RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/116850872786759058
Land Back because we need to start over & actually take care of the world around us.
Europeans showed up to North America & were like "look at this pristine, untouched wilderness" completely ignoring the fucking human beings who had been acting as caretakers instead of simply extracting resources.
"Untouched"? No, touched by plenty of human hands...just not by colonizers.
Oooh, kickstarter for a new PNW wild dye book by a very cool dyer I have followed for several years. She does some beautiful and rare dye techniques-- purples and blues from lichens and fungus, dyes that change colour in sunlight, etc. (Book has a big ole ethics section, as you should expect with foraging and especially lichens.)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninetenpub/wild-dyes-of-the-pacific-northwest
#PNWNativePlants #dyeing #BotanicalDyes #TextileArts #foraging #LichenSubscribe
I have successfully restrained myself from writing a lengthy response to someone about free speech and the role of journalists
live with a journalist for over a decade and this particular gap in US civics education becomes blindingly obvious
@jplebreton
Tired: The "web". Delicate. Must be rebuilt every day. Single-owner.
Wired: The mycelium. Network of many. Hidden. Lives on the decay of the living. "Shit-post" has an additional meaning. "You cannot kill me in a way that matters."
What happened to the fight for the internet? https://dustycloud.org/blog/what-happened-to-the-fight-for-the-internet/
A new blogpost from me. I believe the fight for keeping the internet free is more important than ever but also under more threats than ever.
And the irony is, centralization is partly to blame: people don't feel like the internet is theirs anymore.
But we can't leave it there.
We HAVE to act.
For our sake, for our kids' sake, for ourselves, for the future.
If you are an anarchist, socialist, or even a moderate Democrat and you still have an account on X/Twitter—or have money invested in any of Elon Musk's companies—you are providing legitimacy and resources to a Sieg-Heiling white supremacist who is openly signaling that he intends to kill you.
The language about killing "race traitors" specifically by hanging them comes directly from explicitly neo-Nazi sources including The Turner Diaries and Ben Klassen, who first popularized the term "Racial Holy War."
If this is what Elon Musk says in public, we can imagine what he is saying—and doing—and planning—in secret.
We are already at war. Act accordingly.
Remember -- all cops lie, and that includes the cops who do the supposedly infallible DNA analysis
This is a masterful demonstration of the unsecurable nature of LLMs, and how prompt injection by dedicated humans who know how to write will always win.
Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.
Friends, if you are in a heat wave, one of the best survival tips I know that I rarely see people talk about is getting a pet cooling mat, the kind filled with gel.
- pressure activated
- sucks heat out of your body
- last 3-4 hours
- reset in 15-20 minutes.
You can cool them in the fridge but you don't have to.
They don't need electricity. They work when the power goes out.
Great for heat emergencies & everyday hot weather use.
I'm coming to the conclusion that community-owned and operated small clouds (co-ops) with easy onramps for self-hosting open source services like mail, storage, and VPN are the only way forward. Every corpo service is eventually going to make you ashamed to use it.
Someone posted The Odin Project in the 32-Bit Café forums not too long ago, and they do have a JavaScript track. Maybe that's my task.
(Ugh, says my brain, but I don't want to get stuck in learning again, I want to make make make!)
The more I poke at hobby web development, the more I'm thinking I'm gonna have to get better at at least some sort of programming language.
JavaScript seems an obvious choice.
I've been using my TWSBI 580 as my daily driver lately instead of my Pilot Metro, which had been my unthinking default for, like, multiple years. Generally, I love the TWSBI, but I think there might be something wrong with the section, because I'm always ending up with ink stains on my fingers.
I'll try hitting it with a little silicone grease to see if that helps.
Last evening the lavender looked beautiful in the sun.
i was editing sculpture photos earlier, and i was wondering why. why i was bothering. the world is burning, people and animals and trees are dying, we're all trying not to drown in despair. why am i making sculptures and bothering to make sure their photos are accurate and why do i care?
and then i realised that it's the caring that makes us human. it's the creating and the trying to make the world better and more beautiful that will save what's left, if anything will. and they're what will save us too.
so to all of you, i just want to say please keep doing what you're doing. please keep making things and trying and putting whatever it is that makes you you into the world. we all need it. and we all need you.
Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy
