Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
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The capitalism of fools
The capitalism of fools Trump’s mirror-world New Deal. The most enshittification-proof way to get the Enshittification audiobook, ebook and hardcover is to pre-order them on my Kickstarter! Help me …Cory Doctorow (Medium)
This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics
The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.Becky Ferreira (404 Media)
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We have just had a lush lunch at Jacqueline's vegetarian and vegan café in #RossonWye.
We are now awaiting some lovely cake. 😄
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"Enshittification" - so beschreibt @pluralistic die zunehmende Verschlechterung des Angebots digitaler Plattformen für alle Beteiligten. Jetzt hat er ein Buch dazu geschrieben, das man via Kickstarter-Kampagne unterstützen kann:
#DisruptComplicity in Genocide
@anarchia
28 agosto 2025 #DisruptComplicity in Genocide! Sanctions Now! | BDS Movement dal sito bdsmovement.net La società civile palestinese chiede un’intensificazione immediata delle azioni BDS contro stati, aziende e istituzioni complici, fino a provocare disordini di massa dal 18 al 21...
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#DisruptComplicity in Genocide
28 agosto 2025 #DisruptComplicity in Genocide! Sanctions Now! | BDS Movement dal sito bdsmovement.net La società civile palestinese chiede un’intensificazione immediata delle azioni BDS contro stati, aziende e istituzioni complici, fino a provocare d…Rete Italiana ISM (Rivoluzione Anarchica)
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Laëtitia Visse, la cheffe française à la pointe du combat MeToo en cuisine
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"Harcèlement, agressions et discriminations : le milieu de la restauration en France n’échappe pas à la “violence masculine”. Le journal britannique “The Times” est allé à la rencontre de Laëtitia Visse, l’une des cheffes qui a alerté sur ces “pratiques
Laëtitia Visse, la cheffe française à la pointe du combat MeToo en cuisine
Harcèlement, agressions et discriminations : le milieu de la restauration en France n’échappe pas à la “violence masculine”.Adam Sage (Courrier International)
4 reasons Q4OS is the best operating system to breathe some new life into your old laptop
Q4OS is an underrated distro for owners of dinosaur PCs and laptopsAyush Pande (XDA)
Fri., Aug 29, 6pm, EDT: Urgent press conference: DOC imperils Mumia Abu-Jamal’s eyesight - International Action Center
August 27, 2025 By Mobilization4Mumia Black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, a world renown political prisoner, unjustly imprisoned for over four decades, is now incarcerated at SCI Mahanoy in Pennsylvania.Janet (International Action Center)
Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/30/sap-updates-privileges-with-new-tools-for-managing-admin-rights-on-macos/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Apple @ Work: SAP updates Privileges with new tools for managing admin rights on macOS - 9to5Mac
Open source app Privileges 2.4 adds new tools for managing Mac admin rights, showing how the Apple IT community thrives by sharing and solving problems together.Bradley C (9to5Mac)
Hello from my shiny new profile on @mastoart.social #NewHere #introduction #welcome
My name is Rom|Tapas in the Sun. Many of you may know me from @photog.social. I am passionate about photography and have been documenting my travels and explorations of Spain since moving there in 2017.
I primarily post black and white photos shot on film using vintage cameras. I also have a darkroom and develop and print my photos.
#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #filmisnotdead
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The Best Tips and Tricks To Spot AI
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/artificial-intelligence-how-to-tell-1235416668/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AI Experts Reveal How to Spot Generated Content
Artificial intelligence image generators are getting better and better. Here are a few ways to stay ahead of them… for now.CT Jones (Rolling Stone)
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Juve, gli acquisti di Tudor. “Vlahovic può giocare con David, fiducia in Gonzalez e Koopmeiners”
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Pubblicato su La Stampa Sport @la-stampa-sport-LaStampa
Juve, gli acquisti di Tudor. “Vlahovic può giocare con David, fiducia in Gonzalez e Koopmeiners”
Il tecnico bianconero carica la squadra alla vigilia della sfida con il Genoa: «Il mercato è complicato, il direttore Comolli sta facendo il meglio, vediamo co…Nicola Balice (La Stampa)
"Ti guardava, ed eri pronto a lasciare tua moglie". Il mondo non era pronto per Anna Kournikova
https://www.gazzetta.it/Tennis/30-08-2025/anna-kournikova-chi-era-e-la-sua-storia-una-foto-una-storia_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Ti guardava, ed eri pronto a lasciare tua moglie". Il mondo non era pronto per Anna Kournikova
La volevano per fare la Bond girl ma parlava americano. Sembrava una Barbie ma a casa sua gioco era sinonimo di sport. È stata un cocktail, un virus informatico e una rubrica di David Letterman.Alessandra Giardini (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Bene Olly, snervanti Irama ed Elodie, bluff Tommy Cash, grandi gli Zen Circus, nuova perla di De Simone. Ecco le recensioni alle nuove uscite
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Bene Olly, snervanti Irama ed Elodie, bluff Tommy Cash, grandi gli Zen Circus, nuova perla di De Simone. Ecco le recensioni alle nuove uscite
Niente male anche Ramazzotti con un brano di Calcutta e Tommaso Paradiso, grande Big Fish insieme a Mecna e Guè. Rondodasosa, ancora una volta, da dimenticareOpen
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> "AI job coach & innovator"
> posts 5 generic replies per minute to random accounts with 10k+ followers
Something something dead internet something something scam
Giusto pochi giorni fa leggevo dell'arazzo su BBC History; chissà se prevarrà la ragione o la politica...
