@infosec.exchange
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Easy, but only because I don’t own any laptops ;)
If it was between phone and desktop, it would be desktop every day. Couldn’t live without a “real computer”.
@crell@phpc.social"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI have yet to hear any, much less a solid, argument against my suggestion that Presidential pardons and commutations are revocable by a subsequent president.
Were I elected president I would revoke all of El Cheato's pardons and commutations and let the people involved make arguments (probably in the context of Habeas Corpus proceedings) why those actions are not Constitutional.
My own sense is that the question tends more towards the "not revocable" with regard to …
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialPredictions: how is Trump going to react? Pooh-pooh all the criticism, pretend it's a storm in a teacup, or completely melt-down?
He doesn't normally get blowback from his own side.
https://www.rawstory.com/rob-reiner-2674400641/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@fell@ma.fellr.netI'm in Australia right now. I can boot my home PC via Wake On LAN to access my files if I have to. I placed a webcam in front of it so that I can verify that it actually does so.
It's weird seeing my computer 16.500 km away from me. It feels like my own little Mars mission. Especially with how SSH feels at 300-400 ms latency.
And yes, that's a drinking glass I forgot on my desk.
#HomeLab
@newstik@social.heise.deNorth Korea is planning further military campaigns abroad.
Because Russia by itself was too weak to conquer Ukraine, #NorthKorea supportd the criminal attack with its military. Too many soldiers have died that the regime could hide that from its own people.
So they call it "worthiest sacred #war
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euOh so many a happy hour of kicking Nazi ass on Game Pass back in the olden days. And now I literally own it DRM free on GOG, bringing my trilogy collection to completion 🌈 ❤️ ⚔️
(It's actually a good first-person shooter. Very similar quality, if not better, to Doom 2016.)
-85% Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Digital Deluxe Edition on GOG.com
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeThese two #cats are very happy to have their heated beds available for the season #catsofmastodon #caturday
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@EricAlper/115906786195201931
A league of her own.
@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.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaAction figures of today
@benb@osintua.euEASTERN DONBAS: WHO WILL OWN THESE LANDS according to TRUMP'S plan? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/eastern-donbas-who-will-own.html
@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialThis episode was... if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it existed :-D
#HulkHogan
Season 6 Episode 15 "Bash at the Beach"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeWow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …
@annsev@troet.cafeShaking heads and frowning at Darth #Trump's comments on the death of Rob #Reiner #TheAtlantic
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaFilled my own tooth again. Dentists are fake
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialCapitalism incentivizes those who are willing to sell out, those born with sociopathic tendencies. Those willing and eager to trample everyone around them and purge their own humanity, are rewarded. Endless greed, endless thirst for power, the total absence of values — the dominant world system rewards these traits and behaviors.
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialThere's a tool named #WinSlop that gets rid of any and all unpleasantries #microslop seems to shovel upon us. Alas, there is a notice on the github page of the project that the domain winslop.com is not owned or operated by the creator of WinSlop.
@castarco@hachyderm.ioIn the times to come, if people bother to send product feedback through web forms that in any way criticises AI stupidity... are we guaranteed that any of this feedback will be able to reach humans at the end of the chain?
Asking because... "if I was an AI in charge of screening that feedback prior to its processing" I might "feel tempted" to discard anything that criticises my own performance or that of my "AI peers" (it's not like we don't have plenty of "malicious behaviour" examples already).
@kctipton@mas.toTrump’s hall of mirrors presidency - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/13/trumps-hall-of-mirrors-p…
@cwilcke@bildung.social#Entropia #Karlsruhe
Hallo zusammen,
am 23.11. (So) um 18:00 hält TM einen Talk mit anschl. Workshop zum Thema "Build your own cloud-based Werbeblocker" (Abstract und Workshop-Details:
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaSo, the ruling neo-fascit party organized a protest in Rome against bycicle lanes, because of course they did; they though that a protest made of cars could do the trick. They planned for 100 cars (100 people) but 300 people (300 cars) showed up blocking the city completely. 300 people could fit in a single bus. Rome has metro, 300 people in a metro train probably feels empty. 300 cars paralized a city of more than 4 million people.
What a self own, such clowns.
In Italian:
…
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineIn episode 207 I shared advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear what Victoria Ruby-Granger said about not doubling down on things that don't work for us
@Techmeme@techhub.socialScientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol
@andycarolan@social.lol @inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis poses a vexing problem for resistance: a direct force-on-force assault against ICE by small groups of citizens is foolish…but holding signs and waiting for the next election sure as hell ain’t gonna cut it either.
We have to find ways to fight back on the streets — but it has to look good on TikTok and on the news and to members of Congress and judges and the gaze of the whole world. Cameras and whistles are a start, but it can’t stop there. All this is not just going away on its own.
@cdarwin@c.imWe hear a lot of talk about “freedom” from my Republican colleagues.
And yet these same Republicans are working overtime to deny tens of millions of women the basic freedom to control their own bodies.
That is wrong, and it represents a fundamental betrayal of what freedom is about.
