Lara 🐙 @medusa@social.coop

“In Brooklyn, when the sun goes down, pirate radio stations fire up their transmitters and take to the air, beaming transgressive, culture-bearing signals into Caribbean, Jewish and Latino neighborhoods. The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map is an archival home for the sounds of renegade community radio at a crucial turning point in its history.”

https://www.pirateradiomap.com/

All the Rammstein albums, but vocalized by Nina Hagen.

pour out some soylent for all those startups that got sent to the great big ted talk in the sky.
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I'm looking for books/resources about game design and programming.
(I'm more interested in design and tech design too)

I want to understand the whole thing in a general way. High-level knowledge.
Shoot anything you have.

if you work at microsoft, or at any company that serves ICE or any agency that assists them, give your bosses hell for it. publicize the contracts. demand answers. agitate! organize!

if you have ever dragged IBM for helping nazis organize concentration camps, recognize ICE's camps for what they are and hold collaborators to account! ✊ 🔥

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17485238/ice-contract-microsoft-motorola-dell-hp-enterprise-deportation

Business conventions are furry conventions where everyone's fursona is a corporation

/via SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/frigid

The single greatest thing you can do to thwart bigotry is create a positive environment around you. Do the work to find your own happiness and then share every bit of knowledge you get in that journey w/ everyone around you.

The greatest threat to bigotry and hate is an active and healthy community. There is nothing more powerful than us helping each other.

Bigots want us to be as miserable, insecure and hateful as they are.

But we're not them. Our lives aren't defined by hate

A portion of the proceeds go directly to the community. Whether this is towards workshops or to sex worker orgs, we are dedicated to keep the community strong.

Welcome to Tryst. Raising the bar for sex workers around the world. Coming soon.

SWARM OF BEES

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From the Solarpunk Aesthetic tumblr:

Biotechnologist Marin Sawa and her University of London research group have created a proof-of-concept for printing solar cells onto paper using carbon nanotubes and cyanobacteria.

This technology is "[...] capable of generating a sustained electrical current both in the dark (as a ‘solar bio-battery’) and in response to light (as a ‘bio-solar-panel’) with potential applications in low-power devices."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01084-4

https://solarpunk-aesthetic.tumblr.com/

I wish the human meat suit I wore had pockets

"Both Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling more than 50% of the hash rate.
The entire blockchain for both systems is determined by fewer than 20 mining entities."

In other words: decentralization in the crypto space is a myth, just as it is a myth that cryptos are currencies at all.

http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bitcoin-ethereum/

#Commons Camp 2018

from 22 to 26 August 2018 in Grenoble - France

The CommonsCamp aims to create a meeting place for French and European activists, commoners and municipalists for the transition based on the commons. in France and Europe.

More info here: https://frama.link/commonscamp2018-en

Sign-up here: https://ue2018.org/ (in French)

if it's a thing you do, try and check on your friends and loved ones you haven't checked on, make sure they're hanging in there

Harlan Ellison, groundbreaking science fiction author and sex pest, has passed away: http://locusmag.com/2018/06/harlan-ellison-1934-2018/ #RIP #sff