Michał Sapka (@mms) reviews The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin:
"I have to say that I loved everything here. The world interesting, the characters are alive, the conflict is real, and the story is gripping..."
https://michal.sapka.pl/reviews/novels/the-dispossessed-ursula-le-guin-1974/index.html
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"Log out" by @mijndert
"For a lot of different reasons, I love the internet. I love it because it connects me to people I wouldn't otherwise get to know, because it gives me access to all kinds of information, because it lets me share my thoughts and creations with a wider audience, and because it entertains me in countless ways. But for me personally there's a dark side to the internet as well [...]"
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Re: I love calculator by @dominikhofer
"This post reads like a love letter to one of the few pieces of tech that just works: No account, no other dependencies, not even electricity is needed. How beautiful!"
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Collectively adopting alternative tools to Big Tech by @john_fisherman
"Like-minded, wholesome and frankly fun folks gathered at Casa da Achada, in the maze-like streets of Lisbon’s old town, to collectively share strategies for leaving Big Tech behind when the time comes to build community and organise online."
https://fredrocha.net/2025/11/28/collectively-adopting-alternative-tools-to-big-tech/
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Articulo: Segmentar Dump de MySQL por Interlan
"Tener un dump de las bases de datos es una buena practica, pero asumamos que de las dos formas, de guardar tus bases, elegiste la mas radical [...]"
https://interlan.ec/2025/11/28/articulo-segmentar-dump-de-mysql/
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Reply to Anil Dash, re: I know you don’t want them to want AI, but... by Mareos de un Geek:
"I was flattered to get a reply from Anil Dash to my post about the backlash Mozilla faces for its plan to add AI to Firefox. I’ve read Anil for a long time and admire his work."
https://manualdousuario.net/en/reply-anil-dash-firefox-mozilla-ai/
Feeling the Same After Getting Married? That’s a Good Thing by James Zhan
"Even before we got engaged, we both loved the idea of a small, intimate wedding—probably because we are both introverts. We are those people who celebrate when outdoor plans get cancelled because we get to just stay home."
https://journal.james-zhan.com/everything-same-after-wedding/
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David MacMillan and James Robinson at IISc by @thej
"You don’t often get the chance to hear Nobel Laureates live. When the opportunity arose in the form of the Nobel Prize Dialogue, The Future We Want, I applied. I wasn’t expecting to receive an invitation."
https://thejeshgn.com/2025/11/05/david-macmillan-and-james-robinson-at-iisc/
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A machine translation mishap from English to Japanese inadvertently creates an RPG success story on Steam in Japan.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/jp-to-en-game-translation-mishaps/
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Tot by The Homebound Symphony
"I’ve tried all the major note-taking apps in the Apple ecosystem [...]
After a long while, I finally came to realize that what all note-taking applications have in common, what they primarily feature, is for me a bug. What they all offer is a place to store text — and in some cases images, though that starts to take us into Everything Bucket territory."
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Masto-mailo-inator by Michał M. Sapka
"Masto-mailo-inator is a small program which allows reading Mastodon from the comfort from your modern email client. It works by reading mastodon API and storing each toot as a mail message in Maildir format. I build to escape from browser even more, to learn python and how email works."
Just found via #powrss : that's a point of view that I haven't seen yet about AI systems. And - unfortunately - I think it's quite possible
https://cafebedouin.org/2025/11/01/%f0%9f%aa%9e-the-mirror-problem-a-warning-about-ai-and-your-mind/
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Understanding what “I am not ‘anti-AI’… I am pro-craft.” means to me — by @glecharles
"Meanwhile, actual expertise continues to be devalued across the board. Intellectual curiosity that helps develop that expertise is steadily being devalued in favor of “productivity” hacks. And my absolute favorite, AI “solutions” to problems that were created by previous non-AI “solutions” that also didn’t understand the original problem they claimed to solve."
https://loudpoet.com/2025/10/30/understanding-what-i-am-not-anti-ai-i-am-pro-craft-means-to-me/
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long time no blog; thinking about collective action by view from the present:
"Yet I find myself wondering if social media isn't purpose-built to prevent us from banding together collectively for meaningful change. I mean its tendency to convince us that slacktivism is all we need. You don't need to go out and organize! Just share this video and like that post, see, you did the thing, you are a Good Person who is Fighting the Good Fight."
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"About the password leak of 183 million Gmail accounts" in Manual do Usuário:
The main takeaway from a story like this isn’t “your Gmail password may have leaked,” but rather that “any of your passwords could leak at any time.” Not to spread alarm, but to encourage awareness of good digital security practices.
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When Kindness Needs Boundaries: Understanding Healthy Distance in Relationships by Cafe Bedouin
"Every person has value and deserves to be treated with basic respect.
But here’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough: recognizing that someone matters doesn’t mean you have to let them close to your heart."
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Programmers reinvent 1970s concepts because nobody teaches computing history by Jamie Lord
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Collaboration or privacy: pick one by @chipotle
"Even before this ballroom fiasco, we recognized that the question was no longer “will Apple cooperate,” that it had become “is there a line Apple won’t cross.” But every time you say “yes sir, yes sir, three bags full, sir” to someone like Trump, the more he’s going to ask for next time—and the less power you’re going to have to say no."
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Disco del Mese di @Xabacadabra
https://www.andreacorinti.com/posts/ita/disco-del-mese-10-2025/
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Faithful Friends Pet Cemetery by @laze
"While the aforementioned Boulder City Pet Cemetery is one of the most unique and special places I’ve been, I’ve been curious to see what other pet cemeteries around the country have to offer. Last week, I made a trip to Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, a historic burial ground that’s been around since 1852."
https://laze.net/2025/10/21/faithful-friends-pet-cemetery.html
