acousticmirror

acousticmirror, 8 months ago to random

"We Built This City on Cumbia Rebajada" 7" 💫

acousticmirror, 8 months ago to random

This made my day.

(Nicked from @anarchistnews to add alt text)

acousticmirror, 8 months ago to random

Had a great conversation a couple of weeks ago for the El Ruido es el Mensaje radio programme, with Franco Falistoco (Argentina) and Gerardo Figueroa Rodríguez (Chile).

It should be out Real Soon Now(tm):

https://www.elruidoeselmensaje.com/

📻 🔊 :antenna: 💫

DISCOSlovenia, 8 months ago to random

👨‍🏫 ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO APPLY AS A SPEAKER 👩‍🏫

If you want to present your work from the field of digital sovereignty at the upcoming DISCO Slovenia conference, you only have until 1 September to apply!

Find more details about the call for speakers on our website! 👉 https://disco.si/call-for-speakers/

acousticmirror, 8 months ago to ubuntu

It's #Ubuntu 23.10 Testing Week, and the @ubuntustudio is project is participating.

Here's how you can also join:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-23-10-testing-week/37862

#UbuntuStudio #testing #ManticMinotaur

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

Sabemos bien dónde aprendió #Rubiales a propinar besos.

https://youtu.be/gpK6uc2yD3w?si=frigV4jHe0h8IKs6&t=61

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

So why is #fosstodon English-only? Simple: the admins only speak one language.So other languages are "a problem".

FFS, get off that instance, it's fediblock-fodder. Fascist instances should be defederated.

Exchange between @mairin and the admin, @kev: "@kev @victorvicpal This is an issue of humannes. A person's language is a core piece of their identity. @mairin so. Leave. Then. FFS. @vistorvicpal"

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

I'm endlessly grateful to the California Media Studies dark web, and their international collaborators in China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia for helping me achieve this life goal: I finally found a pic of Beyoncé's ass.

#Asstodon

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

"Here's some, er, heavy-metaloid music. It's called 'Illegal Bodies'.

Eh, it's a song of the future. It's when, eh, unless you have a metal body they won't let you walk down the streets.

No kiddin'."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeEqYoTug0I

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

"Two things are true simultaneously:

• Marginalized queer, trans, and non-binary people drove a lot of Mastodon's key functionality, including content warnings, instance blocking, and local-only posts

• Mastodon has a long history of being inhospitable to marginalized users – including people of color and disabled people (as well many of the queer, trans and non-binary people who contributed to its success)."

I don't know how this by @jdp23 had escaped my attention: "Mastodon: a partial history (Draft)"

https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-a-partial-history/

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

Ok, this one's for @loriemerson. Straight outta old school #MailArt networking, Le Forbici di Manitù with "Let's Network Together" (1992):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKygjj7lBGA

#othernetworks

acousticmirror, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Came across a new term: 'to defuck'.

It means depriving someone of a healthy sex life.

E.g., 'Defuck the Police': ruin the sex life of all police officers and other law enforcement personnel.

Not to be confused with 'to unfuck', which means reversing the effects of enshittification.

E.g., "My neighbourhood witches' coven unfucked our enshittified health centre, and then proceeded to defuck the whole police department".

#Defuck

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

The use of the Imperial system of units in the US makes reading news reports on #HurricaneHilary from the Old Continent sound like ciphers, messages from some different planet. It also gives me migraine.

"The hurricane is advancing north-northwest at a speed of 70 pimpertons per hour. Some areas have registered up to 7.8 floodlums of rain. Earthquakes have been observed at a height of 9.5 pillimeels above San Diego. Contrary to expectations, Godzilla has ignored the coast and headed straight for Las Vegas..."

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

Does anyone here remember the 2010-2014 global protest era? #15M? #OWS? #GeziPark?

