Did someone say it's #Bleptember? It's Siani's first, and she's excited to take part.

No Starch has a 35% off promo this weekend with code TOOMANYTABS. This is probably a final chance to preorder "The Secret Life of Circuits" at a discount:

https://nostarch.com/secret-life-of-circuits

PDF right away, color hardcover in the mail. Preorders may or may not include exclusive horse armor DLC (proof of horse required).

ToC: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/full_toc.pdf

Sample chapter: https://nostarch.com/download/samples/secret-life-of-circuits_chapter-9.pdf

@mjd assuming you get a ballot, this is definitely the way to return it.

I think I’ll pass on that free design consultation.

@mewsleah about the same as paper. In normal room lighting its fine. In dim room lighting or actual low light, it helps to have a reading lamp.

@AberdeenLocal1312 fedi isn’t for clicks. ditch meta

@heidilifeldman For my own ballot, my idea was to avoid the post office and walk it to the dropbox provided by the county election board. That seems like it should be safe. Have I misunderstood something?

@zackwhittaker The Dept. Of just-us nazis, is protecting as many partisan criminals from actual Justice as they can - recall, impeach, take them to the Hague!

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

"Eppure erano cyberpunk, e più di noi americani, a dirla tutta. Perfino dopo tutto questo tempo è difficile descrivere quanto quell’esperienza sia stata bizzarra e gratificante. Al posto dei fan che leggevano i miei romanzi, avevo incontrato questi cyberpunk milanesi che si comportavano direttamente come i personaggi di quei romanzi. Era come se io ne avessi predetto l’esistenza.

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Non diedi nessun buon consiglio ai coraggiosi milanesi su come essere cyberpunk. Al contrario, dal momento che ero un agente ufficiale e autorizzato dell’imperialismo culturale americano, mi limitai perlopiù ad ascoltare cosa avevano loro da dirmi. Firmai un sacco di libri nello stabile che avevano occupato di fianco al negozio che riparava biciclette".

#BruceSterling, Introduzione a "Cyberpunk. Antologia assoluta", Milano, Mondadori

"Mi avventurai in Italia a spese dei contribuenti e visitare tante città nel corso del mio tour fu piacevole e istruttivo, a eccezione di Milano, che fu un’esperienza unica. Qui c’erano cyberpunk che non erano mai stati appassionati di fantascienza. I cyberpunk di Milano non apprezzavano granché neppure la fantascienza italiana. Erano piuttosto autentici punk ma con i computer, anarchici cibernetici provenienti dalla scena dei centri sociali della città. Erano legati a una delle vecchie librerie beat di Milano, la Calusca, e avevano fondato una casa editrice propria, la Shake Underground. Ma non erano neppure scrittori e basta: erano un gruppo underground europeo e urbano che si occupava di controcultura"

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#BruceSterling, Introduzione a "Cyberpunk. Antologia assoluta", Milano, Mondadori

@heidilifeldman

Thank you, Heidi!

Project 2025's revolutionary plans have been brought within a stone's throw of completion by virtue of vast sums of billionaires' money. But the greatest asset this giant coup has had, has been the inability of so many of us to wrap our heads around the fact that it is happening, and the risk that America is very likely finished.

I don't own a car. I take public transit everywhere, and I do think personal vehicle use has real environmental costs. But I don't think driving is inherently unethical.

I live in Seoul, and the city makes transit easy for me. That's not a virtue. It's a condition I happen to benefit from. Some people live where transit barely exists, or where it doesn't get them to work, school, or care. In those places, driving is not optional.

The same is true of flying. In parts of Europe you can cross borders by train. In island nations, or in places with weak land connections, flying may be the only realistic option. “Just fly less” means very different things in those places.

A lot of what gets called my ethical choices comes from the conditions I live in. That makes me wary of turning structural failures into personal morality. If the alternative is missing or unusable, shaming people for not choosing it solves nothing.

When environmental harm gets framed as individual moral failure, attention shifts away from the structural changes that would actually matter. It's not an accident that oil companies spent decades popularizing the idea of the personal carbon footprint.

GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-including-tb-2000806796

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558086

#HackerNews #GLP1s #Health #TB #Infections #Research #Medicine