Laughing all the way to the magic beans guy

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday:

https://www.subvert.fm/

It is a #CoOp, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators.

✊️

@wolf480pl No, no knives.

I guess we're going to find out whether ideas that I have in the middle of the night, along with domain purchases, are a good idea 😅

Introducing my first zine, coming Q3 2026:

https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/cognitive-wallpaper-001/

#zines #DigitalLiteracies #Attention #ProductiveFriction

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116565662607962457

The chill I got when I downloaded the repo and realized the “exploit” was a zero byte file with a magic filename…

The charitable interpretation is that Microsoft accidentally shipped an internal test build to global production. The less charitable one isn’t very pleasant

@musiciankate Relatable

🎼🎹🎙️🕶️

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder!

"They won't go when I go"

- Stevie Wonder

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdTKdm8hZZY

*First, generate 100 Agentic buzzwords. Next, print that out and tape it to your mirror

https://youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?si=wjR0xYATHqQJ9GOw

@mttaggart Zachtronics games to the rescue.

@EUCommission

And the children of Gaza?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/116568165933664229

This was so funny and spot on. Being "Balanced" about AI gets you nowhere. The Techbros think you have no vision and the "burn it with fire" people think you're a Techbro.

DHL will Pakete in Packstationen stecken, die sich nur per App öffnen lassen. Kein Smartphone? Keine App? Dann bleibt das Fach zu. Der vzbv klagt nun gegen diesen App-Zwang. Gut so: Postsendungen dürfen kein Eintrittstest in die Smartphone-Pflicht werden. Wahlfreiheit heißt: Paket bekommen, ohne vorher Daten abzuliefern. Technik ist Service, nicht Türsteher. Wer liefert, muss liefern, nicht umerziehen. Ja! Dazu hatte Digitalcourage auch schon einen BigBrotherAward vergeben. Und nun klagt der #vzbv dagegen. (Artikel vom März 2026.)

#Digitalzwang #DHL #Packstation #Verbraucherschutz #Wahlfreiheit

https://glm.io/206399?n

I'd hope it's occurred to at least someone at GitLab that if we hand over software development to machines, the fantasy of control over that process will be short lived.

Further, it risks a future where we will not be able to read software written by 'AI', soon enough needing abstraction layers & interpreters to understand it. Human-legibility in code will be a bottle-neck.

Our computed languages, built to be read & written by people, could become increasingly irrelevant under this capture.

@infobeautiful When I liked in Connecticut I never heard anyone refer to residents as anything but nutmegger.

Dark Nights: **Open Letter from imprisoned anarchist Komar (Surabaya-Indonesia)**

https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/05/13/open-letter-from-imprisoned-anarchist-komar-surabaya-indonesia/

My friends and brothers and sisters, inside and outside these walls, Peace be upon you. I’m writing this letter to let you know that, God willing, I’m doing alright. A while ago I came down with a mild fever, but alhamdulillah, I’m still holding on, still under His grace and protection. I hope all

New #GeneralStrike100 episode! A preview of our Patreon-only bonus episode, we hear from strike participant, Harry Watson, about life, work and struggle on East London's docks. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e119-121-1926-general-strike/ #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday