Sudan Gurung and team propose cabinet changes, focus on youth involvement
Protests against corruption lead to 51 deaths, over 1,300 injured
KATHMANDU, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A former DJ and his obscure Nepalese non-profit used a social media app popular with video gamers to drive massive protests and become the unlikely power brokers in installing the country's new interim leadership.
Sudan Gurung, the 36-year-old founder of Hami Nepal (We are Nepal), used the Discord messaging app and Instagram to mobilise massive demonstrations that forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign, in the deadliest political crisis to hit the Himalayan nation in decades, a dozen people involved in the demonstrations said.
Australia’s school funding system is unfair and inefficient, entrenching inequality. The article calls for a new model where all schools are publicly funded without fees.
Australia now has one of the most socially segregated school systems. More than 80% of students from disadvantaged families attend public schools, compared with just 12% in Catholic schools and 8% in independent schools.
Thirty years later, the negative consequences of this model are clear. It is seriously undermining our public school system, dividing communities and costing far more than it needs to. It entrenches inequality, yet survives because every reform attempt meets fierce resistance.
Yet there was little difference in educational outcomes such as VCE results and NAPLAN scores. Admittedly, these are not the only desirable outcomes — Carey may offer more extra-curricular activities — but questions arise about the relative efficiency of the two schools, as well as whether parents are truly getting value for money.
Countries that perform better on international tests — such as Canada, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand — offer choice within a publicly funded system. Schools may have distinct features, but they cannot charge fees. This keeps performance gaps smaller and prevents segregation by class.
Australia could adopt a similar model. Both levels of government would develop a common formula, based on a revised SRS[Schooling Resource Standard], to fully fund all schools – government and non-government. Schools could retain their ethos but would not be allowed to charge fees. Most private schools already receive close to or above 80% of the SRS, so the additional cost would be less than many assume.
Such reform would not abolish choice; it would simply make choice affordable and equitable. As in the UK and Canada, only a small minority of schools would remain outside the system.
Hochul endorsed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayor's election.
Hochul, a Democrat, backed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
"In the past few months, I've had frank conversations with him," Hochul said in the essay. "We've had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
Cox said the suspect’s partner was transgender, which some politicians have pointed to as a sign Robinson was targeting Kirk, the founder of Turning Points USA, for his anti-trans views. But authorities have not said whether it is relevant as they investigate Robinson’s motive.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says investigators are not yet ready to discuss a motive in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk but that the 22-year-old who was arrested leaned to the left.
In 2021, an audience member asked Kirk at what point conservatives had the green light to use guns on their political opponents, and while Kirk took care to at first “denounce” the question, he went into a longer answer that suggested he didn’t really disagree that much with its premise. Kirk’s sole objection to the idea, he explained, was that it was strategically foolish because it would create a pretext for a Democratic crackdown on the Right. He went on to suggest that the line for when it would be okay to take up arms and hurt people would be “when we exhaust every single one of our state[’s] ability to push back against what’s happening” — in other words, if his movement didn’t succeed through the normal political process. Two years later, he reiterated this, warning listeners that “you have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president,” so they should “buy weapons” and carry them around all the time in public in case they have to fight back.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I'm deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)
My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?
A group of websites selling small dolls with overtly childlike features have published more than 1,300 adverts on the platform. The dolls are notably realistic in appearance and many of the adverts use photos of them in sexualised poses, some holding balloons or teddy bears.
a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC GE mailing list):
"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.
The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.
After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.
What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."
"Will the minister elaborate on the minister's statement to TV2 on the 21st?"
August 2024, where the minister says: "We have to break with the totally mistaken notion that it is every man's freedom to communicate on encrypted messaging services
(…)”?”
Answer:
We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely is used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples on how criminal gangs recruit completely through encrypted platforms young people to commit, among other things, serious crimes against persons. It is an expression of a cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.
We therefore need to look at how we can overcome this problem. Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we from the authorities can do. It must not be the case that the criminals can hide behind encrypted services that authorities cannot access access to.
