Young's "Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons From Movements That Won" (https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9798887440330) explores how various social justice movements—women's suffrage, labor rights, race rights, etc.—won battles in the US. I really want a similar book that explores how drugs, pollution, car safety, the stock market, etc. came to be regulated (written for an interested layperson rather than to impress fellow academics). I think it would teach us a lot about how to handle AI.
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@librarysquirrel Windows 7 is literally the next version of Vista with a new branding, basically Vista wanted 1GB RAM and up to date drivers and then it was *fine*
I mean maybe you just gotta send all the old heads to psychedelic reeducation summer camp every year.
Sorry I meant "brain plasticity therapy" will be covered by Medicare.
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@catsalad Regular Fediverse post.
Quilt finish day! This is one of my favorite quilts ever, I think. It's a 5'x5' throw made of shirting fabrics I'd collected. Some came from random fabric sales and others came from a friend who graciously gave me the stash she was too old to use.
Foundation-paper pieced, hand-quilted.
I don't yet have a better name for it than Shirting Pineapple, we'll see. #quilting #quiltsofMastodon #quilt
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Thunderbird Pro is getting closer to its Early Bird release! Find out what that means and what it includes in our latest update.
#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdPro #Thundermail #OpenSource
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-pro-november-2025-update/
https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
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"Thermodynamics? We dont need them." - some orbit bro
after learing from Technology Connection that the Breakfast Cup exists, just looked at the kettle here, and did some googling, to discover its marked in Metric Cups (250ml)
Did you forget that there was Thanksgiving this week and market was closed?
You can follow along with all holidays on Unusual Whales.
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"We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized."
The Optical Illusion of Prospe...
@kate I read once that it wasn't a coincidence that the spiritualist and suffragist movements overlapped. Women were super super involved in the spiritualist movement. The piece argued that doing magic was a practice in agency - in believing that your thoughts and actions could influence the world. And even though magic isn't real, the practice of it helped women believe they could actually affect the world around them, powerfully. And then they did.
Gardening is a little like that I think, with more huckleberries.
i tried to find the original article i read on magic and suffragettes and failed (it was at least a decade ago), but found much more on the topic of spiritualism and the women’s suffrage movement - like how spiritualism let women participate in the public sphere and in positions of authority
When spirits inspired trance lecturers they often delivered communications on subjects they were concerned about during their own lifetime. For example, Benjamin Franklin was often channeled for the communication of scientific information. The notion that spirit mediums could communicate complex ideas was understood as evidence of spirit presence because most of the mediums were people who did not have formal education. Cora Scott was so popular and trusted because everything rested on the “fact” that a young woman could never produce the kinds of talks and speeches that she delivered. It had to be the voice of spirit because a young girl is just too dumb to come up with this stuff herself. Being in trance allowed women to say things that they could not say in the general public.
And it provided a means for women to travel and build community and organize together around all sorts of issues - including abolitionism.
@wxcafe no i get you. still worth a try though
then we also have to make assembly-in-Forth implementations of all the basic Forth words that are implemented in Forth. that, however, requires looking up words by name, which was functionality we needed to add. so, now we have! yay.
Autumn departing in a blaze of color. #Squirrel of the Day for November 29, 2025 #squirrels
:goose_honk: new muscovy duckling family at the ponds 🎉 (3 photos)
#Birds #Ducks #Ducklings #MuscovyDucks
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@Tutanota Privacy is… that friend who always says they’re on their way, but never arrives—because Google picked them up first.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967), Sunrise in the Forest, 1918 [2596 x 3200]
Mein Tipp für schwierige Verhandlungen: Man muss glaubhaft ausstrahlen, dass man jederzeit auch einfach nein sagen und gehen könnte.
Mehr über meine Verhandlungen mit Friedrich Merz und die Macht der guten Laune erfahrt ihr hier:
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/die-gruenen-katharina-droege-im-portraet-110793698.html
