Sometimes the good guys win. And when this happens, we take the time to enjoy our victory because that is the only way to fight a long fight without burning out. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices

What if we brought the best, most participatory values of urban planning to digital public spaces?

Unlike the planning of physical spaces, the guidelines and standards for digital public spaces are pretty undefined, says Managing Director at New_ Public @angelquicksey.

Which means that communities have far more latitude to build what they truly want and need.

In the newsletter today I wrote about two apps:

- One of the best new Mac apps I've tried in a long time made by @fcantu for Apple Music;

- The new Notion Agents app, which is a really nicely designed experience for working with LLMs in Notion.

https://www.macstories.net/club/macstories-weekly-issue-522/

@401matthall @Lana

Aren't statistics fun? :D

"...and all the children are above average."

Oh flashback

The Electric Light Orchestra

nou was ik @ionica et al.'s Rekenen voor je leven aan het lezen, over Nille, Ahmed, en Mano aan het lezen, en ineens heb ik Circus Custers in mijn hoofd... nou ja, melodie, en heb net moeten opzoeken van wie dat nou was...

Zat er een regel uit de songtekst in het boek verstopt?

Calls Grow for Accountability From Fossil Fuel Execs Amid Climate-Fueled Fires | Truthout, July 17, 2026

“We need Nuremberg trials for Big Oil,” the Sunrise Movement wrote on social media as wildfires rage across Canada.

By Olivia Rosane, CommonDreams

https://truthout.org/articles/calls-grow-for-accountability-from-fossil-fuel-execs-amid-climate-fueled-fires/

My vim ~/.vimrc config file is like my life. full of settings I copied from a stranger on the internet, don’t understand and now am too afraid to delete 😭

I have been looking forward to the album *A Blooming Body* released today by Cinder Well. I first heard the artist Amelia Baker from the theme song for the TV series Small Prophets. Not surprisingly, the new LP is just as beautiful and haunting.

Audio: https://cinderwell.bandcamp.com/album/a-blooming-body

Video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kQzQdx4TWMczaNHl5hKwStv_ppLd6vn8E

#Film #Music #NewMusic #DarkFolk #SlowCore

🧑‍💻 FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work - Phoronix

｢ FreeBSD developers have been working on porting the Linux 6.13 DRM state and is now under review. There is also a Linux 6.14 port that's been worked on as well. In turn their next milestone is moving to the Direct Rendering Manager state from the current Linux 6.18 LTS base. ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptops-June-2026

#freebsd #bsd #opensource

@evacide \o/

Hahaha apparently The Conversation sends you a congratulatory email when you have the most reads of the week now. Excellent. Now if only Reflect Orbital's investors and insurers would read it and STOP GIVING THEM MONEY https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-just-approved-a-giant-space-mirror-to-test-sunlight-on-demand-low-earth-orbit-is-getting-weird-283482

@arstechnica Looking forward to paying for soldier's hormone management for the rest of their lives when they get out of the service

A generalized desire to understand how the objects and systems around you work, regardless of whether or not that knowledge can actually be applied

American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.

Frontex and Italy complete trial of the largest drones the Agency has yet flown from a patrol ship https://www.frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/frontex-and-italy-complete-trial-of-the-largest-drones-the-agency-has-yet-flown-from-a-patrol-ship-wzuanG

This is some sort of social warrior project. Always has been. Always will be.