Another superb and hilarious read from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

Thanks, Comrade Trump, for helping to push the world to renewables and sovereign tech.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/

@rossm Yes, I love em dashes!

I do think I use them a lot less nowadays, sadly. But I've always used --, and after they became a big AI tell, I went out of my way to turn them back into -- when eg. Outlook "autocorrected" them.

@grammargirl

I’m just saying it’s REALLY telling how *intensely* racist the US is when there are states *in the middle of an active primary* that are shutting it down so they can redistrict to prevent Black people from representation because SCOTUS said it’s OK to do a racism.

This is like racism speedruns.

Goatfuckers

@caironoleto @fnando

A minha sorte é que eu não tenho dinheiro kkkkkkk
Não, péra..

@imanijoy @Mastodon I am interested in opt-in, user-controlled algorithms. Allow me to cherry-pick a few good ideas from the baddies.

Since @kirtai asked... How'd I design a USB drawing tablet? Or a touchpad or touchscreen?

As I've said earlier (for the latter) the raw sensor would be a grid of capacitors impacted by the proximity of your finger. With some circuitry (shift registers) to send voltages along the rows to see the capacitance-drop on the columns.

Due to the large quantity of raw input I'd use the DSP I designed to extract touches to report to the CPU. With a 1st pass locating 2D runs of non-zero values.

1/?

I'd compare to previous results to give each finger a stable ID within a gesture. And I'd locate the max-value within a touch to derive angle & pressure.

We'd want to expose that extra data to the CPU for the sake of drawing editors (a Krita port) for a natural way for artists to supply richer input, though otherwise it'd mostly be used to statistically verify that it is real input rather than accidental noise.

Our DSP would be much better to this analysis than our CPU.

2/4?

@inthehands

Good's killer got a new job after a 3 day administrative leave

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jonathan-ross-back-to-work-renee-good-killer-moved_n_69f3a25be4b0db8899bbd947?origin=article-related-nonlife

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books

#Books #Library

@hipsterelectron @june even the US? honestly i would personally ascribe dramatically less long-term planning capabilities to the united states federal government than like. just about any other organization on the planet honestly

Anarquismo cotidiano: Por qué el orden social no necesita gobernantes.

https://circuloacrata.blogspot.com/2026/04/y-si-la-anarquia-ya-esta-ocurriendo.html

#AnarquíaCotidiana #AyudaMutua #Autogestión #Comunidad #Resistencia #Solidaridad #ColinWard

Basically that verification ensures that the gestures fit formulas describing what's realistic.

A drawing tablet is a large touchpad or touchscreen, though typically we find it more ergonomic to keep the screen external. Including a stylus with a capacitive tip.

Maybe we'd include additional buttons, etc representing useful artistic actions.

It'd upload (when polled) all this data to the computer classified (via its constant metadata) under Usage Page hex-0D "Digitizers Page".

3/4

The raw, if parsed, USB HID input would be exposed to the focused window for a Krita port (operating within our OS's paradigm) to transfer this data to a sprite rendered via one of our 2 GPUs. With routine screenshots freezing it in place.

This screenshot would be saved to disk along with your edit history.

And I'd probably add additional logic for rendering finer levels of detail in the appropriate tiles, when the hardware's not otherwise busy.

4/4 Fin!
cc: @kirtai

@Elizafox (Doesn't need to say -- or even be, directly -- Jews, of course. Feel free to swap the names of the group as necessary -- just plaster on enough of the signifiers and tropes up so that you can expect yourself and your audience to recognize 'em.

Call 'em Jews, call 'em Muslims; call 'em a Homo Menace or a Transsexual Empire, call 'em Indians or Savages; call 'em Rootless Cosmopolitans or Commies or Counterrevolutionaries, call 'em Terrorists and Invaders and Hordes Of Rapists.)

(Just as long as if you're using that one they're scheming and disingenuous, poisoning and subtle. Requiring vigilence, and suspicion, and requires you to harden and purify yourself and your community. Both stronger and weaker, and both undeniably recognizeable and able to be or be controlling anyone (everyone) inside sufficiently undesireable.

and if you're using the other they're powerful and cultureless, indistinguishable and overwhelming, primitive and heartless.)

@unchartedworlds Thank you for sharing this!

@leo @june it would have been a little too perfect to make the key expire at the start of the iran war 10 years in advance though i don't think even the us knows how far in advance they plan to do that fuck shit

@aral blocked