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Welcome rain, light but persistent, all day. Watching the garden drip and sketching swifts from the many mediocre photographs I took this summer. I had not really taken on board how blue/black the juveniles are until recently.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/117138695626814753
Single use vapes *have* been banned.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/single-use-vapes-ban
The ban came in last year.
@Edent If the multi-use ones aren't much more expensive than the single-use ones were, people will just treat them as disposable. Which for many means "drop it on the ground when you've finished with it".
I have a friend who made good use of batteries he extracted from vapes picked up off the ground.
A ten-day outage would be inconceivable in most places, of course, so NIPSCO’s inability to restore power really stands out. The reason behind it is clear to everyone on the ground there: a local activist describes the situation as “organized abandonment in a deindustrialized sacrifice zone.”
#Mutualaid is currently being organized through a space called…the Space, one of a few autonomous projects in Gary (including the Joy Bomb social center, where I gave a Lifehouse talk on the last leg of my North American tour) where folks are storing goods and doing pop-up distribution.
But more such spaces are needed: “Ten more, a hundred. More in every neighborhood, to ground ourselves in moments when we already know nobody is coming to save us. It’s hard to take that leap and [gather the] confidence to just act, so spaces are really important – they give us that courage to *just move*, because it sets a sort of tempo to the rhythm of crisis. Knowing where to go within a few miles sets a frame of returning to something, when navigating a whole terrain of abandonment.”
I’m currently trying to get a bead on how the rest of us can best support autonomous mutual aid efforts in Gary, and will let you know as soon as I have more insight.
Global food prices at three-year high as heatwaves and wars push up crop costs.
This is climate breakdown...
da genitrice posso dire che più che un pensiero è un incubo. A costo di meritarmi gli sberleffi di amici e parenti, cerco di organizzare i fondamentali. Ho un pozzo in giardino, sto facendo analizzare l'acqua e cercando soluzioni per raccogliere la piovana. Ho un piccolo orto, allevo impollinatori e insetti utili. Ho i pannelli. Riutilizzo, autoproduco tutto ciò che posso e insegno a mia figlia a farlo.
Sono modi per me per sedare un po' l'ansia.
@storiespettinate @andre123 @ro voi perche siete un po' speciali. Vallo a spiegare a l' "italiano medio".
Apple Music to Launch Labels on AI “Songs”
https://www.macstories.net/linked/apple-music-to-launch-labels-on-ai-songs/
@viticci I’m curios if this is just for the slop, or if The Beatles -Now and Then will also get it since it used some AI as well to clean up the recordings.
#Microsoft kills #uBlock Origin.
Check out these private browser alternatives:
➡️ https://
tuta.com/blog/best-private-browsers
Which one is your favorite?
@Tutanota not firefox.
🥾 We've just released a new feature to the Knowledge Map: Paper Trails !
There are a number of trails available to explore - this is Measurement, which explores Goodhart's, The Streetlight Effect, Qualitative approaches, Measurement Ethics & more!
Along the way, you can detour into the scholarly literature, like Ridgeway's classic on 'Dysfunctional consequences of performance measurements', and Edmondson's "Methodological Fit" paper.
Mein Garten
To clarify: it’s been another one of those shocking-but-not-surprising things, to see how little note the media have taken of what’s happening in #Gary, Indiana - a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.
Roughly 20,000 households have now gone ten days without electric power since an unusually strong derecho tore through on August 11th. In all that time, local electric utility NIPSCO has been unable to restore service, with all the predictable consequences: spoiled food and medicines, no recourse to air conditioning or refrigeration, local businesses unable to operate, people having to spend heavily on generator fuel (and suffer all the pollution that accompanies their use), difficulty charging phones and medical equipment, and schools remaining closed.
A ten-day outage would be inconceivable in most places, of course, so NIPSCO’s inability to restore power really stands out. The reason behind it is clear to everyone on the ground there: a local activist describes the situation as “organized abandonment in a deindustrialized sacrifice zone.”
#Mutualaid is currently being organized through a space called…the Space, one of a few autonomous projects in Gary (including the Joy Bomb social center, where I gave a Lifehouse talk on the last leg of my North American tour) where folks are storing goods and doing pop-up distribution.
The fog of hunger
https://aeon.co/essays/a-hungry-woman-is-easier-to-dismiss-than-a-well-fed-woman
From childhood, a significant portion of the world’s women are trained to restrict their appetite. And there’s a huge, hidden, cognitive price to pay for it
@GustavinoBevilacqua mi irrita il solo pensiero
Non guardare i video di Stefan Gotteswinter, allora!
Lui va su 0,0001 mm…
Our local plumber Wessie at work. 🔧
@Gina ahahahahah I can ear: "Ehy please, put down that phone and give me that size 10 spanner" 🤣
Folks do know what’s happening in Gary, right?
To clarify: it’s been another one of those shocking-but-not-surprising things, to see how little note the media have taken of what’s happening in #Gary, Indiana - a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.
Roughly 20,000 households have now gone ten days without electric power since an unusually strong derecho tore through on August 11th. In all that time, local electric utility NIPSCO has been unable to restore service, with all the predictable consequences: spoiled food and medicines, no recourse to air conditioning or refrigeration, local businesses unable to operate, people having to spend heavily on generator fuel (and suffer all the pollution that accompanies their use), difficulty charging phones and medical equipment, and schools remaining closed.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US
Lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/dismantling-the-roadless-rule-threatens-to-disrupt-wildlife-and-water-in-us/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@fentiger I think this is the first implementation.
FEP-8b32 mentions post-quantum sigs in the "Future work" section, but I don't want to RECOMMEND anything yet because Quantum-Resistant Cryptosuites v1.0 is a Working Draft.
@fentiger I think this is the first implementation.
FEP-8b32 mentions post-quantum sigs in the "Future work" section, but I don't want to RECOMMEND anything yet because Quantum-Resistant Cryptosuites v1.0 is a Working Draft.
@fentiger I think this is the first implementation.
FEP-8b32 mentions post-quantum sigs in the "Future work" section, but I don't want to RECOMMEND anything yet because Quantum-Resistant Cryptosuites v1.0 is a Working Draft.
One of the weird and wonderful things about the Fediverse is the variance in max characters per instance.
Nonetheless, the norm among the people I follow is 500 characters. This has a kind of cadence to it. And so longer posts have the quality of a kind of cognitive assault. I know that’s not intended. But that is how it lands with me.
It’s not a big deal, but it’s not nothing and it is jarring
@urlyman In almost all cases, when I bump up against the 500 character limit, I find it's better to write the thing out into a blog post, then post the title and a condensed summary with a link to the article.
Sometimes I tell a Mainer I am from Pennsylvania just so I don't have to hear their bullshit about Massachusetts.
Narrator: He *was* from Pennsylvania.
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