Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

@mekkaokereke @jalcine @brianonbarrington @PJ_Evans It's exhausting how impractical we are about so many things. It's literally energy sucking to know that keeping vulnerable people homeless is more expensive than housing them but we refuse to house vulnerable people. It's exhausting that we're hurtling towards planetary extinction because we can't think practically about our planet and reshaping our societies. It's soul crushing that we make people work themselves to death even though we have evidence that people are more productive when they work fewer hours. It's devastating that we're poisoning the air and water even though air and water are essential to life on our planet.

"Make those who will profess vows here learn through a long trial period not to think their life will amount to words alone, without deeds also."

(St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection 32:5, footnote 1, Kavanaugh translation)
#lent #StTeresaOfAvila #religiouslife #Catholic #Carmelite #quoteoftheday

“We live in a world where trained cops can panic and act on impulse but untrained civilians must remain calm with a gun in their face.”

If you’re not already following https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke , do yourself a favor and do so now, and check out all their amazing Black History Month posts. Enlightening facts and data presented straightforwardly without drama but still dramatic. #blackhistorymonth

The Black Panthers were revolutionary, but not because they had Black leather jackets and berets and shotguns. They were revolutionary because they were armed with breakfast, and vaccines, and the truth.

They weren't revolutionary because they wanted to "kill white people." They didn't want to kill white people, not even the racist ones. They wanted white people, even the racist ones, to see that racism is a tool used to oppress all people.

A good article on post-quantum cryptography (featuring Kyber and Dilithium, along with explanations of other promising schemes).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/nist-post-quantum-surprise/

#postQuantumCryptography #quantumComputing #cryptography #keyExchange #signatures #kyber #dilithium

@mekkaokereke The reality is nearly ALL American music is black music. Country, bluegrass, punk, garage, psychedelic, experimental/avant garde, all have deep roots in black culture. Too many people fail to realize this and have this ridiculous narrow idea of what black music is and it all comes down to the racism that continually co-opts and then erases the black element at the origin.

Behold "Glaze", a software tool that subtly alters the pixels in a piece of art online 🎨 ...

... in a way that isn't detectable by the human eye 👀 ...

... but renders the image useless for training a visual AI. The AI can't detect the artists' style, and thus can't mimic it and copy it. 🤖 ✖️

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TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called "sips", for "scriptable image processing system" - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API! https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips

"When we say 'crime is a social construct', what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail."

On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task’

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips