China is setting up much of the digital infrastructure for breakneck artificial intelligence development across its eastern seaboard in the country's less populated, rural west. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/26/asia-pacific/china-rural-data-centers-power-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #datacenters #energy #ai
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RIP Tim Curry: https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/
(Died the same day as Dolly Parton, news seems to have been delayed for some reason.)
This year's iPhone event is set for September 9. Details on MacStories: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-announces-september-9-surprise-and-shine-event/
🧻 Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada
Joachim
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Lunar eclipse tomorrow (Thursday night/Friday morning): https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/canada/regina?iso=20260828
Good chance of auroras at the same time! https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/geomagnetic-storm-watches-aug-27-28
X contraint Nitter et XCancel à suspendre leur service alternatif - https://next.ink/brief-article/x-contraint-nitter-et-xcancel-a-suspendre-leur-service-alternatif/
Ça m'a toujours fait rigoler Nitter. C'est un truc foireux qui répond aux besoins de Twitter de gens qui n'arrivent pas à s'en passer. Autant dire que sa disparition me fait lâcher un gros osef.
Allez vous servir de Twitter, assumez.
@dada sauf que ça crée des précédents pour les frontends à youtube par exemple…
halcy :icosahedron:
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Tim Curry has passed away.
He did many amazing things, but my favorite was when he played darkness in Legend.
Years ago I made a song "The Lament of Tim Curry"
https://blog.demofox.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lamentoftimcurry.mp3
And i wrote a blog post about how I programmed this song, sample by sample, in C++.
https://blog.demofox.org/2012/06/18/diy-synth-3-sampling-mixing-and-band-limited-wave-forms/
Listen to the song, read the blog post, and watch the movie!
RIP in peace 🫡
Jean-Christophe Filliâtre listed his favorite computer science books and explained why he likes them. There are some great ones I didn't know, as well as a classic co-written by @robpike Rob Pike.
Notably, the most recent book was published in 2011.
@amoroso @robpike Lovely! ( 600 euros that lot) ... very tempting..... especially https://amzn.eu/d/09vj8Mfy
Jules she/her
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Fuck "Great Man Theory" - especially when it's used to excuse awful people "but they do/did such "great things, we need to give them a pass on the gross stuff they do!"
Everything done by a "great man" could be done by someone else - and probably better - if they were given the space and resources to do so.
Nothing anymore is built by a single "Great Man". It's a collection of people working together to build something great - it's just the "Great Man" that takes all the credit and the money.
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A tiny Bonfire feature that we’ve grown quite fond of 🌱
Instance admins can define their own set of default avatars, which are randomly assigned to people who haven’t uploaded a profile picture yet.
It sounds like a very small thing and technically, it is.
But after experimenting with it on the Jacobin community, we noticed how much these little details can contribute to giving an instance its own visual identity and fostering a sense of belonging to a shared digital place.
Not every feature that shapes a community needs to be big. Sometimes it’s just a bunch of tiny avatars 😊
Read more about our work with Jacobin in our case study: bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
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@ephesossh This timeline we're living in is ruining a lot of sci-fi for me...
RIP Tim Curry: https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/tim-curry-dead/
(Died the same day as Dolly Parton, news seems to have been delayed for some reason.)
@cstross
He had been quite ill but still very sad.
calvin 🛋️
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I voted! #unionneeded #WikiWorkersUnited
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safe travels, Tim
