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"Jacques Ranciére tells a mythical story about how the separation of signal and noise might have been accomplished in Ancient Greece. Sounds produced by affluent male locals were defined as speech, whereas women, children, slaves, and foreigners were assumed to produce garbed noise. The distinction between speech and noise serves as a kind of political spam filter."

— Hito Steyerl: Duty free art, pp. 50-50

The reference here is to a part of Ranciére's "Ten Theses on Politics".



Please spare a moment to consider Human Rights Day and what it stands for!

youtu.be/nw8o43KdrZw?si=JveTS-…

in reply to Muse

Let us hope that the next photograph of the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, won't be a photograph of a warm embrace and handshake with Donald Trump.


Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is a seriously cool visual novel love-letter to retro anime and 80s Sci-Fi gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/stor…

#Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming



Ruffy and the Riverside is a unique action-adventure where you have the power to copy and paste textures gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/ruff…

#IndieGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



Mystery adventure Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping announced gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/myst…

#DuckDetective #Linux #IndieGames #AdventureGames



Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/epic…

#UnrealTournament #EpicGames #Unreal



The Talos Principle: Reawakened announced that rebuilds and expands the original in Unreal Engine 5 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-…

#Croteam #Gaming #TheTalosPrinciple



Generative AI is an abomination.

youtube.com/watch?v=OY2x0TyKzI…

in reply to Eugen Rochko

but what really consumes more energy? ai video generation or going 96 in a school zone?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I wonder if all of this now slop, but eventually "great", AI crap will start pushing people back to using #lynx and the like, or even #gopher. Why bother with images and videos any more when signal-to-noise ratio gets below a certain point.

With browsers we learned to use #adblock and the like, but how to #aiblock?

At this rate the only winning move might be just not to play, and move back to text based tools. Or enjoy your new friends if you never left 🙂






in reply to Muse

That reminds me - we have bats nesting in one of the walls of our house. We want to move them to a better location (we want to put up a bat-house) on the outside of the wall; we don't want to harm the bats - we kinda like them being around.


If you don't want AI spying on your phone, there are options besides continually disabling it. One great one is, next time you need a new device, get one with e/OS. Android minus the spying. murena.com/america/products/sm…

Update: See below for some very compelling critiques of e/OS.

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in reply to Nathan Schneider


in reply to Muse

As I've been watching some interesting farmer-owned youtoob sites, the first two chickens remind me of Ayam Cemani hens...the third could be a Rhode Island red, and the last one is a rooster, possibly a Faverolles




Get a taste of our new book, Beautiful Solutions, in YES! Magazine, featuring excerpts and a reflection by my co-editor Eli Feghali: yesmagazine.org/social-justice…


If the Institute for Scientific Information of Coffee says coffee is good for the brain, body, and soul (that last is my addition), it's got to be true.

sciencealert.com/giant-study-l…

#Coffee
#PourOver



News just in: company's new console will be more powerful. Truly incredible scenes.

I'm begging gaming sites to hire people that understand what they're talking about.

"Even more impressive, though, is that 12 GB of RAM for the Switch 2 would mean it's more powerful than the Xbox Series S, which would be significant."

RAM amount = power now apparently.

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I hope a company just changes it up one day, the new device is just considerably slower
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

yeah they are obviously wrong. Everyone knows the hotter a console gets the better the performance.



Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valv…

#SteamDeckOLED #SteamDeck



UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. buff.ly/3ZPLOPu



I appreciate that @eLife decision to provide a 'partial feed' of work judged "solid" in order to get indexed was made in consultation with the community, and it serves researchers' interests to have their papers indexed. But, it does feel like likely that many will perceive this as more like traditional pre-publication peer review rather than an experiment in post-publication peer review, which is a shame.

(Edited because I think my original formulation of this post was too negative.)

fediscience.org/@eLife/1136291…

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It's December 10th. Have you pulled your Hot Dr Pepper set out of the basement?





Major media outlets have alluded to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto, have it in their possession, and have selectively quoted from it, but refuse to publish it in full. No surprises there.

