Because it's a blue shell
In the next day or so I need to force myself to read Yet Another Stupid Fucking Orbital Data Center filing, because I have to write a comment to the FCC so that it's on file that astronomers hate it.
This one called "Stampede" from a company named Cowboy Space. I hate *everything* about this. I'm not even going to link to any news stories about them because they're all so horrible. A sun-synchronous terminator orbit is where satellite companies want Kessler Syndrome to start, apparently.
@sundogplanets this is solely for those who do not know about the #KesslerSyndrome 🙏 and I'm sorry you have to read all their garbage 😔
I already recommended this book here, but I really really really enjoyed "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed (and I finished it while travelling last week, so I'm re-recommending it!) Fantastic alien ecosystem biology, lovely characters, super interesting far-future societies
@sundogplanets I missed it the first time around so thanks for mentioning again, sounds like just what I like. I also rather like the note at the bottom of the info page on the Apple Book store that says the publisher has requested it be sold without DRM. Good for them!
M16, the Eagle nebula, including the pillars of creation.
Will need reprocessing...
#LoveMakeShare June 15: Share some creative wins and losses from June thus far.
Wins: I finally started editing the new anthology, and cast on a piece of Christmas knitting. And most importantly, I joined an awesome queer crafting group that meets monthly at the library.
Losses: Nothing especially new. My yarn stash is still in a shipping crate, and I'm not motivated to work on my manuscript.
The government is tabling privacy reform today. That’s overdue, but its privacy track record is terrible: mandated age verification for millions, mandatory metadata retention, weaker privacy rules for political parties, and sidelining the Privacy Commish.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/privacy-as-a-fundamental-right-the-governments-terrible-privacy-track-record-suggests-virtue-signalling-over-a-genuine-commitment/
My book pile has gotten completely out of control! This doesn’t even include the Percival Everett books…
@yaelwrites a sibling has been pushing me to try Dungeon Crawler Carl, but my book pile was already much bigger than that before I started cleaning up my bookshelves and finding old, forgotten book piles
queue a librarian filk of Alice's Restaurant :)
I'm getting burnt out on all my moderation actions being against fucking AI. Like, I never thought I'd say it, but I miss suspending Nazis and bigots—at least they were real people who would give up after a while—these LLMs just go on and on, and they don't give a shit if they're suspended or rejected.
#FuckLLMs (but also #FuckNazis and #FuckBigots)
speaking of "some kind of nice tool in rust", has anyone rewritten imagemagick in rust yet? i found the image crate (but no CLI), imageflow which some described as a "kickstarter cash grab", and rusimg... which one should become the new standadrd? i want `convert -resize 1080p foo.jpg` or whatever that syntax is
@Anarcat I was about to talk about imaginary
https://github.com/h2non/imaginary
(Which is an http api in Go, I know, not exactly a cli in Rust...)
And then I discovered that the image library below is not even in Go... But in C. (Libvips)
Si I guess no, sorry...
Anarchist Library: **Andrea Rodríguez Cabral - Hearts on Fire**
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrea-rodriguez-cabral-hearts-on-fire?v=1781565509
Author: Andrea Rodríguez CabralTitle: Hearts on FireSubtitle: The Incorporation of Francisca J. Mendoza and Felipa Velázquez Into the Anarchomagonista MovementDate: 2026Notes: Translated from the sociology thesis, "Corazones en llamas : la incorporación de https://tesiunam.dgb.unam.mx/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=88
Met a friend at the park
« Le cadeau de Marine Tondelier qui n’a étonnamment pas fait très plaisir au Medef »
« La cheffe écolo a offert aux patrons le livre de Johann Chapoutot “Les irresponsables : Qui a porté Hitler au pouvoir ?”, ce que les intéressés ont jugé “insultant”. »
Excusez-moi, mais je suis morte de rire :’).
stop updating software!
- versions were not supposed to be given numbers
- years of package management yet no real-world use found for installing features nobody cares about
- wanted to add features anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it was called shell scripts
- “yes please break behavior I was relying on. please force me to rewrite all my config files” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
they have played us for absolute fools
New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people.
Many of them are children.
600,000 have already died.
The man who gutted the program?
Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire.
He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth.
He should be in jail.
Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900281-5/fulltext
#usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol
Anacé Indigenous People Halt Construction of TikTok Data Center in Brazil
Last Tuesday (9), the Anacé Indigenous people occupied the construction site of the data center belonging to Omnia, a service provider for TikTok.
Located in the coast of Ceará state, the project has been the target of a series of complaints from the community, which has been mobilizing for months against what it considers a violation of its territorial and environmental rights.
#Brazil #indigenous #dataCentres #HumanRights
https://www.andes.org.br/conteudos/noticia/indigenas-anace-paralisam-obra-de-data-center-do-tikTok-no-ceara1/page:376/sort:Conteudo.created/direction:desc
Conor McGregor says many offensive things. Most US folk, even those that don't follow MMA, know who Conor is. Conor loses a lot. He has only won 1 fight since 2016.🤷🏿♂️
Khabib Nurmagomedov avoids saying offensive things. Most people don't know who he is. He retired undefeated, having never lost in MMA.
Does that say something about Conor?
Or about UFC fans?
Or about Americans?
What are we worshipping?
Khabib’s victory against McGregor was 👨🍳 😚 👌🏽
RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599
Welp. Guess I’m looking for a new place to live again
@jalefkowit social.coop is nice this time of year.