"Macron ci tiene molto a portare a Londra questo arazzo che non si potrebbe trasportare
Restauratori ed esperti sconsigliano che il fragile arazzo di Bayeux faccia lunghi viaggi, ma c'è di mezzo la diplomazia"
Leggi tutto: ilpost.link/jdpiyVUefc
「ガンダムカードゲームの会場に来てます」グラビアアイドル・東雲うみがガンダムカードゲームの会場へ | 話題の投稿 | スポーツブル (スポブル)
グラビアアイドル・コスプレイヤーの東雲うみが30日、自身のX(@sinonome_umi)を更新した。【画像】グラビアア…Playing Games
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San Marino è la prima finalista » Baseball.it
I titani battono 11-6 la Fortitudo in garaquattro e raggiungono le Italian Baseball Series per la settima volta consecutiva scritto da Carlo Ravegnani per Baseball.itCarlo Ravegnani (Baseball.it)
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Gardening #Caturday
The amazing Watermelon Cat™️ (1) inspects each watermelon and (2) indicates the one that’s ripe and ready to be picked.
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what is "perf report" up to
Mocktail Perfect For Man Who Doesn’t Want To Drink, But Still Wants To Spend $18
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"ARLINGTON, Va. — Local restaurant the Green Garden began serving mocktails which are perfect for the person who doesn’t want to drink, but still wants…
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Mocktail Perfect For Man Who Doesn't Want To Drink, But Still Wants To Spend $18
Local restaurant the Green Garden began serving mocktails which are perfect for the person who doesn’t want to drink.Charles Bill (The Hard Times)
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(elite): Time for the Kuiper objects!
We start with Orcus and its satellite, Vanth.
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mmm, choco-vanilla space bodies
One more dirty snowball for the night: Quaoar
Remarkable for apparently having some small rings that defy theoretical explanation currently for a body of this size. Or something. Stellar!
It also has its own moon, but that isn't depicted in the game. (yet?)
Another dirty snowball for ya'll before I try to get some sleep: Makemake!
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"Makemake shows signs of geothermal activity and thus may be capable of supporting active geology and harboring an active subsurface ocean."
Fantastic!
Ciao Mondo.
Spigola o Branzino che differenza c'è?
Ultimo #sketch sui pesci del #mediterraneo.
I giochi sono fatti si torna alla realtà.
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Ma Mo on Instagram: "🐟 Guardo il mare gonfiarsi per il vento di maestrale e mi chiedo quale pesce sia così pazzo da avventurarsi fuori dalla sua tana e affrontare tutto questo. 🐟 🐡 Ho sempre immaginato che un mare in burrasca sia come per noi un tempora
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Dark Nights: **“This is beyond our prediction, usually during a demonstration, protesters only threw rocks or burn a tyre in front of the office. They never stormed into the building or burned it.”**
This Stunning Image of the Sun Could Unlock Mysterious Physics
Welcome back to the Abstract! What an extreme week it has been in science. We’ve got extreme adaptations and observations to spare today, so get ready for a visually spectacular tour of deep seas, deep time, and deep space.
First up, a study with an instant dopamine hit of a title: “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Then, stories about two very different marine creatures that nonetheless share a penchant for brilliant outfits and toxic lifestyles; a baby picture that requires a 430-light-year zoom-in; and lastly, we must once again salute the Sun in all its roiling glory. Enjoy the peer-reviewed eye-candy!
Ankylosaurs: Swole from the start
Maidment, Susannah et al. “Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur.” Nature.
Paleontologists have discovered an ankylosaur that is epic even by the high standards set by this family of giant walking tanks. Partial remains of Spicomellus—the oldest known ankylosaur, dating back 165 million years—reveal that the dinosaur had much more elaborate body armor than later generations, including a collar of bony spikes up to three feet long, and fused tail vertebrae indicating an early tail weapon.
