The first firebombing of German cities occurred centuries before World War II.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #bird
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Birds_Set_Houses_On_Fire

@pallenberg Wahnsinn und Politik sind nicht selten Pseudonyme.

One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the #web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you GET. An inbox is an endpoint you POST to. If you already run a website, you can bolt this on without changing the site's basic shape. Ghost didn't set out to join the #fediverse, and then years later it could, just by adding an endpoint.

AT Protocol feels less like that to me. Running a PDS means a signed repo, a Merkle search tree, a firehose, a DID. It's not a layer you add to an existing site. It's closer to standing up another backend beside it.

I think that's why ActivityPub keeps making sense to me. You can join later. You don't have to have built the whole thing with federation in mind from day one.

#ATProto #ATProtocol #fedidev

Ce sera pas une fiche complète. Ça sera en mode "Ce livre est incompréhensible et mal écrit, mais génial. Voilà ce que j'arrive à en extraire de génial pour le rendre clair, même si je pige que 60% de ce qu'il dit".

Mein Kollege Jürgen Döschner hat bei den Klimajournos einen Kommentar zur lautlosen Klimakatastrophe Ende Juni geschrieben, die ich Euch und meinen Kolleginnen und Kollegen im Journalismus gerne empfehle: https://brandmelder.org/stiller-tod-und-lautes-schweigen/

@libreleah I've been following Libreboot for a bit now and am lookin into one of those mine "router PCs" for my home network. It happens the one I was looking at is supported by Libreboot: horray! https://libreboot.org/docs/install/x2e-n150.html

Maybe... I noticed the system comes in several CPU configurations though on AliExpress. Does the CPU choice affect Libreboot compatibility? Or could I get a cheaper Celeron or Pentium model?

"This document elaborates on the new Open Access stategy of the Netherlands towards 2035 aiming for a flexible, inclusive, and sustainable open access ecosystem..."
👉️ https://zenodo.org/records/19548009

@NunavutBirder the nights are fair drawing in

strap the panopticon to my FACE, baby

@aral Made for each other: one goes into the other to get rid of.

A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/07/08/brown-professor-suspects-most-his-class-used-ai-cheat
http://www.techmeme.com/260709/p3#a260709p3

There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/wilhoitian/#human-rights-v-property-rights

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Absolutely extraordinary story from a monastery in the Carpathian mountains of Transylvania, where a terminally ill Christian monk spent his final months documenting atrocities committed against children in Gaza through a dedicated Telegram channel.

@OccuWorld @selzero

#FreePalestine #SolidarityIsBeautiful #StopTheGenocide

Je suis en train de finir Héritage et Fermeture (comme ça on sera quatre à l'avoir fait, moi et les trois auteurs). Y'a des trucs bien à la fin. J'envisage de faire une mini-fiche de lecture.

Just reading "AI tools, not gods" by Caroline de Cock, and this is excellent:

"Using “AI” as an umbrella term amounts to calling everything with buttons a “controller”, whether it’s a TV remote, a pacemaker programmer, or a nuclear launch panel, and then trying to draft legislation on the safety and social impact of said controllers. The media, ever helpful, would leap into the void with headlines like “Controllers: Existential Threat or Next-Gen Convenience?”" 1/x

@louisderrac Penpot, mais j'imagine que Libre Office Draw pourrait faire le taf selon le style de ton CV

welcome @no_adesivigrazie !