Author: Bruce BurnsideTitle: Why we should bring back VeganismSubtitle: ...to feel compassion living in earshot of the sweatshops, the stadiums, the slaughterhouses, with the scent of blood cheap in the air...Date: 2003Source: Inside Front: International Journal of Hardcore Punk and Anarchist Action, Issue #14,
Author: Bruce Burnside & Greg BennickTitle: The Denial of DeathSubtitle: An IntroductionDate: 2003Source: Inside Front: International Journal of Hardcore Punk and Anarchist Action, Issue #14, pp.90-95: <cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/journals/inside-front-14/inside-front-14_screen_single_page_view.pdf> The reader is
Megatrend #14 - Mass Customization - "The future isn't mass-produced; it's mass-personalized, empowering customers to co-create the products that shape their world." - Futurist Jim Carroll
(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)
It's time to shift gears - so far, this series has covered AI, energy and healthcare - but now, with this trend #14, we'll shift into the manufacturing megatrend category:
First up is 'mass customization.' What's that? Manufacturing production is shifting from standardized mass manufacturing to personalized creation at scale. 3D printing is just the beginning of this new world of flexible manufacturing systems that fundamentally change how we think about inventory, distribution, and product design.
This is a rather tectonic shift, because manufacturing is moving away from the century-old paradigm of standardized mass production toward a more agile, customer-centric model: mass customization.
This transition represents more than an incremental improvement in production techniques; it is a fundamental re-architecting of how products are designed, created, inventoried, and distributed. Fueled by a convergence of digital technologies, new materials and new methodologies, this new model promises to deliver personalized products at a scale and cost previously unimaginable, fundamentally changing the nature of competitive advantage and value creation in the 21st-century economy. (Success will also flow to those nations and regions that have the maturity to embrace the change. The rest will be pretty much behind and will see the end of most manufacturing jobs.)
:kemoverse: Devlog #14: :awoodance::doro_dance: KEMOVERSE REACHES VERSION 1.1 :murakamisan_step::necodance_hd: TL;DR: We're developing a Free software Gacha-TCG playable from the within the fediverse and we've reached the first milestone.
Here's the current stuff that has been implemented: - 🎲 Card roll system - 🧠 Core database structure for cards - 📦 Basic support for storing pulls per player - ⏱️ Time-based limitations on rolls - ⚠️ Explicit account creation/deletion - :pleroma_petthex: PLEROMA SUPPORT?? Shout-out to moon :moon: for carrying it all by himself and implementing it in an afternoon. :watameloncheers:
Version 2.0 is planned to have: :watamenod1: - Duels :waifu_right::punch_left_fast: - Card Creator 🖌:paimon_good: - Stat system :aismart: - Trading 🧐💰🎴:akkowtf: - Inventory :soy1:🎴🎴🎴:soy2: - Default card bundle :libbie_hapy::pleroma_fox_tan::ai_woozy2: - Standard card template :doro_dance: - Banners :doro_run:
More info can be found in our repository: https://git.waifuism.life/waifu/kemoverse I want to give a thank to the devs that have started working on my silly project, (no particular order) VD15, Nyanide, pwm, Moon, Munir, Naiji, and everyone that has commented, liked, repeated or someway be interested in the project. :kannapray1::kannapray2::kannapray3: You're all awesome.
How are we continuing? :kanna_inspect: The development continues steadily on our free time. I'm slowly also making cards as we go, to try out new styles, and search for a consistent art-style, at least for the first batch. Based on the poll that I made the other day: https://mai.waifuism.life/notes/a8pd3yavp1a700qv The most wanted types of cards and their votes were: - Niche anime 65 - Inside Jokes 71 - Original characters 82 - Fedi admins 99 votes - OS-tans (fedi mascots too) 135 votes!! I'll be focusing on these kinds of cards for the first batch, but any recommendations are still appreciated. #kemoverse#kemoversedev#devlog#gamedev#gamedevelopment#tcg#finance Shout-out to the least liked kind of cards: Gacha games :saul:
:alert_red: WEEKLY ART CONTEST 2025 ~ WEEK #14 :alert_red:
:fire_animated: FEDI INSTANCE COAT OF ARMS :fire_animated:
This one was popular, and I've had a few requests to re-run it from people who didn't make the deadline. It'll be a few months, so keep your eyes peeled or you'll miss your second chance at heraldic victory.
But for now... the envelope please:
🥇 First Place ~ it meeee :skellieblob:
🥈 Second Place ~ [TIE] Morghur + Decayable
🥉 Third Place ~ Sui
🏆 Honorable Mention ~ GCL
Cheers as always for the submissions, votes and shares ~ and congratulations to this week's winners! 🥂
15) According to the CBC and my friend Jerry who pointed this out, this past year saw a 1B$ cut to the canadian forces budget. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/department-national-defence-budget-billion-1.6981974 all the while increasing requirements of what it was supposed to be doing with the money it had. There's other things than funding the canadian forces canada should be doing, and this is typical for liberal governments but now is not the time to be nickle and diming our armed forces given stuff like #14 - we need to properly fund our armed forces enough to handle some of the extra work they are going to be expected to do at the *very least*.
Today, we are tackling the mighty man of the Reformation himself, Martin Luther. We will start with the document that started it all, which starts, by blessed providence, with theses on repentance. Naturally, such a great deserves more than a short devotional, like Calvin, so we will visit Luther again later. Post tenebras lux!
「Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.
In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite [Do penance], willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.
2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.
3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh.
4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.」
- Martine Luther, "Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" (1517)
" Including: Gulf War, ant-war demos, Berlin squatters vs cops for 3 days, squatting in Central America, cop watching, arrests at needle exchange, letters, reviews etc. Author Gulf War Submitted by Fozzie on August 12, 2024 Copied to clipboard Attachments TheShadow_Issue_15.pdf (14.01 MB) Book traversal links for The Shadow #15 (October 1990) The Shadow #14 (October 1990) Up The Shadow #36 (June 1995) PDF Comments "