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Zahalkaworld: an artist’s archive – in pictures
The Artist (self portrait) 1988 from the series Resemblance II
Through her work, Anne Zahalka offers a critical analysis of cultural and environmental tensions, often using humour and playfulness as a tool for examination. Zahalka employs photography, painting and photomontage combined with darkroom techniques, later adopting digital methodologies.
Bringing up my quarterly complaint that there isn’t a service that all news services use for micro-payments so I don’t have to subscribe to 100 news sources.
I’d love to give you money to read an article, but I’m not subscribing for one article.
Wrote something a bit personal today.
18 years in healthcare admin at Duke → coding bootcamp → Django developer → Core Contributor → DjangoCon Communications Chair.
The Django community was a huge part of how that journey worked. Felt worth saying out loud.
We're also going to work on the #ServerDirectory this year.
This starts with moving the directory to a new pull-request-based system so admins can submit, update, or remove entries themselves.
Another change we want to make is to add more and new ways to “classify” different types of servers including demographics, interests, and geographic regions.
Once we have that kind of information, we can start to explore new ways to incorporate it into the onboarding process. Stay tuned...
In other news, we're moving off #Discord to 
@zulip.
Our first step will be to migrate the people on our existing Discord servers to Zulip. Then we also want to extend access to more and different kinds of people who are deeply engaged and actively contributing to Mastodon and the #fediverse.
We're going to move slowly and carefully because we want to be thoughtful about how we build out this space. Running this community space is important, but it does add coordination and moderation overhead to our small team.
How would a space like this be useful to you? Let me know in the comments :)
불법스님·레옹신부·김목사…버튜버로 나선 젊은 종교인들
(서울=연합뉴스) 고미혜 기자 = "일요법회 시작하겠습니다."
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260221052700005
3枚積みは基本
This is fucking wild, especially TikTok’s responses https://www.ign.com/articles/tunic-night-in-the-woods-publisher-says-tiktok-is-creating-and-running-racist-genai-ads-for-its-games-without-permission
Looking beyond Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online, our big project to support the Mastodon network of #fediverse servers this year is a series of experiments to replace the `join mastodon.social` button with a button that recommends a server running default Mastodon from an opt-in pool that we will be hand-selecting to start.
We're also going to work on the #ServerDirectory this year.
This starts with moving the directory to a new pull-request-based system so admins can submit, update, or remove entries themselves.
Another change we want to make is to add more and new ways to “classify” different types of servers including demographics, interests, and geographic regions.
Once we have that kind of information, we can start to explore new ways to incorporate it into the onboarding process. Stay tuned...
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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.
“An AI Called Winter” <https://dustycloud.org/blog/an-ai-called-winter-neurosymbolic-computation-or-illusion> by 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber is an extremely balanced post. The distinction between AI as a field and tech in it, including modern approaches; and AI industry, with all the deaths in its wake; is particularly important and novel to me. We need such sane views, and we need them direly.
And the subject is fun and makes me want to learn Datalog again. Any suggestions for resources / software?
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.
ぷにゃぷにゃ
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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서울 시발 레단
#Misskey写真部
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
起床のさわがに おはさわがに
"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.
2/
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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