@davidaugust@mastodon.online“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
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@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhy we sleep: insights from current research https://www.ru.nl/en/donders-institute/news/why-we-sleep-insights-from-current-research
@benb@osintua.euWhat we know about Russia’s offensive in Siversk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/what-we-know-about-russias.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhat is Anarcho-Syndicalism and how we work: An Open letter to Media and all workers all over the world
https://iwa-ait.org/content/what-anarcho-syndicalism-and-how-we-work-open-letter-media-and-all-workers-all-over-world<…
@david@boles.xyzMemory in the Meme
We live in an age of disposable context. We scroll through the infinite ribbon of the glass screen, pausing only for a microsecond to register a flicker of recognition before sliding our thumb upward, condemning the moment to the digital abyss. We have been trained by the Technocrats, those right-brained architects of our algorithmic prisons, to view this behavior as consumption.
@castarco@hachyderm.ioWe are cooked.
We were always a problem for the ones above: we had the opportunity to enjoy high levels of education, access to relatively free & unpolluted knowledge, and welfare systems that worked relatively well for at least half of our lifes.
That was unacceptable, and "AI" is here to fix that.
Big Tech and their fascist friends have convinced many among our younger generations about the idea that "AI" (in its current form) is cool, amazing, necessary, and unstoppable.
We can resist all we want, except it's not our resistance that matters, but the resistance of the younger ones who haven't finished their formal studies yet.
Mozilla's CEO knows it... so he'll happily contribute to dumb us down as much as possible (before anyone has time to react) to ensure that we don't bother ever again the fragile sensibilites of his friends, our capitalist overlords.
@yaya@jorts.horse
@anildash@me.dmToday, Wikipedia turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future and support them as they start to demand fair support from the AI companies that are profiting off of the community. There's no better example than Wikipedia of the web we make together.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaOur living room reno is done. We removed an old and ugly fireplace that was red flagged this summer. We rarely used it so we didn't replace it. A number of questionable items found when we had contractors do their magic.
They colour matched the paint and even found flooring that was almost a perfect match. They brought in a licensed electrician to fix the wiring. They are a bit expensive, but the work they do is well worth it. We also had them do the bathroom reno several y…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMonth to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 11 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 13 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-11-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-13-games
@cdarwin@c.im"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…
@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."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC says "as we have made clear previously, we will be defending" against Trump's defamation lawsuit and "we are not going to make further comment" (Christal Hayes/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd81470v1o
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyIs anybody counting up the carbon footprint of AI? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115900810202010965
@datascience@genomic.social{annotater}: Annotate package load calls, so we can have an idea of the overall purpose of the libraries we’re loading: #rstats
@brian_gettler@mas.toCan I complain about required, subject-agnostic university writing courses? Part of the crisis in the humanities is that our institutions appear to have decided that we don't teach writing. But we do. Or maybe their problem is that we also teach troublesome substance? I haven't seen any evidence that the writing courses on my campus pay any attention to ideas, it seems to be all form all the time.
@servelan@newsie.social‘How are we an enemy?’: UA community speaks out against Trump administration compact | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-are-we-enemy-ua-community-speaks-out-against-trump-administration-compact
@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?
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialBeautiful summary
https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWe bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@drbruced@aus.socialMy plans to hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing were derailed by two days of rain and high winds, so we made a plan B: the Tama lakes track, which has somewhat less exposure but still gets up over 1400m. We’re lucky we didn’t try Tongariro given how tough the conditions were at Tama lakes – driving snow and winds on the ridge. But we were rewarded with good views and improving weather on the return trip. #hiking
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukFrom email:
> Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy”.
> https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
> The debate is scheduled for 9 February 2026.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgBeautiful and important piece on #rewilding, what we stand to lose, what we've gained and the hidden costs. (From 2 years ago, worth revisiting).