Therefore, we, as a government, will also strengthen the police's capabilities in the area of decryption, of course under appropriate legal guarantees, as is also the case today. In addition, the Ministry of Justice has The Criminal Justice Committee has just started working on a terms of reference that will look at the challenges that technological developments present to the police investigation, including the use of encrypted messaging services.
I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards a strengthened regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms.
For example, the European Commission has proposed a new Regulation on rules for preventing and combating sexual abuse of children. The proposed regulation contains rules on obligations for certain online services to minimize the risk of their services being misused for online child sexual abuse, and the services can, if necessary, be required to track down, report, remove and block access to material showing sexual abuse of children. :::
Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !
Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars... By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!
However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...
More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.
With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?
Stasera scopro un’altra storia incredibile, grazie alla solita piattaforma attraverso la quale Google esercita il proprio monopolio sul settore dei video online, e ancora una volta non capisco come mai non ne fossi al corrente prima! Spoiler, ma il tutto si condensa in… una bambina di 11 anni che, nella sempre ridente e senza problemi […]
Nevada-tan; o, propriamente, Natsumi Tsuji. Oh, il Giappone è pazzo, a parte gli scherzi, ma questo è troppo pure per loro… e infatti all’epoca, nel 2004, questo omicidio pare sia diventato subito un caso mediatico (mondiale, dicono, e quindi a maggior ragione non capisco perché lo scopro solo 21 anni dopo), oltre che un meme sullo stesso Internet che in parte ha portato al verificarsi del fenomeno, perché… Chi ha curiosità guardi il video, anche perché è pieno di tutti quei dettagli macabri intriganti che io non ho il tempo e lo spazio di ripetere qui, ma praticamente questa dolcissima bimba ha iniziato a infognarsi con la cultura horror giapponese del suo tempo, dopo che la madre la mise in punizione (di non uscire di casa se non per andare a scuola) perché a suo dire pensava troppo allo sport e poco allo studio, e quindi lei ha scoperto Internet per svagarsi… e ops. 🧨
Appassionandosi soprattutto a film del genere — che, anche questi, non ho mai sentito — tra cui un certo The Monday Night Mystery Theater, dove la gente che muore lì dentro viene uccisa con dei taglierini (e ancora non ho idea di che cazzo abbiano i giapponesi per i taglierini, onestamente… cioè, io condivido, ma non capisco da dove nasca questa fissazione), evidentemente ne prende grande ispirazione, perché è proprio così che ha deciso di ammazzare la compagna… L’ha portata in un’aula isolata, fingendo di avere un regalo per scusarsi, l’ha fatta bendare, e le ha tagliato la gola e i polsi!!! 💉
Una cosa bella è che nei momenti migliori del video ho riso… e oddio, non è poi troppo assurda per i miei standard, considerato che rido pure quando sono io a fare gli omicidi con il taglierino o il cacciavite giocando a Yandere Simulator, ma in effetti questa qui è molto me-coded, e mi rendo conto che io alla sua età non diventai un caso di cronaca solo perché, pur incazzandomi tale e quale a lei se non pure peggio sul momento, le cose mi passavano relativamente subito, e non avevo modo di accumulare abbastanza rancore per pianificare omicidi (ma le tendenze omicide le avevo, pur senza guardare horror o girare in parti di Internet strambe…) 😀
Però, oh, una nota di merito le deve essere data, e dovrebbe tecnicamente essere di conseguenza data anche a me della sua età, perché una delle cose che faceva sull’Internet fu di tenere un sito, a 11 anni… sul quale in realtà non si riesce a capire molto, perché il video dice che era un blog, ma cercando pare fosse un sito più generico, che in sé però non si trova più, probabilmente perché fu stato rimosso ai tempi del caso dalla piattaforma di hosting. Lì scriveva un po’ delle sue passioni, e un po’ della sua vita più in generale tra cui la scuola… un po’ come me, ma io inizialmente avevo solo le passioni, con me il postaggio totalizzante è arrivato più tardi. 👌
E ora, questa del sito sarebbe certamente una questione secondaria interessante da esplorare… Però, brava brava, anche perché immagino che creare i bloghetti nel 2004 non fosse facile quanto lo è stato per me nel 2015… anche se, pare che lei fosse particolarmente intelligente, seppur con (…o grazie a?) dei disturbi mentali, quindi vabbè, le sarà venuto relativamente naturale e richiedente poco impegno lo smanettare sul computer. (E menomale che io alla sua età facevo solo i siti, e non i piani… ma forse fu anche perché si sapeva che io avevo dei problemi, a differenza di lei, quindi la minaccia genitoriale del riformatorio era spesso dietro l’angolo.) ✨
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar this past week prompted concern among some in the Trump administration.
