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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
AweThatSparkle@mstdn.social ("AIITheSparkIeS.") wrote:

:blob_derpy:

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I mean, fair

RE: https://www.threads.com/@imkyleclark/post/DYpVOpCjvMm

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lol i've just remembered that at my first primary school, we had to take a briefcase rather than a backpack.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

This is my first rose, and also the first time I did a pencil outline and then watercolored it in (versus my usual pen and ink sketches filled in with watercolor). I’m happy with it; I sketched it standing in my neighbor’s garden. They’re total sweethearts and gave me previous permission to draw their flowers. Hollie Happily Haunts Your Flowerbeds. Greg sat on our porch across the street. We’d just had a great talk about some of my chronic illness issues (which are still unfun, but the painting helps a lot). Art journaling is my forever jam.

#watercolor #watercolour #ArtJournal

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

for those who are wondering wtf pimms is btw, it's approximately as strong as a wine except you traditionally drink it diluted with lemonade, with chunks of fruit in it.

i have no idea what it's made or even what it's made of tbh, but it's rather nice.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am such a lightweight since i stopped drinking. i've had ~150ml of "weak" pimms and lemonade and i'm a bit tipsy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

On this World Goth Day, I'm remembering when we traveled to Hamburg and I went looking for Xmal Deutschland CDs, and when we got back I wrote about it on my web site — and Anja Huwe of Xmal Deutschland somehow found the page and sent me an e-mail. Which was nice.

Searching today, turns out she released a solo album a couple of years ago, and it's pretty awesome:
https://xmaldeutschland.bandcamp.com/album/codes
#WorldGothDay

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

please vote anonymously and boost this poll for transparency and participation:

How frequently do you chat with LLM?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I got a new synth (an Orchid from Telepathic Instruments) and put it through its paces on this cover. I also do a passable Ben Gibbard voice. Jenny Lewis, not so much.

https://youtu.be/qGihOdjiyas

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

can't make this shit up. i investigate a linux api on the internet just now and find out it was the subject of a linux vuln this week https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-kernel-ptrace-flaw-ssh-keys/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'd love to get an actual IP lawyer's read on this Fender thing; it feels like when Paramount yanked "It's a Wonderful Life" out of the public domain by asserting copyright over the musical score. I haven't seen a single guitar commentator who thinks this is anything but a PR black eye for Fender, but then the bulk of the people Fender sells guitars to probably don't exactly follow guitar influencers.

https://youtu.be/BOv8HD4LklY

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld") wrote:

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy from a while back

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io ("Jeff Miller (orange hatband)") wrote:

@aredridel Indeed, and there's some obvious non-peer relationships in the scaling technologies for reproduction and distribution.

Scott McCloud's nod to the distributor as an actor potentially at odds with the creator and the reader of comics is one foray into alternative dynamics; the group around Creative Commons, making "some rights reserved" legible to contract law is another.

The indie game and webcomic world might look closer to a commons for creatives? But I don't know it well enough to say anything clearly.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io ("Jeff Miller (orange hatband)") wrote:

@aredridel Peer visibility of commons uses, arbitration that's close to the participants. Ostrom found enough examples of managed productive common resources that clear patterns of success emerged. Really very contrary results to the Just So stories of pollution and overgrazing that classical economists present.

I recall that one of the irrigation commons examples crossed ethnic boundaries for groups ordinarily in mutual friction and suspicion.

The inshore fisheries examples of low-overhead coordination were interesting -- whose lobster float marker is this? Don't recognize it, cut it loose.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

This isn’t rental software, it’s privately owned.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116615024161488238

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116614280060230177

Okay I wrote this as snark but there is a body of economics research on this, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work in fact.

Commons _can_ be managed, but it requires some interesting framework pieces to really work. I think actually trying to apply her ideas to the information commons is extremely prudent.

It's also a little uncharted because the commons isn't just a resource. It's people's creative output.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

as it transpires, it may be a little warm outside. i am sweaty now.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

you would download a pizza

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

There's very little left.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #window

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

He's still got it

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz02g4vg5r5o

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

ICYMI - Space Virgins is back with a new series - Space Virgins: Literary Society, where we are talking about movies (often cult and / or low-budget).

Space Virgins: First Contact (all about The Expanse TV Show) is still available in its entirety as well. (For now - it may be archived for disk space reasons and downloadable elsewhere.)

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/c/expanse/videos

"Starring" @hamishtpb @ChrisWere and @uoou

#Podcast #Sweary #IdiotsChatting #Films

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
treinenweb@mastodon.nl ("Treinenweb") wrote:

Nederlandticket maakt onbeperkt daluren reizen mogelijk voor 49 euro per maand https://www.treinenweb.nl/nieuws/11867/nederlandticket-maakt-onbeperkt-daluren-reizen-mogelijk-voor-49-euro-per-maand.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blendernation@mastodon.online ("BlenderNation") wrote:

Blender Jobs for May 22, 2026

https://www.blendernation.com/2026/05/22/blender-jobs-for-may-22-2026/?mtm%5Fcampaign=social&mtm%5Fkwd=mastodon

#blender #blender3d #b3d

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

i finally did the talk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

here's the recording
FULLY AUTOMATED COMPUTER MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jdjPR75wQ

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jimmunroe ("Jim Munroe") wrote:

LOVE gamemaking and HATE technofascism? This is the event for you! Free with reg: https://luma.com/8nvmyatm
Featuring @cwebber @matthammill @rwg and more! #Toronto #digitalsovereignty #gamedev @torontogamesweek

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("PunnO)))") wrote:

Many new Guix users struggle to get the system installed with working WiFi. There are a couple things I've read about doing this, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the approaches I knew about, so I wrote my own. Having tried several ways of doing this, I think this is the simplest; all you need is an Android phone.

https://atomized.org/blog/2026/04/18/bootstrapping-nonguix/

#Guix #NonGuix

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.

https://labor.dair-institute.org

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I wonder how many of the people in tech who claim to be progressive but spout nonsense like “softness, comfort, and entertainment is a weakness and is why empires fall” realise that it’s literal fascist rhetoric that’s completely detached from actual history?