Skip to main content
LPS reshared this.

Yokima

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

People drowning in junk watching TV announcer say what we need at this stage is to increase our consumption with a chart showing slowing growth

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

I am thrilled to announce that UX and UI designer @menica is joining us to improve Godot and gamedev education!

The expertise of UX designers is unfortunately still often undervalued, so we will try to share her work and show you all the things an experienced designer sees that we often miss or don't even think about.

She will work on making educational content more accessible, interactive, and interesting.

@Menica Folden 🍒
in reply to GDQuest

David Revoy
David Revoy
• •
@gdquest Oh that's a piece of big news! 😍 I really like the work of @menica and I'm sure she'll contribute a lot to make Godot better. Congratz! 👍
@gdquest
LPS reshared this.

Private and encrypted messenger SimpleX Chat has released version 5.1, which includes message reactions and a self-destruct passcode, among other updates.
alternativeto.net/news/2023/5/…

reshared this

in reply to AlternativeTo

LPS
LPS
•
#simplex is definitely my top pick for secure and anonymous IM...I recommend it to everyone:). It keeps getting better every release. I'd say it's almost as accessible as signal now.
#simplex

Mr. G :garfield: reshared this.

in reply to LPS

Bernard Marx
Bernard Marx
• •
And it is very easy to install a new SMP server on an AMD64 Yunohost to decentralize the network. install-app.yunohost.org/?app=… A desktop client is the only thing missing IMO.
@alternativeto

Install SimpleX with YunoHost

install-app.yunohost.org
@AlternativeTo
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
LPS reshared this.

The the writers strike already has at least one icon—and she’s not a writer. Lindsay Dougherty is a Teamster boss who heads up Local 399. She said Teamster trucks would not cross picket lines. And she sent a raucous message that rang out through Hollywood: “What I’d like to say to the studios is: If you want to fuck around, you’re gonna find out." vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/…

Meet the Writers Strike’s Secret Weapon: Hollywood Teamster Boss Lindsay Dougherty

“We are the hammer to their pencil”: How a woman who “gives no f--ks” is determined to unite entertainment industry labor.
Joy Press (Vanity Fair)
This entry was edited (1 year ago)

reshared this

Unknown parent

Florida Ted
Florida Ted
• •
Steves, do you have any skin in the game?
Unknown parent

Florida Ted
Florida Ted
• •
Let me rephrase: do you stand to lose anything if wealthy corporations continue to put pressure on wages and benefits for workers?
LPS reshared this.

It's not possible to protect children by banning their privacy, breaking #encryption or putting a backdoor into online services, which realistically, can be exploited by anyone. That is not protection, it's the opposite.

#onlinesafetybill #uk #cognitivedissonance #infosec

#encryption #infosec #uk #onlinesafetybill #CognitiveDissonance

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

The part of the Star Wars mythos where the incompetent elites who failed to stop the system from sliding into fascism simply go into hiding and do nothing, waiting for a bunch of kids to grow up and fix the problem themselves hits pretty hard right now.

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

capitalist hold up iphone: behold the jewel of capitalism engineer: all it did was underpay me for designing that assembly workers: all it did was under pay me for assembling that miner slave: you guys are getting paid?

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!

blendernation.com/2023/05/23/p…

#blender #blender3d #b3d

Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!

The Blender Studio has just announced Project Gold, it's next Blender Open Movie! While the studio is finishing up its current open film, "Pet Projects", this next one seems to be an ambitious project…
Mario Hawat (BlenderNation)
#b3d #blender #blender3d

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

The U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says social media is damaging to the mental health of children and adolescents. In a report released today, he details what parents and teens can do about it.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news…

The report:
hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorit…

#SocialMedia #MentalHealth


Social media is driving teen mental health crisis, surgeon general warns

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy blames social media for rising rates of anxiety, depression and other mental health struggles among teens and adolescents.
Erika Edwards (NBC News)
#SocialMedia #mentalhealth

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle grist.org/accountability/plast…

Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle

A new report says beverage companies like Coca-Cola must be “held accountable for the supply chain impacts of their plastics.”
Joseph Winters (Grist)

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

No one ever asks "how will roads pay for themselves or make a profit". But they do it with the post office and public transit. It's a brilliant messaging strategy to make people forget that their gas guzzling monopoly loses money paid for by taxes, but the other services are held to another standard entirely

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

Week highlights: @Blender 3.6 beta is out, @krita gets MLT-based animation player, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork by Peter Semiletov

More info: librearts.org/2023/05/week-rec…

Featured #b3d artwork by Gabriel Barral

Weekly recap — 21 May 2023

Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools
Alexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
#b3d @Krita @Blender 🔶

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

"Sponsored posts in the Fediverse should be tagged with the #sponsored hashtag."

#EvanPoll #Poll

  • Strong Agree (75%, 331 votes)
  • Qualified Agree (20%, 88 votes)
  • Qualified Disagree (2%, 9 votes)
  • Strong Disagree (2%, 10 votes)
438 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#sponsored #poll #EvanPoll
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Evan Prodromou Tim Chambers reshared this.

Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou
• •

I'm a qualified agree. As @Jeremiah pointed out, it's required in some jurisdictions.

In other places, I still think a standard tag should be used, although it would be nice to have a language-appropriate tag, such as #publicité on French posts, alongside or instead of a global one.

Hashtags give disclosure and allows filtering. I think they're a pretty good mechanism.

#publicité @Jeremiah
LPS reshared this.

If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.

The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.

propublica.org/article/cost-of…


It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds

Cleanup costs for the state’s oil and gas wells are triple what the industry is expected to make in future profits.
ProPublica

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

ARTIST FRIENDS and FRIENDS OF ARTISTS:

I'm strongly against AI-art, and a SF zine who is publishing one of my stories has a need for HUMAN MADE ART (this is a paying gig), but the deadline is very tight on this. So I'm putting out my feelers to anyone who is an artist or knows someone interested in doing cover art for a SF magazine (deadline: May 28th).

Email me (susankayeq@gmail.com) for details. Thanks for sharing!

(image: some art I commissioned for the Solarpunk Futures expo)

Cover spread of underwater scene with solarpunk future city above water A solarpunk Drabble by Susan Kaye Quinn

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

I don't post or boost posts bashing the Republican party not because I support them but rather because those posts perpetuate the myth that we really have two parties. Sure they have some differences on cultural issues, but in the important areas of economic and foreign policy, I challenge people to show me how they significantly differ. #uniparty
#Uniparty

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

bandcamp won their union! bandcamp won their union!!

i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing

their full statement - blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/b…

WE WON 31-7
“Bandcamp United and Bandcamp management are committed to working together to continue to advance fair economic conditions for our workers and the artists who rely on us. We look forward to negotiating with an open mind and working in good faith to promote the best interests of all of our staff and the artist and label community we serve.”

Bandcamp and Bandcamp United Release Joint Statement on Union Vote

Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). The vote res…
Bandcamp Updates

reshared this

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

LPS reshared this.

The problem with billionaires is that they’re billionaires.

#capitalism #billionaires

#Capitalism #billionaires

LPS reshared this.

in reply to Aral Balkan

ij
ij
• •
I thought the correct term for billionair is oligarch?
⇧