Doctorow discourse 

Jesus fucking Christ, Cory, this is patently ridiculous.

He doesn't engage with Audre Lorde's actual intention & meaning. No, he brings up a Black woman thinker/writer/activist, assures us he knows how "smart" she was, & then dismisses her words out of hand without even superficial engagement by using a cute little analogy.

I'm not trying to nitpick: that is some real colonizer bullshit.

What's everyone's favorite non-Lutris way of making Wine game shortcuts?

The Lutris author is specifically hiding AI code now: 'Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not.' github.com/lutris/lutris/issue

An archive of pre-age-verification law OS installation images would probably be useful right about now.

Fascism, age verification, Flatpak, XDG 

@luana The comments sicken me so much, nobody ever thinks about how dystopian and fucked up it is to enforce control on devices for people just because they're young. You'd think these FOSS bros would understand that a system built to spy and control a population would be a bad thing to avoid, but no it's fine when they do it to "their property" of "their" children! How do so few people see that infantilizing children is a wedge to slam fascist systems into society, everywhere.

Uspol, Islamophobia 

The other day I noted an incident in which Southwest Airlines diverted to Atlanta and were boarded by SWAT because a guy used his phone timer to pray at the prescribed time, which happened to be in flight.

yiff.life/@drifa/1161947343828

VASAviation has the audio about this:

youtu.be/eoav99JJAzQ?si=Mbmiw8

There’s more detail there. It was the
SWA flight attendant who was nervous because the passenger had a phone timer going off, he had chanted (prayed) in a foreign language, and he had asked about his hold bag that he wanted with him. This escalated to SWAT, along the game of telephone getting escalated to something about a ticking suitcase before being corrected.

I’ve seen plenty of people really want their gate-checked bag with them. I’ve been one of them. I’ve never had SWAT called on me.

This is some seriously Islamophobic shit, from SWA specifically and the ISA more generally.

Very much not okay.

And neither is the news failing to cover it adequately.

i honestly can't sing the praises of mistserver enough as a discord replacement from the streaming angle, at least 1:1 with another person (alongside using signal for voice/video/chat)

mistserver.org/

@scarlet_somnus was streaming via obs using the whip protocol to my server from the UK (my server is sitting on my desk in minnesota) and we were consistently at less than 1 second of latency with a good quality, stable stream

#mistserver #discord #signal #obs #streaming

While oysters lack ears, they still can hear, using statocysts, their balance organ. Researchers have found playing the soundscape from a healthy oyster reef attracts larvae to settle! They have evolved to settle on their ancestors to build reefs, and sound is a useful cue of a good spot! phys.org/news/2022-10-sea-soun #clamFacts

you are allowed to use :bestbeetle: on your own instance and stuff

more beetle, more beetle, more beetle, more beetle

Making myself immune to being recorded by meta ai glasses by constantly shouting "brave workers of Kenia, form a union, go on strike" whenever I'm in public

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So I'm 1600$ away from being able to pay my rent. I'm trying to take care of a household of 6 people, only two of who can work right now, and with my longterm illness (I was bedridden for 16 months) I'm just not able to make rent this month, as a bunch of unexpected costs hit right in a row.

If you've can donate any amount at all, it'd really help. Thanks so much.

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

#mutualaid

[ERROR 406i: AI_SLOP_DETECTED]

The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)

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Nothing shows Microsoft's commitment to accessibility like leaving WPF text boxes in a broken state accessibility-wise for over 14 years, and not even bothering to respond to an issue about it. github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/7

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