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Debord, "Society of the Spectacle"
CHAPTER 3
Unity and Division Within
Appearances
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Welcome to #TheoryMutiny, where this humble creature performs a more-or-less line-by-line reading & analysis of a text of theory. Its chosen text currently is Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle because said text has some useful ramifications for the capitalist slide into fascism which we see occurring in many places today.
You can & should feel free to mute this hashtag if it is not your cup of tea--no theory-shaming around here.
Let's resume with a long quote from Red Flag magazine, a political theory journal out of Beijing that began in 1958.
New foreign minister says Israel using lack of food as a tool in Gaza
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-minister-food-gaza-israel-1.7535177?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics 
@politics-cbcnewsPolitics
Good enough ten-second sum types for Postgres https://lobste.rs/s/8yscq2 #show #databases
https://duckrabbit.tech/articles/pg-epoch.html
Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
Link: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620
Hello from Python Language Summit at PyCon US.
Photo taken by 
@EWDurbinee
Big news this evening
7 years in the making
The Court speaks
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/
Feeling down today?
You weren’t meant to live in such a cruel, unforgiving world, run by the absolute worst people imaginable. You’re doing great, and doing the best with what you’ve been given.
So go ahead, get yourself some ice cream. You have my permission, should you need it. 😇
Hey 
@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
do you use macOS ?
Official 1: "Sir, why don't we just gift him the plane?"
Official 2: "You mean THE plane? THAT plane?"
2: Yes, sir. With everything already installed and embedded.
1: It's an interesting suggestion, but do you really believe that he's stupid enough to accept a gift like that?
2: Sir, he kept overflowing cardboard boxes of top secret United States documents piled up in a guest bathroom at his home.
1: Get on it. You're promoted.
To be fair, this type of thing can happen on the Fediverse, too — if you are on someone else's server.
But, the advantage that decentralized social-media has, over centralized social-media, is —
This isn't the end.
You can either go to another server instance.
Or, you can create your own server instance (i.e., self-host), and then no one can suspend your account.
Frage in die Runde, finden sich genug Leute mit einem Interesse an Outdoor Aktivitäten (Wandern/Radfahren/etc) auf der #gpn23 für ein Meetup? Ein bisschen über Orte, Touren, Pläne, und Equipment reden?
Why I wrote the fx web server https://lobste.rs/s/s5t6wa #release #web
https://huijzer.xyz/posts/74
めかごじだ
@stefanoStefano Marinelli When you resume creating new snac accounts, will you publicly promote it so I can hopefully start using it?
이재명·민주당의 빅텐트는 왜 오른쪽으로만 한없이 넓어지는가. 빅텐트로 들어간 진보정당·정치인·활동가는 문제제기를 하긴 하는 걸까? 이들의 자리가 빅텐트 안에 있기는 한가? 등등 여러 생각이 드는 대선정국.
Jimi Lend landet auf dem Mund
Er wandert über den Busen der Natur
Bis zum Nabel der Welt
The biggest-ever online black market, Haowang Guarantee, just shut down. The move follows Telegram's decision to ban thousands of accounts that hosted crypto scam markets after WIRED asked about new research on them from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-biggest-ever-black-market-shuts-down-after-a-telegram-purge/
I've been working (together with Javier Gomez-Serrano) with a group at Google Deepmind to explore potential mathematical applications of their tool "AlphaEvolve", a successor of their earlier tool "Funsearch" that was publicly announced today: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ . Very roughly speaking, this is a tool that can attempt to extremize functions F(x) with x ranging over a high dimensional parameter space Omega, that can outperform more traditional optimization algorithms when the parameter space is very high dimensional and the function F (and its extremizers) have non-obvious structural features.
Some of the preliminary problems we have tried this on, including problems involving harmonic analysis inequalities, additive combinatorics, and packing, were already mentioned in the announcement; we are now gradually moving on to more challenging problems where the parameter space has a sparser set of good solutions. The work is still ongoing, but I hope to be able to report more upon it when we are closer to completion (probably a few months from now).
