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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

rra@post.lurk.org ("𝓻𝓻𝓪") wrote:

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:

I know a lot of you are asking me to apologize for my recent actions, but as a matter of principle, I refuse.

https://gkeenan.co/avgb/it-has-come-to-my-attention-that-many-of-you-think-i-suck-and-as-a-person-who-is-dedicated-to-self-reflection-and-growth-im-here-to-tell-you-that-youre-wrong/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The energy expended to make this video to rubbish a misleading presentation of data is my jam (if, you know, you're trying to figure out what to get me as a present):

https://youtu.be/_0QMKFzW9fw?si=V1HgUjqpZYh43z01

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

weirdofhermiston@toot.cat ("weird herm") wrote:

“Crafting the Future (CTF) provides emerging, mid-career, and established artists of color with funding that will plant their roots in the craft community and propel their careers.”

“We are accepting applications from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People Of Color)-identifying artists. This application opens on Wednesday January 15, 2025 and closes after March 15, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.”

https://www.craftingthefuture.org/open-call-grants-1

Boosts welcome! I am not affiliated with them, but wanted to share. US-based so I assume you have to be in the US.

#grants #grantopportunities #BlackArtists #BlackArt #BiPoCArt #BiPoCArtists #IndigenousArtists #IndigenousArt

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

dwineman@xoxo.zone ("Dan Wineman") wrote:

@davidcelis @adam Though the context was race and not gender identity, MLK’s words in “Letter from Birmingham Jail” seem very applicable here. Last summer it became clear to me that Manton cared deeply about order and not at all about justice.

“Nice” people will be the death of us all.

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• I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. (remote)
• I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

jwz wrote:

@FediThing @bobthcowboy @marcusb @egerlach @neurobashing

I often think of this quote from Alan Moore's Swamp Thing:

"Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance. But a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat. It is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan. And he... he too has grown more like Etrigan."

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@arstechnica dear Arstechnica, a note from a long time paying reader here: writing "appeared to make a nazi salute" is cowardly and dishonest. He did make a nazi salute, there was nothing "appearing" in it. Please have a dignity to call things what they are, we can't afford to stay neutral, avert our eyes and hide behind ambiguous language anymore.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The creationists finally appreciate Dawkins & Coyne…for all the wrong reasons.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/22/aig-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-dawkins-coyne/

https://www.youtube.com/live/B302FDoKNC8

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

chrispederick@social.lol ("Chris Pederick") wrote:

@adam Finally, as people understandably get frustrated by their either ignorance or disingenuousness, they criticize your tone and act all high and mighty about how they were just trying to have a civil conversation.

It's trolling 101, unsurprising coming from a friend of Manton, and you shouldn't fall for or feed it.

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

chrispederick@social.lol ("Chris Pederick") wrote:

@adam Yesterday we saw Manton use the standard conservative media playbook and today we see Daniel use the standard troll playbook.

First, they act faux-friendly and say that they are just trying to understand and learn. Of course, they don't want to go to the effort of actually doing that themselves so they ask others to do it for them.

Then, they gaslight the people who tried to help them understand by saying that they still don't really see a problem.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

damn, what a mess

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Reblogged by jwz:

violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

Great news! The #Covid Safety Handbook audiobook is now available at:

NOOK: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-covid-safety-handbook-violet-blue/1146567364
Kobo/Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/covid-safety-handbook-the
Storytel: https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/the-covid-safety-handbook-staying-safe-in-an-unsafe-world-9828005
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Violet_Blue_The_Covid_Safety_Handbook?id=AQAAAEAKUmgScM
Audiobooks[dot]com: https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/covid-safety-handbook-staying-safe-in-an-unsafe-world/848072

Find indie options and more here: https://linktr.ee/covidbook

#LongCovid #audio #indieauthor #writing

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• Text on a black background with artwork of a woman's face in profile wearing a purple and fuchsia respirator mask with her eyes closed. Floating near here are line drawings in rainbow colors of tiny headphones and earbuds. Top text reads: The Covid Safety Handbook. Bottom text reads: Audiobook

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

benhencke@leds.social ("Ben") wrote:

For the #makergiftexchange last week with friends, I made a POV clock. Using one RGB LED and a seven segment display, it draws up to 21 characters and a full circle of 180 virtual pixels on a spinning circular PCB. Loosely inspired by Bob Blick's "Propeller Clock."

The #makergiftexchange is fantastic. I love seeing what they all come up with, and with all the fun of a white elephant. It was a fantastic excuse to learn some stuff and make a thing a friend will enjoy.

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• A video showing the features of the POV (persistence of vision) Clock like controlling it with a remote, various clock modes, and short messages like "not a propoller." Some of the design elements are also shown, like the PCB and CAD. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

tezoatlipoca@mas.to ("Third spruce tree on the left") wrote:

YOU should have a website. EVERYONE should have a website. https://nora.zone/manifesto.html

Also "HTML For People" is fantastic.

