Notices by Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)

@aral Thank you!

@inthehands Also, even though deliberately murdering people is more immediately horrific, far more Jews actually died of hypothermia and malnutrition in the concentration camps than in the gas chambers.

Hypothermia and malnutrition, of course, is pretty much what's being used in Gaza now.

@forteller Eyewind Stream, surely? But yes, it's just strange to see a personal name translated.

Yours sincerely

He Who Listens [by] Running Water

@forteller H'mmm... autotranslate thinks Øyvind Strømmen should be called 'the Eyewind Power'!

And once again, with #AltText4You

"We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the
weapon industry. Capitalism is a system which disables the option to do the right thing."

"Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?" — @ploum

Why there’s no European Google?
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

@aral Seriously, no.

No one should fuck that guy.

No one.

#Trump

@amszmidt @petealexharris But the monkey wasn't pasting the picture together from torn up bits of pictures made by human artists.

@petealexharris but all that #LLM generated code has to be considered #GNU #GPL, because GNU General Public License code was certainly included in all the training sets. Clause 5(c) applies.

#FreeSoftware

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

I've just checked out a #Clojure project I last worked on thirteen years ago, compiled it, ran its unit tests, and they all passed. I then ran `lein ancient upgrade :check-clojure` to upgrade all the dependencies to their latest versions, ran the unit tests again, and they all passed.

I did get one 'deprecated' warning. I can live with that!

It's not stability that I came to Clojure for, but it's a feature I really appreciate.

Say 'no' to bit rot!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@baraa1998/115849166721212305

Friends, everyone in #Gaza needs support. But I am genuinely worried about Bara'a (@baraa1998) -- her health is obviously failing, but also her state of mind is deteriorating. I have sent her some money today, as I have several times over the past months.

She is a young single parent with one surviving child (she's lost two, and their father). Please, if you can, give her some hope.

If that isn't startling enough, try this one. This one shows a cat crossing a dirt track, with a dry-stone dike behind it. Above the dike, trees of a small spruce plantation can be seen.

The picture was taken in about 1966. I think by me with a box brownie -- a very cheap, primitive camera.

Again, the location shown is correct within 50 metres. HOW?

Interestingly, this picture of my little sister and her cat -- taken only a few minutes before or after the other cat photo, with the same camera, on the same roll of film -- is not geolocated. There's nothing visible over the dike in this one.

OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.

Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war Exakta camera did not have GPS. Could you identify, from that picture, exactly where it was taken?

Google can.

“They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.” -- Qesser Zuhrah

#SayHerNamee
#PalestineAction
#Gaza

https://prisonersforpalestine.org/prisoner/qesser-zuhrah/

@VeroniqueB99 and once again, with #AltText4You.

"The woman, who did not want her name published for safety reasons, added: 'This is not about us. We were beaten for 15 minutes. Palestinians here endure this violence every day, every hour, a thousand-fold.' ...

Activists say that violent incidents have become an almost daily occurrence. Attacks have included settler mobs breaking into homes and beating villagers, stealing 200 sheep, two cars and destroying solar panels"

#Terrorism
#Zionism
#Palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/01/italian-canadian-volunteers-beaten-robbed-israeli-settlers-west-bank

"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"

You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.

#Arduino

https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at the channel'" -- George Monbiot

Anyone still on X is deliberately supporting #Fascism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich

What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

#ClimateEmergency