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Detox Doodles!

This is a habit of drawing every time I feel the urge to scroll mindlessly. New good habit replacing a bad habit!

This page is all about egrets, and they deserved a double spread!

#art #bird #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt



Borgio Verezzi apre il Festival con 'Miles Gloriosus' di Plauto - Teatro - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/teatro/2025/07/08/borgio-verezzi-apre-il-festival-con-miles-gloriosus-di-plauto_d076f499-5f45-472b-a3b3-dcaa24d1a759.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa



Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, premio per brano su Giulia Tramontano - Musica - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/musica/2025/07/08/pinguini-tattici-nucleari-premio-per-brano-su-giulia-tramontano_5d9d5198-599b-4148-8ebe-fd3fc22729e6.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Spettacolo e Cultura @spettacolo-e-cultura-AgenziaAnsa


in reply to Richard Stallman

[2/2] methods of dealing with the inconvenience of homeless people living in public areas sooner or later take a cruel and vicious form. Here is an example from Australia. I've often linked to examples from California, Some places choose rather to give each homeless person a place to live in.
in reply to Richard Stallman

in Finland the city of Helsinki has a project to give basic housing, ie small flats to the homeless along with psych counseling for free, on the assumption that caring for them in an emergency situation would have been even more costly. It worked, and also after the change of political colour the project has been confirmed. This proves that thought out intervention works and helps lift homeless back on their feet, and be aonce more active members of society..
youtube.com/watch?v=0jt_6PBnCJโ€ฆ
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

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Venezuela, shocking human rights report: 522 killed in 2024 by Maduroโ€™s security forces liberoreporter.it/2025/07/eng-โ€ฆ


My gym started a new 5:45 am barre/bike combo class and itโ€™s exactly what I needed โค๏ธ But I ran in to the bike room with all my stuff to get set up for the transition and lo and behold it momentarily looked as if I was getting ready to wear my helmet inside ๐Ÿ˜‚



Viele in Deutschland glauben, dass wir beim Einsatz erneuerbarer Energien einsame Spitze sind. In Europa liegen wir beim Vergleich des Solarenergieanteils an der Last aber nur auf Platz 3. Interessant ist aber dennoch, dass sonnigere Lรคnder wie Frankreich oder Portugal deutlich hinter uns liegen. Griechenland ist hingegen auf Platz 1. Hier deckt die #Photovoltaik bereits ein Viertel des Strombedarfs.
wisskomm.social/@energy_chartsโ€ฆ
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in reply to Amanda ๐Ÿˆ๐Ÿ—พโœŠ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿซ‚โ˜ฏ๏ธ

