A bunch of tech billionaires have chipped in a million each to fund a new Linux distribution. I can't imagine how this is supposed to work, all those huge human egos, how much will they pay their developers to contribute what. I have to find out what the goal of the project is. It would be nice to have a Linux that was extensively tested for use by regular people.
After saying I was putting my tech work aside, yesterday, I had a bolt of determination, and realized I don't like collaborating with Claude Code, but maybe it's just when we get to this stage of a project where it's all details, and they're hard to communicate, and the bot has a bad habit of ignoring things I tell it to do. It also returns code to me to test that no human developer would pass on to a user. It would be too embarrassing. But the bot isn't aware in the same way a human is, not even close. Now that is something I'm sure they can be taught to simulate well enough to be as good as a human collaborator.
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Site release 2152cf2: Add Person schema with sameAs to the home page (#164). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.
A pretty tiara that looks like it was painted with watercolors!
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), is an Italian collective that has been providing digital infrastructure – email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing, streaming, and services related to privacy and anonymity – to movements and activists since 2001.
On August 26, Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), alleging that it has provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already subjected to sanctions.
Meanwhile the global far-right/neofascist militias are freely organizing and building the digital infrastructure to be the armed wing of democratically elected authoritarian regimes sponsored by nihilistic billionaires.
Metod Rybar – Personal Blog
• Metod Rybar
Turning weaknesses into strength. “Why did it work for Dubai? A big reason was that it was weak. That weakness was an asset, not a liability: The port was not huge, the Sheikh was not powerful, so if he tried anything, merchants would just pack up and go.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/dubai
Testing if my double-post #bluesky bug is solved ?
We got agents running in Atlantis today. Screen shot.
bill orcutt - four louies live
Newsonaut
• Mark Rogers
Reading : X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching
X’s transformation from a kind of open decentralized communications protocol to a closed bullshit delivery mechanism is symptomatic of many of the things going wrong in the world today, from the enshittification of all sorts of products and services, to the rise of authoritarianism around the globe.
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
The turns of the staircase grew tighter as I descended, the steps steeper, until it was only the closeness of the walls that kept me from falling. There was a cold smell in the air, and an unearthly quiet. I turned to climb back up, but there was no longer
Cailin Pitt
• Cailin Pitt
Building an unofficial wrapped experience for the CTA
Mapquest
More surveillance in schools. THIS is why ethics plays an important role in research. newsbytes.ph/2026/09/0…
