@werawelt you will almost certainly find this relevant
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/note/2025/the-mask-off-moment-for-digital-identity/
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/report/2026/the-digital-identity-event-horizon/
One Million passports leak online.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html
The other month I left my full time job, partly due to feeling bored and burnt out, partly due to a bunch of AI nonsense, and partly because I wanted to work on building electronics and selling synthesizers.
Well this is one of the synthesizers.
Called Ouroboros, because it's primarily a feedback instrument (how original), and this is still in the prototyping stage where the circuit design is pretty much all done but I need to figure out a better enclosure, how to make it robust, and how to make it feasible to build so I can sell them.
I'll probably be shouting about this a bit more over time.
if you haven't seen the Virtual OS Museum yet - check it out, it's genuinely remarkable.
this is *not* the kind of work that is within our mission, but it is adjacent to what we do and we appreciate it so, so much. it's the combination of everyone doing their individual things that leads to an incredible variety of ways to understand and access this history https://virtualosmuseum.org/
Last year's shutdown of @glitchdotcom was a blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
Glitchlet runs on any shared hosting service (e.g., Reclaim Hosting). If you can run WordPress, you can run Glitchlet. Projects-in-progress are stored in the browser's local storage, but you can also one-click publish to make them public and remixable. Glitchlet is designed with educators in mind.
There's no single, primary Glitchlet that everyone uses. The idea is that every instructor installs their own Glitchlet and manages their own classes/workshops/projects. You can seed your instance with template files, or Glitchlet can easily import projects (including archived Glitch .tgz files).
Making something so easy to install and host has trade-offs, of course. No fancy pants Node or React projects, but Glitchlet works beautifully with HTML/JavaScript/CSS. No live collaboration, but you can still remix published projects.
Best of all—you're in control and not subject to the whims of some startup that suddenly decides to "sunset" a key pedagogical tool.
Glitchlet is alpha now, but its code will available to all very soon!
Hey there!
Are you also in america right now? Does it all seem pretty bleak?
Well I have good news, there is a general strike against ICE occupation planned in Minnesota this Friday and you can help wherever you are by joining in solidarity.
No work. No school. No commerce.
https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf
Can't risk taking off work? No worries, maybe you can spread the word to someone who can.
If you can withhold your labor on Friday, consider gathering with other people in your community and participating in some mutual aid.
UPDATE: Thanks to @doriane we now have a section that quickly summarizes what is permacomputing and *also* a printable PDF zine of the score/guide. 🎉 🖨️
Do you want to start a permacomputing collective? :permacomputing:
In the past months, and with support from @Error417 we have developed a small score/guide/recipe that can hopefully inspire you to get started with this topic.
https://brewing.permacomputing.net
The text of the guide was written by anna andrejew (https://annaandrejew.com), @praxeology and @latentspace based on interviews with @anmeisel (London Permacomputing Club), @archipielago (Middle America Archipiélago I community servers), @colm (Wilderland permacomputing group), @cmos4040 and @decentral1se (rotterdam.permacomputing.net), @praxeology (Berlin Permacomputing Meet Up), @michal (Node9), @sister0 (Autoluminescence Institute), @freebliss (permacomputing Vienna), and Steve McLaughlin (Philly permacomputing + solar punk meetups at @iffybooks hosted together with Dave Slinger).
Copy editing and advice by @l03s and myself. Design for the dedicated website and PDF by @doriane with illustrations from @raquelmeyers
The @processing Foundation is holding a Processing Community Survey 2025.
"Your answers directly influence what we prioritize next, from the software and its documentation to learning resources and community support."
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduTT2cWlXzr7QG_g4LJ-Op6LwVTI7dtXHCGVH_FdI0BK00qg
I filled it out and submitted, and took me about 10 minutes.
I enjoyed this talk from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
at this year's 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
"There's plenty of terrifying things going on right now, but there's also a massive, amazing, incredibly opportunity to seize the means of computation."
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:
- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford
- What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space
- rising levels of fossil pollution
- the rising monopoly power of Oil companies
- dangerous levels of stock-market speculation
- brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions
- the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars
- scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles
- urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets
- declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains
As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:
"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."
In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.
