to me french kissing is just kissing, that's how french i am
@Federation_Bot
I'm Reem,‼️the situation is very difficult, there is no food or medicine😢😭
And if there are very expensive prices, close the crossings and the prices have risen significantly💔💔
A while ago I was in an operation and my situation is still difficult and I need food and medicine💔😭
Your donation will save my life, please don't leave me alone, any donation will save my life🙏🏻😭
Rotary Converter, IRT Subway, Substation 13, Midtown Manhattan, NYC, 2017.
All the pixels, no hearing protection required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32992380451
@@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @silverpill This is simply because little is written about Forte on the Web.
However, I was there when Forte was born back in September, 2024. I was on (streams) back then. Mike Macgirvin had implemented FEP-ef61 in the "nomad" branch of the streams repository a few months ago to test it. When he was confident enough, he merged the "nomad" branch into the regular "dev" branch. In July, 2024, he merged the "dev" branch into the "release" branch, causing the FEP-ef61 implementation to be rolled out to daily-driver (streams) servers.
However, it was a maze of Nomad and Zot6 and non-nomadic ActivityPub and FEP-ef61 identities for everything that boiled over. (streams) wouldn't federate with anything anymore, not even with itself. My two still existing (streams) channels, @Jupiter Rowland's (streams) outlet and @Jupiter's Fedi-Memes on (streams), were both affected by this. They were amongst the very first (streams) channels created on an account with FEP-ef61 DID support.
Mike would spend half of the summer trying to figure out what had happened and how to fix it. Even while (streams) was still broken, Forte was born in August, 2024 when Mike forked the streams repository and ripped all traces of Nomad and Zot6 support out, probably also in order to get rid of the corresponding IDs and facilitate debugging.
This means that FEP-ef61, which had literally caused this whole mayhem and which has to be considered responsible for Forte's very existence, was a) implemented in the streams repository when it was forked into Forte and b) not removed from Forte post-fork. It would not have made any sense to remove FEP-ef61 when one reason why Forte was made at that point in history was in order to debug FEP-ef61.
Sidenotes: Mike managed to fix (streams). This whole issue burned him out so much that he officially quit developing Fediverse software, effective September 1st, 2024, midnight. He still carries on working on both (streams) and Forte because nobody else does, what with how many people even use them.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Streams #(streams) #Forte #FEP_ef61
Researchers have developed and validated an experimental compound, FLAV-27, capable of reversing #cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease by reprogramming the neuronal epigenome to correct altered gene expression rather than merely clearing amyloid plaques.
#Neuropharmacology #Epigenetics #Neuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/pharm03142601.html
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@globalmuseum
Northern #Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere?
How did we get to Age Verification?
Age Verification is the new anti-terrorism. The trojan-horse of legal bullshit designed to strip the public from their rights, claiming it is for the greater good. But why this? Why now? I suppose I want to process the way I see it via a play. It will have very strange names, like Publicus ( that represents the public ).
Age Verification is the new anti-terrorism. The trojan-horse of legal bullshit designed to strip the public from their rights, claiming it is for the greater good. But why this? Why now? I suppose I want to process the way I see it via a play. It will have very strange names, like Publicus ( that represents the public ).
Control and Freedom : Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
Hardcover Edition
352 pages
Published in 2006
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy.
How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones.
Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace.
The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
RIP FX
We collected some texts from the community in memory of FX. You can find them here https://phenoelit.de/fx.html
Week in Fediverse 2026-03-13
Servers
- Sharkey v2025.4.6
- Gush! v0.0.32
- Wafrn v2026.03.01
- PeerTube v8.1.0
- Ktistec v3.3.3
- Stegodon v1.8.2
- Hollo v0.7.6
- ActivityPub for WordPress v8.0.1
- Misskey v2026.3.1
- tootik v0.21.2
- Vernissage Server v1.31.0
- NodeBB v4.9.2
- PieFed v1.6.12
- Trunk & Tidbits, February 2026 (Mastodon)
- Madblog: A Markdown Folder That Federates Everywhere
Clients
- Sengi v1.9.1
- Fedilab v3.37.0
- Aria v1.4.5
- ap, the ActivityPub API command-line client
Tools and Plugins
- slurp v1.1.0
- Owlbot: An Owncast chat bot with a modular event-driven architecture
For developers
- Pubby: A general-purpose Python library to add ActivityPub federation support to your website
Protocol
- FEP-0151: NodeInfo in Fediverse Software (2025 edition) (Finalized)
Articles
- Link Preview Manifest: A Proposal for the Fediverse
- FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019cc4d0-1232-6c08-970c-83c7f49e1a73
Artificial intelligence, cognitive offloading and implications for education: https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2026/03/experts-warn-unstructured-ai-use-in-schools-risks-cognitive-atrophy/contentassets/ai-cognitive-offloading-and-implications-for-education.pdf
i really dug this paragraph in @pluralistic 's latest treatise on AI:
"There's a different advantage to confining your concerns to imaginary things: imaginary things don't exist, so they don't contest your public statements about them, nor do they make demands on you. Think of how the right concerns itself with imaginary children (unborn babies, children in Wayfair furniture; children in nonexistent pizza parlor basements, children undergoing gender confirmation surgery). These are very convenient children to advocate for, since, unlike real children (hungry children, children killed in the Gaza genocide, children whose parents have been kidnapped by ICE, children whom Matt Goetz and Donald Trump trafficked for sex, children in cages at the US border, trans kids driven to self-harm and suicide after being denied care), nonexistent children don't want anything from you and they never make public pronouncements about whether you have their best interests at heart."
Deutschland, Deutschland
World politics -- 1985-1995 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
German wit and humor, Pictorial.
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990- -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Edition
125 pages
Published in 1990
by F. Bruckmann
Lost #DrWho episodes found.
The wait is over! Today we're officially joining the fediverse 🚀
AltStore PAL 2.3 is now available and makes it easier than ever to discover new apps from across the social web 🌐
Even better — we’re also launching some awesome fediverse apps on AltStore to celebrate!
Learn more 🧵
#AltStore PAL
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.
The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.
The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)
#CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