Well, here it is, courtesy of Ken Klippenstein.

kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-m…

in reply to Michelle Catherine Marcó

I doubt this will change anything in the short term. Nothing’s really gonna change until Congress grows a pair and passes universal healthcare.

But this incident illuminates something interesting. The American healthcare industry isn’t just hated by the left—it’s hated by most Americans! Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh learned this the hard way.

newsweek.com/unitedhealthcare-…

in reply to Michelle Catherine Marcó

Alas, selling universal healthcare to the right is easier said than done. Right-wing politicians reflexively slap the “socialist” label on it to make it toxic. They’ll also not-so-subtly suggest that certain people don’t deserve it.

But we gotta find a way. I mean, think about it. When’s the last time an issue has united us this way? There’s an opportunity here, and I hope there are a bunch of people smarter than me ready to seize it.

Universal healthcare—let’s make it happen, people!



I just wanted to read the letter from the Nobel laureates asking the U.S. Senate not to confirm RFKJr. I went through all kinds of paywall and email wall b.s. at the NYT and what I found on archive was broken, it had bits and pieces only. Finally I found the link to the PDF (static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/…) and I have to say the letter is pretty underwhelming.
in reply to Nonya Bidniss 🇺🇸

thanks for posting. I also looked (unsuccessfully) for the actual letter...



The Humble tinyBuild Bundle is back for a limited time with some bangers like Streets of Rogue, Tinykin and more

humblebundleinc.sjv.io/c/57729… (partner link)



OJO! la situación en #Siria es preocupante para la población kurda, con las milicias respaldadas por Turquía ampliando masivamente su presencia en el país. Mayor presencia y poder de yihadistas y el ISIS.
Apoyemos a la revolución de #Rojava y el pueblo kurdo
#Syria

Info:
rojavaazadimadrid.org/sobreviv…



Take a closer look at the new design changes in Nextcloud Hub 9 💡

We're excited to share the latest design changes with improved accessibility features and a more streamlined interface throughout Nextcloud Hub.

From improved navigation to enhanced collaboration features, see what's new in the look and feel of Nextcloud!

Using Hub 9 already? Let us know what you think!

#Nextcloud #opensourcedesign #opensource

youtu.be/EZCbsYh_e4s

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Nice presentation !

A detail : why not post the video also on peertube to avoid adds and tracking from YouTube?

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

nobody knows if they use nextcloud hub 9. i'm using nextcloud 30. looks like i'm 21 versions ahead 🤷‍♀️


The article on Proton Experimental was updated to include a post from a Valve developer about the improved modding: gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/prot…

#SteamDeck #Linux #Proton



El #softwarelibre como derecho humano

En una sociedad cada vez más dependiente de la tecnología ¿Tiene cabida el considerar la libertad del software que mueve esa tecnología que usamos como un derecho humano?

artículo escrito Jason Self
vía @victorhck

victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20…



My #AntennaPodEcho for 2024.

Honorable mention to @grammargirl

I used to listen to the Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips... podcast on Stitcher years ago, but it wasn't until recently that I added the feed to AntennaPod and started listening again.

in reply to nebunez

Welcome back! I love to hear that!

I'm actually curious how you feel about the show now versus how it was before.

I feel like it's changed a lot — so much so that I've been thinking about doing a survey to see how people feel about it. But as someone who stopped and came back, I think you'd have an especially interesting perspective!

in reply to Mignon Fogarty

It has changed but only in good ways! And I didn't even really notice the changes at first.

When I started listening again it felt familiar. The core format is there, but it feels like it's matured. I especially love the interviews.



PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 released for arm64 works on Raspberry Pi 5 and Apple Silicon gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/play…

#PS3 #Emulation #Arm #Gaming #RPCS3




Comedy adventure Elroy and the Aliens will launch April 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/come…

#AdventureGames #Linux #PCGaming #IndieGames



Escape Simulator 2 the 'ultimate first person escape room experience' announced by Pine Studio gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/esca…

#EscapeSimulator2 #EscapeSimulator #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming

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