We’re going to the NGI Forum June 19-20 in Brussels. Participation is free.
The event is organized by the European Commission’s NGI program, to foster collaboration between projects and exchange on the hot topics of the moment, and plan the future developments ahead.
We will be on stage with many others, including 
@Mastodon 
@rosenpassProject Rosenpass 
@servo and 
@nlnet
This event brings policymakers & internet makers together.
Hope to see you there!
My collection of verified accounts of news organizations, that can be followed from #Mastodon (& anywhere else in the #Fediverse) contains now:
564 federated by 
@Flipboard
404 on @Mastodon
45 federated by 
@threads
20 bridged thanks to 
@snarfed.orgRyan Barrett
3 federated by 
@indexBuilding ActivityPub (#Ghost)
1 on 
@peertube &
1 on @sharkeySharkey - Official Account
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
Who's missing?
#SocialMedia #News #Press #Media #Threads #BridgyFed #Peertube #Sharkey #Bluesky #Flipboard
I would love to find that there is still an active community for #PovRay, because i loved that so much.
We are excited to be part of the biggest annual event of the Local First community, namely, the Local First Conference in Berlin, from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 of May !
The first day is called the Community Day, with workshops and unconference activities, plus an after-party.
We will be presenting NextGraph and the feature called "Social Queries" during that day at 16:30. It is free entrance.
Hope to see you there!
#localfirst #p2p #e2ee
more info here
We’re going to the Open Source Community Annual Conference OW2con’ in Paris on the 17-18 of June. Participation is free!
On the second day, wednesday 18th of June, in the morning at 9:45 in the “February Breakout Room” we will present NextGraph for 15 mins along other NGI projects.
Come and meet us there! You will find at the conference many other cool projects, like 
@CryptPad 
@xwikiXWiki SAS 
@penpotPenpot 
multi.coop, and more.
hopefully see you there!
Hey 
@docpopDoctor M. Popular this is sorta like what you were doing with your fedi photo walks huh?
@liaizonwakest ⁂ the FediPaseo sounds exactly like what we were doing with the PixelWalks in SF. I'm happy to see other folks exploring the same idea and I think #FediPaseo (or #FediWalk) is a great name for it. I'm really happy to see this idea spreading around. Here is my post from our #PixelWallk in SF. https://docpop.org/2025/02/pixelwalk-in-sf-a-fediverse-themed-photowalk/
일주일에 52시간 이상 일하면 장기적으로 뇌에 나쁜 영향을 준답니다.
어떻게 이런 연구를 했을까요? 52시간 이상 일하는게 합법인 한국에서 조사했다고 합니다.😓
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...
The 52-hour work week: why it ...
We’re going to the NGI Forum June 19-20 in Brussels. Participation is free.
The event is organized by the European Commission’s NGI program, to foster collaboration between projects and exchange on the hot topics of the moment, and plan the future developments ahead.
We will be on stage with many others, including @Mastodon @rosenpassProject Rosenpass @servo and @nlnet
This event brings policymakers & internet makers together.
Hope to see you there!
The biggest-ever online black market, Haowang Guarantee, just shut down. The move follows Telegram's decision to ban thousands of accounts that hosted crypto scam markets after WIRED asked about new research on them from blockchain analysis firm Elliptic. https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-biggest-ever-black-market-shuts-down-after-a-telegram-purge/
Decided to try and enter one of my photos into the #APOY2025 contest on #Photocrowd. We'll see how it goes.
家サーバのUbuntuを22.04から24.04に上げたらsshdが教えてくれる攻撃元のIPアドレスがIPv4 mapped IPv6アドレスになって::ffff:がたっくさん並んでいます。目が滑るなあw
📰 Today's Top 21 Hacker News Stories (Sorted by Score) 📰
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🔖 Title: Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes
🔗 URL: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072
👍 Score: [387]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845
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🔖 Title: AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
🔗 URL: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/
👍 Score: [360]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985489
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🔖 Title: Writing that changed how I think about programming languages
🔗 URL: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/
👍 Score: [339]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980760
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🔖 Title: What Is HDR, Anyway?
