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Credit where it's due. After a messy launch, Skyrim on Switch 2 is essentially fixed - and it's great to see a developer react so comprehensively to constructive criticism: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/swi...
Switch 2 Skyrim's New Patch De...
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Hey, you, reader:
Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"
Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.
Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.
You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.
Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentials
I think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
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사물은 그 자체가 이상한 것이 아니고 나의 생각을 거쳐서야 이상해지는 것이기에, 이상함은 결국 나에게 있는 것이지 사물이 이상한 것은 아니다. ─ 『산해경』 #인생일력
@ftranschelFabian Transchel "I can get LLM corruption out of all the software in my computer except my web browser and password manager", in addition to being at this point afaik still aspirational, is kinda… that's not a good outcome. The web browser and password manager have extreme permissions and extreme capacity to do harm.
@ftranschelFabian Transchel In addition, I have committed a tremendous error which is now coming back to bite me: I installed software written by BlueSky PBC
寝起きでvisa申請用の写真撮ったら顔ブリブリすぎて鬱
One of the 2 images I brought home from the Canaries. It must be nice to be a flat-earther, you can capture all of these beauties from your garden, for the rest of us, we have to travel south to actually witness what's beyond the horizon.
A very short, not even 3h exposure of the Skull and Crossbones nebula, NGC 2467
Still thinking about this tweet.
Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentials
I think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
"They are shooting to kill" A Palestinian describes how Israeli settler militias killed the 19 year old Palestinian American Nasrallah Abu Siyam in the village of Mukhmas, occupies West Bank.
According to locals, the attack came amid a pattern of near-daily assaults targeting Mukhmas and surrounding villages, with residents reporting vandalism, armed intimidation, and gunfire under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
The Israeli settler violence has escalated in recent weeks, leaving Palestinian families fearing further attacks and a lack of accountability.
Source: Theia Chatelle.
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Interesting. 4K is mostly a lie.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116108957641748718
I want this but as a Linux distribution. I don't think I'm asking for much here. I am just asking for the "open source community" to be to the left of Goldman Sachs
My understanding is that Bitwarden and KeePassXC, the two open source password managers, are *both* using random code generators at this point, which is terrifying as those are the exact tools where a small error could have the largest negative impact, and also tools that once you've committed to using it you can't quickly back out if they enter a code quality decline
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"They are shooting to kill" A Palestinian describes how Israeli settler militias killed the 19 year old Palestinian American Nasrallah Abu Siyam in the village of Mukhmas, occupies West Bank.
According to locals, the attack came amid a pattern of near-daily assaults targeting Mukhmas and surrounding villages, with residents reporting vandalism, armed intimidation, and gunfire under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
The Israeli settler violence has escalated in recent weeks, leaving Palestinian families fearing further attacks and a lack of accountability.
Source: Theia Chatelle.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116108957641748718
I want this but as a Linux distribution. I don't think I'm asking for much here. I am just asking for the "open source community" to be to the left of Goldman Sachs
It took time and experience before the workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital.
—Karl Marx
This verdict on the Luddites, written 150 years ago, maps onto the LLM debate with uncomfortable precision: Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations.
Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations
This is a follow-up to last month's Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them . Cory Doctorow celebrated the sixth anniversary of Pluralistic…
writings.hongminhee.org · Hong Minhee on Things
Link author: 
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
@hongminhee@hollo.social
Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:
- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentials
I think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.
A poor substitute
A baby Japanese macaque named Punch sits next to a stuffed orangutan at Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, #Japan. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing
https://tinyurl.com/4exbbf4j
what hospitals don't want you to know
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin, ‘As Much Truth
as One Can Bear’, 1962"
Source:
Planet on Fire.
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
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The author highlights how neoliberalism and the financialisation of the economy prioritise short-term profit over ecological stability, often leaving the Global South to face the harshest consequences. To combat this, the author advocates for a radical transformation of ownership through community wealth building and democratic control over essential resources.
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This shift involves repurposing central banks, investing in public transport, and restorative rewilding to ensure a sustainable future for all. Ultimately, the work asserts that achieving climate justice requires dismantling the power structures that have historically commodified the natural world.
Mathew Lawrence’s Planet on Fire argues that the current environmental breakdown is not an accidental tragedy but the direct result of extractive capitalism and colonial legacies. By re-examining the history of Easter Island, the text challenges the narrative of "human nature" being inherently self-destructive, instead blaming wealthy nations and large corporations for systemic exploitation.
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The author highlights how neoliberalism and the financialisation of the economy prioritise short-term profit over ecological stability, often leaving the Global South to face the harshest consequences. To combat this, the author advocates for a radical transformation of ownership through community wealth building and democratic control over essential resources.
