From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw.

“A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9

I look out the window while drinking my first coffee of the day and there's someone walking their pitbull in the rain wearing only white boxers and flipflops

Vintage Max patches revived: free downloads, gallery and examples, and a conversation between @Leafcutterjohn and Suren Seneviratne aka My Panda Shall Fly.

Wonderful to see this media archaeology project, expanding on the vast treasure trove that is Suren's Missing Music.

https://cdm.link/vintage-max-patches-revived/

Spanish Enclaves in Northern Africa

Trump seeks to extradite Palestine solidarity funder James "Fergie" Chambers from Spain on "material support for terrorism" charges. Lawmakers and rights groups call it political persecution amid a broader crackdown on the U.S. left.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/trump-seeks-the-extradition-of-pro-palestine-activist-and-donor-james-fergie-chambers-amid-a-widening-crackdown-on-the-u-s-left/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

Our talk with @tbernard and @adz from Local First Conf 2026 in Berlin is online now!

📺 Watch it here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uKCwvo7pgXg

#localfirstconf #localfirst

Private groups

Lately, I've been seeing various people claiming that fediverse doesn't have private groups. They often point to some task force at w3c that is supposedly working to fill the gap.

However, fediverse has had private groups for a very long time:

- Hubzilla channels. This project probably had private groups before ActivityPub. The implementation was later adapted for ActivityPub and refined in subsequent forks, Streams and Forte. It is now partially documented in FEP-171b: Conversation Containers.
- Smithereen groups. This implementation is documented in FEP-400e: Publicly-appendable ActivityPub collections (published in 2021) and FEP-db0e: Authentication mechanism for non-public groups.
- Lemmy communities. Private groups were proposed in Lemmy RFC 0005 and have been implemented in the development version. There is a test instance running this version (Lemmy v1.0b) at https://voyager.lemmy.ml/

There are probably other implementations that I am not aware of.

#Hubzilla #Smithereen #Lemmy

So apparently unrelated which is honestly sorta weirder

Just finished listening to Jeremy Ruston (@Jermolene) give a fascinating history of the origin of @TiddlyWiki that done as part of an interview series by @boris back in 2020.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=03NrhSF7VXA

Codeberg pages is down, and so is the fediverse server that Codeberg's account here is hosted on. Is this a targeted attack?

Happy to announce that federation bit is complete! Next step is purchasing a domain and spinning up a flagship instance which should happen in upcoming days :)

#fediverse #fedidev #activitypub #prismodev

While listening to a podcast the narrator quoted a data analyst named Guy Leach. The state of the world is such a satire of itself these days...

Your support for digital solidarity!

Klasse & Methode e.V. loves and lives by the digital commons: 
We run @eintopf #Stuttgart and other free services
 for many local groups. So many that we need a new server—the old one is bursting at the seams.

https://www.betterplace.org/en/projects/183080-our-community-server-needs-hard-drives

I have too much scrap wood. I needed a scrap wood bin. So I made a scrap wood bin out of scrap wood to hold my scrap wood.

publication croisée depuis : lemmy.world/post/48861413

Scrappiest of scrap wood projects.

The proportions are odd, but it’s designed to fit under the landing of the stairs going into the garage. Makes a good use of an otherwise awkward space. Like everything else in the shop, it’s on casters to allow for easy movement and cleaning around.

Most of this wood was from the big lifting tower I used to get the dust collector motor into place.

What in the fuck is this monstrosity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/117009938621845974

The Gooſe gaggletb.

I'm silly, I didn't notice my Blaze interview was out - it was sooo much fun!! https://blazetype.eu/blog/daytona-mess/

#USA gov't map of #Africa mislabels every country at global conference ‼️

The map contained an #AI watermark indicating it was made w/ OpenAI tools. 👀

It had:
• Nigeria (where #US currently has several hundred troops deployed) as landlocked in the Sahara Desert
• Mozambique, which is in southeastern Africa, relocated to the Horn of Africa
• Ivory ​Coast in West Africa was placed on the other side of the continent

The State Dept blamed a staffer.

#trump #TrumpAdmin
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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

I needed a mnemonic for remembering the order of the letters when running `nmcli d w l` and @mntmn recommended "does wifi look (good)" which seemed entirely silly when I heard it, and I changed it slightly in my head to "do wifi lookgood?" and its worked every time now...