You have probably heard about the US regime's crackdown on the Italian IT collective Autistici/Inventati. Someone wrote down what it means and what can be done about it: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ (thanks to @geertlovink and @liaizon for the link).

I first met A/I people in Florence when I attended the first European Social Forum in 2002. They provided a room full of computers with Internet access so that the grassroots press could report on the event. Great, friendly people.

Now the supposedly independent ICANN has destroyed the domain autistici.org and might do the same with https://inventati.org soon. A/I will lose their bank accounts etc. The same could happen to all of us who are not fascists. This is the time for solidarity.

#AutisticiInventati #SaveFreeSpeech #SaveIndependentMedia #SaveIndyHosting #indyHosting #solidarityIsBeautiful

No, #Trump is not importing horse meat from foreign countries and marketing it as beef. He is importing beef from #Argentina to prop up Javier Millei, the leader of that country and a darling of the MAGA crowd. https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/25/social-media/beef-horse-meat-us-trump-imports/

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/117168474495628474

“The systems through which people speak determine who can speak, who can listen, who owns the record and who can be silenced.”

Building privacy-preserving infrastructure is not itself an act of terrorism.

Read their story. Stay human.

#privacy #autistici #AutisticiInventati

The Rationalist Community® are making six figure bets about AI supercharging GDP growth.

This is not odd: they've got silly money to spend on silly things, and can justify gambling as a form of effective altruism because it unlocks new epistemic vistas when you've got "skin in the game" etc.

The funny bit is they wrote a clause in to specifically exclude AIs being counted as humans in macroeconomic statistics. Because, in their mind, that's a thing that might happen.

https://benjaminmoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/growth_bet.pdf

Quinn Slobodian's back. Back again. This time with an account of how neoliberalism and racism dovetailed into the alt-right during the 90s and 2000s. Tell a friend.

(comment on Hayek's Bastards)

@rnd ...and Linux has gotten less choosy about its friends, over time, while Windows has become more so.

MacOS is the expensive friend, for sure... who always wants to be taken to the same bar for long discussions about their problems...

A view of tonight's partial lunar eclipse taken through some light cloud cover with a Unistellar Equinox 2 telescope from Poway, CA. w/ @podfeet

C'est systématiquement débile... mais en fait c'est même plus inattendu.

Une amie étrangère vivant en France aurait besoin d’aide : séparée mais pas divorcée de son mari français, elle a un permis de séjour. Son mari a collecté 4000 euros à la CAF en leurs deux noms sans qu’elle ne le sache et elle doit rembourser au risque de perdre son titre de séjour. Elle vient juste d’apprendre ça.

Si vous avez un contact qui est pro de ce genre d’affaire et qui peut l’aider, ça l’aiderait énormément.

Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.

You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.

Each team member signs in with their usual Bonfire account, with no insecure sharing of passwords, and together they can post as the organisation, access its feeds and private messages, manage its settings, and add or remove other members.

It’s similar to managing a Facebook Page, but built for the #fediverse: one shared public identity, securely managed by multiple people.

Noblogs.org ha avuto problemi tecnici, ma ci stiamo lavorando e lo tireremo su il prima possibile!

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Noblogs.org has been affected by technical issues. We are working at fixing them and will restore it as soon as possible!

If you use #Gentoo and you're currently on a #Eurostar train to Amsterdam: JFYI, you're advertising & serving all your media over the train Wi-Fi via DLNA 👍 (And there's a non-zero chance you might be on the Fediverse…)

@TheBreadmonkey

There's a sausage fingered geezer here who gets called, with straight faces, His Royal Highness. Fucking Highness.

I regularly get letters on behalf of His Majesty.

Majesty.

@max quello che volevo sottolineare però è che è sbagliato pensare che solo una persona esasperata possa ricorrere contro una violazione della privacy. Ricorsi di questo genere dovrebbero essere considerati normali, mentre ad essere anormale è l'indifferenza o peggio la cattiva pratica dei dirigenti

@thomasfuchs Apple Books seems to have it.

https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-a/id387959937

@marcoarment Hi. I’m a big fan of Quitter. But it does not seem to want to open its UI on MacOS 26.6.2. It does not show any error either when launched from the command line. Not sure if you have observed the same behavior.

good afternoon