ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

In a recent #rpg con one-shot, I reframed "halflings" to be half animal. And you know why I did that? Because I had this great portrait of a racoon character for a charsheet. I wonder how many things in games happened because of pre-existing art.

#bangerz

The bassist of #Pulp, Steve Mackey, died today. This…hits.

Here's 'This is Hardcore' – my favourite Pulp song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbLyi5wgeg

Steve's comment: "I think it's got a place. To me 'This Is Hardcore' is like a challenge in song, it's a gauntlet for the rest of the year. It's like when Radiohead put out 'Paranoid Android' in 1997: here you are, deal with this."

Introduction to Student-Led Community Science Projects (#38731) https://ift.tt/Awipuey

A new paper out from the lab in PLOS Computational Biology! Kinome inhibition states and multiomics data enable prediction of cell viability in diverse cancer types - https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010888 Congrats to the whole team!

CMSWire is spreading a lie that Mastodon "acquired" and "absorbed" Gab, allowing Gab's users to spread racism on the Fediverse.

This is demonstrably false.

What actually happened is that Gab tried to federate, primarily so its users could use Gab through a mobile client.

But then they were Fediblocked en masse, and mobile clients specifically locked Gab users out.

Gab then de-federated, leaving the Fediverse.

This whole article is bonkers.

https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/facebook-is-better-for-business-than-mastodon-heres-why/

@fediversenews

@LeftistLawyer Meme quoting Noam Chomsky: A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that cost and risk are socialized, while profit is privatized. [and subsidized, I might add.]

"Dawn of the Fediverse" is an exhaustive article by Michael Kwet that outlines the case for decentralized social media.

The problems with Big Social is that it:

1. Bans and de-amplies content with no accountability
2. Is amenable to government and corporate censorship
3. Is a vector for digital colonialism
4. Prevents interoperability in pursuit of Internet monopolization

The Fediverse offers an alternative.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/dawn-of-the-fediverse/

@fediversenews

‼️‼️ this new primal scream of an essay from @catvalente tumbles out faster than the words can come and is increasingly inspiring the entire way through. it’s about ai art vs the human imperative to know and to be known, and it’s an absolute must-read. thank you cat for catching this as it tumbled out of your brilliant brain, and for sharing it with us 🖤🖤

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement-not-that-one

Total student loan debt erased by Biden plan: $400 billion

Total cost of the 2017 GOP tax cuts: $1.9 trillion

Funny how Republicans have no problem giving corporations and billionaires big tax cuts, but erasing some student loan debt for millions of people is just too much.

Felt cute, might delete later idk

@ceoln i'd give music a the strongest possible 8.5/10. i love it

MY BRAIN: We have an appointment later

ME: Okay, I'd like to be productive this morning

MY BRAIN: We'd prefer to wait for the appointment

ME: But I wanted to be productive-

MY BRAIN: Too bad, we are busy waiting for the appointment

The National Cybersecurity Strategy includes the concept of:

"Shifting liability for software products and services to promote secure development practices"

This is a big deal.

I want to exchange music recommendations with some fediverse friends

Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/

The Nib collaborated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation @EFF to create this comic

Coded Resistance: How Black communities fought against surveillance
https://thenib.com/coded-resistance/

The situation at the New York Times has become dangerous and unacceptable. https://thenib.com/transphobic-times/ #comics

This week we published the awesome first detection of the polarised radio emission from the intergalactic space in between 600,000 pairs of matter halos, which convinced us to have conclusively detected the shocked cosmic web.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08072 @tvern

Why do we think it is such a big deal?

A new #AstroPhysicsFactlet

The thing I’ll never get over is conservatives complaining they can’t say what they think anymore. Is there anything more inescapable in modern life than the ceaseless monotonous drumbeat of conservatives all telling all the rest of us everything they all think?

part of my job involves looking at art in the public domain and I am fucking *wheezing* at this painting what the fuck