Bubbles Democracy Design Lab asked Sarah Mirk to adapt Hamilton Nolan's essay, Confiscate Their Money. They made the resulting zine available as a PDF to download, print, and distribute. Since the work is licensed CC-BY-NC 4.0, I'm reproducing it here in a format suited to reading on the web. Have you ever wondered how best to summarise your character as a member of the blogging community? If so, this quiz is for you! Answer the following questions to find out which blogger archetype best suits you. Question 1 When you are spending time outdoors, what do you like to do best? Watch the world go by. Stay busy with activities and friends. Take a book and read. Go to something new (art exhibit, concert, cafe, etc.). Mentally organise my week. Question 2 What do you do when you are in... Bubbles -a site I am increasingly fond of as it's turning up some wonderful posts and sites and people- was recently mentioned on Hackernews. I've followed Hackernews for a long time as a way to keep some form of view on the tech world (to which I am adjacent) but only check it every week or so. So I missed the moment when it happened, but there were signs... Can you spot when Bubbles got popular and then direct a fair chunk of traffic to my blog?? According to Benjamin Behnke, the Bubbles... A while back I read The Last Quiet Thing, a fantastic piece by Terry Godier, a piece about a twelve-dollar Casio watch compared to an Apple Watch, and why one of them is a product and the other is a relationship. I've been thinking about it ever since, keeping my eye out for single-use devices that just get out of the way. That's how I ended up with an Xteink X4 in my pocket.It's a tiny pocketable e-reader, smaller than a cell phone, with an E-Ink screen and no agenda beyond displaying books.... Since reading Naomi Klein's Doppelganger and its parts about Covid and fitness influencer culture a while ago (especially the chapter "The Far Right Meets the Far Out"), I cannot help but see that "Pinterest clean girl fitness and fruit bowl gua sha yoga mat pilates in the forest" content as covert white supremacy and eugenicist ideals; dog whistles, shared far and wide by people who probably don't know better and just think it looks good and want to be like that. I cannot quote the entire book... I love Bear. It is one of the few places on the web that still feels calm, personal, and human. You write something, publish it, and it exists as a simple page on the internet. No algorithm. No follower count. No pressure to perform. For writing, Bear feels almost perfect to me. But I also take photos. Not professional photos. Not portfolio work. Just ordinary life: walks, family days, weekends, cities, small details, strange light, quiet moments I want to keep. And I never really knew where... I've been using Git for so long and I just realized you can ignore files at three different levels and not just with .gitignore. The three files you can use to ignore files are: .gitignore .git/info/exclude ~/.config/git/ignore .gitignore .gitignore is the usual file where you write files you want to ignore. It's checked into Git along with the rest of the code. Whatever files you add to it will not get taken into account when running git commands. .git/info/exclude The exclude file lives in... So me and Cellar were talking about how to roll dice using cards and I figured that if I didn't write it down, I would forget it. These are our conclusions.1 "But Havoc, why? I own dice!" Maybe you like cards, maybe you forgot your dice at home, maybe your kid or dog or sub ate your dice, I don't know your life. Stop hectoring me. For this to work, separate your deck into one with just faces and one with just numbers. Remove the jokers. d2 - Draw a card, red suits are 1, blacks are 2. Can also... So many things happened since the first day I released Town Square. I have been shipping a lot because people were genuinely having fun with it and naturally started imagining what else would make it even better. They were not just asking for features. They were playing with it, enjoying it, and saying things like how nice it would be if Town Square had this or that. There is now more room for people to make their own square feel like their own. You can customize colors, change the number of... I use two social media platforms: Instagram and Threads, but I don't need to check my screen time to know that I've been using Threads too much this year. It's a place where you can have conversations. I never liked Twitter because it felt like shouting into the void. With Threads, you start to develop a community and you see how everyone interacts with each other. But that community is in Threads, and Meta does everything it can to keep you there. I stopped posting what I wanted to post... It seems like the older child totoro doesn't get enough attention. I made this to help remedy that.I actually carved this before the Jiji stamp, but am just getting around to posting it. The detail on this one was more challenging than the carvings that preceded it. I was still using the Speedball tool, and did not have the smaller 1mm gouge yet.I used the Tsukineko VersaFine Clair Blue Belle stamp pad for this print.There is an 18-second totoro imprinting video on YouTube. Nice, quirky web projects are always a joy to stumble upon. I recently came across Daniel Janus's old handwritten.blog which is (or would have been anyway) a blog that was entirely handwritten. And by 'entirely' I mean entirely, from the header to footer to every little thing you would see on the webpage; nothing was typed up, all of it was written on a reMarkable 2 e-ink tablet. As you might suspect, it was unsustainable and was abandoned rather quickly, but not before Daniel had catalogued... The UK government wants to ban social media for under-16s. The goal is reasonable, but there are more effective alternatives that don't require sacrificing privacy and anonymity for the rest of the population. | Read full post >> I just read an article on ExtremeTech that the new Windows Media Player uses 3.5x more RAM than its predecessor, and it now charges users for third party codecs. This is asinine. What are you doing Microsoft?? I am trying to imagine what the managers at the helm are doing here. There's only two possibilities: Either they are completely blind to this issue and are asleep at the wheel, or they are aware of the requirements and have actively signed off on a worse product for reasons that are... I have a hypothesis that Linux and EVs have a similar characteristic: Once you switch, you'll never want to go back. Nathan Edwards in The Verge: It didn't take long for my Linux install to stop feeling new and exciting and start feeling like, well, my computer. It's not exactly like a less annoying version of Windows, though it is less annoying than Windows, but it's been a much easier transition than I thought it would be. There are a few extra steps sometimes in finding and installing apps -... One of the most painful arguments I keep having with fellow techies is the question of whether you can distinguish between human-written and AI-generated text.Their skepticism is rooted in reason: at their core, LLMs are state-of-the-art statistical models of how humans talk. If so, the output from the model should be almost by definition indistinguishable from human language under any statistical test.I don't think this is always argued in good faith; at least some of the debates are started... I've been thinking about genre again, pondering Romance and horror as two sides of a coin. I compared notes* with a friend who reads a lot of horror, and we were surprised how much they served as mirrors. One imagines the worst that could happen; the other imagines the best. "The worlds of myth or fairy tale have been built either as traps or as happiness-giving universes." - Stanislaw Lem, Microworlds *(Discussion prompted by a couple books that combine elements of horror and Romance: All of... Links
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