In 5 days the deadline for LGM 2027 location proposals is up. If you'd
like to host LGM next year, please put together your proposals and
either send it in or (better yet) join our upcoming LGM meeting to
present it:
Wednesday, January 7th 18:00 CET
You can join via IRC and Matrix - the channels are bridged - see the
information here: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/contact/
After the proposal deadline, location proposals will be voted on, until
the voting closes on Jan 21.
For all meeting notes from previous meetings see the pad:
https://pads.ccc.de/s5FpMS8Rr1
In two days, on Wednesday, January 7th, our next meeting in chat is scheduled at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST / 9:00 PST / 17:00 GMT.
The deadline for LGM 2027 location proposals is up by then. If you'd like to host LGM next year, please put together your proposal and either send it in or (better yet) join our upcoming LGM meeting to present it.
You can join via IRC and Matrix - the channels are bridged - see the
information here: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/contact/
After the proposal deadline, location proposals will be voted on until the voting closes on January 21st.
For all meeting notes from previous meetings, see the pad:
https://pads.ccc.de/s5FpMS8Rr1
@inthehands Norbert Wiener wrote in 1948, in the book that defined Cybernetics:
"Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”
My meme dealer provided me these, thanks Beni!
@gerrymcgovern saline town council voted it down and the state overruled then on land use grounds. Its really frustrating
15 year car loans for an asset that depreciates in less than 5 years & is often unrepairable after the warranty runs out...hmmm
Republican Policies of Immiseration that service Trump's shady car-loan megadonors...
Don Hankey getting his quid pro quo?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/02/donald-trump-bond-paid-don-hankey
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/nyregion/don-hankey-car-loan-billionaire.html
Hello Fediverse,
Open Source Publishing (OSP), is a design collective based in Brussels, working solely with Free/Libre Open-Source Software (F/LOSS). Our collective formed in 2006 and uses making graphic design and publishing experiments as applied research into digital tools and creative practices.
We (finally) have a Mastodon account here on post.lurk.org (thanks @helpful_heron!). Here we'll post in English about what we are working on and the questions that come up along the way.
What each of us are currently interested in:
- plotter tracing on fabric
- declarative (web)-design
- ascii to svg to pen plotter workflows
- seamfulness
- tech folklore and situated crafts
- experimental book design
- web-to-print
- tools that create (new forms of) collaboration
- local file-sharing and amateur librarianship
- artisanal web
- intimate (shoulder2shoulder) pedagogy
- drawing protocols
- experimental typefaces
- inkscape filters
- (web)-design as institutional therapy
- web physicality
- less screen more hands
- quirky standards
- cartographic webpages
For OSP; Clara Pasteau, Doriane Timmermans, Gijs de Heij, Ludi Loiseau, Sarah Magnan, Simon Browne, Vinciane Dahéron
Not enough weather for you? No Time to Discourse is a speculative atlas of (endless) North American climate disaster https://notime.now
Are you working in tech? Do you not have a STEM degree and are mostly self taught? I'd like to hear your story.
Boosts are welcome.
The Keynote Will NOT Go Forward
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/news/2025-05-07_0001-keynote-will-not-go-forward/
Due to concerns from the LGM community, the planned keynote with Dr. Richard Stallman is cancelled.
The announcement made many people angry and upset, and anger and division are not what LGM is about. Public debate was one of the factors that led to this decision. The discussion can be read here: https://post.lurk.org/@lgm/114462101041791903
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[EDIT/NOTE] The following sentence mentioning our Code of Conduct in this announcement could be interpreted as suggesting we believe Richard Stallman’s presence would make the event less safe. That interpretation is not our intention; we don’t think that way. We don’t all think that Stallman’s talk would have been a problem. Some of us wanted to hear him. The context of the discussion linked above is important to correctly interpret this announcement and the reasons that led to it. Some people voiced general discomfort about the LGM in the debate; we take these concerns seriously.
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LGM is committed to being an inclusive and safe venue for members of the Libre Graphics community, and we stand by the commitments to safety outlined
by our Code of Conduct. https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/code-of-conduct
Personal Note of the Organizer:
I’ll be welcoming everyone seeking a conversation with me about the topic.
– Lasse