Das Bild zeigt eine Frau mit kurzem, grauem Haar, die ein Selfie aufgenommen hat. Sie trรคgt eine Sonnenbrille mit runden Glรคsern und ein hellblaues, gestreiftes Oberteil mit einem geometrischen Muster am Hals. Im Hintergrund erstreckt sich eine weite Landschaft mit Dรผnen und Gras, die typisch fรผr Kรผstenregionen ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewรถlkt, und die Sonne scheint durch die Wolken hindurch. Die Frau lรคchelt und scheint sich in der Natur zu befinden, was auf eine entspannte und freudige Stimmung hinweist.
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Das Bild zeigt eine hรถlzerne Treppe, die sich durch eine sanfte Dรผnenlandschaft windet. Die Treppe besteht aus mehreren gleichmรครŸig angeordneten Holzplanken, die sich in einer leicht steilen Richtung nach oben erstrecken. Die Umgebung ist geprรคgt von niedriger Vegetation, die aus Gras und Heidekraut besteht, das die Dรผnen bedeckt. Die Dรผnen sind von einer Mischung aus grรผnem und braunem Gras bedeckt, was auf die natรผrliche Vegetation hinweist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewรถlkt, mit weiรŸen Wolken, die sich gegen einen blauen Hintergrund abheben. Die Treppe fรผhrt den Blick des Betrachters in die Ferne, wodurch ein Gefรผhl von Weite und Abenteuer entsteht.
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Das Bild zeigt einen schwarzen und weiรŸen Border Collie, der auf einer Holzleiter sitzt. Der Hund ist an einer Leine gebunden und blickt direkt in die Kamera. Die Leiter fรผhrt hinauf zu einer sanften Dรผne, die mit Gras und Heidekraut bedeckt ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewรถlkt, und die Sonne scheint durch die Wolken hindurch. Die Holzleiter ist aus grauen Planken gefertigt und fรผhrt in die Ferne, wobei die Stufen in der Ferne kleiner erscheinen. Der Border Collie hat ein charakteristisches schwarzes und weiรŸes Fell mit einem weiรŸen Bauch und weiรŸen Pfoten. Die Umgebung wirkt ruhig und natรผrliche, mit einer offenen Landschaft, die typisch fรผr Kรผstenregionen ist.
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Das Bild zeigt eine weite Landschaft mit sanften Hรผgeln und dichtem Gras, die von einer Holzbrรผcke und einem Aussichtspunkt รผberblickt wird. Die Brรผcke fรผhrt zu einem erhรถhten Aussichtspunkt, der von einer Holzbalustrade umgeben ist. Der Himmel ist teilweise bewรถlkt, mit groรŸen, weiรŸen Wolken, die den blauen Hintergrund rahmen. Die Landschaft erstreckt sich weit in die Ferne, wobei die Hรผgel sanft abfallen und sich in der Ferne verschmelzen. Die Vegetation besteht hauptsรคchlich aus niedrigem Gras und Strรคuchern, die die sanften Hรผgel bedecken. Die Holzbrรผcke und der Aussichtspunkt sind gut erhalten und bieten einen idealen Ort, um die natรผrliche Schรถnheit der Umgebung zu genieรŸen.

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๐ŸŒฑ Energieverbrauch: 2.941 Wh



openSUSEโ€™s Agama 16 Installer Brings Wayland Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_lโ€ฆ


U.S. #CISA adds MRLG, PHPMailer, Rails Ruby on Rails, and Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
securityaffairs.com/179722/hacโ€ฆ
#securityaffairs #hacking



Got an ultra wide monitor, now all 32 Tuxes are visible. ๐Ÿง

#Linux #tux #gentoo #gentoolinux #ultrawide

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Tankies will support the Iranian regime treating these Brown people as garbage because it's all just a big game to them and they don't really care about Human Beings, just winning a stupid argument.
They claim to be 'Anti-Racist' but they just have a different racial hierarchy to the Capitalists, but it's still a hierarchy.

Show me a nation on Earth that treats Refugees with dignity, is there one? ๐Ÿ˜ž

theguardian.com/global-developโ€ฆ

#Iran #Afganistan #RefugeesWelcome #Tankies



Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers' Union Are Hatching a Plan To 'Bring AI into the Classroom' news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/โ€ฆ


Capitalism in a Nutshell


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in reply to db0

โ€œSustainable Capitalismโ€ , good Orwellian oxymoron!

Whats next, โ€œGentle Fascismโ€?

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire

I hate that โ€œLibertarianismโ€ in US-english means those โ€œfreeโ€ market dumbasses.

It actually meant anarchist (anti-capitalist) originally and was a euphemism for anarchist when it was banned to be one. It still means that in French generally.

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in reply to FundMECFS

I mean, it's not atypical for Americans to completely redefine a political definition so badly it loses all meaning. Just look at how most of us define our "leftist" leadership.....
in reply to TranscendentalEmpire

โ€œliberalโ€ meaning left is a decent example as well.
in reply to FundMECFS

Yeah.... Our education system isn't big on political history, or really history in general.
in reply to TranscendentalEmpire

yall seem to learn plenty about the glorious colonialists who brought civilisation (/s)
in reply to FundMECFS

Because other systems are much more sustainable. Just ask folks in Norilsk. Or Lake Karachay. Or pripyat. Or the Aral sea. Or...
in reply to Tja

Ah yes, the only possible systems are Capitalism and the Soviet Union, which in practice was basically state Capitalism.
in reply to FundMECFS

We have China, want to talk about that? Cuba? Oh, oh... North Korea??
in reply to Tja

โ€ฆ. Yeah, state capitalism.