Farmiga is a farming simulator for the Commodore Amiga. Yes, you read that right. Somebody made Stardew Valley for your A500.
It started out in AMOS, which made for a clunky, memory-hungry, not exactly smooth experience. Then the dev—Paweł “tukinem” Tukatsch—rewrote the whole thing so it would actually run on real hardware without crying for 1.5 MB of RAM. Now it works on OCS, ECS, or AGA with Kickstart 1.2. Around 500k plus a bit of extra RAM gets you farming. A full MB if you want music.
The alpha is on itch.io as a bootable ADF. You can plant veggies, harvest crops, slap down fences, pay taxes, and wander into a shop. If that’s too boring, you can just make moonshine.
There are mini-games. The “cow” one shows up again here, though right now you have to trigger them yourself with F1–F3. Event triggers are still cooking.
It runs entirely on mouse. Menus, credits, save slots—it’s all point-and-click. Feels more polished than you’d expect from something still branded “tech demo.”
Polish was the first language, but English and German are already built in. The music comes from Marcin “Eightbm” Białobrzewski, who handles sound on a lot of Tukinem’s projects.
Older builds were rough. This one feels like if Maxis had secretly made SimFarm for the Amiga in the early ’90s. And yeah, wild-boar shooting and milk delivery were in earlier previews, so expect them to return.
It’s weird and charming. It’s farming on a machine never meant to farm. Boot the ADF—less than a megabyte—and watch crops grow on your A500.
Farmiga. Farm + Amiga. Simple and dumb. Which is exactly why it works.
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The Kimsky Group used 'ChatGPT' in the attack. ID cards forged in deepfakes were used, and batches files and AutoIT scripts avoided security detection.
Siamo abituati a pensarla con la classica buccia d'arancia a levare il sonno alle donne, ma di contro, la riteniamo,per il gentil sesso sopratutto, innocua. Ma siamo così sicuri che la cellulite sia innocua e sia solo un disagio estetico? Leggete l'articolo e ne scoprirete delle belle!
The question raised by the Target boycott is: Can Black people expect corporate America to ever do the right thing? by Erin Aubry KaplanSeptember 12, 2025 This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main.
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
Da piccoli la prima cosa che facciamo per muoverci è gattonare e poi correre, perchè? Non ne ho idea, ma è una attività che i muscoli sanno fare fin da subito, perchè lo sanno fare. E la cosa interessante è che se non viene stimolata si va a perdere. Quindi se verso i 30 anni si vuole ricominciare a corre bisogna reimparare a correre. Attività semplice ma bisogna anche saper correre bene. Non dico forte ma solo bene per evitare infortuni e star bene con se stessi! Buone corse ci sentiamo a fine mese!
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the U.S. will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at at least $34.8 billion a year.
The increase amounts to “the largest single-year increase in subsidies we’ve seen in many years — at least since 2017,” says Collin Rees, the U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuels advocacy organization and author of the report.
The U.S. has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century. Many of the tax subsidies logged in the report — including a tax break passed in 1913 that allows companies to write off large amounts of expenses related to drilling new oil wells — have been on the books for decades.
