@cpkimber @franco_vazza Yes, and that’s true! But, I admit I found his (as I recall) analogy with a broom to explain this confusing. But a great author and book.
@cpkimber @franco_vazza His particle physics book is also great.
So... do you guys really think being 4chan-troll-level relentless arseholes at whoever runs social media for the Internet Archive and Electronic Frontier Foundation is going to lead to any kind of prosocial result?
@mos_8502 oh boy.
this is because of the copyright thing, isn't it.
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Blocked my first #crochet doily today! It’s actually way easier to starch and block a doily than I thought.
Blocked my first #crochet doily today! It’s actually way easier to starch and block a doily than I thought.
@irene @silvermoon82 Wow! This is amazing work! 🤩
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Kannur Public Library, India 📚💜
Hey #VideoGame nerds, tell me about some video games!
I'm looking for casual games with local and/or remote multiplayer for Steamdeck or PS5.
I also like retro-style 2D and 3D platformers, and I really loved the Ratchet and Clank series.
I'm not good at video games, but I have been playing them with my brother and my wife, and would like to continue to do so.
Small studios preferred. Itch games also good!
@ajroach42 I love "Human Fall Flat". It's very casual 3D puzzle-platforming where failure is usually not only easy to recover from but also funny. It supports both two-player couch co-op and online multiplayer, and is available on platforms including SteamDeck and PlayStation. (But I recommend the Steam version because it supports creating your own levels and sharing them with others. I haven't actually tried unofficial levels, I'm just assuming it's awesome.)
I've enjoyed playing "Sky: Children of the Light" with people. It doesn't support split-screen play but does do online play across a variety of platforms, including mobile, Steam, and PlayStation. It's free-to-play with in-game purchases for cosmetics, but remarkably respectful of players for a game with that funding model: it has a bunch of design decisions to discourage playing overly long and to keep online play friendly. I think it's worth studying even just from a game design perspective.
I really liked "It Takes Two" but most people I've suggested playing it with have been hesitant about a cooperative game with a theme of building stronger relationships in the context of a marriage falling apart? They've come out with a new game, "Split Fiction", which has the kinds of gameplay mechanics I loved but a story that may be more broadly appealing, of novelists taking on a tech CEO. Both games are exactly two-player, local co-op or online, and cross-platform including both SteamDeck and PlayStation.
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One reason I like having my own little corner of the Fediverse is that I can decide what kind of content I want around me.
And personally?
I don't want AI-generated art filling my timeline.
I don't want AI spam.
I don't want automated engagement farms.
I don't want my feed becoming a content factory.
I just want people posting their own stuff.
Something for #Caturday. Gidget was very happy to have some 1-on-1 time, cuddling up next to me, while Viv and Indie were out last night 😆
So... do you guys really think being 4chan-troll-level relentless arseholes at whoever runs social media for the Internet Archive and Electronic Frontier Foundation is going to lead to any kind of prosocial result?
AI almost sent hazmat train barreling toward 'catastrophe' in Eastern WA
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/aug/28/ai-almost-sent-hazmat-train-barreling-toward-catas/
@misty thanks for the bug report and as you've confirmed now fixed 👍
@jameswoodcock Thanks again! I'm planning to update the footnote to indicate both players are now fixed.
Autistici/Inventati’s Press Release, 5 September 2026
Banca etica shuts down A/I funds
-- https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/banca-etica-shuts-down-a/i-funds/
This is not surprising. Sanctions make you toxic - nobody wants to be accused of terrorism financing or money laudnering. Your bank accounts are frozen and centralized services deplatform you (some may remember TornadoCash and other similar cases).
There are two solutions to this problem: physical cash and decentralized digital currencies. Physical cash only works at small scale, and in some places it is gradually being phased out. The second solution is better. However, A/I donation page says "Sorry, but we don’t accept Bitcoin" and links to a post from 2013 explaining that bitcoins "do not give any specific advantage compared to a normal bank account" and is a "pump & dump done to dupe the ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists".
