@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-08-23 07:30:54
Was thinking of the Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson bullet messages and ended up in a rabbit hole researching the history of the practice.
https://spokenpast.com/articles/greek-sling-bullets-messages-taunts/
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-07-19 16:15:23
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142636186759
So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always.
The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking what is often limited resources from those who need them to live.
It is possible to build data centers that do not have these problems. It is possible to power with solar, to cool with a refrigeration cycle instead of evaporating water.
It just costs more energy. And therefore is only viable if we invest in solar, heavily, and require it.
One of the fundamental tenets embedded in capitalism is that if you can't represent it in the market, it doesn't have to be taken into account. Community and ways of life are those things.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-06-30 16:48:38
One last #TuneTuesday #TravelSongs suggestion. Not only am I an academic, but tomorrow's Canada Day. So here's one of the country's best songwriters on traveling around, trying to convince people that your research matters.
I believe in you and your PowerPoints.
I know why you can’t sta…
@pre@boing.world2026-07-17 11:48:13
So, maybe all you really can hope for from an acceptance speech is a bit of empty rhetoric, but that is indeed what we got here.
Unity and decentralization and a promise that he has a plan.
Unity is easy to say, but requires unity to achieve since you ain't in control of all the factions.
Decentralization tends to be fought by centralized powers, and is a tactic really not a strategy. What do you hope to achieve with it? Can end up just remote offices for centralized power.
And that plan he reckons he has? I look forward to hearing what it actually is.
#ukpol #burnham
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-12 23:54:12
Just finished "Salvage" by Renée Nault. I'm a sucker for romances in general and for characters like these, so I enjoyed it a lot, even though I wish works like this would actually address the structural issues they bring up more thoroughly. I tend to think about the messages of a work in terms of counterfactuals. For example, how would this story play out of Paolo hadn't been a good artist, or hadn't been so likeable, etc.
Also: how do the wealth differences play out in the end? Paolo & his family might escape poverty by association, but where I their community does these line get drawn and the rest get left behind? The natural true "good ending" for all these cross-class romances is an anarchist revolution, but so rarely do we get to see that... The alternative is to believe that only some of the lower class deserve being saved because of their virtues, which ends up being a toxic and regressive message.
To be fair, I think Nault pulls off an above-average landing for this trope, and her illustrations of the lower-class communities and their own richness are hopeful. I just always find myself wanting more.
All of that aside, Nault's art is truly wonderful, especially her use of color and the way she uses it consistently to emphasize thematic elements. It's a really beautiful graphic novel.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-18 12:09:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JamzSupernova
Tayo Meets Acid Rockers:
🎵 Vampayaa [Marcus Visionary Remix] (feat. Pupajim)
#TayoMeetsAcidRockers
https://scotchbonnetrecords.bandcamp.com/track/vampayaa-rsd-remix