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Linux kernel tooling update message included an unsurprising, but noteworthy lament about the state of #SMTP:
"We're increasingly having to deal with the degradation of the SMTP support by
all commercial companies: [...]"

Long-term visual-to-tactile stimulation induces functional reorganization of thalamic pathways to achieve visual perception https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192500655X using haptic sensory substitution;

Indirect CW for teen pregnancy, rape, death.
Just finished "Girls Like Us" by Randi Pink. Pink has a knack for telling stories that capture the grim but also vibrant nuances of African-American history. I previously read "Under the Heron's Light" which has more elements of magical realism and connects more directly to the history of enslavement; "Girls Like Us" is more historical fiction, with a bridge at the end to contemporary times (circa 2019, when the book was published). It tells the story of a disparate group of mostly-Black teens who are pregnant in 1972, and shows a range of different outcomes as varied as the backstories of the different girls. Rather than just separate vignettes, the girls' stories are women together into a single plot, and Pink is a expert at pulling us in to deeply contemplate all the complexities of these girls' lives, showing rather than telling us truths about the politics of teen pregnancy and abortion, and how even though the choices involved don't have simple answers, taking those choices out of the hands of the people they most intimately affect is cruel and deadly.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

I updated the initial Kitten course based on our first lesson with @… and your feedback here. So now we start with no tooling except for your default terminal app and Kitten and it serves as a gentle introduction to the command line and gets to you seeing your first web page in your web browser far more quickly.

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

found out about music hall of williamsburg's closure by overhearing one bouncer telling another as i walked into the bowery last night but assumed i misheard & forgot about it til after the show. saw plenty of fun shows there, but mostly remembering it fondly as north six, before it was gutted & turned into a personality-less bowery knockoff.

Kid1's current form of teenage rebellion is telling me every day about a different car he wants to buy. His eyes sparkle the whole time as I squirm. When he's finished, he grins and asks ever so innocently, "Dad, why don't you like cars?"

The Most Telling Part of the Raiders' Loss to Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-most-telling-part-loss-eagles

I guess it was unrealistic to expect to see Steve Kornacki tallying the turnout at the #NoKings rallies across the country. A boy can dream.

On the fediverse, as we live through the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, there are those who oppose the genocide and are trying to help the victims and there are those who deny the genocide, try to erase the victims, and attempt to vilify the ones trying to help.
If you’re neutral, you’ve chosen the side of the latter.
If you give genocide deniers sanctuary on your servers, you’re telling genocide victims that they are not safe on your server.
This isn’t…