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blaise, 1 month ago to random

There's so much beauty, terror, wisdom and wonder in this 30 minute lecture
https://youtu.be/Ts0aetinnvw
about #volcanos
...
it will break my heart when YouTube eventually succumbs to #enshittification

blaise, 1 month ago to USpolitics

If I could create a content warning that said something like:
#uspolitics spirituality psychology ethics NSFW

Then this dialogue between Michael Cohen and Tony Schwartz would get it :
https://youtu.be/1Rjr_QgSnXI

Much of what they say is unsurprising, but it's so interesting to hear them dig into the psychological and spiritual void that creates the space for so much of what is wrong with the US society, politics and law today.

blaise, 1 month ago to Czechia

In my journey to learn about #coop as an alternative to #capitalism , I noticed this new video from the excellent YouTuber Asianometry.

https://youtu.be/c2O5PIt7-Y0

Highlights include Franzitec Cuba, #management innovatio, #co-op structure, #czechia

macosken, 1 month ago to random

Hello #fountainpen friends. Thoughts on the Lamy Safari?

quintessence, 1 month ago to random

Premise for a scifi novel (or something) that I'm not sure if it exists already or not:

There is only one soul in the universe, and while as a life form the soul experiences linear time but can be reborn as any species, on any world, at any time. Not sure what happens once the being is born as every beetle, cat, human, non-terrestrial species, etc.

blaise, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to academia

I don't know who needs this summary of advice I gave to a young woman about her academic career.

#academia is subject to #capitalism like many other institutions.
Members of marginalized groups can apply #infosec practices like social engineering to overtake the power structures.

For more detailed, practical guidance, I recommend the underground classic:

"Hacking Capitalism" by Kris Nova
https://hackingcapitalism.io/

my Audio reading
https://youtu.be/baGHDYFI810

• #anarchism

blaise, 1 month ago to sourdough

The bubbles in the #sourdough are just right.
I look forward to baking a loaf for @vance_maverick to make up for the previous one.

blaise, 1 month ago to sourdough

My fifth loaf of #sourdough . The first I can be proud of.

blaise, 2 months ago to movies

I just finished watching this beautiful documentary
https://youtu.be/ZqlX2pVCu9A
About a "hippie camp" in Kauai in the early 70's
The #cinematography is excellent.

It captures subtle details and perspectives from a time gone by and reminded me of my own childhood and I hope young people get to see it, for a glimpse at a world so different from today.

#anarchy
#surfing

LostNetizen, 2 months ago to random

I have a new obsession: OpenStreetMap. It’s like the perfect open world game where you improve the real world by playing.
You can go outside and play “on the ground”, be the first one to add a new bikeway or fix the opening hours of your favorite bakery. Or you can map from the couch by analyzing aerial images. At https://www.hotosm.org they always need volunteers for some humanitarian mapping. It can be as easy as “spot all the buildings in this image.”

#OpenStreetMap

blaise, 2 months ago to python

In all the excitement, it would be easy to overlook this announcement relevant to #pythondev s building large/busy projects with #python :
https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/03/build-images-with-uv/

I'm encouraged by the synergy between the #RustLanguage and Python communities, with several collaborations increasing adoption and familiarity of #rustlang .

Ok, I'm calling it a day.

blaise, 2 months ago to PuertoRico

@blogdiva has me on a roll.

This documentary was nearly lost to history because the unreleased 16mm disappeared in the 80s.
Ten years ago my dad found a copy on tape among his old files.
https://youtu.be/g8dXMg5Mz6c

Augustine Stahl was from #puertorico and the first #naturalist to catalog flora and fauna of the island.

blaise, 2 months ago to PuertoRico

Inspired by a toot by @blogdiva , I found a link to a documentary my dad made in the '70s which summarizes the USA relationship to #puertorico in the 20 century.

https://youtu.be/OGhvnaRRqTs?si=I2324WoVhtQFPcc2

I don't recall if it mentioned the enormous "contributions" of draftees to the Korean and Vietnam wars.

AnnaAnthro, 2 months ago to random

French couple who kept 159 cats and seven dogs banned from keeping pets. She is diagnosed with Noah Syndrome- animal hoarding

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68728540

blaise, 2 months ago to fediverse

Facebook feels like a stream of contact with people I wish to avoid IRL.

#fediverse feels like a stream of people I wish to meet IRL.

blogdiva, 2 months ago to random

the only US citizens Americans should be taking protesting cues from are PUERTORRIQUEÑOS.

why? Puerto Rico is bound, muzzled & knee-capped by the USA constitution YET our people took to the streets, IN THE ISLAND & WORLDWIDE, and changed the government in 12 days of non-stop protests.

PROTESTS WORK.

so much so, USA media wants you to forget those 12 days of protests when writing of the global unrests of 2019.

WE ARE MORE AND WE HAVE NO FEAR;
somos más y no tenemos miedo.

#USPol #genocide

another sea of humanity on el casco de San Juan, in front of our capitol hill, our Congreso.
Bad Bunny, members of Calle 13 including René Pérez (in the blue cap), who called for the protests; and Ricky Martín standing next to him.
a show of protests signs from those 12 days, from left to right: 1. FUERA POLICÍA; police get out the governor was infamous for his abuse of power and treating police as his private army 2. ABAJO EL PATRIARCADO; down with patriarchy protests had been happening for ages en La Isla but what ignited the 12 days of rage were leaks of chatlogs where Roselló & his cronies slandered and slurred many activists and at one point even joked about throwing some of them in jail so they could get raped. 3. BLACK & WHITE PUERTO RICAN FLAG is both our distress flag and the symbol of the independence national movement that was led by Don Pedro Albizu Campos and which was a straight offshoot of our abolitionist movement (and hence, led by Afroboricuas). 4. SOMOS MÁS Y NO TENEMOS MIEDO we are more and we have no fear.

slashdot, 2 months ago to random

NASA To Create Time Standard For the Moon https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/04/03/0050232/nasa-to-create-time-standard-for-the-moon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

kfogel, 2 months ago to random

Hypothesis: Publicly-traded or IPO-bound companies will always be opposed to local-first computing and will inevitably try to obstruct it in their products.

(Convince me otherwise, please, if you can; I do not wish it to be so. In the meantime, long live FOSS.)

blaise, 2 months ago to random

In my ongoing quest for a #cooperative offering high end Internet infrastructure services, I read https://blog.cosocial.ca/about/
about @coop ,
and I wonder if there is something similar in place in the USA?

I'm intrigued by the notion of a member owned #coop because that might provide enterprise customers with greater long term commitment (assuming they apply Deming's principle 4, use one supplier)

timbray, 2 months ago to random

I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.

So, here’s my proposal, called “OSQI”, aimed at starting a how-to discussion: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI

kellogh, 2 months ago to random

i don’t understand how people see the xz incident and conclude that open source is insecure. That level of social engineering could easily have worked on a company as well, but it was detected because it was open source. All other mechanisms failed, and it was just some random guy poking around that discovered it. That kind of scrutiny doesn’t happen on closed source systems