Ankylosaurs are known for their short-limbed frames, clubbed tail weapons, and thick-plated body armor that puts Batman to shame. These dinosaurs, which could reach 30 feet from beak to club, are mostly known from Late Cretaceous fossils. As a consequence “their early evolution in the Early–Middle Jurassic is shrouded in mystery due to a poor fossil record” and “the evolution of their unusual body plan is effectively undocumented,” according to a new study.
In October 2022, a local farmer in the Moroccan badlands discovered a partial skeleton that fills in this tantalizing gap. The fossils suggest that the plates, spikes, and weaponized tails were features of ankylosaurian anatomy from the Jurassic jump.
“The new specimen reveals extreme dermal armour modifications unlike those of any other vertebrate, extinct or extant,” said researchers led by Susannah Maidment of the National History Museum in London. “Given that Spicomellus is an early-diverging ankylosaur or ankylosaurid, this raises the possibility that ankylosaurs acquired this extravagant armour early in their evolutionary history, and this was reduced to a simpler arrangement in later forms.”
As you can see, this early ankylosaur was the living embodiment of the phrase “try me.” Two huge spikes, one of which is almost entirely preserved, flanked the “cervical half-ring” on the animal's neck. The fossils are so visually astonishing that at first glance, they almost look like an arsenal of spears, axes, and clubs from an ancient army.
The team doesn’t hide their amazement at the find, writing that “no known ankylosaur possesses any condition close to the extremely long pairs of spines on the cervical half-ring” and note that the fossils overturn “current understanding of tail club evolution in ankylosaurs, as these structures were previously thought to have evolved only in the Early Cretaceous.”
This incredible armor may have initially evolved as a sexual display that was adapted for defensive purposes by the rise of “multitonne predators” like T. rex. That might explain why the ornaments seemed to have simplified over time. Whatever the reason, the fossils demonstrate that ankylosaurs, as a lineage, were born ready for a fight.
In other news…
Now you sea(horse) me
We’ll move now from the extremely epic to the extremely twee. Pygmy seahorses, which measure no more than an inch, mimic the brightly-colored and venomous gorgonian corals that they symbiotically inhabit. Scientists have now discovered that these tiny animals achieved their extraordinary camouflage in part by discarding a host of genes involved in growth and immune response, perhaps because their protective coral habitats rendered those traits obsolete.
“We analyzed the tiny seahorse’s genome revealing the genomic bases of several adaptations to their mutualistic life,” said researchers led by Meng Qu of the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The analysis suggests “that the protective function of corals may have permitted the pygmy seahorse to lose an exceptionally large number of immune genes.”
Living in a toxic environment can have its benefits, if you’re a seahorse. And that is the perfect segue to the next story…
When life hands you arsenic, make lemon-colored skin
After a long day, isn’t it nice to sink into a scalding bath of arsenic and hydrogen sulfide? That’s the self-care routine for Paralvinella hessleri, a deep sea worm that “is the only animal that colonizes the hottest part of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the west pacific,” according to a new study.
So, how are these weirdos surviving what should be lethally toxic waters that exceed temperatures of 120°F? The answer is a "distinctive strategy” of “fighting poison with poison,” said researchers led by Hao Wang of the Center of Deep-Sea Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The worm stores the arsenic in its skin cells and mixes it with the sulfide to make a dazzling mineral, called orpiment, that provides its bright yellow hue.
“This process represents a remarkable adaptation to extreme chemical environments,” the researchers said. “The yellow granules observed within P. hessleri’s epithelial cells, which are the site of arsenic detoxification, appear to be the key to this adaptation.”
My own hypothesis is that this worm offers an example of convergent evolution with Freddie Mercury’s yellow jacket from Queen’s legendary 1986 Wembley Stadium performance.
Mind the protoplanetary gap
Your baby photos are cute and all, but it’s going to be hard to top the pic that astronomers just snapped of a newborn planet 430 light years from Earth. This image marks the first time that a planet has been spotted forming within a protoplanetary disk, which is the dusty gassy material from which new worlds are born.
Our “images of 2025 April 13 and April 16 discovered an accreting protoplanet,” said researchers led by Laird Close of the University of Arizona. “The ‘protoplanet’ called WISPIT 2b “appears to be clearing a dust-free gap between the two bright rings of dust—as long predicted by theory.”
If Earth is the pale blue dot, then WISPIT 2b is the funky purple blob. Though stray baby planets have been imaged before in the cavity between their host stars and the young disks, this amazing image offers the first glimpse of the most common mode of planetary formation, which occurs inside the dusty maelstrom.
Welcome to the Arcade of Coronal Loops
We’ll close with yet another cosmic photoshoot—this time of everyone’s favorite star, the Sun. from the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii. The telescope captured unprecedented pictures of a decaying solar flare at a key hydrogen-alpha (Hα) wavelength of 656.28 nanometers.
