Belgian journalism cooperative Apache is going to be testing Bonfire as a space for its readers, inspired by #Jacobin work in Germany.
Independent media building community spaces where readers and journalists can meet, participate, and connect across the fediverse. This is the kind of social web we want to support.
Their ongoing diary of leaving big tech is worth a read (in Dutch): apache.be/vaarwel-big-tech

@aud Oh this is the money quote tho:

"But in a book Kennedy published about four years ago, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, the now- health secretary harkens back to the miasma theory.

"Miasma theory emphasizes preventing disease by fortifying the immune system through nutrition and reducing exposures to environmental toxins and stresses," Kennedy writes."

How much should we worry about the pneumonic plague lableak in Siberia?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TYfpTRxGH9frTymwN/how-much-should-we-worry-about-the-pneumonic-plague-lableak

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970318

#HackerNews #pneumonicplague #Siberia #healthconcerns #pandemics #biohazard

One of the coolest things about the open social web is your ability to make new algorithms to highlight the information you think is important. Being able to work on them as a team makes this even more powerful. This is great!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i6y3jdklpvkjvynvsrnqfdoq/post/3mx5726glrc2p

Our recap from the first event: @tarakiyee spoke about the ways in which open-source software, too, has extractivist effects on numerous levels. Even though software code is freely available, it often relies on unpaid labour. Furthermore, using it requires hardware, which in turn consumes resources in a way that is based on environmental destruction and mostly neo-colonial exploitation.

The three organising groups discussed ways to take action:
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@simon @jcsteelguitars Yeah sounds like this guy is just being a spoiled attention seaking brat.

@davidgerard @Footle What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? Mind tricks don't work on me.

@lutindiscret
I have spent most of the last 4 years working on the CRA legislation and the standards that support it. That happened because the responses I and other open source figures made to the early CRA news persuaded Commissions stuff that they had missed something.

@EUCommission @edri

@TheEddieShow I'm so so sorry. Thank you for sharing such cute photos of her with all of us.

📢 Manifestation lycéenne et étudiante du 1 octobre à Brest
🔴 Sélection des pancartes vues à la manifestation 📸

Des parents d’élèves du lycée Montebello de Lens ont un message à faire passer et c’est une masterclass.

Ce serait dommage de ne pas diffuser largement.

(Via l_offensive.eco)

@apLundell Sure sounds like a chore, but no less and no more than the same chandelier with candles instead of gas burners. Also with gas you could almost close the input valve so the burners stay lit but don't burn bright and you'd just have to open the valve again to get full brightness.

Moi aux BTS :
-- Ils sont où Bidulet, Machine, Totor et Tatayé ?

Le délégué (hilare) :
-- En gav, madame, forcément.

Ma tronche blême :
-- C'est pas vrai !? Qui s'occupe d'eux dans votre snap ? Y'a un avocat sur place ?

Le délégué (rassurant)
-- Non, ça c'est demain, madame, rassurez-vous, je déconne. Ils doivent être à la cafette !

Moi (vraiment glaciale) :
-- Bon tu as trois mn pour me les ramener par la peau du luc, et dis leur qu'ils ont loupé la seule excuse que j'aurais accepté pour le contrôle, donc qu'ils épargnent leur salive et ramènent leurs miches fissa.
(Les BTS ADORENT quand je leur fais de l'argot de vieille, ils s'échangent les mots entre eux)

Le délégué (hilare) :
-- N'empêche , vous vous êtes inquiétée pour eux ! Je leur dirai !

Moi (faussement glaciale) :
-- Je nierai !

(Le délégué au loin, "Lalalalèlère,, elle s'inquiète pour nouhou !" )

C'était un test, j'aurais dû réviser ^^

'One source in the party said ...
"The German Greens support arming Israel, opposed a ceasefire to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, backed the suspension of funding to Unrwa and co-sponsored a Bundestag resolution describing the arguments and methods of the peaceful, Palestinian-led BDS campaign as antisemitic.”

@shammers you people just want me to work way too hard on this don't you

got dmitri long shostacovid

The Fair Tech Summit is tomorrow! 🥳

Several great organizations will come together in Luxembourg to present their solutions and discuss fair technology.

What can your organization or company do to make our tech world a little more sustainable, a bit more respectful, and a bit fairer for all?

⏰ We know it's time to make a change – we've teamed up to make it happen!

👉 Check out the programme: https://fairtechsummit.org/programme.html

I write this with plastic on my walls, around my food, in my body, on a device with plastic in its bones, running an aftermarket de-Googled ROM tainted with slop, on a federated network tainted with slop, provided by server infrastructure tainted with slop.

I monomaniacally run Debian GNU/Linux (26 yrs), which tragically recently took a soft hand on vibed code. I could switch to slopless Alpine, but it would just take a library, even transitive, and the plastic would be back in the body.

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