Hey, fedi! I need to book some work, y'all. I do editorial illustration, comics, various design work, I've worked in mobile games, indie tabletop games, advertising... I can draw real good is what I'm sayin'!

Allow me to attach my card...

...and link to my website: laemeur.com

Boosts appreciated!

#illustration #lookingforwork

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1161…

But at least we only spent a trillion dollars on it, right?

nixCraft 🐧

2026-02-24 16:29:29

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically… 😂😂😂

So far AI has done more damage than adding any true value to productivty unless you consider the following as plus points:

* Getting staff fired
* Stealing journalist, book authors, or artists’ work
* Environment impact
* Hallucinations that caused harm and loss of life
* Creating undressing images of minors and woman
* The list list endless and you have to be psychopaths to like this

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

^{Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)}

AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically… 😂😂😂

So far AI has done more damage than adding any true value to productivty unless you consider the following as plus points:

* Getting staff fired
* Stealing journalist, book authors, or artists’ work
* Environment impact
* Hallucinations that caused harm and loss of life
* Creating undressing images of minors and woman
* The list list endless and you have to be psychopaths to like this

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

^{Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)}

#AI can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in #wargame simulations
Leading AIs from #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Google opted to use #nuclearweapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases
The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.
newscientist.com/article/25168…

What could go wrong?

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

^{Chris Stokel-Walker (New Scientist)}

Modern Capitalism:

The local shoe store does not sell shoe laces. Not the first time I've asked either.

Also, apparently the local shoe store does employee trainings with upsell consultants, which also nauseates me...

I'm looking forward to the #Fediforum "Growing the Open Social Web" workshop on Monday.

I'm extremely dubious about a lot of the submissions. There are a lot of untested hypotheses in this list:

fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-…

I hope that people's expectations are geared towards experimentation, data collection, and iteration, rather than confirming some of these assumptions.

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02

^FediForum

For the record, no, I don't use 'AI' in any aspect or component of the trainings I give, whether for Nikau, festivals and confs or any of the uni teaching. It is all entirely human made, from documentation, to image and video generation and comms. Always will be, even if supposedly less 'productive' one day, by some empty metric.

I personally don't use it at all.

As I mentioned earlier today, after 10 years we'll be closing @weareopencoop on May 1st.

If we'd been shutting down this time *last* year, it definitely would have been for lack of work. But, weirdly, this year it's a confluence of factors.

blog.dougbelshaw.com/next-chap…

(I'd better get my consultancy business, Dynamic Skillset, on the Fedi!)

The next chapter

For the past decade, I've been a founding member of a worker-owned cooperative. In a couple of months, we're closing it down to focus on other things.

^{Doug Belshaw (Open Thinkering)}

After ~5 of Being a student teacher shadowing others I've been asking myself the same question in the back of my head: Is python and scratch really the best options we have for teaching kids logic and programming?

Why not (S (Expressions)), why not concatinative programming, why not a simple rewriting system? I feel like the method we have made for teaching kids CompSCI is fundamentally flawed as we are trying to teach kids programming and not logic that its built apon

Desde @articaonline reseñan “Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja”, de Marga Padilla

El libro propone una tercera vía: hackear la IA desde adentro. Rechaza tanto el hype catastrofista como la negación del problema. Lo que importa no es la máquina aislada sino su ensamblaje con relaciones de poder. Y el error "técnico" siempre lo pagan quienes menos poder tienen.

🔗 articaonline.com/2026/02/resen…

¿Cómo construimos una relación hacker con la IA desde nuestros movimientos y comunidades?

Reseña de “Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja”, de Margarita Padilla

Hace poco terminamos de leer el nuevo libro de Margarita Padilla, Inteligencia artificial: jugar o romper la baraja, publicado por la editorial Traficantes de Sueños en octubre de 2025.