Youโ€™re not gonna tell me countries with billionaires, capital accumulation, market logic, are communist?

The main exception is north korea but thatโ€™s just a totalitarian planned economy.

in reply to FundMECFS

Cuba is capitalist? The things I learn on lemmy... Someone should let the Americans know!
in reply to Tja

Cuba has corporations, billionaires, and โ€œfreeโ€ (neoliberal) trade.

Just because they fly a red flag and call themselves communist doesnโ€™t make them such.



Trump ha rimandato lโ€™applicazione dei dazi, chi lโ€™avrebbe mai detto

Nuova dead line 1ยฐ agosto, poi vedremo [.....]

gaiaitalia.com/2025/07/08/trumโ€ฆ



We are truly very happy especially me Our organization, Uganda Eco Youths Network, has been recognized by the #Agroecology community, and our logo now stands proudly among other organizations that support #SustainableFarming and #FoodSovereignty

Check out the full list of supporting groups here: agroecologymap.org/en/projectsโ€ฆ

This is a big step for us here in #Uganda, and we are committed to continuing the work for #ClimateAction, #YouthInAgroecology, and #EcoFriendly solutions!



Auto vecchie e scarsa manutenzione: la bomba a orologeria sulle strade italiane
@motori
๐Ÿš— ๐Ÿš— ๐Ÿš—
Il 10% delle auto in Italia ha pneumatici lisci. La Polstrada denuncia la scarsa manutenzione e propone incentivi per migliorare la sicurezza.
motori.it/sicurezza-stradale-iโ€ฆ
#motori #auto

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Bonelli: emendamento governo su armi porta Italia in stato di guerra verdisinistra.it/bonelli-emendโ€ฆ



Faut-il vraiment culpabiliser en regardant YouTube en 4K ?@ApresLaBiere@labiologiefaitdesvideos


Cette vidรฉo traite de l'impact climatique du numรฉrique. Quelles sont les รฉmissions de gaz ร  effet de serre dans le monde ? Et en France ? Comment ces รฉmissions sont-elles rรฉparties entre terminaux, rรฉseaux et centres de donnรฉes ? Quel est l'impact de l'audiovisuel ? Du streaming ? De cette chaรฎne YouTube en particulier ? Comment cet impact se compare ร  d'autres loisirs ? Avec @ApresLaBiere , on s'intรฉresse ensuite ร  des impacts indirects du numรฉrique : publicitรฉ ciblรฉe, dรฉsinformation, mauvaise hiรฉrarchisation et affaiblissement des dรฉmocraties.

La vidรฉo de Michaรซl (@labiologiefaitdesvideos ) sur l'impact des mails : youtu.be/UyGkxWA72tk
La vidรฉo de Jean-Lou (@ApresLaBiere) pour numรฉrique plus dรฉmocratique et plus ร  mรชme de lutter contre le changement climatique :

0:00โ€‹ โ€ข Introduction
1:08 โ€ข Pรฉrimรจtre du numรฉrique
2:36 โ€ข ร‰missions de gaz ร  effet de serre du numรฉrique dans le monde
7:23 โ€ข ร‰missions de gaz ร  effet de serre du numรฉrique dans en France
14:38 โ€ข Audiovisuel
23:20โ€‹ โ€ข Contextualisation de lโ€™impact du streaming
26:25 โ€ข Approche marginale
29:11 โ€ข Impact de la chaรฎne Le Rรฉveilleur
34:26 โ€ข Publicitรฉ ciblรฉe
41:18 โ€ข Amplification dโ€™informations fausses ou trompeuses
46:26โ€‹ โ€ข Mauvaise hiรฉrarchisation des informations
51:20 โ€ข Dรฉgradation de la dรฉmocratie
56:54 โ€ข Quelques mots sur les IAs gรฉnรฉratives
1:00:14 โ€ข Des pistes pour rรฉduire lโ€™impact du numรฉrique
1:03:31 โ€ข Conclusion
1:05:12โ€‹ โ€ข Outro


Sources :
lereveilleur.com/climat-et-numโ€ฆ
Texte avec annotations et sources :
docs.google.com/document/d/1r8โ€ฆ


Soutenir la chaรฎne Le Rรฉveilleur :
tinyurl.com/ychnp6hc (de prรฉfรฉrence)
en.tipeee.com/le-reveilleur


Merci aux relecteurs :
Basile Fighiera, linkedin.com/in/basile-fighierโ€ฆ
Pierre Beyssac bsky.app/profile/pierreb.bsky.โ€ฆ
Gauthier Roussilhe, linkedin.com/in/gauthier-roussโ€ฆ

Script : Rodolphe Meyer & Michaรซl Ruff
Montage : Michaรซl Ruff
Miniature : Fynless, https://x.com/fynless
Merci ร  ma mรจre qui s'occupe de corriger le texte et le retranscrire proprement pour les sous-titres.


Mรฉdias sociaux:
Pour ne rien rater sur la chaรฎne, pensez ร  vous abonner et ร  activer les notifications (petite cloche).
bsky.app/profile/lereveilleur.โ€ฆ
twitch.tv/le_reveilleur


Musique: "Time is running" par Marc Corominas Pujadรณ (license jamendo)

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Agricultural workers meet to hear stories about virtues of President Kim Il Sung #DPRK vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_coโ€ฆ
#dprk


Unterdrรผckung von Frauen: Strafgerichtshof erlรคsst Haftbefehle gegen Taliban

Seit knapp vier Jahren sind sie wieder an der Macht - und unterdrรผcken Frauen und Mรคdchen in Afghanistan. Nun geht der Internationale Strafgerichtshof gegen die Taliban vor. Gegen zwei Anfรผhrer wurden Haftbefehle erlassen.

โžก๏ธ tagesschau.de/ausland/un-afghaโ€ฆ

#VereinteNationen #Afghanistan #Taliban #Frauenrechte

in reply to tagesschau

ja diese fiesen Frauen- und Mรคdchenunterdrรผcker!
Andere Lรคnder andere Sitten, andere Frauen andere Titten


Flรผchtlingskrise, Stromsteuer, Wirtschaftskrise: AfD wirft GroKo auf Klausurtagung "Wortbruch" vor de.rt.com/inland/250032-fluechโ€ฆ Auf ihrer Klausurtagung in Berlin formulierte die AfD ein Sieben-Punkte-Programm, in dem sie Bundeskanzler Merz und sein Kabinett massiv kritisiert. Vor allem die Union habe ihre Wรคhler massiv enttรคuscht. Gleichzeitig strebt die AfD laut Co-Chef Tino Chrupalla eine Professionalisierung an. #news #press


Non รจ un segreto: siamo grandi fan del Fediverso!

Sulle piattaforme come X, Instagram o TikTok, stanno crescendo odio, razzismo e disinformazione, mentre i colossi tech continuano a raccogliere in massa i dati personali degli utenti.

๐ŸŒฑ Il #Fediverso rappresenta una vera alternativa: รจ aperto, decentralizzato e costruito dalla comunitร .

