I'm not Christian but I love the idea of a themed advent calendar. Anyone have recommendations or cool ones they've seen? Or things that are not advent calendars but have the same general structure?

Des nouveaux virus fabriqués par l’intelligence artificielle.

Grâce à des modèles d’intelligence artificielle, des chercheurs ont conçu 16 nouveaux virus capables d’infecter une bactérie. Une première qui pourrait se révéler utile dans la lutte contre l’antibiorésistance mais qui soulève de nombreuses questions en matière de biosécurité.

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/050926/des-nouveaux-virus-fabriques-par-l-intelligence-artificielle

@davidgerard
"...and for my next trick, watch all of my credibility disappear"

@kyleford derpy mcboopface

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ is down.

Hard not to be paranoid.

Looking for tiny ways to resist a major expansion of fascism this past week, as the US government declared the volunteer-run anarchist collective Autistici/Inventati a "global terrorist organization" without any trial or judicial process and the cowards at PIR.org took down one of their domain names (autistici.org) almost immediately, and then their Italian bank Banca Etica shut down their account and seized their money, with all of that they will not be maintaining noblogs and other services for long: https://inventati.org

@evan

I wish I was geek enough to understand this joke.

** This is your semiregular reminder that you can support me on:
Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/MicroSFF
Ko-Fi - https://ko-fi.com/microsff
(Supporters get one or two annotated monthly collections.)

Or just keep sharing my stories, I really appreciate that too! **

Sinds 2025 werkt een groep enthousiaste kunstenaars aan echobeach.nl. Hun doel is kunstenaars niet meer afhankelijk te laten zijn van big-techbedrijven zoals Meta. Alles wat op echobeach wordt gepubliceerd, blijft van de gebruikers. Er wordt niet aan verdiend dus zijn er geen advertenties en wordt je aandacht niet opgeëist met algoritmen of rage bait om je eindeloos te laten scrollen.



𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟏𝟗 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕.𝟎𝟎-𝟏𝟗.𝟎𝟎 𝐮𝐮𝐫

Tijdens de kennismaking in ateliercomplex C3 maak je kennis met echobeach, met elkaar en kan je vragen stellen over het platform in opbouw. Er zal gesproken worden over de rol van kunstenaars op het vrije internet, over de geschiedenis van het internet en de rol van hackers daarin, over de politieke werkelijkheid in Europa met betrekking tot big-tech, en over de grote vraag: wat is de fediverse eigenlijk. Er komt een update over Pixelfed, het programma waar echobeach mee werkt en er zal voldoende tijd en ruimte zijn voor vragen en het uitwisselen van ideeën en om na te praten bij de bar.



𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬

Liesbeth Bik (beeldend kunstenaar en voorzitter echobeach), Ron van den Ende (beeldend kunstenaar en oprichter van echobeach), Koen de Jonge (hacker, open source activist en directeur van ProcoliX hosting), Kim van Sparretak (Europarlementariër voor Pro, "against nasty tech bros")



#echobeach #diy #artistsofpixelfed

If I could give you one piece of advice to advance your happiness, it would be to listen to birds.

@Star12Mt @RickiTarr I saw him in the hall the next week and sheepishly asked if he was in a movie and he seemed surprised that anyone had seen it. He left his day job a few months later, I think.

@Gina
He's sat at the top of the world plumping up and wondering if he should settle here 😉
@joel

A/I may be ending. The story is nowhere near over.

For twenty-five years, #AutisticiInventati showed what it could mean for movements to build and control their own communications infrastructure. Its loss should not send everyone searching for the next single service to replace it.

It should send us looking in a hundred directions.

In Boise, the Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub is experimenting with one of them. @BASH has put a small independent publication on NomadNet, a system running over Reticulum rather than relying solely on the conventional web. It has articles, archives, submissions and contact functions, reachable through a cryptographic network destination instead of an ordinary domain.

99a904b9ab830b7baa9d5115eb8854d7:/page/index.mu

That is not the answer. That's what makes it interesting.

Other projects are trying other things: cooperative infrastructure, self-managed servers, RSS, mirrors, print, radio, downloadable archives, federated publishing and networks that barely resemble the commercial web at all.

We don't need to find another A/I. We need to understand how to build a thousand different pieces of what made A/I possible.

Sabot is beginning a living guide to autonomous media and infrastructure, aimed especially at small and rural projects: how to publish, archive, distribute, host, mirror and keep going when a platform, host, domain, provider or collective disappears.

Coming Soon:

BECOME THE THOUSAND SERVERS

A living guide to autonomous publishing, infrastructure and survival

Follow the people experimenting. Follow small radical media. Preserve what matters.

Then build something.

@openbsdnow my other mistake is opening more access than anticipated due to bad rules ordering.

RE: https://chaos.social/@thefinalstrawradio/117203165054821433

Host Autistic/Inventati has decided to close down. Now is an important time to tell their story, adapt from the repression like our own Plan R* and continue the struggle. "Stay Human", as the comrades say

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

@echo_pbreyer 💯

@SummerOf68 es ist so wild

My hoover is about 20 years old. For 20 years, I’ve wondered who are these people who hoover their trousers. Today I realised that those are curtains.