https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

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Cartel del certamen

Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

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New Year Tip! If you start playing Apocalypse Now Redux at 8:48pm you will have lost the will to live by midnight

Why is 1/60 of a minute called a 'second', just like the ordinal number that goes with 'two'?

It's because a second is the second subdivision of an hour, a minute being the first.

The word 'minute' in turn simply comes from the Latin word for "small (part)".

Here's the entire story:

@lednabwm @504DR @breadandcircuses

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what if making a better world is a hoax

gemini://tilde.club/~angel/

(Espero que siga funcionando 😆)

Running #wayland compositor #sway on #OpenBSD is very easy (only -current at the moment)

- pkg_add sway
- stop xenodm
- log-in as your user in a tty
- run /usr/local/bin/startsway.sh

that's all

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Screenshot of an OpenBSD desktop running the wayland compositor sway

Keep the good work!

[1] https://noviembrenocturno.es/el-dia-del-tentaculo/

Hoy toca presentar oficialmente #EscrituraSocial.

Como sabéis, administro una instancia de #Bookwyrm (una alternativa a #GoodReads) llamada #LecturaSocial.

Tiene de especial que somos una comunidad muy maja, con mucha e interesante actividad y que el servidor y otros gastos los pagamos en común.

#EscrituraSocial es nuestro crecimiento natural: un #WriteFreely para tener un blog minimalista y federado. Un lugar donde escribir sin algoritmos. Os podéis apuntar aquí:

https://escritura.social/about

Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid

CC: @lamorito@lile.cl

I spent a decade of my life creating game assets, the result is a lot of game assets. They're free, no ads, no tracking, no registration, no subscription, no permission needed, no need for attribution and suited for any use including commercial.

https://gameassets.com

I keep seeing Russians celebrating their "liberation" of Marinka in the Donetsk, as if it were the liberation of Paris in 1944.

So I did a search. Marinka is a small town with a pre-war population of around 10,000.

Or rather… Marinka was… because this is what is left of it — that is, what the Russians call a "liberation":

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The image shows a vast expanse of destruction. It appears to be an aerial view of a city that has been completely devastated. The landscape is bleak and gray, with the ruins of buildings scattered as far as the eye can see. There are no signs of life or intact structures, just endless rubble and decay. The sky is overcast, adding to the somber and desolate atmosphere of the scene.

La hambruna de Bengala de 1943 fue una de las peores tragedias en la historia de la India, alrededor de tres millones de personas perdieron la vida. Lo que hace que esta hambruna sea aún más impactante es la respuesta del entonces Primer Ministro británico, Winston Churchill, cuando se le solicitó ayuda. En lugar de enviar alimentos desesperadamente necesarios a Bengala, Churchill respondió que los indios eran responsables de su propia miseria por "reproducirse como conejos".

https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/

"YES!"

Anyway, if you run a #postfix server, make sure you have

smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining

in your main.cf so you can have relaxed holidays. Updates with a complete fix will land in your distro of choice soon enough. And thanks to SEC consult for this precious gift!

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

CC: @ElleGray@mstdn.social

Sondra, we know you're listening, stop all this suffering once and for all

Hermoso.

(Si no sabes de qué estoy hablando, puedes ignorar este mensaje).

La única excusa que acepto es que, dado que es literatura para niños, es más fácil para ellos identificarse con protagonistas infantiles que con adultos, sobre todo si se dibuja un universo que ellos conocen (alumnos, bulling, adultos con motivaciones incomprensibles, etc).

($a, $b) = ($b, $a)

According to literary theorists, all stories follow one of 7 basic plot outlines:

1. Overcoming the monster

2. Rags to riches

3. Nerd removes glasses, revealing theyʼre secretly hot

4. Bachelor adopts monkey and hijinks ensue

5. Atreyu and Artax in the Swamps of Sadness

6. That thing that happened to Todd and them at the gas station

7. Star Trek TOS s01e05 “The Enemy Within”

A la mierda.

No sé si ese software te permite interacciones completas con el Fediverso o si solo funciona para compartir reseñas de libros.

