Notices by Ryan for a permanent ceasefire (ryanrandall@hcommons.social)

@0xabad1dea @hugh Yes!

And while you're adding the date…

So when folks like Foucault or Bacon wrote "knowledge is power", do you think they actually meant all the energy used to fuel Gen AI processing and data centers?

We're not living "in the age of AI". We're living in a moment of unproven AI-related claims.

These are profoundly different scenarios.

And it's disturbing how many folks in education are eagerly, uncritically amplifying the first framing.

The overwhelming joy of isolating why one's Bluetooth headphones are suddenly glitching.

(Repeatedly dropping audio output for something like 1/5 of every second is, I assume, not a user-requested enhancement.)

Approximately 3.14159 bajillion small testing steps later, it seems like the last upgrade to [paid, otherwise reliable audio utility I really like] is the culprit.

Polite email sent to the devs—here's hoping that they can help un-glitch things soon!

Seriously, for such a small team, I'm impressed.

I'll wait until things are resolved to say more about who they are.

But as frustrating as this glitch is, their approach to support actually makes me feel happier to support this indie company.

Already heard back from the devs!

They've helpfully let me know that others have also had similar bluetooth oddness and told me how to use a cool built-in method of generating a log file that'll help them debug the Glitchness.

@killyourfm It'll be interesting to see what sprouts from these!

My understanding is that citrus are one of the fruits that can mutate most, and a lot of agricultural citrus farms will graft parts of "known" / "stable" (not sure the best term here) types onto mature trees so they can predict what the fruit will be. But the seeds themselves can sometimes "revert" into their non-grafted ancestors with different flavors / sweetness / bitterness, etc.

All-too-timely reminder that you can & should report accounts you see advocating for genocide.

We keep our Fedi safe.

🚮

@seachanger The Fediverse's resistance to something so clearly necessary is a prime example of how "freeze peach" discourse makes things palpably worse.

@derek Oof, those can be scary times! Here's hoping it avoids you (and everyone)!

As a white guy, it absolutely might not be my place to suggest some useful things we white folks should be doing on Juneteenth.

That said, getting to know & financially supporting the work of Critical Resistance seems like a mighty good place to start (in addition to responding to whatever mutual aid requests from Black folks you can do on here).

http://criticalresistance.org

If you want to go more introspective, you might also look at some of the Catalyst Project's resources: https://collectiveliberation.org

Basically, it seems like a particularly good day to act on the fact that "nobody's free until everybody’s free" in the words of Fannie Lou Hamer.

@LALegault Is that Explosions In The Sky or the Murder City Devils? (Weird couple of bands to confuse, I know!)

The best at being convicted.

Bigly convicted, beautiful felonies.

@jonny Furthermore, this particular campus was designed as a series of chokepoints in the wake of 1960s student uprisings.

Its campus design highlights how much of the last 60+ years of American built space is a physical apparatus for the police state & social control.

The Tortured Poets Department (Data's Version)

@meganL And on top of that, just typing fairly descriptive alt text would almost certainly take less time than all this chest-inflating asshattery.

@tokyo_0 @hugo Do you happen to have anything useful you found for the Chen style? That's the one I learned way back in the late 90s, and I really wish I were able to remember the full forms better than I do after all these years.

One of the best ways I can think of celebrating Trans Day of Visibility is making every day a Trans Day of Viability.

Here's to a world where everyone is supported and celebrated for who they are.

@blogdiva btw, I'm 99% certain that jacketed person is the artist / photographer / writer / musician / etc David Wojnarowicz.

His book _Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration_ is incandescent in how it lights up Reagan-era eugenics. Really a formative book for me that I can't recommend highly enough.

Also, since it can't be said enough: fuck cancer!