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Meljoann @ gravitons | International Goth Day beats & dark chats ONLY
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THE RED STEP (1988)
Acrylic on Canvas - 44" x 33"
The initial impetus for doing the painting was being stuck in the first real artistic block I've ever had. I was probably clinically depressed. 1/4
#personalvisions #fineart #imaginativerealism #passage #depression
Recent Reads: Qalea Drop. Book 7 in Joel Shepherd's Spiral Wars series. As the stakes get higher, the cast gets bigger. On one side, the Corbi evacuation gets unwanted Reeh attention, on the other, Phoenix is hunting a lost AI queen that may hold the key to the biggest threat yet. Gripping stuff.
Penguin Padlock Party
penguinpadlock.party/
🔐Jeden dritten Donnerstag im Monat treffen für uns zur Penguin Padlock Party auf der c-base🔓
Wo?
c-base e.V. | @cbase | c-base.org/
Rungestraße 20
10179 Berlin
Offener Treffpunkt für digitale Selbstbestimmung
Die 🐧Penguin Padlock Party🔓 ist ein regelmäßig stattfindender Stammtisch jeden dritten Donnerstag im Monat ab 19:00 Uhr auf der c‑base. Sie richtet sich an alle, die sich für freie Software, Datenschutz und digitale Sicherheit interessieren.
Im Mittelpunkt steht die Unterstützung beim Wechsel von Windows auf Linux‑Distributionen – aber die Veranstaltung ist keine reine Linux‑Sprechstunde. Vielmehr bietet sie eine Plattform, um Erfahrungen auszutauschen, voneinander zu lernen und gemeinsam Lösungen zu finden.
Ein wesentlicher Teil der Penguin Padlock Party ist die Cryptoparty‑Komponente: Besucher*innen erfahren, wie sie sich mit geeigneten Tools und Strategien vor digitaler Überwachung schützen können. Dabei werden nicht nur freie und offene Technologien vorgestellt, sondern auch kommerzielle Lösungen, sofern sie zum Schutz der Privatsphäre beitragen.
Die Penguin Padlock Party verbindet technische Hilfe, Wissensaustausch und Bewusstseinsbildung zu Themen wie Datenschutz, Datensicherheit und Datensparsamkeit – in einer offenen und kollegialen Atmosphäre.
Es sind keine Vorkenntnisse notwendig.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 30 points to help lift the Thunder to a 122-113 home win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/05/21/basketball/nba/thunder-spurs-game-2/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #basketball #nba #sanantoniospurs #oklahomacitythunder #shaigilgeousalexander #victorwembanyama #nbaplayoffs
Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.
Tuesday's threads: There's no such thing as "age verification"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116600283752988976
https://bsky.app/profile/
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels
--
My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
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“A Bunsen burner will work with humans to make a Nobel Prize winning discovery…”
#5yrsago Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppressionhttps://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#think-manorialism
#5yrsago Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#health-usury
#5yrsago What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#user-personas
#5yrsago Dead, broke https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zombie-debt/#damnation
#1yrago Who Broke the Internet? Part III https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/19/khan-thought/#they-were-warned
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Tuesday's threads: There's no such thing as "age verification"; and more!
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116600283752988976
https://bsky.app/profile/
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I know the Telegraph is trash, but they just ran an op-ed by a woman who thinks leftist women are scarier than the manosphere, and proposes we put women on an island with strapping English military jocks, because apparently leftist women won’t be able to resist them.
What a strange island
@skinnylatte not to kink shame her, but she needs to leave the rest of us out of it
@mttaggart @DAIR Thanks! We do have a two-pager on myths around genAI and productivity -- https://cdn.sanity.io/files/uvgbyd32/production/1ff4676def68effda14f2e4a4ecf545cbf060d16.pdf
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RossMinor/116609432643608089
Oh hey 😊 A resource on #accessibility by someone who actually needs accessibility. This is the kind of #gaad exposure I can get behind :)
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Blobfish Pin.
Challenge: Try to call the blobfish ugly without someone commenting "Uhmm aCtUaLLy the blobfish doesn't look like that in the ocean, it's because of DeCoMpReSSiOn when you take them out of it." It's impossible. It cannot be done.
https://collabs.shop/f8zhl1
@mttaggart @DAIR Thanks! We do have a two-pager on myths around genAI and productivity -- https://cdn.sanity.io/files/uvgbyd32/production/1ff4676def68effda14f2e4a4ecf545cbf060d16.pdf
#10yrsago Xenophobic UK politician ranting about “political correctness” gets a public spanking from an historian https://web.archive.org/web/20160520224731/http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/ukip-councillor-attempts-to-blast-bbc-for-historical-inaccuracy-gets-destroyed-by-actual-historian--ZyZAasU2fb
#10yrsago A look at digital habits of 13 year olds shows desire for privacy, face-to-face time https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2016/04/18/the-class-living-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/
#10yrsago Big Vitamin bankrolls naturopaths’ attempts to go legit and get public money https://web.archive.org/web/20160520123659/https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/17/naturopaths-go-mainstream/
#10yrsago We Stand on Guard: in 100 years, America seizes Canada for its water https://memex.craphound.com/2016/05/18/we-stand-on-guard-in-100-years-america-seizes-canada-for-its-water/
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#5yrsago Apple's complicity in Chinese state oppressionhttps://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#think-manorialism
#5yrsago Community Health Services sued its way through the pandemic https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#health-usury
#5yrsago What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#user-personas
#5yrsago Dead, broke https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/19/zombie-debt/#damnation
#1yrago Who Broke the Internet? Part III https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/19/khan-thought/#they-were-warned
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Being trans in the uk: a short tale of two cultures.
Go to shop for snax, notice horrific transphobia on the newspaper front pages.
Buy snax, go to till. Older cashier lady gives a big smile and calls me "love" and "sweetheart" the whole time we're chatting as she's pricing my stuffs.
The media wants to make it look like everyone hates us. The truth is most ppl are actually just fine with trans ppl existing and getting on with our lives.
Don't believe the lies.
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