CC: @casatiajulia@pixelfed.social @casatiajulia@fediverse.tv @brucknerite@social.brucknerite.net

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finally, a map that speaks the truth 😄

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Title of map: Will the detective investigating your murder be sad? Red - sad and cold Pink - sad and wet Light blue - sad and drunk Dark blue - sexy Countries of Scandinavia are red (sad and cold) England, Germany and some of northern Europe is pink (sad and wet) France, Ireland, and a lot of "central Europe" and Russia is light blue (sad and drunk) Portugal, Spain, Italy and much of the Middle East is dark blue (sexy)

Por eso decía que igual has tenido mala suerte con el tipo de dueño que hay por tu zona.

We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website.

How every privatisation works:

1. Cut staff, increase prices, add debt, reduce services & restrict improvements.

2. Call the false savings 'profit' & syphon it from the business to shareholders.

3. Blame market conditions.

4. If the company fails, let taxpayers bail it out.

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot in the current battle over the future of (pseudo) AI is the cotton gin.

I live in a country where industrial progress is always considered a positive. It’s such a fundamental concept to the American exceptionalism claim that we are taught never to question it, let alone realize that it’s propaganda.

One such myth, taught early in grade school, is the story of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. Here was a classic example of a labor-saving device that made millions of lives better. No more overworked people hand cleaning the cotton (slaves, though that was only mentioned much later, if at all). Better clothes and bedding for the world. Capitalism at its best.

But that’s only half the story of this great industrial time saver. Where did those cotton cleaners go? And what was the impact of speeding up the process?

Now that the cleaning bottleneck was gone, the focus was on picking cotton as fast as possible. Those cotton cleaners likely, and millions of other slaves definitely, were sent to the fields to pick cotton. There was an unprecedented explosion in the slave trade. Industrial time management and optimization methods were applied to human beings using elaborate rule-based systems written up in books. How hard to punish to get optimal productivity. How long their lifespans needed to be to get the lost production per dollar. Those techniques, practiced on the backs and lives of slaves, became the basis of how to run the industrial mills in the North. They are the ancestors of the techniques that your manager uses now to improve productivity.

Millions of people were sold into slavery and worked to death *because* of the cotton gin. The advance it provided did not, in fact save labor overall. Nor did it make life better overall. It made a very small set of people much much richer; especially the investors around the world who funded the banks who funded the slave purchases. It made a larger set of consumers more comfortable at the cost of the lives of those poorer. Over a hundred years later this model is still the basis for our society.

Modern “AI” is a cotton gin. It makes a lot of painstaking things much easier and available to everyone. Writing, reading, drawing, summarizing, reviewing medical cases, hiring, firing, tracking productivity, driving, identifying people in a lineup…they all can now be done automatically. Put aside whether it’s actually capable of doing any of those things *well*; the investors don’t care if their products are good, they only care if they can make more money off of them. So long as they work enough to sell, the errors, and the human cost of those errors, are irrelevant. And like the cotton gin, AI has other side effects. When those jobs are gone, are the new jobs better? Or are we all working that much harder, with even more negative consequences to our life if we fall off the treadmill? One more fear to keep us “productive”.

The Luddites learned this lesson the hard way, and history demonizes them for it; because history isn’t written by the losers.

They’ve wrapped “AI” with a shiny ribbon to make it fun and appealing to the masses. How could something so fun to play with be dangerous? But like the story we are told about the cotton gin, the true costs are hidden.

#ML #TESCREAL

Ni delincuentes ni víctimas: trabajadoras sexuales contra el estigma | Euskal Herria | Naiz

El feminismo en España tiene un problema con la prostitución

https://www.naiz.eus/eu/info/noticia/20231208/ni-delincuentes-ni-victimas-trabajadoras-sexuales-contra-el-estigma

It's like looking in a mirror.

Gracias por [re]descubrirme este artículo.

@cyberspelunker

Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid

It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information

´%4.,
NO CARRIER

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Sorry you had to find out this way . . .

Most accurate summary every.

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The Price of Salt is, in my opinion, a very beautiful novel. The recent movie Carol, featuring Cate Blanchett and Roonie Mara, is based in this book and rather faithful.

Highsmith's crime novels like Strangers on a Train are also brilliant.

CC: @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

All Highsmith's work is very recommendable. The Ripley series are very good books, special The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game (which also was made into two movies: one by Wim Venders and a later one, better in my opinion, by Liliana Cavani featuring John Malkovich).

This _Plain Soleil_ french movie has a very different ending that the book and the remake movie that I consider more interesting and shocking.

CC: @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

«nadie se extrañará si os digo que no ha sido un éxito abrumador»