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Magic Portal

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/061.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

this project is a dignified non-dogmatic rationalist marketplace-of-ideas meritocracy. that is why this particular controversial technical issue is beyond discussion, and we will be moving forward with my personal opinion without any community input. it is fine for me to have this position as the BDFL because if you don't like it you can always fork our open source code and spend decades building up the institutional material support necessary to maintain this critical infrastructure

For the past two years, my lab has been exploring how to create online spaces designed for a basic human activity: conflict. See what we've learned on August 12, when we release our new zine, Conflict Systems, at the Metagov Seminar: https://luma.com/vqlxb7dy

CSS text-decoration-inset landed in Firefox 146! Here's how it works:

Just discovering "the Usenet Oracle"
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/vm_oracl
https://internetoracle.org/bestof.cgi?N=101-125

Don't want to sell your home to allow companies to build an AI data centre? No problem! See, the government has this thing called "eminent domain"...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-power-ai-data-centers-eminent-domain/

#Housing #Georgia #AI #DataCenter #Government #EminentDomain

I just saw a video of an AI executive saying that people will connect their brains to the cloud so they can have 1,000 times more thoughts.

Neurotypical people. Please listen to me. I promise you, with all the ADHD in my body-

You really do not want 1,000 more thoughts.

You may think you do, but you extremely do not.

Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables.

In 2003, renewables’ share of electricity generation was about 15 per cent, nearly all of which was produced by hydropower. By 2025, this had increased to 37 per cent.

getting there. have a sunny day.

from https://www.ft.com/content/e67f40b6-48d6-4057-8d57-a9f5f6b0a741?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/07/13/4

Knowing how it could change the lives of canines everywhere, the dog scientists struggled diligently to understand the Doorknob Principle.

Here's something I'm terrible at, but I want to work on;

If I'm ever discussing a contentious topic online, once I've made my point, *stop posting*.

When people start to experience cognitive dissonance, one way out is to try (unconsciously of course) to escalate the discussion into a fight. Then they can conclude I'm just a dick, and ignore everything I said. If I stop when I have nothing new or useful to add, they're left to chew on what I've said, with no convenient excuse to discount it.

@strypey
One magic incantation that does this on a linux commandline (might work on mac or WSL - IDK)

du -h . | sort -h

List files in current directory and its children in size order, biggest last

I'm forever finding myself trying to free up space on a digital storage medium. If all files took up roughly the same amount of space, then as with piles of paper, there would be no alternative to just sorting through them looking for stuff I don't need. But digital files can be anything from a few KB to several GBs, and the upper size limit is increasing all the time.

I'd love a simple-to-use tool that presented the files anywhere in a drive, from biggest to smallest, ignoring folders.

(1/?)

ChatControl, but for EU politicians/commissioners/council etc to make sure every text message they get cant be deleted and will be permanently archived and requestable under FOIA.

"Burn Book suggests Swisher doesn’t necessarily see tech’s cozy relationship with the military as problematic. Early on, she admits she dreamed of working as a strategic analyst for the military or Central Intelligence Agency but gave up that path because of how openly anti-gay the military was."

#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2024

This is 21st century Democrat politics in a nutshell. Technofascism is fine, as long as its power positions and their benefits aren't hoarded by straight, white, cis men.

(1/2)

Highly related: https://hightimes.com/culture/the-frank-gallagher-thesis-is-wrong-and-the-data-proves-it/

#UBI #politics #CDNPoli

US representative Ro Khanna was recently in the West Bank where he was detained by armed Israeli settlers.

When Israeli soldiers arrived, they sided with the settlers and continued to detain Khanna.

This is an excellent illustration of the concept of “legitimacy” when it comes to state violence that I’m frequently harping about. The legitimacy of an actor’s violence is a measure of the probability that other actors will endorse or support that violence. Here, the Israeli state is telling us that the settlers are adjuncts of the state and that the state will endorse and support their violence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qyk9jwq9no

Also, I feel like the USA deserves a round of applause from Europe for this World Cup, where we not only hosted, but generously identified ourselves as movie villains and then were promptly destroyed. Really, what more could you want?

I love reading. I love writing. I love coding. I love drawing. I love creating.

Go ahead and make the slop machines faster, you can't take away what I love.