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/rewilding-beavers-conservation/
@benb@osintua.eu'We need them too' — Trump hesitant on providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine following call with Putin, ahead of talks with Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/16/we-need-them-too-trump.html
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„Jeffrey Epstein was a warlord. We have to talk about It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy“ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/#<…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA request for everyone: please don’t be this person. We’re going through a miserable time here in MSP, and reply guy snot does not make it better.
A •lot• of replies I got are about what is illegal, or should be illegal, or must be illegal, and…yeah, we know, believe me, we know. If what you’re offering is commiseration — as with most replies — I welcome that wholeheartedly! This sucks, and it’s nice to hear people say, “Yeah, that sucks.”
But please don’t come into my mentions to argue. Wrong time, wrong target.
https://mastodon.social/@wesdym/115731049092776077
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialNo one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"We did not leave because we wanted to.
We were forced to leave.
Pushed away from our own doorsteps, from our quiet mornings, from dreams that were growing gently inside us.
We did not abandon our homeland, we are still within it.
But we became displaced inside its borders, moving through its wounds, searching for a place where the heart could breathe without fear, only to find that no corner felt safe, and every space we turned to seemed empty" --
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialWe ended up building an “expo”, but for Godot:
https://zirk.us/@Eyelit/115547519055762618
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Floorplan:
🎵 We Magnify His Name
#Floorplan
https://m-plant.bandcamp.com/track/we-magnify-his-name
https://open.spotify.com/track/1l3K4IPHiL7IHfLMbDreHW
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialJust had an elderly women neighbour in for tea. Cars came up, and I said we've been electric since 2017. She looked horrified and asked how we managed -they'll only go for 50 miles before the battery is flat!
I blame the Telegraph and the Daily Mail for poisoning the minds of little old ladies.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeCPU core of the PIC12F683 seen at poly.
This image is slightly out of focus in spots, I have a better 100x scan in the works, but we can see a couple of interesting things.
* At the south edge, we see a structure with what looks like 13-way symmetry then something weird looking at the far east. The instruction word is 14 bits so I'm guessing these are instruction latches with something special in the LSB or MSB position (I'll need to brush up on the PIC binary instruction…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netIrgendwie der Soundtrack dieser Tage:
You'll be back, time will tell
You'll remember that I served you well
Oceans rise, empires fall
We have seen each other through it all
And when push comes to shove
I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love
[…]
So don't throw away this thing we had
'Cause when push comes to shove
I will kill your friends and family
To remind you of my love
You'll be bac…
@shriramk@mastodon.socialOkay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".
@PaulWermer@sfba.social @paulwermer@sfba.social
@steve@s.yelvington.comWe have reached a stage where we have to turn to the jesters for truth.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/cel
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThere is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Why global environmental negotiations keep failing—and what we can do about it"
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'We have a right to do this': DeSantis wants Florida to move ahead with AI policies (Andrew Atterbury/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/15/we-have-a-right-to-do-this-desantis-wants-florida-to-move-ahead-with-ai-policies-00690680
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p117#a251215p117
@Dragofix@veganism.socialWe need to talk about our fossil fuel addiction: UNEP chief #politics
@gevoel@mastodon.greenAls we de komende 15 dagen in onze woning niet meer dan 32 kWh per dag aan energie verbruiken (was vandaag 21) dan ronden we dit eerste gasloze kalenderjaar af als bewoners van een huis dat een
A energielabel verdient, dus dat meer zonneenergie teruglevert dan het vanuit het grid verbruikt. Puur naar energie kijkend is dat geweldig. Financieel is er nog wel aan te sleutelen door terugleverkosten, belasting en het einde van de saldering. Dat wordt dan dynamisch contract en thuisbat…
@cheryanne@aus.social
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The discoveries of continuations.
https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/papers-we-love/reynolds-discoveries.pdf
saved 2026-01-15
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Keane:
🎵 Somewhere Only We Know
#NowPlaying #Keane
https://brankodespot.bandcamp.com/track/keane-somewhere-only-we-know
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mZim3jV9mFvTlf52pnM5H
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“It rained heavily last night.
Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked.
We were freezing… truly freezing.
Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day.
We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent.
We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying.
We keep holding on.
Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.”
–
@vosje62@mastodon.nlEnergy Production and Consumption - Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
Zelfs als we denken heel goed bezig te zijn hebben 'we' nog een hele lange weg te gaan ...
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMonth to Month: What we learned in November https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-november-x5593
@markhburton@mstdn.socialWe need peace in Ukraine - CND https://cnduk.org/we-need-peace-in-ukraine/?link_id=0&can_id=fa41d46fda326186a7dd2445f763d020&source=email-tb…
@DominikDammer@mastodon.gamedev.place
@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…
@UP8@mastodon.socialBob B prowls around the house: just today we got Bob B to come into our house but we've got to convince Kimball to let him stay
#photo #photography #cats
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDolphins-Steelers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Pittsburgh's 28-15 win https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-steelers-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-pittsburgh-s-28-15-win
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaFuck these vile monsters who attack innocent people. Fuck all of them. I don't care which faction they belong to. I wish I believed in a hell they could go to, but I wish them infinite cosmic horrors instead. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news
@matzekult@chaos.social'We have all fallen for a holodeck character', a Tom Paris' wisdom true for a lot of people in #StarTrek. And we'll look at such an instance for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting!…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe working class is the fundamental force that produces the material conditions necessary for the reproduction of society, and through our collective labor we not only create food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and communication networks, but we also sustain and reproduce the conditions that allow every aspect of social life to continue functioning, so that even those who do not work, whether they are managers, bureaucrats, or capitalists, depend entirely on our labor for …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.desp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesMutale Nkonde: Building the AI Future We Want to Live In
Event on December 5th at the Toronto Reference Library
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mutale-nkonde-building-the-ai-future-we-want-to-live-in-tickets-178232…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDecoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications. Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115729701657482739
We all know who's going to "win" this, don't we?
@benb@osintua.euZELENSKYY: We will continue our DIPLOMACY aimed at ENDING the war! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/zelenskyy-we-will-continue-our.html
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
CALLY: [Entering] Where is the storage hold?
SONHEIM: [Gruffly] What do you want down there?
CALLY: We need some laser transfer linkage.
SONHEIM: I don't know that we have any.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/245 B7B6
@rasos@fairmove.netWe've picked more than 500 kiwi fruits this weekend. We put them in the cellar until they get ready to eat after x-mas. Not all of them were low hanging!
@… @… @…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWe need more Huh? buttons
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com @carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @cdarwin@c.imWe don’t have to live like this.
It’s a choice.
Every day we do nothing to restrict guns.
Every day we claim it’s mental illness and not access.
Every day we let them change the subject.
We don’t have to live like this.
https://bsky.app/profile/momsdemand.bs
@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
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115900649115664683
I think it's mostly about the message. About the difference between
"We can't stop you from doing this" and "we explicitly say that what you do is cool".
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSteelers-Bengals on 'Thursday Night Football': What We Learned from Cincinnati's 33-31 win over Pittsburgh https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-bengals-on-thursday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-cincinna…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
CHVRCHΞS:
🎵 The Mother We Share
#CHVRCHΞS
https://chema64.bandcamp.com/track/the-mother-we-share-chvrch-s
https://open.spotify.com/track/11XJv03e4TstO4pGCH8I92
@brian_gettler@mas.toDigging around in the cupboards trying to figure out what to have for supper, we came across a can of confit de canard. How could we have forgotten about it?!? Duck for dinner!
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mastodon.nl/@sonjavan62/115907195588415214
Hier op Mastodon hadden we ook al zitten rekenen. Het CPB moet zich schamen dat organisaties als de Woonbond met uitleg moeten komen over de bizarre beeldvorming die plaatsvond.
Zo gaan we in Nederland niet met elkaar om. Zeker van een dienst die het moet hebben van -betrouwbare cijfers- mag je beter werk verwachten.