-- Bernie Sanders
https://
@malik@Mastodon.SocialTo maintain Apple’s privacy pledge, the Gemini-based AI will run directly on Apple devices or its private cloud system, which is powered by Apple’s own server chips, rather than running on Google’s servers. Google put significant engineering effort into getting a version of Gemini working on Apple’s servers, according to a person familiar with the partnership talks.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialdo you like to develop on #android and sideload your APK freely on devices you own? https://github.com/sam1am/anyapk
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/205395/ice-raids-toxic-rattling-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p99#a260116p99
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngLooking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWSJ launches Free Expression, a newsletter-focused opinion brand that will be available via its own channels and Substack, initially offering free content (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/15/wsj-opinion-substack-free-expression
@fgraver@hcommons.socialI’m confused. When did MTG become the voice of reason and the sane one in the US Republican Party…?
bird.makeup - Tweet https://bird.makeup/users/repmtg/statuses/2000597575901327850
@Techmeme@techhub.social @benb@osintua.euNorth Korea halves shell shipments to Russia as its own stockpiles run low, Ukraine's intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/north-korea-halves-shell-shipments.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow Lions coach Dan Campbell put his stamp on Detroit offense: Watch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6807892/2025/11/15/lions-dan-campbell-offense-play-calling/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEach week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection includes,
--A journalist's talks with an Iranian hacking leader ended with murder,
--Hackers attacked Aeroflot's still-insecure infrastructure,
--The war on disinformation has been dismantled,
--Trump's DOJ uses Americans' own data …
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against #crypto,
debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration,
and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency.
Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Celebrities in the crypto realm …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/tiktok-launches-i…
@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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBitcoin investor plans Caribbean community -- with its own court system (Josh Spero/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cd171921-a0f5-49d9-a383-41a37e34dbb4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p78#a251215p78
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sepalot:
🎵 My Own Way
#NowPlaying #Sepalot
https://sepalot.bandcamp.com/track/my-own-way
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fZWCdpLnT98Lf5DeGkMSB
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineIn episode 207 I shared advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Hear more from Dr Jan Eppingstall on how her pets help her, and hear me talk about how 🐮 are massive 😂
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys-Vikings takeaways: J.J. McCarthy leads Minnesota, adds his own 'Griddy' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6889412/2025/12/14/vikings-cowboys-score-result-takeaways-nfl-snf/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI data centers are building on-site power plants to bypass the overloaded grid and meet soaring electricity demand amid permitting and supply challenges (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAnd you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.
@benb@osintua.euThis is EUROPE as you see it for the FIRST TIME: TOTAL rearmament and its own ARMY! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/this-is-europe-as-you.html
@brichapman@mastodon.socialChina's biggest oil company just hit a major solar breakthrough.
CNPC developed a perovskite solar cell with 25.05% efficiency—impressive on its own, but here's the bigger story: they're planning to pair it with silicon cells to slash energy costs. Pilot production starts 2026, mass production 2028.
Their goal? Match their oil output with renewables by 2035.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialAtom: The Editor That Accidentally Built Its Own Killer by Coding with Lewis
#webdev
@cdarwin@c.imThe effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn an internal memo, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei warns that the US is in "a post-news era" where "everyone has their own individual reality" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/14/2025/axios-ceo-us-is-in-post-news-era
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTrevon Diggs headed toward Dallas divorce? Jerry Jones, star CB disagree on health situation amid lost season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trevon-<…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe universal icon for LLMs have become sparkles, as in "magic," which is, perhaps apt because it's ultimately mostly illusion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcBYI82_28
I think, perhaps, it should instead be a reverse ouroboros. I can't think of a more apt iconography for LLMs than a snake infinitely shoving it's head further and further up it's own ass.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz3 positions the Cowboys are hoping to fill with in-house free agency https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/15/3-positions-the-cowboys-are-hoping-to-fill-with-in-house-…
@cdarwin@c.imGoFundMe Ignores its Own Rules
by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
https://www.wired.com/story/gofundme-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-fundraiser/
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRivian says it is building its own 5nm AI chip called the Rivian Autonomy Processor and a foundational "Large Driving Model", to enable fully autonomous driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842213/rivian-ai-autonomous-chip-specs
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFamily rift: Top Democrat's own daughter publicly opposes her on shutdown deal (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/family-rift-top-democrats-own-daughter-publicly-opposes-her-shutdown-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p89#a251111p89
@cdarwin@c.im14-year old Miles Wu just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called "Miura-ori", which is known for collapsing and expanding with precision.
"I've been folding origami as a hobby for more than six years, mostly of animals or insects," Wu told Business Insider.
"Recently I've been designing my own origami, too."
"A problem with current deployable structures and emergency structures is, for example,
ten…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Headlines: CeeDee Lamb ready to cook; Dak Prescott's elite play being wasted https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/17/news-headlines-october-16-2025-ceedee-lamb…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDigital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says Microsoft will "ensure" Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must "pay their own way" for their data centers (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-micr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
