Re: GR -- Allow AI-Assisted Contributions — At its best, Debian is a group of people who come together to make the world a better place through free software. I think we should be centering the appalling behaviour of the organisations who are pushing genAI on everyone, and the real harms they are causing; and we should be pushing back on the idea that genAI is either a social good or inevitable.
Art Bits from HyperCard | mariteaux
Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? - Michael Stapelberg — For the first time, an on-par Wayland experience seems within reach, but realistically it will require weeks or even months of work still. In my experience, debugging sessions quickly take hours as I need to switch graphics cards and rewire monitors to narrow down bugs. I don’t have the time to contribute much to fixing these numerous issues unfortunately, so I’ll keep using X11/i3 for now.
Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry — This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to offer a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed against the state itself, both violent approaches (what we might call ‘terroristic insurgency’) and non-violent approaches (protest). It may seem strange to treat violent insurgency and non-violent protest together but while they employ very different methods, as we’ll see, they share a similar theoretical framework, attempting to achieve some of the similar effects by different means, both working within the state, against the state (or its policies), focused on the changing minds rather than battlefields.
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Sitting in cafes next to absolute pieces of shit
A Complete Failure of Winter Across the West — And What It Means for the Rest of 2026 – BoulderCAST — This winter — and the autumn that fed into it — will go down as one of the most anomalous cold‑season patterns ever observed across the western United States. What we’ve lived through isn’t just “warm.” It’s a structural failure of winter itself, driven by a relentless atmospheric setup that refused to budge for months. A stubborn North American dipole pattern locked into place: a deep, frigid trough dominating the eastern U.S. while a warm, bloated ridge camped over the West or just offshore. La Niña helped tilt the scales, but the dipole did the heavy lifting. The result was astonishing, historic, and frankly unsettling. Entire western states logged their warmest winter on record. Meanwhile, the East endured weeks‑long cold snaps not seen in decades, with snow and ice reaching the Gulf Coast and Deep South. Coastal North Carolina has seen more snow than Denver. Parts of Florida have out‑snowed Salt Lake City. That’s how upside‑down this season has been.
Smaug the dragon from the 1977 animated film The Hobbit.
What exactly is a ‘concentration camp’? — What Trump is doing that is new is he is externalizing that violence, right? That stuff that was kind of hidden before. Trump is seizing the tools that he’s been left. And he and his allies are working together to do the purging of people of color. The purging of anyone that’s deemed the outsider or the foreigner. It has been weaponized into this much, much more dangerous state. And with the number of detention beds in terms of expansions and the warehousing, the potential for this, we’re really looking at stuff on the scale of the concentration camp systems that most people have heard of. The earlier years, pre-death camp, it’s important to say, Nazi concentration camp system, we are very much mimicking that. And if they get all the beds that they have funding for, we’ll be starting to approach the Soviet gulag as well.
No Reservations: Narnia - Edonohana - Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis [Archive of Our Own]
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Sizing chaos — On the sizing of women's clothing.
Pushback grows nationwide over proposed ICE facility sites