(Die vage CBS alinea maakte trouwens juist dat ik op zoek ging naar de cijfers.)
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itme: "Yeah, this 'no screens' punishment thing isn't working."
A: "And [the 8yo] is using screens responsibly! Right now she's using an app to learn Korean."
8yo: "See? You should let me have screens."
me: "We need to come up with a better punishment! Maybe we should pull out her fingernails?"
8yo: "Hey!"
A: "But that will only work for 10 days"
me: "Oh yeah, good point"
@davidaugust@mastodon.online@… yup. It is ugly where we are, and odd how clearly we have seen what where we are has looked like in other real and imagine contexts.
And yet for many, today is somehow, astoundingly, just another Friday.
There is still not full consensus on that what is happening is in fact happening.
@yaya@jorts.horseI should take my medtimes bc today we went and played on the pier where that guy ate a whole rotisserie chicken, explored a bigass abandoned middle school, and then went to a show in the woods and I have no fucking clue what we're doing tomorrow so I should probably rest for Whatever The Fuck
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
…
We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
CALLY: [Entering] Where is the storage hold?
SONHEIM: [Gruffly] What do you want down there?
CALLY: We need some laser transfer linkage.
SONHEIM: I don't know that we have any.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/245 B7B6
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioToday we're gonna find out together how well a 30-year old lithum-ion battery charges.
This is a Hitachi battery that doesn’t have any direct modern replacement; it’s almost identical to a Sony NP-FM50 but ever so slightly thinner so the Sony batteries just barely don’t fit into the Hitachi camera this is for.
I’ll probably fry to modify a 3rd-party replacement for the Sony batteries by sanding it down, needs to be shaved off by like <1mm.
@cdarwin@c.imThe first vaccine was a lucky accident.
Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBengals' Joe Flacco shines in battle for the ages vs. Aaron Rodgers, Steelers: 'This is what we do it for' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-joe-flacco-shines-in-battle-for-the-ages-vs-aaron-rodgers-steelers-t…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
R.E.M.:
🎵 It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)
#REM
https://mototembo.bandcamp.com/album/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-moto-tembo-edits
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oSpQ7QtIKTNFfA08Cy0ku
@benb@osintua.eu'Every day, we feel more hate towards Russia' — Kyiv families struggle to stay warm in near-freezing homes: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/every-day-we-feel-more.html
@cdarwin@c.imHere's what unions do for their members.
FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:kkthg5ffy7dews4o3svyffrm/post/3mcfjc2pzic26
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMonth to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Well, put up our estimated position. [An additional circle is added to main viewscreen close to one of the existing circles] That's too close to something we can't see.
JENNA: And we're not sure is there.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/146
@yaya@jorts.horselove my fuckin Tons
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's fascinating that we largely went from a network of personal computers processing data locally that could access an open hypertext system linking together millions of websites…
…to phones with proprietary closed apps that often largely are little more than little windows to timesharing mainframes.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. -- They did so anyway.
Aid Charade: Even as lifesaving programs closed in South Sudan, Rubio and other officials maintained they were still active and that no one had died. -- We found that wasn’t true.
A Surging Outbreak: After the funding cuts, cases in South Sudan spiked. -- It’s the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMonth to Month: What we learned in October https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/month-to-month-what-we-learned-in-october-x7929
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net @NFL@darktundra.xyzJoe Flacco turns back the clock (further than Aaron Rodgers) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6723695/2025/10/17/joe-flacco-bengals-steelers-the-pulse/
@cdarwin@c.imSeveral women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video
demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.
“While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”
@cdarwin@c.imZoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDrake Maye's TD puts away Patriots' first playoff win since Super Bowl LIII: 'We were the better team tonight. We made plays when we had to.' https://www.nfl.com/news/drake-maye-s-td-p
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat we learned in NFL Week 11: Eagles' defense dominates, Broncos stake claim https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6813066/2025/11/17/nfl-week-11-highlights-eagles-lions-jared-goff/
