Radiodokumentär från i morse där barn berättar om deras upplevelser av antisemitism i vardagen.

I lived through the homophobia of the 70s through 00s and “eww it’s unnatural” was as common and tedious a refrain then as it is now against our trans friends.

Whenever I hear people talk about “basic biology” or “nature” or “common sense” in order to bind the outgroup, this comes to mind.

a doctrine at war with nature

That is what it sounds like.

I know, I know—comparing struggles is gauche but when the rhetoric is a xeroxed mad lib that sounds as wrong now as it did then, I can’t help it. I’m not equating the magnitude of the oppression or denying that the African diaspora holds an exceptional place in American history through our modern day. (Not trying to be like that dumb novel that was like “catholics were the real Holocaust victims”.) The comparison to this unambiguously wrongheaded historical text is a tasteless one but brings with it the comfort that in future hindsight, this might be how all those “it’s just common sense, it’s just basic biology” boot stompers are gonna sound.

Some folks in the dumb phone community linked to Against the Machine and I thought that sounded great but immediately the red flag of “humanity requires a connection to land and herititade” made me look a li’l deeper and yikes.

Jag tycker det här är för lite.

Jag är ännu mer mot falsk balans än vad dom är och jag tycker det är mycket viktigare med fakta än “balans”. Hela texten känns självmotsägande. En av rubrikerna är “opartiskhet = balans” till exempel.

Curiosity is 40 card set-constructed (it’s not BYOB; every deck in the tournament needs to come from the same set) with three singleton rares, eight two-of uncommons, and the rest three-of commons. It’s not clear to me whether you’re allowed to have fewer rares and uncommons. Either way I love it. This is what I’ve been looking for for a long time. I’ve had the idea of singleton rares, two-of uncommons for many years (inspired by the old Wizard’s Chess format from The Duelist.

I’d love to play fifth edition Curiosity. I don’t have nearly the same nostalgia for 5th as I do for revised and 4th so I’d be using other printings but the cardpool is huge. Or even better: 4e+Chronicles or other old sets like Ice Age, Mirage, or Tempest. I mean I would love to. (I’m just so incredibly off constructed right now. The feelbad when losing is just so much worse with constructed. But with these lower-budget formats maybe there’s more room for experimentation.)

I know I said the other day that I don’t wanna play constructed Magic anymore, and that’s still true, I’m not getting swayed by these two new formats but I’m sure getting tempted!

Value Vintage is like Vintage (same banned/restricted list) with the added limit that the cards can only cost $30 total. You look at the cheapest printing on TCG Player so you can still use your bling SLD printings. I love how it’s sorta like Canlander but the point list is dynamic—the more popular a card is, the more points it automatically takes up in your deck.

Arden Vul is on Bundle of Holding again.

XKCDs temperaturtidslinje.

För om klimatet brakar är det nåt bortom allt mänskligheten nånsin ställts inför.

Ja jo men vi måste också bromsa ökningen så mkt som möjligt även när den är över. Blir så trött på collapsology när foten fortfarande är på gaspedalen. Som komplement till att försöka stoppa? Ja absolut. Men som “lösning” är det skrämmande optimistiskt. Påminner mig om den där gamla “Tryggare kan ingen vara”–serien där dom försöker skydda sig mot nukes med en lutad dörr.

I need to save this for future reference. Daring Fireball linked to it and it lays things out so clearly.

Some folks very kindly put up a French version of the blorb principles.

I was a li’l stressed out that my Molly-FOSS installation suddenly showed up as just Molly but apparently all is well in the world because it’s all FOSS now. They merged the two. And this is about Molly IM (the message app) not Molly Brown (the Gemini server).

Efter en lagändring den 1 oktober får regeringen nu avlyssna och ta del av meddelanden i mobiler hos barn under 15 år.
―Det låter repressivt men är i själva verket ett sätt att skydda barn och jobba brottsförebyggande.

Trodde barnkonventionen (§16) förhindrade det men tydligen inte.

This might be where the Light Phone III’s screen came from.

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Ekonomisida från ett vänsterperspektiv.

Here, I’ll show you:

(let* ((abc '(a b c))
       (abc2 abc)
       (fish '(f i s h))
       (fish2 fish))
  (push! 'nope abc)
  (mutate-cons! 'yeah fish)
  (list abc abc2 fish fish2))

Returns this:

((nope a b c) (a b c) (yeah f i s h) (yeah f i s h))

Even Ispmail Workaround has no ide how to update Dovecot.

Do not try to upgrade your existing server using apt-get dist-upgrade. There are too many changes especially with Dovecot.

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I agree with the conclusion this guy seems to be making.

That some of the games were made with square pixels in mind and look weird in 4:3, and vice versa for some other games. While the only one I disagree with among his specific examples, Balloon Fight, does not make my case stronger that most of the games look better in square pixels, there are so many games he didn’t list that do. Including The Legend of Zelda. It’s so wild that even though I grew up with them all in 4:3, in screenshots, magazines, manuals, and every TV in the neighborhood, it looks weird now. I know for sure I noted the squat tiles as a kid in those very first games (Duck Tales, Super Mario Bros.), but I got used to them and only now after a life on square tile games on other systems (like Game Boy) they are back to looking super weird.