All these protest movements used Twitter to communicate and mobilize their efforts. Now it appears all the visual material and links related to these movements are gone:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/08/19/twitter-deletes-all-user-photos-and-links-from-2011-2014/

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

If you're looking for a set of tools to start your own environmental research in your area, @imvectech have put together an impressive resource: The Environmental Community Investigation Tools:

https://regist.ro/en/

It's a set of manuals and DIY tools for registering and investigating air, water, or soil pollution, as well as tutorials on how to do your own aerial photography, how to work with the collected data, how to work with media, etc.

They also have a repo with libre code over here:

https://gitlab.com/users/imvec/projects

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

Muy impresionante el conjunto de herramientas para la investigación medioambiental comunitaria que han puesto en marcha @imvectech.

https://regist.ro/

Hay manuales para realizar prospecciones de contaminación, aérea, de suelo, aquífera, olfativa, y más herramientas DIY. También tienen una repo con código libre:

https://gitlab.com/users/imvec/projects

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

A Spanish sighting boat catches the crew of a yacht opening fire on a pod of orcas. It happened in the Gibraltar Straights, near Tarifa.

More info (in Spanish):

https://www.europasur.es/tarifa/tripulantes-velero-disparan-grupo-orcas-Estrecho-video_0_1821717996.html

A small yacht is being recorded from another ship. We see the yacht followed by a pod of orcas. At some point we hear gunshots and see the impact of bullets among the orcas. The crew of the ship start shouting at the yacht to stop. The crew of the yacht appear to continue firing.

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to chess

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"Statement by the Deutsche SchachBund (German #Chess Federation) on the #FIDE Policy on Transgender Chess Players Registration":

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acousticmirror, 9 months ago to chess

This should be downright illegal, anywhere in the world.

(Okay, except maybe Florida, because Florida.)

https://doc.fide.com/docs/DOC/2FC2023/CM2_2023_45.pdf

#Chess #FIDE #Transphobia

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to chess

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I have over 50 feeds from #Chess-related news sources in my RSS Reader, but maybe I've chosen some very mainstream or very conservative ones: not one mention this morning of the fact that #FIDE is implementing very transphobic regulations.

Like, anyone who's been following the chess world in the past century knows that FIDE is far from an institution to be proud of, but come on...

/Please excuse the QT, @AnarchoNinaWrites

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https://oliphant.social/@AnarchoNinaWrites/110901895139021354

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to Facebook

We should all heed @Aepasek's advice and pick a fight with a data center.

Specifically, we should join @tunubesecamirio and pick a fight with the future #Facebook / #Meta #DataCenter in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain. Gwyneth Paltrow* will be our matron saint.

And Miguel de Cervantes can be our patron saint, because how do you fight a data center in the future? How quixotic...

(* I promise I'll explain this Gwyneth Paltrow thing in another thread or two.)

https://tunubesecamirio.com/2023/04/19/el-mega-centro-de-datos-de-meta-en-talavera-de-la-reina-afectara-a-aves-como-el-buitre-negro-y-el-aguila-imperial/

acousticmirror, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Back in 2007, Microsoft released "Why Is There a Server in the House? Helping Your Child Understand the Stay at Home Server", a children's book by Tom O'Connor with illustrations by Jill Dublin. The purpose was to promote their then-new Windows Home Server product.

This week, the @tunubesecamirio campaign has made a little (big) détournement of that publication, and released "Mamá, ¿por qué hay una pequeña nube en casa? Ayudando a les niñes a entender el tecnocapitalismo" ("Mom, why is there a little cloud in the house? Helping Children Understand Techno-Capitalism").

No Windows Home Server (or other proprietary bollocks) here: this is all about degrowth and technological sovereignty.

You can download a pdf, and find out more about the @tunubesecamirio ("Your Cloud Dries Up My River") campaign over here:

https://tunubesecamirio.com/2023/08/16/libro-infantil-ya-disponible-para-descargarse/

acousticmirror, 9 months ago to random

"Broken Arrow in Spain": a recently de-classified 1966 Strategic Air Command semiannual film report which mentions the Palomares nuclear incident:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0t_y0r-wLA&t=266s

/thx @josem_sgp for the heads up.

More info (en castellano):

https://www.elsaltodiario.com/andalucia/palomares-cementerio-nuclear-ilegal-grande-espana