๐Ÿ‘‰ Vieni a scoprirci nel nostro sito, abbiamo raccolto le alternative italiane che fanno parte della nostra associazione: fedimedia.it

@fediverso

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Unknown parent

mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
Fedimedia Italia APS โ‚

@warlock0x @luca_franchini inizia facendogli vedere the social dilemma: peertube.uno/w/wgJ871DwAJY1njzโ€ฆ


The Social Dilemma - Film documentario completo in streaming ITA Download


Questo documentario di Jeff Orlowski esplora come la dipendenza e la violazione della privacy siano caratteristiche, non bug, delle piattaforme dei social media.

Che i social media possano creare dipendenza e dare i brividi non รจ una rivelazione per chi usa Facebook, Twitter, Instagram e simili. Ma nel documentario di Jeff Orlowski "The Social Dilemma", i disertori coscienziosi di queste aziende spiegano che la perniciositร  delle piattaforme di social networking รจ una caratteristica, non un bug.

Essi sostengono che la manipolazione del comportamento umano a scopo di lucro รจ codificata in queste aziende con una precisione machiavellica: Le notifiche a scorrimento e push infinito mantengono gli utenti costantemente impegnati; le raccomandazioni personalizzate utilizzano i dati non solo per prevedere ma anche per influenzare le nostre azioni, trasformando gli utenti in facili prede per gli inserzionisti e i propagandisti.

Come nei suoi documentari sul cambiamento climatico, "Chasing Ice" e "Chasing Coral", Orlowski prende una realtร  che puรฒ sembrare troppo colossale e astratta per essere afferrata da un profano, figuriamoci se ci si preoccupa, e la riduce a un livello umano. In "The Social Dilemma", egli rielabora uno dei piรน antichi tropi del genere horror - il dottor Frankenstein, lo scienziato che si รจ spinto troppo oltre - per l'era digitale.

In interviste ben curate, Orlowski parla con uomini e (alcune) donne che hanno contribuito a costruire i social media e che ora temono gli effetti delle loro creazioni sulla salute mentale degli utenti e sulle basi della democrazia. Le loro testimonianze ammonitorie sono state rilasciate con la forza di un lancio iniziale, utilizzando aforismi e analogie concise.

"Mai prima d'ora nella storia 50 designer hanno preso decisioni che avrebbero avuto un impatto su due miliardi di persone", dice Tristan Harris, un ex esperto di etica del design di Google. Anna Lembke, un'esperta di dipendenze dell'Universitร  di Stanford, spiega che queste aziende sfruttano il bisogno evolutivo del cervello per la connessione interpersonale. E Roger McNamee, uno dei primi investitori in Facebook, fornisce un'accusa agghiacciante: La Russia non ha hackerato Facebook, ha semplicemente usato la piattaforma.

Molto di tutto ciรฒ รจ familiare, ma "The Social Dilemma" si spinge oltre, intercalando le interviste con scene di fantasia in stile P.S.A. di una famiglia di periferia che soffre le conseguenze della dipendenza dai social media. Ci sono cene in silenzio, una figlia adolescente (Sophia Hammons) con problemi di immagine di sรฉ e un figlio adolescente (Skyler Gisondo) radicalizzato dalle raccomandazioni di YouTube che promuovono una vaga ideologia.

Questa narrazione romanzata esemplifica i limiti dell'enfasi talvolta iperbolica del documentario sul mezzo a scapito del messaggio. Ad esempio, gli interlocutori del film attribuiscono l'aumento delle malattie mentali all'uso dei social media, ma non riconoscono fattori come l'aumento dell'insicurezza economica. Polarizzazione, rivolte e proteste sono presentati come sintomi particolari dell'era dei social media senza contesto storico.

Nonostante le loro veementi critiche, gli intervistati di "The Social Dilemma" non sono tutti dei dissidenti; molti suggeriscono che con i giusti cambiamenti, possiamo salvare il bene dei social media senza il male. Ma l'accaparramento di soluzioni personali e politiche che presentano nel film confonde due distinti obiettivi di critica: la tecnologia che provoca comportamenti distruttivi e la cultura del capitalismo incontrollato che la produce.