Well, fortunately, ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists didn't see it that way and have spent all these years studying the blade building a parallel financial system which nobody can shut down - even US.
Bitcoin is not perfect but it is much better than a bank because no one can shut down your account. You shouldn't be accepting donations in Bitcoin, though - that would put donors at risk. The chain is transparent and the privacy tricks that exist in Bitcoin (e.g. mixers) are generally counter-productive when you're facing a powerful adversary because they make you stand out of the crowd. The real purpose of Bitcoin is to be a bridge between fiat money and Monero, where everything remains hidden: the sender, the recipient and the transcation amount. Besides meeting in person, it is the only safe way to buy a coffee for a Specially Designated Global Terrorist @cavallette
> explaining that bitcoins "do not give any specific advantage compared to a normal bank account" and is a "pump & dump done to dupe the ultra-libertarian anarco-capitalists"
...I suppose that's what they get for being statists? the possible advantages vs a 'normal bank account' for people who do unpopular shit seem self-evident to me, at least enough to look closely and see if they're illusory or not.
but hey, there's tribal orthodoxy to uphold. oh well 
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Today’s challenge: Decline one completely reasonable request by saying “I’m not sure that aligns with the current weather”. Refuse to elaborate further. #gooderliving
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Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too:
Actually, an even earlier version was in an original "Twilight Zone" episode (Valley of the Shadow - 1963) where a man stumbles across a small town with highly advanced tech. One of the devices they show him is a replicator that creates objects from printed paper cards with the molecular formula encoded on them. Very much like a 3D model STL or 3MF file. Way ahead of Star Trek replicators. Oh yes, and then there's the point-to-point teleportation chambers (called "evaporators") in the 1953 WB cartoon: "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century."
@lauren I will now be quoting this cartoon all night.
I seriously thank you
now i just don't think that's true
I was monitoring my #KimiK3 sessions in the morning by looking at the thinking trace, when I saw this unconnected to anything else really:
"Bribing the hamster".
New favorite image
@ErickaSimone All looking good from even this far away.
@kate hey queen. Missed you a lot! Lemme go get caught up on your timeline.
@VE3RWJ @Nonya_Bidniss I agree: smart glasses in general, can give significant accomodation for blind people's independence; I'm blind myself, and feel very scared about all this debate about glasses, apparently addressed toward extremism, by both parties: Meta, who is not genuinely interested in accessibility, it's a sort of "side effect" for them, a vulnerable niche of market to exploit. In fact I didn't buy meta as they have been the first to cut off diversity inclusion programs even before Trump sat in the white house again; they don't do enough against hate speech, about accessibility on their main platforms (facebook and similar), they don't respond to accessibility reported issues, but then they have agreements with blind associations and veterans to give glasses for a cheaper price. This would make us dependant on them, relying just on their company as they are the most mass-spreading hardware piece. And allowing normalization of mass surveillance.
On the other side, however, I find those anti-glasses EXTREMISTS.
I'm the very first person concerned about my privacy, not wanting to be surveilled by a big corporation; but the risk of the "pervert" narration, of prohibiting those glasses around, is that blind people using them as an aid, risk to be stigmatized further.
We should all collaborate, in order to find a shared position. Defend privacy, defend us against monopoly, defend blind people's right to use safer tech, and overall defend people with disability from being used by big tech to make surveillance accepted in name of accessibility and whatever. We want accessibility, we don't want mass surveillance.
@elettrona No one's against assistive tech. The issue is that these specific glasses are designed to look as much like 'regular' glasses as possible, to make it difficult for others to know what they are. They are designed for perverts, maybe BY perverts. They are DELIBERATELY designed that way. This tech could take many forms, but this specific version is very clearly designed to be used covertly.
I was monitoring my #KimiK3 sessions in the morning by looking at the thinking trace, when I saw this unconnected to anything else really:
"Bribing the hamster".
