Debian Linux turned 33 today. Happy birthday Debian Linux. All Debian code names based on the characters of the Toy Story franchise to refer to its releases.

https://www.debian.org/

Wall Street Journal: "World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, says its trust company has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank."

Jeff Stein: "A Trump appointee has approved Trump’s personal crypto firm to operate as a bank. Corporations can conduct transactions in which the Trump family gets a cut. The public will not have to be informed. There’s no precedent for this."
copy: @renewedresistance #politics

RT: @marionumber4 This is Joe Rogan in a nutshell:

The switch to Axon, which is not yet widespread but appears to be increasing as people oppose Flock, signals what might come next—cities entering contracts with another company which has faced less scrutiny and backlash.
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Capital formation; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/14/one-chokable-throat/

#Pluralistic

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AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RT: @NormOrnstein Not just the Hatch Act. That, of course, would be true of any cabinet member. But the Attorney General is in a different category. It’s a gross violation of every ethical standard of the rule of law. Showing he is nothing but a partisan, lickspittle, puppet, unfit for his office.

#blog

I Miss the Post-Hippie Techno Utopianism of 90s Silicon Valley

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-08-15-i-miss-the-post-hippie-techno-utopianism-of-90s-silicon-valley/

#sfba #california #apple #macintosh #thewell #wholeearth

Ma fille est pâtissière professionnelle en fait...
#BirthdayCake #SaturdayPastry

Bright #Perseids from #Sweden
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260815.html

#APOD

I've been talking a lot about the disastrous recent loss of American institutional capacity regarding climate science. But today, I'd like to announce something we've been working on, quietly, in the meantime to offer a lifeline to some of those affected. [Thread]

New in PN: Trump's war on juries

"In Donald Trump’s America, if you’re rich enough or corrupt enough, jury decisions simply don’t matter. Pardons are for sale and used to send a message that juries shouldn’t convict people of crimes that the president himself has committed." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-corrupt-pardons

So now we're pretty sure Betelgeuse has a binary companion, another star orbiting it.

What happens to the star when Betelgeuse blows up? Nothing good, though weirdly it will almost certainly survive the hellish ordeal.

I wrote this!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-will-betelgeuse-go-supernova/

This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify's AI move.

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-endless-scam-parade/

It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-128/

#podcast #linux #opensource

RE: https://toot.wales/@alexisbushnell/117093278327541965

"Joy and motivation"! Hear, hear! :-)

For more joy and motivation, consider joining us in October for the next #FediForum! https://fediforum.org/2026-10/

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

In the last few days, I built a shoot ’em up game by embedding a tiny custom bytecode VM and rendering the graphics using a fullscreen pixel shader. The result is a 3kB Windows executable.

This was done for Langjam Gamejam, a 7-day challenge where you create a programming language and then use it to build a game.

The proj

https://www.osnews.com/story/145795/making-a-game-on-a-custom-bytecode-vm-in-7-days-and-3kb/

#Games