Ciononostante, "Il dilemma sociale" รจ straordinariamente efficace nel lanciare l'allarme sull'incursione del data mining e della tecnologia manipolativa nella nostra vita sociale e oltre. Il film di Orlowski non รจ di per sรฉ risparmiato dal fenomeno che esamina. Il film รจ in streaming su Netflix, dove diventerร  un altro nodo dell'algoritmo basato sui dati del servizio.


in reply to Fedimedia Italia APS โ‚

I had more accounts suspended in 2 years on mastodon & pixelfed than I had in 20+ years of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Censorship, limitations, suspension and blocking are as bad, if not worse in the so called free media

It's a disgusting and sad world we live in, replacing corporate fascism with large number of little fascists

The problem is still there, & it's not just because of corporate control, bit the global fascism protecting the genocidal regime of Israel



Lavrov Holds Press Conference Following BRICS Summit in Rio sputnikglobe.com/20250707/lavrโ€ฆ The 17th BRICS summit kicked off in the Brazilian seaside resort of Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Russian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is attending the event. #news #press


if elon really wanted to create a party to give people what they wanted, policies would include taxing the richest people/corporations, bringing down medical costs, congressional term limits, common sense gun laws, etc

(not decreasing the deficit)

instagram.com/reel/DL2VSi_xuvUโ€ฆ

in reply to ian bremmer

RE: threads.com/@ianbremmer/post/Dโ€ฆ


how successful do i think the โ€œamerica partyโ€ can be in gaining momentum?

based on everyoneโ€™s attention spans, iโ€™m skeptical.
(at least for now)

youtu.be/l0-wSwA75vs?si=QY-anuโ€ฆ





Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

Link: 9to5mac.com/2025/07/04/apple-jโ€ฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โ€ฆ



Scientists discover whatโ€™s driving record die-offs of US honeybees

"...found nearly all colonies had contracted a bee virus spread by parasitic mites that appear to have developed resistance to the main chemicals used to control them."

"A combination of factors is likely to be causing successive colony deaths among US bees, including the changing climate, exposure to pesticides, and less food in the form of pollen and nectar as monocrop farming proliferates."

theguardian.com/environment/20โ€ฆ

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in reply to Jon Henshaw

"Due to government staffing cuts, the USDA team were unable to analyse pesticides in the hives and asked bee experts at Cornell University to carry out the research, with the results still to be published."

:picard: :picard: :picard:

Unknown parent

mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
Jon Henshaw

@cwdolunt

Native or non-native, itโ€™ll bother me to death if there arenโ€™t any.




๐Ÿ”ด Sondaggio Tecnรจ
Toscana, Giani nettamente favorito
Partita giร  chiusa in Veneto (con candidato unitario)

sondaggio completo๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
sondaggibidimedia.com/sondaggiโ€ฆ




Because of a statutory requirement to automatically impose budget cuts when legislation increases the deficit โ€ฆ Medicare is one of the programs that will face the axe, and the damage sums to $490 billion over the next ten years. prospect.org/politics/2025-07-โ€ฆ



love seeing my little guy enjoying exercise. at 8 you couldn't have made me play with a ball for all the pogs in woolies
in reply to nico beastie boyce

@nico beastie boyce This picture is both wholesome and incredibly dynamic, I canโ€™t fathom how you got it just right.


keblog.it/foto-catturano-belleโ€ฆ


Il jihadismo ha radici antiche Intervista con Domenico Quirico


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/07/il-jihaโ€ฆ
Da Napoleone Bonaparte ad Hamas, il tema del jihadismo รจ allโ€™ordine del giorno da ormai tre secoli. Partendo da questo presupposto, Domenico Quirico, giornalista e inviato di guerra



From local Freecycle ... This feels like a trap
in reply to saraaaaargh

it's just a guy yelling "JUST INSTALL LINUX" at you for 15 minutes


Activism is inherently messy, and thatโ€™s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom hamishcampbell.com/the-beautifโ€ฆ


The Beautiful Insanity of Activism: How Movements Rot or Blossom


Letโ€™s face it โ€” activism and counter-culture are packed with โ€œinsaneโ€ people. And thank the gods for that. Itโ€™s what makes movements exciting, dynamic, and, most importantly, effective. But like compost, too much of the wrong stuff makes the pile stink. Balance is everything. So, letโ€™s look at this: what causes a movement to stagnate, fail, or bloom into a riotous field of wildflowers?