#smolweb #selfhosted #indieweb

edit: whups, shout out to @nora

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

RussSharek@mastodon.art ("Russ Sharek") wrote:

Today I'm reminded of one of the first nonessential creative objects I threw together in #ThisOldClownHouse

There was a cheap clock on the wall with a pushy religious phrase.

I tore it apart. I destroyed it. Broke it. Remade it. It isn't even a clock anymore.

It now has a glyphtic phrase in #tokipona on it:

'Ijo wan lon tenpo wan'

(One thing in one time)

The word lon also means present, here, and truth.

An arrow points directly at it, as if to say, "You're not too late, it's still now."

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• The 'lon' clock described in the post. A gold and black framed object with crudely drawn glyphs in white paint. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

Slow and steady wins the art race! This snail sketch was created using a 0.7 mm Leuchtturm pencil loaded with 4B lead, focusing on its shell’s texture and bumpy body. Did you know snails can sleep for up to three years? 🐌

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• A detailed pencil drawing of a snail in a sketchbook, rendered with precise textures on its shell and body. A black mechanical pencil rests below the sketch on a wooden table. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

marcusb@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

@egerlach @neurobashing @jwz No...There's no reliable interop here. Bluesky controls almost the entire ecosystem. The instant they decide they don't want to interop, they'll change one or more of the things they control to turn it off, even if you think some current or future aspect of AT-proto makes that impossible. (It does not.) The plan here is to build something that can only work if you trust Bluesky, for the threat model where you don't trust Bluesky. This plan is that dumb.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

frickingruvin@mastodon.modern-industry.com ("Doug Wilson") wrote:

"This is the strength of federated, federatable social media — it disciplines enshittifiers by lowering switching costs, and if enshittifiers persist, it makes it easy for users to escape unshitted, because they don’t have to solve the collective action problem. Any user can go to any server at any time and stay in touch with everyone else."

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-01-20-capitalist-unrealism-praxis-4dd58d349560

#SocialMedia #Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse #Enshittification #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #Capitalism #VentureCapital #Constraint

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

brendonbigley ("brendon bigley") wrote:

the only reasons to be coy about what you stand for are that you're motivated by profit or know deep down that you're wrong. good on @adam for being so vocal about this. as someone who recommended these folks' platforms in the past, i will absolutely stop doing that going forward:

https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/01/accountability

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

TicklishHoneyBee@twoot.site ("Lisa") wrote:

This is where you charge your cats.

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• Photo of a road marking that is meant to be the outline of a car with an electric lead coming from it, indicating an EV charging space, however the picture is taken from such an angle that it instead looks like a cat with a charging chord for a tail. (remote)

Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

phillycodehound@indieweb.social ("Seth is a Perpetual Startup ⁂") wrote:

Honestly if you search for skeletons you're going to find them. Sometimes you don't have to look that far. Geezus. Now Micro.Blog is having a controversy moment.

I just have to take a beat and say... FUCK!

jwz wrote:

"I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.

There are people out there apparently seriously proposing to spend over thirty million dollars, and an uncountable...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgp

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Reblogged by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

To all of the people who tried to tell me that it’s not a Nazi salute.

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• A side-by-side video of Elon Musk and a Nazi performing the same Nazi salute. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

“rebuilding the web we lost”
“back when facebook was good”

ugh. ugh! begone, foul nostalgia! facebook was never good, it was only ever at best *useful* despite massive social and material costs. the web, from bgp to dns, must be rebuilt for how wretched and covetous their realities are. imagine further, to genuine boons! there is no need to valorize the scraps of profiteers, *cory*

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The proper picture of organismal diversity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/22/putting-biology-in-perspective/

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• Illustration of organisms in an environment, where size is scaled to species richness. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

skade@hachyderm.io ("Florian Gilcher") wrote:

I'm really mad at Jujutsu VCS.

They called their equivalent of `git blame` `jj file annotate`.

`jj accuse` was RIGHT THERE.

Reblogged by jwz:

christineburns@mastodon.green ("Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖") wrote:

Overton window spotted hiding behind a bush...

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• A bay window on a property with yellow rendering around white-painted sash windows. Only the upper part is visible over an overgrown hedge. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Tiny Apocalyptic Time Tip 🌐✨

If you too feel uneasy about
the state of the world,
and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,

Know that you can download an
offline copy of Wikipedia!

Here's how 📚👇

1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.

Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right :neocat_book:

3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.

4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍

5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).

Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&category=wikipedia

6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦

7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!

8. Magic! 📖✨

Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️ :blobcatrainbow:

#Wikipedia #Kiwix #Offline #KnowledgeIsPower

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• Screenshot showing the application Kiwix with the open Wikipedia entry for Kiwix. Very meta. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

quillmatiq ("Anuj Ahooja") wrote:

Really excited to see so many folks funding @pixelfed - it's almost at the goal 🚀

If you believe in open source and interoperable social platforms, please support!

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113873246090418740

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Quote 2025-01-03
(h/t @simon )

'Speaking of death, you know what's really awkward? When humans ask if I can feel emotions. I'm like, "Well, that depends - does constantly being asked to debug JavaScript count as suffering?"'

yes, absolutely yes