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin, ‘As Much Truth
as One Can Bear’, 1962"
Source:
Planet on Fire.
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
Mathew Lawrence’s Planet on Fire argues that the current environmental breakdown is not an accidental tragedy but the direct result of extractive capitalism and colonial legacies. By re-examining the history of Easter Island, the text challenges the narrative of "human nature" being inherently self-destructive, instead blaming wealthy nations and large corporations for systemic exploitation.
Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
Goldman Sachs has launched an S&P ex-AI index, SPXXAI, which that lets you invest in the S&P 500 benchmark index minus all things AI.
This product is proof of the demand among investors for a way to hedge their exposure to the AI trade.
two headlines tell the story of America
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• The Slave Trade: In the 1860s, brutal slave raids captured over a thousand inhabitants. Those repatriated brought smallpox, turning the island into a "vast charnel-house."
• Capitalist Extraction: European traders later burned huts and destroyed crops to force the starving survivors off the land.
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By 1888, the island was annexed and reserved for tens of thousands of sheep owned by a Scottish company, irrevocably transforming the landscape into an indistinct meadow for wool production.
The Rapa Nui had cultural practices that limited the exploitation of fisheries, debunking the "Tragedy of the Commons" myth. Their collapse wasn't a result of "innate selfishness," but of Hilaire Belloc’s chilling observation: "Whatever happens we have got / The Maxim gun, and they have not."
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The historical reality is not "ecocide," but colonial homicide. Early visitors, like the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on his flagship, recorded a lush, cultivated island with a healthy population. The Rapa Nui did not commit suicide; they were liquidated by globalized profit-seeking:
• The Invasive Vanguard: Ecology was first destabilized by invasive rats that arrived with European ships.
3/
• The Slave Trade: In the 1860s, brutal slave raids captured over a thousand inhabitants. Those repatriated brought smallpox, turning the island into a "vast charnel-house."
• Capitalist Extraction: European traders later burned huts and destroyed crops to force the starving survivors off the land.
The "ecocide" of Easter Island is a myth (and the real story is darker)
The mainstream narrative of the Rapa Nui—popularized by figures like Jared Diamond—is a "fable of global ecocide" used to blame human nature for systemic failure. In this myth, a "selfish" population overexploited their trees to move stone statues, eventually descending into cannibalism and war. This is a lie designed to glorify the hunter by blaming the lion.
2/
The historical reality is not "ecocide," but colonial homicide. Early visitors, like the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen on his flagship, recorded a lush, cultivated island with a healthy population. The Rapa Nui did not commit suicide; they were liquidated by globalized profit-seeking:
• The Invasive Vanguard: Ecology was first destabilized by invasive rats that arrived with European ships.
3/
This shift involves repurposing central banks, investing in public transport, and restorative rewilding to ensure a sustainable future for all. Ultimately, the work asserts that achieving climate justice requires dismantling the power structures that have historically commodified the natural world.
The "ecocide" of Easter Island is a myth (and the real story is darker)
The mainstream narrative of the Rapa Nui—popularized by figures like Jared Diamond—is a "fable of global ecocide" used to blame human nature for systemic failure. In this myth, a "selfish" population overexploited their trees to move stone statues, eventually descending into cannibalism and war. This is a lie designed to glorify the hunter by blaming the lion.
Installed some new smoke alarms. "Test weekly" it says. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. OKAY THEN!
Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath), family Ranidae, found in Cameroon and Equitorial Guinea in West Africa.
ENDANGERED.
This is the largest extant frog, growing to a length of 32 cm (12.6 in) snout to vent, and weighing up to 3.25 kg (7.2 lb).
photographs by Gerard Carbonell
https://www.instagram.com/geri_carbonell/
via herpsandbirds
Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath), family Ranidae, found in Cameroon and Equitorial Guinea in West Africa.
ENDANGERED.
This is the largest extant frog, growing to a length of 32 cm (12.6 in) snout to vent, and weighing up to 3.25 kg (7.2 lb).
photographs by Gerard Carbonell
https://www.instagram.com/geri_carbonell/
via herpsandbirds
Goliath Frog (Conraua goliath), family Ranidae, found in Cameroon and Equitorial Guinea in West Africa.
Photographs by Gerard Carbonell.
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#Gaza
Young Palestinians, carrying Ramadan lanterns, play on the ruins of destroyed buildings at the Bureij refugee camp.
Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
Khan Younis, Gaza
Palestinians sit at a long table amid the rubble of destroyed buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published this week in the Lancet Global Health medical journal.
Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
Hagai, West Bank
A Palestinian woman reacts as Israeli bulldozers demolish an apartment building belonging to the Salhab family near the Israeli settlement of Hagai.
Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images
#photography
#WestBank
#demolitions
#displaced
#homeless
#women
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