The images show coronal loops—dramatic plasma arches that can spark flares and ejections—at resolutions of just 13 miles, making them the smallest loops that have ever been observationally resolved. The pictures are mesmerizing, filled with sharp features like the “Arcade of Coronal Loops” (and note that the scale is measured in planet Earths) But they also represent a new phase in unlocking the mysterious physics that fuels solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
“This is initial evidence that the DKIST may be capable of resolving the fundamental scale of coronal loops,” said researchers led by Cole Tamburri of the University of Colorado Boulder. “The resolving power of the DKIST represents a significant step toward advancing modern flare models and our understanding of fine structure in the coronal magnetic field.”
May your weekend be as energetic as a coronal loop, but hopefully not as destructive.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
Extreme armour in the world’s oldest ankylosaur - Nature
The ankylosaurian dinosaur Spicomellus afer possessed a tail weapon and uniquely elaborate dermal armour.Nature
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First #run in 25 days. Probably not advisable because of the tendonitis which doesn't seem to be going away. But I really really needed it. Rubbish run but that doesn't seem to matter. About 5k (6 really, but 5 is closer to how I ran). It's like a great weight has been lifted from me. Like I've been walking around in double gravity and now I'm free. Power to you, friends. X
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Louis Rossmann’s cat has the right idea: ‘Pay attention to me’—because the real issue is that corporations are using digital locks to hold your property hostage. If a cat can understand the importance of autonomy, why can’t our laws? youtu.be/66j9dsPhAjE #RightToRepair #DigitalOwnership #DMCA #ConsumerRights
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Google's latest move is a game-changer—or should we say, a game-breaker? Your $1000 phone now needs Google's permission to install apps. This isn't about security; it's about control. Like the DMCA issue—this is just another example of corporations dictating what we can do with our own devices. It's time to stand up for our right to tinker and true digital ownership. Watch and share: youtu.be/QBEKlIV_70E #Android #Google #DigitalOwnership #RightToRepair
This was always inevitable: monopoly is the only intended endstate of moneyarchy/concentration-of-wealth-archy, & Apple *isn't* "special" in any way, in its monopoly-enforcement behavior.
There is no escape, unless escape is force-legislated, & it may be too-late for governments to claim that leverage ( what would happen to any country which had all its cellphones bricked, by the 2 companies Apple & Google deactivating all their devices, while pulling-out? death: that country would instantly be converted into carrion. )
You have to fight-for-your-health *while you can win*, & waiting until the cancer has metastasized .. has consequences: then you only have remaining-short-time-quality-of-life-before-being-destroyed, left.
The countries of the world *handed* their survival to private-wealth & big-tech, & locked *themselves* in the designer prison.
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Thus The Great Filter sets itself up more-species-fatally, for the rest of this century..
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Hmm… I’ve not delved into this, but maybe this is another brick towards it being time to check it out:
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7 Things You Should Know Before Switching to GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS has been around for a while, and it's a pretty neat piece of software.Jason Dookeran (How-To Geek)
But being locked to Pixel devices is a huge downside for those of us trying to avoid Google.
I try to prioritize open-source, ethically sourced tech whenever possible. It’s not about perfection (because, let’s be real, no tech is 100% clean in this world), but it does feel better to support companies that align with my values. That’s why I’m eyeing the PinePhone, Hackberry Q25, or Fairphone—they’re hacker-friendly, community-supported, and built with ethics in mind. It’s a small way to push back against the idea that we have to fund corporations that don’t respect our rights.
It’s a shame GrapheneOS isn’t available for more devices—I’d jump on it in a heartbeat if it were!
archermit sculpts 'stone kiln in the valley' with petal shaped roof
archermit mimics pear blossoms and stone formations to form a sculptural bakery and café 'stone kiln in the valley' in luzhou.kat barandy I designboom (Designboom)
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30 August 1942 | 2,019 prisoners were imprisoned at Neu-Dachs - one of the #Auschwitz sub-camps.
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Our online lesson about sub-camps: lekcja.auschwitz.org/podobozy_…
Listen to a #podcast about the sub-camps system of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/fsfWaHNu7A0
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in reply to Mike In The Autumn Garden • • •@aaron Was a lovely cheese, mushroomand onion quiche too.
Just had a memory of a TV program or film years ago where someone asked "What do gays eat?" and the answer was quiche. So here's the proof. 😂
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That would be a tough choice between the two, they both look delicious. And the cake, did it get a photo, too?
We had driven to 2 apple growers in the general area here (30+ miles away) only to find one empty, and the other one completely overrun with people, mostly children.
Realized as we escaped without stopping (or getting cider, or apple pie) that this weekend was the town's yearly Apple Festival and my gods did we pick the wrong day to visit.
I would enjoy vicarious cake in lieu of my missing pie.
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