I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

When I talk to comic book artists I always emphasize the importance of clearly separating their planes of depth. This rule is only for comics and does not apply to Turkish photographer Sami Uçan.

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

"A planet with humans is a planet..
Humans without a planet are dead"

Seen in Stockholm, Sweden

I wish more people understood that being able-bodied is just a temporary condition...

the hacker news people are NOT HAPPY that the demo video for my ffmpeg project is Richard Spencer getting punched in the face.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37269425

Richard Spencer getting punched in the face is the new Lenna!

The Programmers' Credo, via the ineffable pinboard, Maciej Ceglowsi. Yes I had this bronzed myself. Twice, one for me, one for him. And we deserve every bit of it! 😉

Some quality agitpop from Melbourne.

via https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1638j4u/is_this_a_formal_yarra_trams_communication_bold/

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You know how birds have learned to mimic human sounds (car alarms etc)?

What if they never had their own songs and are just singing us common noises from dead & long-forgotten civilizations?

The cool part about the future is ai-touched content is going to be copywrited if youre a big rich company and not copywrited if you're a small poor company.

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

Friendly reminder that you meet trans people everyday. You just don't know it.

Keep that in mind the next time you're about to share your unsolicited opinion on trans people, whether it be in the workplace or in any public space, really.

Updated Chrome today, and was immediately given a prompt about how my browsing preferences would be directly used to feed me ads.

Chrome auto-enabled a feature that sends sites info to send me personalized ads based on browsing history, the ability for sites to determine what I like and update the ads as I browse, and the ability for sites to measure ad effectiveness.

These are built-in features of the browser now.

STOP USING CHROME

New Valheim update is out and I did a bunch of stuff in it... like voice act the new NPC, Hildir.

https://valheim.com/news/patch-0-217-14-hildir-s-request/

Meg, @megueyb amazing game designer of several things but especially APOCALYPSE WORLD, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and this meal train is to help out through surgery recovery. Send some support please!

https://mealtrain.com/lk908w