Keep seeing people saying “everyone wants a village but no one wants to be a villager” and I feel that’s so wrong. I think everyone to a degree wants to connect with the people around them but they don’t always know how. I really struggle with social stuff, but I love being useful.

I'm still thinking about this show two years later.

A whole bunch of software systems that can't be used today because they require an online login. Reliance on an internet connection remains such a volatile point of failure, it's time we start building robust systems with fail safes again.

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

And all of a sudden the future of Linux is bright.

So many sentiments in this one that I share. Mostly re: the state of social media, but also: "I have spent a not insignificant number of hours writing some absolutely criminal CSS"

the Prussian police reports on Karl Marx from 1853 prove that leftists have always had immense Disco Elysium dirtbag energy.

This is wild.

At this point I'm very willing to pay for one of the bluesky alternatives so I can be done with this place. A cooperative, self-sustaining social media platform would be very nice.

Sometimes I wonder how much of the AI madness isn't also fueled by this deep desire we seem to have for an enchanted world. A place where magical things happen, where the gods still exist, where our life is inherently meaningful, where we get to be the chosen ones.

I still largely don't understand why we needed any of this instead of building up from blogs and the various protocols around that (modulo DNS, but AP/ATproto are not in practice independent of DNS today). The RSS reader I used >20 years ago was better at threads and reposts than BSky or Mastodon.

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill. I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

This is a beautiful, long read but full of brilliance. Though my worldview was shaped in a completely different way than the author's (being of different generations does that I guess) I have similar concerns about the digital world and its alienating properties.

Male loneliness crisis: resolved

Look, this is what it means when we say that silence is golden.

The funniest thing is that Instagram has become a pretty nice website for me this last year because I 1. have a private account and don't post anything 2. use it on desktop only, with adblockers 3. somehow convinced the algorithm to not show me a single inflammatory post or comment

Fanart for the TV series 'Dark'. I started this painting while I watched the show few years ago, but forgot to finish & post it!

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"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ah yes, fail fast, fail often, shovel the equivalent GDP of several countries into a black hole and profit!

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

My king 👑

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You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown: 🧵

So in conclusion: bluesky is trying to push out transgender people, Palestinians, NSFW artists, AT protocol devs and anybody who is mean to the fascists. Exactly how is this different from twitter?

now bluesky is coming for the developer community; the literal people who have been building on their protocol and are responsible for maintaining the users in the atmosphere great work, @safety.bsky.app

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

“De verwarring rond AI-terminologie wordt opzettelijk gecreëerd: de auteurs stellen dat er geen zinvol onderscheid bestaat tussen verschillende AI-systemen en dat pogingen om “generatieve AI” af te zonderen slechts dienen om de kritiek af te zwakken.” www.scienceguide.nl/2025/09/ai-s... 5/🧵

Wow, this one goes hard right out of the gate. Looking forward to the full season. Note: not for kids, includes body horror *and* the horrors of capitalist consumerism

I am mad. Even if they didn't listen to the feedback, please keep posting your stuff here. You art is powerful and inspires many. It might never please everybody, even so, don't be stopped, don't be censored. Post and post and post, I want to see all creativity here. All of it. SFW. NSFW.

This is something I'm genuinely worried about, stepping into this new career: keeping client files secure is going to be a challenge.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Ugh, I don't wanna go back to mastodon... Instead, we should all just go back to our own blogs, RSS feeds and specialized forums. I'm so tired of every social platform turning into a nazi bar.

If you were wondering why the sudden ban wave seemed inconsistent and illogical, that's the reason. The bluesky moderation team essentially ignored their own TOS and instead used rightwing outrage from twitter to decide who to ban. They then sloppily issued a post hoc statement to justify it.

Once again, the moderation choices made on this platform, in regards to a certain individual of low moral character being killed, has me wondering if it's really worth it to hang around.

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

it always feels like we're being forced to throw a dinner party for the worst people on earth, and we have to shut up and smile and be gracious, no complaints, while the worst people on earth are our honored guests and we best not embarrass ourselves in front of them no matter what they do to us

Like deduction games? I highly recommend william-rous.itch.io/type-help A text-based supernatural murder mystery game with simple but effective gameplay. For the note taking gamers among us, cause damn that's a lot of people and clues to keep track of.

Aside from everyone rightly saying that public transport is a thing, I also somehow doubt that autonomous vehicles are optimized for the narrow, meandering streets that most European cities have.

Italian dockworkers' union in Genoa/Genova says if they lose contact for 20 minutes with their boats providing resources or if a hair on any worker's head is touched, they'll stop all shipments to Israel, and Europe will shut down access.

This person is the tech equivalent of someone who keeps 'accidentally' killing their houseplants

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future (wishful thinking)

Oh what a relief to hear that Peter S. Beagle is still a wonderful person. I love his work so much.

For people in Belgium: there's a Belgian Citizen's Bill for Palestine to try and force decisive action from our government. This is an official petition to parlement and you need a Belgian ID to sign. Please add your voice if you can!

In de afzienbare toekomst vraagt iedereen zich af waarom de gemiddelde levensverwachting naar beneden in gegaan. En niemand gaat het geweten hebben, oh nee.

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Hey Firefox users.