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I support Matt Dinniman, author of the dungeon Crawler Carl books. I'm super conflicted. The author drops chapters for patreon supporters to read on the regular. For this book and the previous one, I read some chapters to get a bead on what the story will be about, and then I figure “ well crap, I should wait for audio because the audiobooks are truly amazing in there own right”. I also get confused as with most serials, before publication, there's a ton of edits and rework. Am I the only one that supports authors sometimes but you don't read the prepublished chapters?

  • Yes, I read all author Patrion or Royal Road chapters the second they drop. (0%, 0 votes)
  • Yes, I read chapters as they drop because an alternate form doesn't do it for me. Author support is a plus.K (0%, 0 votes)
  • No, i am just a supporter, I like the finished product or an alternate form like a human narrated audiobook. (100%, 1 vote)
  • Neither, i sometimes read chapters as they drop and then re-read the book, but sometimes I wait (0%, 0 votes)
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(Etwas später fliehen die Stare wieder aus ihren Bäumen, Krähen beobachten den rauschenden Schwarm, nebenan wird eine Kiste mit Spielzeug ausgekippt und dem inneren Auge bietet sich ein Berg von Bausteinen und Kunststofftieren, der klappernd in die Breite rutscht. Ein Newsletter unterbreitet Textpassagen von Stimmen, deren Gedanken man zu lange nicht mehr gelesen hat, über die eigene Kanälen währenddessen fällt es schwer, jene wiederzufinden, deren Namen man kennt, in den Radionachrichten sinniert eine Expertenstimme, dass AI alles disrupted, und die eigenen Überlegungen dazu spielen keine große Rolle, aber vielleicht haben Menschen, die englische Verben im Deutschen konjugieren, an gewissen Stellen einfach die Kontrolle verloren...)

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #stories of time and its strange fabric

#concrete city #stories of time and its strange fabric

#stories #outerworld #concrete city #Grounded #stories of time and its strange fabric #concrete_city #stories_of_time_and_its_strange_fabric #concrete

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Great article! ->

"The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in an era of American global supremacy. But the triumph of this U.S.-led so-called liberal international order also required that the achievements of an earlier, more internationalist order centered explicitly on the United Nations be quietly slipped down the memory hole. As the U.N. was increasingly retooled by the United States and other Western countries as a technocratic mechanism for managing faraway civil wars, largely through humanitarian aid and peacekeeping operations, its previous role as a mediator between states withered from view. What emerged was an institution deeply enmeshed in the U.S.-led order but peripheral to the strategic thinking of policy elites in capitals everywhere.

War and instability are once again on the rise, as is the risk of nuclear confrontation. We’ve suffered periods of intensified conflict and great-power rivalry many times since 1945. But for the first time since the Second World War, we are confronting these crises amid the near-complete erosion of the U.N. norms, institutions, and practices that, however imperfectly, constrained escalation and identified pathways to negotiated resolution. Only reinvestment in a radically remade U.N. — not Mr. Trump’s Board of Peace, whatever its ultimate remit — can fill that void.

Peace cannot be improvised. It needs to be designed, carefully and deliberately."

nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion…

#UN #UnitedNations #BoardOfPeace #USA #Trump #Imperialism #History #Militarism

#Trump #history #USA #un #unitednations #imperialism #boardofpeace #militarism

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"Late last month, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, finalized a deal to spin off the platform’s US operations into a new, majority US-owned company.

Within 48 hours of the takeover, users began to experience problems. Many top creators saw their reach plummet and reported that their videos related to controversial topics like criticizing ICE and advocating for Palestine were being throttled by the algorithm. Some US users could not type the word “Epstein” in direct messages. Bisan Owda, an award-winning Gaza-based journalist, reported that her account was banned, prompting outcry.

TikTok said most of these issues were attributable to a data center power outage, and that the Epstein problem was a technical glitch. The company also said that Owda’s account was flagged due to an impersonation issue from last September, which has since been resolved. The account is back up.

Amidst this chaos, however, a clip of Adam Presser, TikTok US’s new CEO, speaking at an event organized by the World Jewish Congress last year, began to spread. He spoke about the platform’s moderation policies, saying, “We made a change to designate the use of the term ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for a protected attribute as hate speech. So if somebody were to use ‘Zionist,’ of course, you can use it in that sense, you’re a proud Zionist, but if you’re using it in a context degrading someone, calling somebody a Zionist as a dirty name, then that gets designated as hate speech to be moderated against.”"

zeteo.com/p/trump-tiktok-disas…

#SocialMedia #TikTok #USA #Censorship #Zionism #Palestine


The Disastrous Rollout of the Trump-Approved TikTok Serves as a Stark Warning for Us All

Big Tech platforms wield far too much power over our information landscape to continue operating without transparency.
Taylor Lorenz (Zeteo)
#socialmedia #censorship #USA #palestine #tiktok #zionism

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Hacked away at Soundkeys some more. Ripped out UIA entirely with mixed results. Now checkboxes are reporting properly when tabbing through them, but the very first one still isn't auto-reporting its initial state change, but if I Tab away then Shift+Tab back, it will report its state change when I hit Space every time. The Bindings list is still very broken, even more than it was already! Now it's just saying "Column header title" or something close to that. WX is so annoying! I'm also using Python 3.7, probably should update to at least 3.9? I'm really just about ready to scrap this entirely and continue with the project that's working much better, then switch to trying to fix BlackHole's crappy Balatro Settings Screen support!

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My partner is reviving his interest in and study of amature radio. This means brushing up on Morse Code. I've always been intrigued by the idea of learning it, so I'm bobbing along in his wake. I now know 13 letters, and can distinguish them at 3 in a row. It's weirdly addictive. Other than being able to communicate with him covertly at parties I don't know where I'd ever actually use it but it's just so cool. It's like learning binary convertion, once I started I couldn't stop. I'm not fast but I can do them. I think a braille reader and a musician has an advantage out the gate learning Morse code; learning it is just satisfying something in my brain.

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Random thought that crossed my mind, so I'm curious...

Let's say you start using a given software/app, purely based out of recommendations or random search, and you like it (doesn't matter how much, you just like it).

After some time you find an issue, or you want to request/suggest a feature, so you go to the project's source code (wherever that is). While browsing the source, the project page or the issues/bugs you find out that it was mostly (if not totally) written using AI/vibe code.

Do you stop using it?

#HomeLab @homelab

  • Right away! No doubt! (40%, 17 votes)
  • Maybe, depends how much I like it... (45%, 19 votes)
  • That doesn't make any difference to me, so no. (7%, 3 votes)
  • Something else (comment). (7%, 3 votes)
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#homelab @Run your own homelab
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Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw engadget.com/ai/moltbook-the-a…

Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw

Cybersecurity firm Wiz found that Moltbook exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users and undermined the AI social network's core premise.
Anna Washenko (Engadget)
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