^{Ártica - Centro Cultural Online}

A few Dash to Dock tweaks can quietly make your GNOME desktop feel just right.

itsfoss.com/dash-to-dock-tips/

Exploring Dash to Dock: (Probably) The Most Downloaded GNOME Extension

Considering the vast configuration options it offers, you can guess why so many Linux users prefer Dash to Dock over others.

^{Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)}

4 years ago, I spent a weekend putting together a little slideshow program, and have since given every single presentation in it. The idea was that I wanted a slideshow format that was textual so that I could version it, and that I could write the speaker's notes in that same source.

I occasionally found little optimizations so that images are drawn faster, but otherwise, it's essentially the same.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie

Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/open…

#Mesa #Linux #OpenSource #Drivers #LinuxGaming

Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 26.0.1 update for open source graphics drivers, the first set of bug-fixes for the latest release.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OK
Implementing a tiny virtual machine, assembler, and compiler

The thesis of Tre O’Neal
digitalcommons.ncf.edu/cgi/vie…

#uxn #permacomputing

I need a little help please!

The RSS feed for my website is passing the online validators, but doesn't seem to be downloading to any reader. Can anyone help, maybe spot something that I am missing?

I update this XML manually, and just added one item last week which seemed to work fine then. I noticed today that the feed was not updating; to test, I changed the most recent post to today's date which is why it is not last week's.

shanefinan.org/feed.xml

#RSS #askFedi

Mad Hatter (“Alice in Wonderland”) at #autumn #Toguchi #cosplay #festival (November 16th, 2025).

#ToguchiAutumn #Toguchi2025
#photo #photography
#cosplayer #portrait #people
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa

Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brot…

#Brotato #IndieGames #GOG #Linux #PCGaming

Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG

GOG fans can finally get in on the Brotato action, just keep in mind - it might suck away endless hours of your time if you're not careful.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

🎂 Hey, @EPFL has been on Mastodon with its own instance for more than a year already!

#epfl #Mastodon #plushtodon #fediverse #birthday

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-…

#KDE #Linux #OpenSource

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin

The KDE team have released the latest release for the Plasma desktop, with version 6.6.1 bringing quite a lot of bug fixing.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Are you passionate about computational biology and the evolution of specialized plant metabolism?

We invite highly motivated and experienced students and early-career researchers to join @PuckerLab in Bonn for a visiting research stay. This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience, exchange ideas, and work in a collaborative and supportive scientific environment with excellent computational resources.

More details and contact information:
izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/contac…

#Bioinformatics

The Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle is an epic deal with Selaco, CULTIC and more gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-…

#BoomerShooter #FPS #GameBundle

The Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle is an epic deal with Selaco, CULTIC and more

Digiphile, the indie bundle site started by former Humble Bundle staffers, has an excellent Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle out that's worth grabbing.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/happ…

#SteamDeck #Steam #SteamOS #Valve #Linux

Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld

Four years ago today, the original Steam Deck LCD released, with it going on to change how everyone sees handheld gaming PCs and Linux for gaming.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lutr…

#Lutris #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #OpenSource

Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners

Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux and emulators too - with multiple new versions released.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

D7VK version 1.4 bringing further enhancements for older Direct3D via Vulkan gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/d7vk…

#Linux #OpenSource #Vulkan #Direct3D #D7VK #DXVK

D7VK version 1.4 bringing further enhancements for older Direct3D via Vulkan

Even more improvements have arrived for D7VK that brings Direct3D 5, 6 and 7 via Vulkan for use with Wine / Proton in version 1.4.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

In a new review for Le Monde Informatique, writer Dominique Filippone explores Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter and highlights our performance gains coming with the ADA engine. 💪

Read the article (in French):

lemondeinformatique.fr/actuali…

#Nextcloud #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty

Nextcloud enrichit sa plateforme collaborative - Le Monde Informatique

Baptisée Hub Winter 26, cette actualisation de la plateforme collaborative de Nextcloud ajoute des des capacités de migration de données et de...

^{LeMondeInformatique}