The Rot (or: Why Your Movement Smells Bad)


  • NGOโ€™ists: These bureaucratic barnacles latch onto everything, molding it into whateverโ€™s fundable and fashionably bland. They hoard resources, fill minds with paperwork, and slowly suffocate radical energy. Theyโ€™re like termites with business cards.
  • Encryptionists: Paranoid fuckists who turn usability into a sin and sell fantasies of invulnerability. They preach security like a cult, but the reality is half-baked systems no one can use and a movement too scared to talk to itself.
  • Traditional Media Panderers: Useful in small doses, but quickly start reshaping the movement to fit mainstream narratives. Before you know it, your radical campaign against fossil fuels is being sold as a quirky โ€œgreen lifestyle choice.โ€
  • Horizontal Dotcomโ€™ists: Desperate to ride the movement into start-up glory. If they build with the #4opens, great. If not, theyโ€™re a distraction at best and a flaming wreck at worst when people actually try to use their half-built platforms.
  • Insecure and Nasty Lifestylists: Attracted to successful grassroots projects like flies to rot. They thrive on internal drama and are fed by the media panderers. Enough of them and your movement eats itself alive.
  • Hidden Careerists: Often competent and useful โ€” until they start networking with the NGOโ€™ists and media grifters to build personal brands instead of movements.
  • Paranoid Fuckwits: The paranoid glue of grassroots campaigns. In small doses, they help keep things tight. But let them accumulate in leadership, and the infighting becomes an art form.
  • Dogmatic Liberals: Lovely people, but the human equivalent of wet blankets. They block anything genuinely disruptive because it makes them uncomfortable, ensuring nothing truly radical gets off the ground.


The Bloom (or: Why the Garden Still Grows)


  • Hands-off NGOโ€™s: The quiet good ones. They funnel resources without sucking the life out of movements. A rare species, but precious.
  • User-Focused KISS Peer2Peerโ€™ists: The heroes fighting uphill to (re)boot the #openweb with simple, human-centered tools. They understand that people need tech they can actually use, not just theorize about.
  • Traditional Media Outreaches: The rare media people who amplify grassroots work without distorting it to fit mainstream appetites. They build bridges, not cages.
  • Horizontal Dotcoms (Done Right): Working on open, federated sustainability instead of chasing VC cash. They build tools for the movement, not to sell the movement.
  • Healthy Lifestylists: Learning to balance intense campaigning with actual human joy. Letting go of burnout culture and building connected, grounded lives.
  • Open Careerists: Using the movement to bootstrap themselves โ€” but carrying open values like a Trojan horse into the belly of institutions. Someone has to infiltrate the beast.
  • Secure Organising Crews: Understanding that collective security is a shared responsibility. Keeping things calm, focused, and handling offline realities without spiraling into paranoia.
  • Liberal Liberals: The ones who bring just enough common sense to stop things from exploding, but not so much that they kill the spark.


The Chaotic Harmony


Activism is inherently messy, and thatโ€™s its strength. The magic happens in the balancing act. A movement with too many paranoid fuckwits or NGOโ€™ists collapses under its own weight. But a movement with a little bit of everything โ€” the wild-eyed dreamers, the practical builders, the media-savvy storytellers, and the steady hands keeping it all together โ€” can actually change the world.

Because, at the end of the day, movements grow like compost. You need some rot. You need some shit. But you also need people willing to shovel through it, plant seeds, and tend the garden. And maybe, just maybe, you need to be a little bit mad to stick around long enough to see it bloom.


