This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification
@_thegeoff @matildalove @rgarner
I archived the top 50(?) or so on limerickdb before it was lost.
I think my fave is
A woman in liquor production
Owns a still of exquisite construction
The alcohol boils
Through magnetic coils
She says that it’s “proof by induction”
@matildalove @rgarner We've clearly read the same bash.org thread...
It's always a marvel to me,
For a pendulum hanging quite free,
Each tick and each tock of a grandfather clock
Is 2Pi(sqrt(L/g)).
I still mention this to students at that level (even though it's an approximation).
A mosquito was heard to exclaim,
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of its sorrow
Was paradichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane
[EDIT: Corrected bracketing on 2Pi(sqrt(L/g)), thanks Anton]
There once was a [person] from [place]
Whose [body part] was [special case].
When [event] would occur,
It would cause [him or her]
To violate [law of time/space]!
There once was an X from place B
Who satisfied predicate P
The X did thing A
In a specified way
Resulting in circumstance C.
@mhoye VLC is, like, the platonic ideal of open source software. The low level bit-banging parts: absolutely top notch for decades, frequently updated. Human-facing parts: hasn't changed appreciably since the Nineteen Hundreds, weird, confusing, 40,000 configuration options, makes designers drop to the floor in tears. Might as well have "TBD, WRITE ME!" at the top of the window.
RE: https://retro.pizza/@trixter/116562302506833526
You may think you know what I was watching when I wrote this but it was actually The Big O.
My generation of Jews entered Harvard in the 1970s as outsiders and left as the establishment that built support for Israel. Today, attitudes have shifted completely, yet my group still can't discuss Palestine. Fortunately, no one is waiting for us.
All gas stations in Russia-occupied Crimea have completely stopped selling fuel to the public. https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/06/21/crimea-halts-all-public-gasoline-sales-restricts-fuel-to-government-agencies
and no coding of value was lost
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116778230127383031
Texas' public schools in the 1970's and 80's didn't teach about Juneteenth, and I'm sure they don't now if they ever did. And private schools will never teach it.
The only time white kids in Texas like me even heard about Juneteenth was the ads for the Budweiser SuperFest at the Cotton Bowl which would occasionally air on local TV.
When I asked my mom what Juneteenth was, she feigned ignorance.
The schools taught us that Reconstruction was a period of corruption. They didn't explain that the so-called Texas Revolution was fought so that white Texans could enslave people (which was banned by Mexico.)
So yeah, Texas needs a Second Reconstruction.
(AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend a court-ordered block on the Trump administration’s creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for compensating people who claim to be victims of a weaponized government. https://apnews.com/article/trump-settlement-fund-irs-lawsuit-d8345ce8f5c7f8062b858e54c396c450?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
Evaline Ness was a really cool illustrator whose style I feel like I'd seen before.
Discovered her work due to falling down a rabbithole about her husband, Eliot Ness, the guy who brought in Capone.
#evalineness #eliotness #illustrators
https://www.dbdowd.com/illustration-history/2015/11/13/evaline-ness
Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.
It’s so good, I had to make a video.
🔥
One certainty in life is that if you are not disabled in some fashion, time will make you so if you live long enough.
We're on the other side of scarcity. There's nothing left that stops us living in a just society except the greed and viciousness of the billionaires.
@deathkitten @mekkaokereke "My logic is simple: as long as they're working to prevent me from voting, I know it's still effective enough to make it worth my time to keep doing as long as I can." Good point! I guess we can usually tell what's worth doing by figuring out what billionaires and fascists don't want us doing. If it was actually hopeless, they wouldn't give a shit, and would probably actually generally encourage us to vote our hearts out, to prevent actual resistance