The ENSO Blog, which was a beloved NOAA climate communication resource until it was killed by Doge, is back as part of the climate.us nonprofit just in time for this year's (potential) El Niño fireworks! Here's a post from them about how this year stacks up in term of different ENSO indices (big!) and potential for rainfall (uncertain but also likely to be big!) https://www.climate.us/news-features/blogs/enso/super-duper-or-el-nino-warming-world

@stefano 👍

I mean brey I dunno how you can't see this but it's super obvious what the Nazis are trying to do here with the WNBA right? Like again, there are zero trans players in the WNBA - so why are they able to get ppl MAD about trans players in the WNBA? It's because WNBA players often don't present as traditionally "feminine" (which itself is HELLA white coded). So where do you think this ends? This ain't about trans women - this is about women who look like Aliyah Boston being on your TV at all.

OK, I'm now quite happy with my FreeBSD laptop. An old Thinkpad x270 (I call it stinkpad because punny) and so far, everything works. Haven't got the lid switch to work right, close and open undifferentiated, but it will work.

There's config scattered all about -- but it is on debian also, just that some of the pref apps hide it. And I never got xfce screen management right.

I've rediscovered old tricks -- dumb old RCS to check in/out every modified config file (they're all just small text files) and a script to crawl the filesystem and find them and back them up.

AND THEN THERE'S PEOPLE LIKE THIS GUY!!

https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/freebsd-15-on-a-laptop/

Yowza, a linear list of things to do, skip the ones you don't want (KDE, for me) every single item succinctly and correctly called out. Was nice to find after I was making headway through these things anyway.

I really like ctwm. I'm running 10 virtual workspaces, Control-1 through Control-0 (zero). It's exceedingly lightweight but with 30 years of development, it just boringly works.

Still have a list of little things to work out (locking session on lid close, timed screen blanker) but I'm way past the point of 'does this work for me'. Yes it does.

Event highlight

Liv Guhle-Johansen, Emma Kallan
Bonnie boo

Exhibition

Aug. 21, 2026 → Aug. 28, 2026
torsdag 12–20
fredag 12–20.30
lørdag 12–20.30
søndag 12–20
mandag 12–20
tirsdag 12–20
onsdag 12–20

Opening/vernissage:
Aug. 21, 2026, 16:00-20:30

Jettes Diner
Kullinggade 1, 5700 Svendborg
http://jettesdiner.dk
Admission:
non

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Bonnie boo

An art show on the walls of Jettes Diner by Liv Guhle-Johansen and Emma Kallan.
The opening is Friday 21th August, 16:00-20:30.

Jettes Diner
Kullinggade 1
5700 Svendborg

More information at ursuppe.dk

How can workers that want to reject and refuse degenerative technologies ("AI") stand in solidarity with each other and start organizing? How can we resist "AI" inevitability narratives in the workplace?

Many of us are increasingly required to use AI tools – often presented as "the only option" without any alternative; and no-one is informing us about our right to resist, object, and refuse. In many workplaces, expressing AI-critical sentiments has become a no-go, leaving workers silenced and with even less options to build networks of solidarity.

If you feel alone, alienated and silenced, don't despair!

Join us for this discussion panel about organizing towards AI Abolition in the workplace.

Time: Tuesday, September 15th, 16.30-18.00
Place: Copenhagen, CSS, Auditorium 35.01.44, Gammeltoftsgade 15

#AI #ResistAI #AbolishAI #Union #Organizing #LaborOrganizing #Climate #GenerativeAI

There are zero trans players in the WNBA. So asking WNBA players to respond to a manufactured controversy about trans players that don't exist in the WNBA, is doing a transphobia. There is no journalistic merit to what you're doing. If you started talking about economic forecasts for 2027 and I interrupted you to say "okay but how do you feel about the Jews" you would recognize that as the antisemitism it is.

You are all playing this game with trans lives.

nice #openaccess volume:

Research and Teaching with #SpeculativeFiction: Transdisciplinary Readings and Methods

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350557758

my submission to https://storyseedlibrary.org

i hope i win

#unix_surrealism #art #solarpunk #mastoart #permacomputing #art #fediart

Please enjoy this magnificent library of Solarpunk artwork:

https://storyseedlibrary.org/

(Via @alxd@writing.exchange)

The US government has designated the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati, which produces the infrastructure of NoBlogs.org, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," freezing their assets and prohibiting all transactions with them——citing their "far-left" politics and the fact that they have provided services to "anti-fascist" groups for justification.

Autistici/Inventati is an activist-oriented tech project that offers encrypted communications tools, email, web hosting, secure chat, and video conferencing platforms for users who prefer to stay off corporate grids.

This is what the US government is shutting down as "terrorism."

Screenshot from the press release.

https://cryptobriefing.com/us-sanctions-autistici-inventati-terrorism/

"We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering.

Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity."

https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

"Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.”
This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that makes organizing beyond state and corporate surveillance possible"
via @alissaazar

https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/
#AutisticiInventati #autistici

This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀

#FediTest #littleFedi #OwnYourData #NetBSD

OpenAI renews push to get Apple’s trade secret theft lawsuit tossed https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/27/openai-renews-push-to-get-apples-trade-secret-theft-lawsuit-tossed/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@cordelya It appears that meshOS is not the only available meshcore firmware, and that some of them are not paid.

I'll have to look into this in more detail.

Every time you think the Republican Party can’t get any more racist & repugnant to everything the “party of Lincoln” was founded on, they do something like this again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/27/mike-collinss-former-staffer-posted-kkk-nazi-imagery/

@wwahammy What do you indeed prefer?

It was great to see you at #FOSSY and a treat to have moments there of thinking, “hmm, so who’s not trans?”.