🔗 URL: https://www.lux.camera/what-is-hdr/
👍 Score: [335]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871
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🔖 Title: The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
🔗 URL: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/
👍 Score: [305]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981170
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🔖 Title: SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
🔗 URL: https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
👍 Score: [271]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984297
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🔖 Title: Databricks and Neon
🔗 URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-neon
👍 Score: [222]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43982777
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🔖 Title: How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip
🔗 URL: https://ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-build-a-smartwatch-picking-a-chip/
👍 Score: [195]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981680
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🔖 Title: Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away
🔗 URL: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/99
👍 Score: [149]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945733
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🔖 Title: A server that wasn't meant to exist
🔗 URL: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/
👍 Score: [122]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985971
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🔖 Title: How the economics of multitenancy work
🔗 URL: https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/the-economics-of-operating-a-ci-cloud
👍 Score: [105]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984097
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🔖 Title: The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
🔗 URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys/
👍 Score: [92]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983159
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🔖 Title: Show HN: Lumier – Run macOS VMs in a Docker
🔗 URL: https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier
👍 Score: [73]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985624
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🔖 Title: Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges
🔗 URL: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
👍 Score: [68]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971620
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🔖 Title: Our Narrative Prison
🔗 URL: https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot
👍 Score: [58]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986424
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🔖 Title: Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
🔗 URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/uber-to-introduce-fixed-route-shuttles-in-major-us-cities-other-ways-to-save/
👍 Score: [42]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985861
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🔖 Title: Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo – Open and Process CSVs Locally
🔗 URL: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pfcrwp46v22?hl=en-US&gl=US
👍 Score: [26]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985527
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🔖 Title: Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator
🔗 URL: https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
👍 Score: [21]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986833
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🔖 Title: An accessibility update – GTK Development Blog
🔗 URL: https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/
👍 Score: [20]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971685
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🔖 Title: Beyond the Wrist: Debugging RSI
🔗 URL: https://www.debugyourpain.org/docs/main_posts/understand/debugging_rsi/
👍 Score: [13]
💬 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987525
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Top 25 stories on lobste.rs:
🔗 If AI is so good at coding ⦠where are the open source contributions?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if_ai_is_so_good_at_coding_where_are_open
🔗 SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
https://blog.stillgreenmoss.net/sms-2fa-is-not-just-insecure-its-also-hostile-to-mountain-people
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/anrlu2/sms_2fa_is_not_just_insecure_it_s_also
🔗 ZJIT has been merged into Ruby
https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-14-merge-zjit/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/w9eg2a/zjit_has_been_merged_into_ruby
🔗 AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
https://lukekanies.com/writing/ai-is-like-a-crappy-consultant/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/msvjge/ai_is_like_crappy_consultant
🔗 $20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in rav1d AV1 Decoder
https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-perf-bounty/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/wvkq5b/20k_bounty_offered_for_optimizing_rust
🔗 The penultimate conditional syntax
https://dotat.at/@/2025-05-13-if-is.html
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/9a0x7c/penultimate_conditional_syntax
