This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments

People say "Quicksand turns out to not be as big a menace as I thought when I was a child", but it's an obvious case of survivor bias.

@hbons @tante The Black Rifle Coffee of linux distros

@paninid counterpoint: going back to the founding, *every administration* has picked and chosen which laws to enforce (and against whom). Trump is just being more obvious about it and targeting more people who aren't seen as fair targets by a majority of journalists. This is literally what every district attorney's job is, as well as the job of the attorney general. Police of course get a big say in terms of what evidence gets collected and how time is spent on which reports too.

What more people need to realize as a result of our current travesties of justice, many of which the supreme court is blessing: America does not now and has never had a system that meaningfully delivers "justice" in a colloquial sense. It has a "punishment and oppression system" that works to keep women, queers, the poor, non-whites, disabled people, and other marginalized groups in their places, while delivering a veneer of fairness just thick enough to prevent revolution (or not quite in cases like George Floyd).

Why does the system still almost never deliver real consequences to killer cops?

Why are white nationalist gangs allowed to persist within sheriff's departments?

How often have religious freedom laws been enforced in favor of indigenous tribes rights to access to and protection for their sacred spaces? Yet at the same time we have the Ten Commandments on mandatory display at schools in Texas?

Why indeed are none of the rich Epstein files rapists even being investigated, despite the fact that the "justice" department knows their names?

(After looking it up to mention the incident accurately): Why the FUCK is there a section titled "Use of human remains from the bombings" on the Wikipedia page for the MOVE bombings?

This is not a system that aliens discovering our planet would believe has any connection to the word "justice", other than via its incessant portrayals in (often state-sponsored) media.

So DHH (the racist and fascist) got 8 million USD for his foundation for his garbage half-baked config files that he claims are a "distribution".

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

I hate this timeline.

"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance."

Our latest from Data Workers' Inquiry is a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers.

https://data-workers.org/luciana/

Apparently we've just seen the first murders committed by an autonomous AI-driven weapon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html

In this case the weapon was a drone, it was Russian, and the victims were Ukrainian civilians. We're bound to see endless variations on this theme, starting now.

#AI #AutonomousAI

Crimen de Sodio.

Adoro a estos antifascistas catalanes que le han estropeado un encuentro de ultraderecha de Aliança Catalana echando un kilo de sal en la paella 😍

https://www.publico.es/tremending/antifascistas-echan-alianca-catalana-fiestas-populares-tirandoles-paquete-sal-paella-atentos-troleada.amp.html

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/instincts-powerful-ai-assistant-is-raising-privacy-and-security-concerns/

"I imagine myself as a small stone in a powerful gear mechanism, so that data workers are not completely run over without any resistance."

Our new Data Workers' Inquiry is a firsthand account of conditions and resistance from Apple's outsourced data workers.

https://data-workers.org/luciana/

Matambrito is my gf

Every UK job advert be like:

• Competitive salary of £12.71/h (legal minimum)
• 28 days of annual leave (legal minimum)
• Pension plan (mandatory to provide)
• Free parking onsite (not a perk)
• Free tap water at our site (health and safety requirement)
• Free eye test (legal requirement for desk workers)

@ksonney thank you sir!

@jamey @sophieop yeah! i really want to get more into, i think its CalDAV? i don't love having other people's calendars on mine-- my experience with that on iCal was always kind of feeling overwhelmed and just turning everything off and missing everything, lol-- but its definitely the kind of thing that would be super useful for certain things

#Gary, #Indiana needs our help!

"Join us in supporting local groups’ mutual aid efforts!

This campaign page supports grassroots mutual aid response efforts around the power outage in Gary, Indiana, still ongoing nearly two weeks after historic storms left thousands of people in Gary without power, and some without reliable water access.

A predominantly Black community, longtime residents have called it an already-familiar "survival mode" that has taken the community to a new breaking point. We know, from experience, that we save each other. In the absence of fast, equitable agency responses, it is solidarity between affinity groups, neighbors, mutual aid networks, and grassroots crews on the ground clearing trees and debris, mucking and gutting, and hosting kitchens and clinics, that are keeping each other alive. It is the power of the people sharing and distributing supplies, cooking and eating together, creating donation hubs out of garages and community centers, and serving as mobile medics, checking in on elders door to door. It is the resilience of the relationships built through solidarity that help endure the long response, as communities recover, rebuild, and reimagine their communities in real time."

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/b11285a05b6e32036b17c4b58522b50761ecb6d1

I think it's so rich that Americans feel us, Canadians, are not entitled to express our feelings and thoughts regarding the infinite amount of bullying and betrayal we've been subjected to by 75 millions of Americans over the last couple of years, just because a few of you don't do that. "Not all Americans"

Let me remind you of something: no other country in the world is doing that to us. So yes we're entitled to it. Clean your own room before you complain about our feelings.

Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave

｢ The long legal battle over ownership of Linux is closer than ever to ending, after a panel of three judges ruled a claim against IBM and Red Hat isn’t valid, and that time has expired for further action ｣

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave/5291513

#linux #opensource #sco

@emaytch @sophieop for things like band tour dates (or similarly, "when is this artist going to be at a comics convention near me"), I've been wishing more people would adopt the other widely-supported standard of the same age as RSS: iCalendar. I'm frustrated about the obscurity of both standards for pretty much the same reasons