If I say, without a little bit of leading the witness: "I think software should be finished, most of the time. I think a plan for the ending should be in mind from the start." That gets a lot of people's hackles up, as if I just said all machines should be perpetual motion. If we try to make the kind of software we're used to, then yes, completion is something we know is difficult to impossible in that world.

If your goals for software are a bit different:

1. Small (both in scope and implementation),
2. Aggressively interoperable with other programs,
3. At peace with being irrelevant someday,

... then it's totally possible to complete software. The ecosystem is never complete, but this piece can be, because it's not trying to itself be an ecosystem with decades of updates in its future.

THIS IS THE ONE, THE NEW YORKER

Hey, bist du gerade auch so müde?
Ruhe dich aus! Sammle Energie!

Am 12.09. treffen wir uns wieder zur nächsten PRÜF-Demo!

Jeder in der Landeshauptstadt in seiner Nähe und wir singen gemeinsam PRÜF! PRÜF!PRÜF!
https://pruef-demos.de/

#SaveTheDate #PRÜF #Demokratie #Freiheit #RechtsExtremismus #PRUEF #Caturday #BundesVerfassungsGericht #GemeinsamStattEinsam #Stuttgart #Dresden #Potsdam #Hamburg #Schwerin #Bremen #Magdeburg #München #Saarbrücken #Düsseldorf #Köln #Mainz #Berlin #Kiel #Hannover

@hongminhee Aww, thank you!

Yeah, that was pretty mean, and I'm going to pretend it was our cat that posted it, because I don't know why someone would do something like that.

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

Invisible labour behind 'intelligent' machines
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-invisible-labour-behind-intelligent-machines/

Exploited Data Workers in Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI”
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/data_workers

Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/ai_platform_extractivism

Inside the world of Kenya’s ‘shadow scholars’ paid to write essays for UK students
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

@dansup Making a brand new account just to be mean about someone's dog is pretty sad. Your dog is lovely.

Unterstützt von Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche treibt Big Tech einen unkontrollierten und intransparenten Ausbau von Rechenzentren voran. Trotzdem sollen Effizienz-, Transparenz- und Klimaschutzvorgaben abgeschwächt werden und die Klimakrise so befeuert. Wo und wie viele Anlagen entstehen, weiß niemand – bis jetzt!

Mit @HeisseLuft, @algorithmwatch & Leitmotiv ändern wir das! Unsere interaktive Karte macht Rechenzentren-Projekte und ihren enormen Stromverbrauch sichtbar: https://heisseluft.org/

It seems like the right thing to do to speak ill of the dead in the wake of Parton’s and Curry’s recent deaths. So. Yayoi Kusama was a virulent fucking racist. One down.

https://hyperallergic.com/what-the-art-world-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-yayoi-kusama/

https://www.nayawritesmedia.com/latest-stories/yayoi-kusamas-anti-black-legacy-cannot-be-edited-out

When you hear people discussing
the flooding in Nepal,
or the power outages in Gary,
or any of the other
disasters in this moment,
by saying that these
are what the future looks like,
calmly but firmly remind them:
that these disasters
are what the present looks like.

Sure, my laboratory is filled with oddly shaped vials, all bubbling with various brightly colored liquids, but it’s not as if I’m MAD hahahaHA HAMUWAHAHAHAHA

Lady Gaga, at the Met Gala in a dress made of wasps, spots Björk wearing a hornets suit. Their eyes meet and gazes narrow.

Billy Porter, stunning as a bejeweled hay stack, rolls across the red carpet.

reminds me i should order more the daily wire dvds

#Solar geht auch am Glas #Balkon!

Gesehen in #Berlin.

Preserve a Public Noblogs Site

Public movement history should not disappear because a server, provider or domain does.

If you run a Noblogs site, save two different things:

A WordPress export containing the material needed to rebuild the site.

A static mirror showing the public site as readers actually saw it.

If you administer the site
Open `YOURBLOG.noblogs.org/wp-admin` and sign in.
In the dashboard, select Tools → Export.
Select All content, then press Download Export File.
Rename the downloaded file `blogname-export-YYYY-MM-DD.xml`.

Install the free, open-source program HTTrack.
Open HTTrack and select Next or New Project.
Give the project your blog’s name and choose where the backup should be stored.
Select Add URL, paste the complete public homepage address, then select Next → Finish.

When the download finishes, choose Browse Mirrored Website. Open several posts, archive pages, images and downloadable files to make sure they work.

Put the WordPress XML file and the entire HTTrack project folder inside one clearly dated folder. Keep one copy on your computer and another on a separate drive or trusted location.

The XML export does not preserve the site’s appearance. The HTTrack mirror is not a replacement for the WordPress export. Keep both.

If you are preserving someone else’s public site

For an important individual page:
Open the public page and copy its complete URL.
Go to Internet Archive: Save Page Now.
Paste the URL and press Save Page.
Open the archived result and confirm that it works.

Install the free, open-source SingleFile browser extension.
Return to the original public page, wait for it to finish loading, click the SingleFile icon and save the resulting `.html` file.

For a whole public site, follow the HTTrack instructions above using the public homepage. Do not sign in, enter passwords or attempt to reach private pages.

Record the page title, author or collective, original URL, publication date and the date you saved it. Internet Archive is an additional copy, not your only copy. Submitting a homepage does not guarantee that the Archive captured every linked page.

Finally, test the local backup with Wi-Fi turned off. Open its `index.html`, click through several pages, and make sure images and documents load.
Preserve public material only. Do not bypass logins, collect private data or republish material that could expose people. Respect authorship, context and removal requests.

An export is not a mirror. A mirror is not enough. Keep both. Keep two copies.

#Noblogs #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #MovementArchives #AutisticiInventati #ResistantCommunication #IndependentMedia
#SabotMedia

@luckytran I thought he was Chief of Staph, but OK.

🦔 Jetzt sind wieder kleine Igelfamilien in unseren Gärten unterwegs!

Igelmütter ziehen mit ihrem Nachwuchs los, und die kleinen Stachelkugeln beginnen, ihre Umgebung zu erkunden. Deshalb heißt es jetzt: Augen auf und bitte besonders rücksichtsvoll sein! 💚

Schaut vor dem Mähen, Trimmen oder Umsetzen von Laub- und Reisighaufen ganz genau hin. Lasst Mähroboter niemals in der Dämmerung oder nachts fahren, denn gerade dann sind Igel auf Nahrungssuche.

Loki checks out the northern Italian view. #dogsOfMastodon #italy

@root42 lmao, did the comment come from inside our own house???

ksh
rc
perl

How are our glaciers around the world doing? 😢

Graphic from https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/