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@wwahammy why the fuck are people complying in advance? Where is the commitment to software freedom?
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mastodon 4.7.3-stable+ff1artist, writer, ex academic. Into free, libre and open source tech, admires great engineering. Loves trees and birds, hates terfs. Living on Wiradjuri land.
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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy this is terrible. Those are Australian summer temperatures. There's a real risk of bushfire, forest fire. Has it rained recently? People probably don't realise how hazardous those temperatures can be. You MUST rest in the heat of the day; care needs to be taken for outdoor workers. Put water out for animals and birds.
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@drahardja@sfba.social Gutenberg generally, though searches for 'illustrated' or similar can help to locate books with pictures: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=illustrations
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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com It sounds like I should see it, but I'm just generally not into superheroes. The Marvel universe doesn't particularly interest me.
On posts about the fires and evacuations: constant refrain of 'arson' and 'it's all orchestrated'.
I'm just so. damned. tired. of this conspiracy theory nonsense. What's doubly frustrating is that they are *so close* to 'getting' it ... and yet so very, very far.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social there was a covid cruise ship in Australia too. These things are floating disease incubators.
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@Remittancegirl he should be suing for ten times that much. That sort of thing puts him at real risk. It's not trivial, and Google should pay.
RE: @simple_sabotage@mastodon.social
Please do not start fires, though.
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@claudi@darmstadt.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr omg I love drm-free. As a Linux user being able to nuke my system when I want without losing stuff, and being able to dropbox my books onto my kobo reader, it's just the best.
Love it Mr Doctorow that you trust readers to do right. And you are articulating all the things we've been feeling vaguely uneasy about and couldn't express.
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@ard_the_rich @artemis@dice.camp no, I think that's a valid point and connected to the point about sitcom, possibly. Look at how we tend (most of us) to stay locked into music of our youth. 60 year olds are listening to music from the eighties. We still think of movies from the 90s as recent and get a shock when we see how old their stars are because we saw the movies rerun just last week.
I think some of it is to do with how we felt at the time, some of it is to do with having more mental space and slower time when young, and some of it is the speed and focus of intervening years of work and parenting.
And history IS media. Like Baudrillard said the Iraq? war didn't happen [in a sense]
The Farrer by-election is so depressing. I'm not surprised, but I'm disappointed.
Wasting another perfectly good day sitting in front of the fucking computer.
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@CerstinMahlow I think good use of streaming media and large screens is the way to go. Multi-location conferences with overlapping time zones. Reduce carbon footprint too.
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@alienghic hmm not bad. I feel the design needs a bit of a tweak, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Being mostly offline for a week has made me very aware of just how much rage bait I see online. I felt so much more peaceful. I checked for messages, checked the weather, but basically avoided doomscrolling. Screen time went from 5 hours a day to 20 minutes. Heartily recommended.
omg. Fuck the Venice Biennale.
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@susankayequinn at a friend's place recently, outdoors, they said in a totally normal voice - alexa, volume down - and I just thought, OH MY GOD.
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@TraitorJoe@techhub.social I guess we all have moments when we get a bit touchy and overreact. It just really threw me for a moment! Like argh, what did I do?
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@JoBlakely@mastodon.social I wonder if part of the 'chemtrails' thing is derived from rural people with legitimate concerns about crop spraying.
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@malte I'm certain there is, though likely using different terminology. I'll see if I can dig something up when I'm at my computer.
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@dyckron I would expect the Canadian military to resign en masse rather than participate in an illegal war they didn't sign up for.
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@quixoticgeek indeed.
@wesdym the point of the term 'new'speak is not that it's new, but that like the language in Orwell's novel, it is desceptive and changes how people think.
Also, no need to be an asshole about it. I saw what you posted @ me.
I'm exhausted by rage. I'm tired. I need peace and hope.
I was reading some theory because I keep thinking about wanting to do something through a Marxist-anarchist lens but omg academic Marxist theory is always so fucking pompous and obscure. I probably doesn't help that I've lost a bit of brainpower in the last few years but how can theory be Marxist AND classist? Like I feel it's not just me. There's a particular tone, you know?
My screen time is out of control 😔
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Sometimes I don't navigate the Mastodon UI too well. Also - take a chill pill, folks.
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@klep@anarchism.space yeah it's a bit of a Tome. I've read a fair bit of theory and taught sociology for education. Part of it for me is these works make me feel a lot of stuff about life and society and where we're at. I'll see how it goes with Lefebvre.
One of the old latops I have has some worn out keys. I'm wondering if it's worth attempting to replace them. Using a plug-in keyboard was getting annoying. I already replaced the battery and it has a bit of life left in it, though not the greatest specs. It's a touchscreen, but doesn't work that great with just touch. I feel it has potential. Maybe for media and recipes in the kitchen.
Winter's barely here and I'm already tired of being cold.
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@petergleick@fediscience.org On a post about glacier melt today I saw so many comments saying it was a natural cycle, ice age ending, blah blah - the wilful wrongness is so very depressing. Not even wilful ignorance, they're choosing the counternarrative deliberately. I don't know how you manage as a professional in the field. I hope you're taking care of your mental health.
I feel being involved in many community groups over the years has made me a bit cynical about anarchism. Over and over, there is so much personal conflict, so many folk just dragging all this baggage and creating dramas over nothing. People undermining each other. Usually older white guys - I think it's a power thing. They lack power elsewhere in their lives so they find it through whatever clubs or volunteer organizations they're in. But it's just exhausting and disappointing, you know?
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@CaraBruar@sfba.social right? I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, but there's no need to be nasty about it. Ah well.
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@klep@anarchism.space oh what a coincidence, I bought it some time ago, and just downloaded it today.
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@jschauma@mstdn.social or both, maybe.
I'm stuck, Ai has f'd up both the academia I'm trying to get out of, and the cybersecurity I was hoping to get into. Well it's f'd pretty much everything, really. its 5am here, this is just an insomniac rambling
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@maltehttps://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/7/5/52
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/11/4/464
https://assets.cureus.com/uploads/review_article/pdf/112862/20240724-319105-g3exvb.pdf
on 'screen addiction' terminology:
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2006/aop/article-10.1556-2006.2025.00105/article-10.1556-2006.2025.00105.xml
I described the name 'natural gas' as being very 'newspeak'. This person replied:
" @artemis@climatejustice.social The term was coined nearly
200 years ago.
This is easy to look up if you have Internet access, and is a great way to avoid the embarrassment of
demontrating in pubic how you either don't know how to look stuff up you don't know about, or are too lazy to try '"
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I guess they aren't familiar with the Orwellian term? I meant it in the sense of deliberately manipulating how you think about a thing.
Did you read 'newspeak' and think it means 'new'?
The Pope reads Baudrillard?
Do not work with fascists. Do not do business with fascists. It ain't complicated. It might not be easy, but it's straightforward.
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@klep@anarchism.space still on the introduction (got a couple of books on the go) and finding even that has some interesting observations about communism between the wars. Wish the editor would translate the French though! Classist bastards always assume you know all the special phrases.
oh this sounds like fun. Spike Milligan meets Terry Pratchett - and Anne Boleyn has done away with Henry! I do quite like alternative histories and could use a laugh.
https://www.overlondon.net/
Why are people being such assholes on here lately? I can't upload the screenshot for some reason which is probably just as well.