Naar de saaie sneeuwpoppen kijkend concludeer ik maar weer eens dat te weinig mensen calvin en hobbes lezen.
Ik bedoel:
@Federation_Bot
Maduro Taken Into Detention Center in New York
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-01-04/maduro-taken-into-detention-center-in-new-york-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg
Damiano David dona l'anello di fidanzamento a Dove Cameron - Notizie - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/2026/01/04/damiano-david-dona-lanello-di-fidanzamento-a-dove-cameron_caf3be1b-5ba8-488d-a745-b50e34485192.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa
M2.8, 32 km ENE of Igiugig, Alaska, 2026-01-04 04:26 AKST. Depth 0.2 km. Tsunami not expected. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak2026agnuce/executive #AlaskaQuake
#WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: Share a tool of your trade.
For writing books, it's @scrivenerapp —been using it since 2008 (it was still in beta at the time!) and have written about 25 books using it in that time. Many of which would have been impossible to produce without it. It's not a word processor (although it subsumes one), it's a tool for managing the deep structure of book-length compound text documents. Makes complexity transparent.
@scrivenerapp
I wish it was available for Linux.
You might be happy to hear that this absolutely exists in the wild.
The tiny garden co-op (only 2 folx mainlining), where I get a bunch of veggies every week, offers the choice of paying X per year as a consumer, or enjoy a discount if you agree to help ~15 hours a year with the weekly harvest. The socializing with good people you can get for free, if you're not that hermitically inclined.
If one is strapped for cash, that's a solid way to participate and get glorious food, on par with throwing money at the problem if you're stuck in old economy and cannot spare the time instead.
This co-op alone helps feeding ~50 people, with a surprisingly tiny sliver of land, for a couple years now.
Repair Cafés seems to be becoming trendy, too!
There's so much more potential for a new economy to literally sprout from the ashes of corporate slash and burn, but those ideas need more nourishment. People say "it'll never work!" until you show 'em it does.
It's time to stop not having a title for "The Novel I Can't Talk About Until It Is Done"
And no, I will not really call it "The Novel I Can't Talk About Until It Is Done"
I want the title to be easy to search for, memorable and very cool-sounding. It should also NOT make people angry when they compare it to the book.
Maybe I should call it:
Psammophore
This is a pretty word from myrmecology that describes the basket-like hairs on the head of some ants.
Titles are hard.
@futurebird
Did you see this tip from @cstross about searching for your proposed title:
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115831396389118355
A commenter also shared a link to a federated library search:
https://fedihum.org/@stefan_hessbrueggen/115831570790427219
More helpful for ruling out possible titles than coming up with a title.
@malteengeler @IntersektionalesGemecker Natürlich ist das Theater. Genau so wie Demonstrationen Theater sind. Die bringen ja angeblich auch nix. Man kann niemanden zum Umdenken zwingen. Das ist aber auch nicht das Ziel.
Es geht um die Idee. Je präsenter sie in der Gesellschaft ist, desto einfacher können ITler vor ihren Managern für die Alternativen argumentieren. Es geht darum, das das alte "No one gets fired for buying IBM" aus den Köpfen raus muss. Ohne Gegenwind gibt es kein Umdenken.
In the dream, people volunteered a few hours for worker coops & got discounts—like coffee at cost or 20% off fabric. It was apprenticing, building community, plus free stuff! For the businesses, it was labor for surge times plus job recruitment.
Definitely going in a story some day!
2/2
@randahl @TeachrDigital I guess European leaders will find a way to sell this as a good thing too.
The whole leadership of the Western empire is just disgusting.
Ihr macht beim #DID mit und sucht noch nach einem sympathischen und stabilen Hoster, bei dem Ihr eure Dienste oder Mail selber hosten könnt? Euch aber nicht um allen Kleinkram selber kümmern müsst. Dann guckt doch mal bei uns vorbei!
Wir haben auch eine große Liste mit tollen Open Source Tools für fast jeden Bedarf inkl. Installationsanleitung: https://lab.uberspace.de/
A new year cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy books
Stubb kommentoi Venezuelan tilannetta
Stubbin mukaan Maduron hallinto on vailla legitimiteettiä, mutta kaikkien valtioiden on kunnioitettava kansainvälistä oikeutta.
As my Dutch improves, I find I often have to hunt for the right word when speaking, even in English. This results in me sometimes getting a word mixed up such as calling the fridge the cold oven (in Dutch the literal translation would be cold cupboard - koelkast). Well now I have a new one to add to the list of worm puddlings.
I just called doing the dishes "dish laundry".
Ich werd glaub ich nie verstehen, warum Petitionen bei irgendwelchen Plattformen wie change.org und Konsorten schnell hunderttausende Unterzeichnungen bekommen, obwohl das keine Auswirkungen auf irgendwas hat.
Aber bei "echten" Petitionen, die sich ein Ausschuss im Bundestag dann wenigstens tatsächlich auch angucken muss, wird es selbst bei wichtigen Themen mit dem popeligen 30000er Quorum knapp.
UNTERZEICHNET DAS ENDLICH MAL ALLE!!!
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.nc.html
@neil if this was a garage full of oil the US would be there.
Telling future generations this was the cultural impact of MTV
Digital umsteigen brauche ich privat nicht mehr (Telefon generell ist für 2. Halbjahr geplant), aber neu angemeldet habe ich mich bei Wanderer https://wanderer.to/.
Noch ist bei mir alles leer; vielleicht schaffe ich es, wieder Stadtwanderungen/Spaziergänge aufzuzeichnen.
Wie die Verbindungen zwischen den Servern funktioniert, ist mir noch nicht klar, aber das wird sich einspielen.
Media, in Iran 16 morti dall'inizio delle proteste - Medio Oriente - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/mediooriente/2026/01/04/media-in-iran-16-morti-dallinizio-delle-proteste_2c401365-6931-42ff-89e2-caec93db4fea.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa
USPol, LLMs, personal life
@elena
Dear Elena, I must confess that sometimes I use LLM (not Gemini or OpenAi) for research about how use Linux XD! In general I agree with your post, and even I understand your position: it's very hard be felt as the "professoroni" by our relatives and friends!
At least with my parents during the family dinners we have the good habit to don't have phones!
#Resist