Fossil fuel subsidies have proven notoriously difficult to undo, even with a determined administration. After campaigning on ending tax breaks for Big Oil, President Joe Biden’s 2021 budget pledged to raise $35 billion over 19 years by eliminating certain fossil fuel subsidies; one of his first executive orders tasked agencies with getting rid of those subsidies. (“I don’t think the federal government should give handouts to Big Oil,” he at a press conference announcing the order.)
But the phaseouts of these subsidies were nixed during climate legislation negotiations with then-senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was the key swing vote in the Senate at the time and a recipient of fossil fuel money with lengthy ties to the coal industry. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act — the resulting compromise between Manchin and Democratic leadership, which was passed in August of 2022 — gave additional boosts to the fossil fuel industry in the form of subsidies for oil-and-gas-friendly technologies, like carbon capture and storage and certain types of hydrogen made with natural gas.
“What happens is you have these policies in place, and then you have a constituency that strongly advocates and lobbies for them, it becomes harder and harder to unwind them, which I think is the situation that we’re in today,” says Matthew Kotchen, a professor of economics at Yale University, who was not involved in the new analysis.
That cycle is continuing in the new administration. Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million. Those companies are seeing benefits as the administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, hobbles renewable energy projects, and downplays the importance of climate change. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the president has taken to calling oil CEOs following their appearances on TV.
“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much vice versa,” says Rees. “The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”
The new research builds on past work from Oil Change International, which last did the math on national fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, finding then that $20 billion was going out the door to the industry each year. To compile the new report, Rees and his colleagues combed through a variety of federal governmental sources on the amount of money going to the oil, gas, and coal industries each year.
The question of what, exactly, constitutes a federal subsidy is the topic of some debate. Environmental groups tend to have a broader scope in tallying up public money spent on fossil fuels, including federal money not distributed directly to oil companies. Conservative groups, meanwhile, take a much narrower approach. (For its report, Oil Change International used the definitions of subsidies set by the World Trade Organization in calculating domestic funding to fossil fuels.)
Due to a lack of transparency across the federal government, the calculations in this report are “likely to be an undercount,” Rees says. “There’s probably some things that we missed — some corners of the budget that are funding fossil fuels in different ways.”
The $4 billion in new yearly subsidies comes largely in the form of allocations contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed this summer. One of the biggest new subsidies — an expansion of the tax credit for carbon capture and storage — is, ironically, related to provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Trump campaigned on reversing. (The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did, however, crack down harshly on tax credits for wind and solar, carrying out part of Trump’s campaign promise.)
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed — especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels.
In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.
The types of federal subsidies addressed in this report are just one kind of boost the government gives dirty industries. The analysis does not address state and local tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, nor does it add up international financing from publicly funded U.S. entities to overseas fossil fuel companies and projects. (Just before he left office, President Biden backed a limit on funding for dirty investments made by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a part of the executive branch that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services. President Trump promptly encouraged the Bank in April to resume funding for coal projects abroad.)
The fossil fuel industry also benefits financially from not having to address the negative side effects of their products: Coal companies don’t have to deal with the health impacts from people breathing polluted air, for example, while oil and gas companies don’t need to think about damages from extreme weather juiced up by climate change caused by their product. Kotchen, the Yale economist, calculated in a 2021 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a small handful of U.S. oil, gas, coal, and diesel giants, by not having to pay for the damage they cause, get $62 billion in what he calls “implicit subsidies” per year.
I asked him if, given the major environmental rollbacks overseen by the Trump administration, he’d expect that figure to increase if he redid his analysis in 2025. “The environmental externalities are higher, and production has gone up,” he says. “I think [the number] would be a lot higher.”
US President Donald Trump has urged the Export-Import Bank of the United States to slash red tape and boost financing for the country’s coal industry, signalling a dramatic departure in White House energy policy.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Storia, come sempre, complessa e non di facile comprensione soprattutto senza sapere esattamente come stanno le cose. Certo è che Proton dovrebbe essere più trasparente su cose come questa:
> Proton did not publicly specify which CERT had alerted them, and didn’t answer The Intercept’s request for the name of the specific CERT which had sent the alert. KrCERT also did not reply to The Intercept’s question about whether they were the CERT that had sent the alert to Proton.