🔗 The first year of free-threaded Python
https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/kpkczj/first_year_free_threaded_python
🔗 Preventing outages with pkill's new --require-handler flag
https://chrisdown.name/2025/05/13/safer-signal-sending-with-pkill-require-handler.html
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/o4rqpo/preventing_outages_with_pkill_s_new
🔗 Crowdsourcing Broken QR Codes
https://www.humanqr.com/news/qr-code-not-scanning-well-try-to-help/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/yz2vny/crowdsourcing_broken_qr_codes
🔗 The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/ularz6/server_wasn_t_meant_exist
🔗 Firefox moves to GitHub
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/0er0sj/firefox_moves_github
🔗 MinorMiner: we turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin
https://robertheaton.com/minor-miner/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/hiux0l/minorminer_we_turn_your_kid_s_maths
🔗 Writing that changed how I think about PL
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/pl-writing/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/v2zmv3/writing_changed_how_i_think_about_pl
🔗 The Database Row That Did and Didn't Exist
http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/mt7ijj/database_row_did_didn_t_exist
🔗 Running modified containers with podman
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/05/running-modified-containers-with-podman/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/rmx28b/running_modified_containers_with_podman
🔗 Why I use WebAssembly
https://nasso.dev/blog/why-i-use-wasm
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/26oqqu/why_i_use_webassembly
🔗 Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/q919pi/introducing_oniux_kernel_level_tor
🔗 Keeping time on a stream
https://s2.dev/blog/timestamping
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/yidvhu/keeping_time_on_stream
🔗 LibreWolf Browser
https://librewolf.net/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/elnrrz/librewolf_browser
🔗 Minus 100 points (2004)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericgu/minus-100-points
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/1muhyf/minus_100_points_2004
🔗 Avian Physics 0.3
https://joonaa.dev/blog/08/avian-0-3
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/watrbl/avian_physics_0_3
🔗 FlowG - Distributed Systems without Raft (part 2)
https://david-delassus.medium.com/distributed-systems-without-raft-part-2-81ca31eae4db
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/xmvjel/flowg_distributed_systems_without_raft
🔗 Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/apple-unveils-powerful-accessibility-features-coming-later-this-year/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/nu19ul/apple_unveils_powerful_accessibility
🔗 Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator
https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/dwxksp/smalltalk_78_xerox_notetaker_browser
🔗 Policy of transience
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/transience/
🔥 Score: 0
💬 https://lobste.rs/s/ubqsls/policy_transience
Who wants faster wifi speeds on their FreeBSD laptops? 🙋♀️
Check out this video that just landed on how to unlock high-speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uic0ksaqOwE
There's a blog post to go with it, for people like me:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/how-to-unlock-high-speed-wi-fi-on-freebsd-14/
Bologna ist im Jobmarkt voll angekommen. US-Amerikanische Verhältnisse sind eingekehrt. Ohne "Uniabschluss" (zu meiner Zeit: "1. Studienabschnitt", jetzt bacc.) wird kein Job mehr ausgeschrieben. "oder vergleichbare Berufserfahrung" ist eine Floskel, die eingespart wird.
Wäre spannend zu ermitteln, wie viele exzellente IT-Personen so durch den (AI) Raster fallen.
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
Call it “the culture war” all you want—70% of it is just men losing their minds because women stopped laughing at their jokes.
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Zieht eure Socken aus, morgen ist #GAAD!
Wenn wir bis 00:00 morgen früh 300 Euro auf Steady zusammenbekommen streame ich morgen auf Twitch live die Barrierefreiheits-Zerstörung von mindestens 20 Behördenseiten. Es fehlen nur noch 43!
Damit weitere Behörden zum Global Accessibility Awareness Day aware werden, dass sie Gesetze brechen.
oniux: a small command-line utility providing Tor network isolation for third-party applications using Linux namespaces. Built on Arti, and onionmasq, oniux drop-ships any Linux program into its own network namespace to route it through Tor 🧅
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
This time we start releasing the #btconf talks in random order. Here is 
@matthiasott and his opening presentation for day 2 of Düsseldorf 2025 titled “Painting With the Web”. https://youtu.be/1Pq7VqNrtk4
The Cryptography Behind Passkeys
Link: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/14/the-cryptography-behind-passkeys/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983159
I actually felt the moment of deflation after work today where I went from neutral to sad.
I'm glad you guys exist as proof that awesome people are around.
Hello from Python Language Summit at PyCon US.
Photo taken by @EWDurbinee
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Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app https://lobste.rs/s/q919pi #linux #security
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
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