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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
pixelpaperyarn@masto.hackers.town wrote:

I restarted my newsletter! I wrote a bit about the challenges of being invisible & having authenticity on the web. I have no posting schedule. Stuff's just gonna come out when I write something. No more than once a week, hopefully no less than once a month.

https://buttondown.com/commonplace/archive/on-invisibility-and-being-authentic-on-the-web/

#amwriting

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
celesteh@hachyderm.io ("Charles ☭ :trans: is a Green") wrote:

This week:
Two donated Linux laptops have found new homes with people who would not otherwise had laptops.

In the queue:

I've got three thinkpads awaiting new power adaptors, one of which needs a new battery, and another of which _NEEDS_ a new battery.

And two macbooks, one of which is having (broadcom) WiFi problems. And the other is waiting.

You:
Are you a carer, a migrant, unemployed or otherwise could use an Ubuntu laptop? (Or do you know someone who would benefit?)

Do you have old laptops* cluttering your space that you want to pass on? I will collect from anywhere in London.

* If your laptop turns on, I'm interested. If its already ewaste, sorry.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

A Conversation With Anarchists in Sudan

https://www.blackrosefed.org/conversation-sudan-anarchists/

> Hear directly from anarchist comrades in Sudan in this presentation plus Q&A hosted by Black Anarchist Resistance: Sudanese Solidarity (BARSS), a new coalition centering support for Sudan while raising the banner of Black liberation globally. William C. Anderson, author of Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition, will share a political grounding linking the […]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andreas Grois") wrote:

I just got reminded of the Grug Brained Developer.

It is essential reading for everyone who wants to write code.

https://grugbrain.dev/

#Programming #GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zenkat@sfba.social wrote:

The funniest thing about the #goose presentation is how completely it misses the whole point of the fable.

In the original story, the goose has been providing a steady stream of golden eggs. But the farmer gets greedy, and decides that if he cuts open the goose, he can get ALL the golden eggs inside the goose at once. But after killing the goose, he finds no eggs inside, and is left with nothing.

This is a story about the financial class, #AI, and the #Internet economy.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FoxbrushTailwag ("Foxbrush Tailwag") wrote:

Einzig vernünftiger Umgang mit sowas.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

In which the non-technical world notices the concept of the “Open Web”, and Google’s abandonment of it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/google-ai-oligarchy-and-the-end-of-the-open-web - Essential reading, I think.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

I'm coming to the conclusion that community-owned and operated small clouds (co-ops) with easy onramps for self-hosting open source services like mail, storage, and VPN are the only way forward. Every corpo service is eventually going to make you ashamed to use it.

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

As always, if you're demanding consent, it is probably a good idea to be able to articulate why consent is the right model for what is happening.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Not Enough Eyes - Blender Studio Log 24

https://video.blender.org/w/oD9DJRrZWjcndh6X78aej4

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Blender 5.3 PROJECTS! 🤝 Blender Today LIVE #283

https://video.blender.org/w/dod1QU7b1DJ4tSmpBEvSJ7

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blender@video.blender.org ("Blender") wrote:

Compositor Fast CACHE & NEW NODES 🎨 Blender Today LIVE #284_1080p

https://video.blender.org/w/98E3tVQ9Gp25fPrt1pgL41

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alipunk@thecanadian.social ("𝒜𝓁𝒾⋆ ♡⃛") wrote:

These are the rocks I am working on drawing

#wip #wipwednesday #alipunkart #Art #mastoart

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
me_@sueden.social ("Michael Engel") wrote:

If you have a few hours to waste and like compilers and weird - PowerPC - assembly, try the 254 lessons of Decomp Academy!

https://decomp-academy.dev/

#assembly #compiler #PPC #PowerPC #ReverseEngineering #retrocomputing #decompilation

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

really looking forward to the talk i'm giving next week at botcamp

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stuck at home, so I’m making a new comic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
AlienJay@burningboard.net ("Jörg 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116822991494258324

Amazing! The Scientists fired by DOGE relaunched now as https://www.climate.us.
Being fired by a fascistic government made them stronger than they were. Now they are 100% independent. Of course Trump and his whole regime will try to discredit them. But it’s too late I guess. More and more people are waking up. So this is another nail in the coffin of the Trump regime.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("highly praised and little read") wrote:

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

here's the original one! Honestly it was made in a rush back then so I always had my gripes with it, its the redraw number 145 i've done, with the remake being number 195!! And yeah it didn't have the "Goose Value" thing originally, though you may have been able to tell from the different writing style on it

I'm glad to see that my silly redraws keep on being shared to this day, and thank you to everyone who tagged me for credits on the reposts of it, it's very much appreciated!!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

motivated (remake)

this one exploded over at fedi so I decided to remake it!! I go into details of the original piece at the comments.

#PixelArt #Art #Redraw #Animal #Goose #AnubiArts

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

RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf%5Fnewsdigest/116788590931855133

“Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

USA revolving around several trillion-dollar companies, and EU having hardly any, is supposed to imply economic superiority, but to me it sounds "if you're so good at growing, why don't you have more tumours?"

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@shibacomputer/116827981116605348

This is the future those who push for age verification want for us.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Oh hey, I was the projectionist at the Morris Theatre again!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/a-girl-loves-her-dog/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuHbOtdFmkY

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Minnesota has a reputation for putting on a great state fair every year. But what if Trump tried to copy it? Disastrous failure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/28/you-call-that-a-fair/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

At almost 800 pages The Architecture of Symbolic Computers by Peter Kogge (McGraw-Hill, 1991) is a massive tome on Lisp Machines, logic systems, and other symbolic computer architectures.

https://archive.org/details/architectureofsy0000kogg

#LispMachine #lisp #prolog #FunctionalProgramming #retrocomputing #book

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

One of the problems with the current AI mania is that products now eagerly claim to use “AI” whenever they can. But you have no way to tell whether this means it incorporates a few benign heuristics that might make it work a bit better or that it’s programmed to quietly learn as much as it can about you so that when the time comes, it can more efficiently harvest your organs.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zeborah@mastodon.nz ("Zeborah") wrote:

Sweet dreams are made of geese
Who am I to diss a beak
The shareholders counted the golden eggs
Everybody's looking for value

Some of them want to goose you
Some of them want to be goosed by you
Some of them want to accrue you
Some of them want to be a goose

Number goes up
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up (Layin' eggs)
Number goes up (Layin' eggs)
Value goes up...

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz ("Russell Keith-Magee") wrote:

@cczona Three suggestions from AU:

1. Make a Coolgardie Safe: if humidity is low but temps are high; soak a bedsheet, make a tent, and use a fan to generate airflow. Depending on humidity and airflow, can be good for 3-9 C of temperature drop.

2. Supercool your extremities. Feet in a bucket of ice/cold water, iced water cloth on the back of your neck.

3. Hydrate. Goes without saying, but still.

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

“Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted? | Science | AAAS”

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted?utm%5Fcampaign=News