A new piracy study published in Russia has some good news, and some more good news. Due to blocking and lower payouts from advertisers, pirates' revenue fell by 14.5% in the first half of 2025. Search traffic fell too, down 13.9% with some pirates using morse code to thwart detection. With piracy on social media and hosting sites reportedly falling from 12.1% to 1.6% of piracy overall, the tactic of hiding Hollywood movies on RuTube's front page may have been overlooked.
Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.
The call is organised by EnergyLab Asia, a non-profit driving Cambodia’s energy transition, in collaboration with Micro Galleries (a global art collective), Sambor Village hotel in Kampong Thom and Seapunk Studios (a network of creatives around Southeast Asia).
The open call invites artists, designers, and creatives from across Southeast Asia to submit digital artwork for an exhibition to be held at F3 – Friends Futures Factory in Phnom Penh on 4 October as part of Clean Energy Week.
The project seeks to inspire a hopeful, sustainable future through art, countering climate pessimism and empowering local communities.
The proposals should be for digital artworks that envision a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The ‘solar’ represents renewable energy and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the ‘punk’ refers to do-it-yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.
Artists retain full copyright, and printing costs for the exhibition will be covered by the organisers. Works may be toured or shown online in the future, powered by Microgalleries. Eligibility
Artists of any medium and career level, primarily from Southeast Asia can apply.
Their resources may be limited but that's good they offer accommodation. I assume you're referring to the residency. This is just an open call for artists to submit art.
I found a way where you can encode words using English words, in binary, without using any computer programs. (Its very rudimentary)
Bit One: If first letter is between a-m = 0; n-z =1 Bit Two: If the length of the word is even its 0, if odd 1 Bit Three: If the word ends with a-m =0; n-z =1
Exclude all article words like "the" "or" "and", etc...
the extra (s) for plural is counted for the odd and even, but doesn't count as the final letter of the word (otherwise it would trend towards the (1) bit as every 3 bits apart)
Example of a sentence of hidden info:
::: spoiler Wall of Text Warning. Its a full worksheet and calculations of how to form the steganograph/ciphertext. The kitten explores the icecream shop, many undetermined flavor of tasteful extra-ordinary strawberrys
characters in [] are excluded
[the] kitten explore [s]k = 0 even = 0 n = 1 e = 0 even = 0 (remember, "s" counts for parity (even/odd) but not as the final letter of the word) e = 0 Result = 001000
[the] icecream shop i = 0 even = 0 m = 0 s = 1 even = 0 p = 1 Result = 000101
many undetermined m = 0 even = 0 y = 1 u = 1 even = 0 d = 0 Result: 001100
flavor [of] tasteful f = 0 even = 0 r = 1 t = 1 even = 0 l = 0 Result = 001100
extra[-]ordinary strawberry [s]e = 0 even = 0 (the hypen counts as a letter) y = 1 s = 1 odd = 1 y = 1 Result= 001111
(I hope I encoded this correctly, I always fuck up with ciphers)
Also, you can use other ciphers on top of this steganograph to scramble it even more, like FourSquare Cipher. Or OneTimePad if its less "piracy" and more "revolutionary" (I mean don't use a caesar cipher if you are doing a rebellion lmao)
And write it as a free-verse poem to hide the awkward language.
What's the government gonna do? Ban Literature? (Inb4 Fahrenheit 451 lol) :::
Why go the effort of banning literature, when you can just stupidizise your population down to the reading/writing comprehension level of tiktok ~~for free~~ and get revenue while at it? 🧠
The article is interesting, but they really went hard with the title just to only talk about it for like two sentences. I was hoping for more since it seems like a pretty fun topic.
Rozaŭtuno
in reply to fossilesque • • •> hates the sea
> hates bees
Could never be me.