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Update 20250708:

The fediverse added a delay of over a month for this to propagate. I had posted the toot on 20250602 in preparation of a talkยน on this topic at the #ngiforum25 in Brussels two weeks later, and only got a handful of answers. Now, more than a month later, answers are rushing in!
Thanks everyone!!

ยน) If you are interested in my talk "Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments", here it is: webcast.ec.europa.eu/ngi-forumโ€ฆ


To all developers of #FOSS:

I'm interested in your experiences and opinions of funding #FOSS. How to maintain freedom and secure financial stability.

Which strategies work, which don't? Like: grants from public institutions, donations from companies, donations from users, subscription models, ad revenue, sponsors, etc. etc.
What are your experiences with those strategies?

And: Do you think an anonymous payment system like #GNUTaler, along with its anonymous subscription service capabilities, could be helpful and to what degree?

What other ideas do you have?

I'm looking forward to answers, comments and shares!

Questa voce รจ stata modificata (2 mesi fa)
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From my perspective, voluntary donations like the #GitHub sponsor functionality do not work.

It's been introduced before M$ took over and few people use it. When it was released, I was really excited and tried it out. Miserably, times changed now.

Maybe it's because devs don't want to support other devs or decision-making power of companies don't care (or know) what software they use.

The general, sad opinion is: "Software has to be free (as in beer), so why pay someone who develops it?"


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US government seeks tool to find 'hidden language' in phone messages

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Weโ€™re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of course, we couldnโ€™t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new featuresโ€”like long-form article publishing and more feed customisations...

bonfire.cafe/post/01JZN4D3ZMADโ€ฆ


๐Ÿ”ฅ Bonfire Social 1.0 RC2


Weโ€™re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.

Of course, we couldnโ€™t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new featuresโ€”like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.

A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!

โœจ Whatโ€™s new and improved?

  • Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
  • Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
  • Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
  • Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
  • Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
  • More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.


Additional improvements include:


  • Better translation and localization workflow
  • Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
  • Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
  • Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
  • Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more

For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.

๐ŸŽช Community contributions and other initiatives



๐ŸŒ Localisation: Bonfire in your language!


Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.

๐Ÿ… Top translated languages


- Portuguese (Brazil): 100% translated & reviewed ๐ŸŽ‰

- French: 98.9% translated, 69.4% reviewed

- Italian: 96.7% translated, 54% reviewed

- German: 98% translated

- Spanish: 57% translated

- Vietnamese: 20.9% translated, 11.1% reviewed

- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.

Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!

๐Ÿค Help needed


As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:

  • DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
  • Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
  • Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
  • Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
  • Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!

These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.

๐Ÿ™ Thank you!


A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:

> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpรคngschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan Garcรญa, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegรฅrd, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!

We really appreciate your work! ๐Ÿ’œ

And a massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, ideas, testing, translations, and supportโ€”including @spark464@spark.box464.social , @tommi@pan.rent, @lechindianer@sueden.social , @fishinthecalculator@bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me , @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org , @ozoned@social.ozoned.net.

Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @[url=https://pawb.social/u/liquidparasyte]liquidparasyte[/url], @[url=https://chaos.social/users/rincewind]๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Jรถrg Matysiak[/url], @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/youronlyone]โ™พ๏ธ Yuki (์Šค๋…ธ ้›ชไบฎ) ๐Ÿฌ ๐Ÿฆฃ[/url], @coyote...

Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.

Bonfire is a collaborative project, and weโ€™re grateful to build it with you .

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Ready to try Bonfire 1.0 RC2?

- Get started

- Try our demo instance

- Provide feedback

- Chat with us on the fediverse: @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe

- Chat with us on Matrix

Letโ€™s light up the fediverse together! ๐Ÿš€


Questa voce รจ stata modificata (2 mesi fa)
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so, if after that, they are still on 966c7176 that's expected? or have I missed something?

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