Bassam @bkurdali@mastodon.social

"The state has already understood a fact that the Left has struggled to accept: misogynists make great informants. Before or regardless of whether they are ever recruited by the state to disrupt a movement or destabilize an organization, they’ve likely become well versed in practices of disruptive behavior. They require almost no training and can start the work immediately."

https://truthout.org/articles/why-misogynists-make-great-informants/

I ought to say some things about json-ld, because I think a lot of people aren't familiar with the details of it.

- You can play with json-ld live here: https://json-ld.org/playground/
- JSON-LD lets you have extensions but map them to local "compacted" shorthands, while still allowing to expand out into unambiguous form.
- JSON-LD does allow converting to a RDF graph, but it's not required. (It is interesting, though.)

(cotd ...)

Dick Cockburn and his Energy Vision

Check out the next generation of #Kdenlive. Test it! Report bugs! ♥️

https://kdenlive.org/en/2018/07/kdenlive-test-the-future/

Can I emphasize one more time how cool Blokada is?
You don't know it but your phone is *full* of trackers. It's not better than the web. I thought that we don't have any tools to deal with it - after all, it's not a browser. But turns out there are!
Blokada works as a VPN but locally. It has a blacklist (which you can change) and it just blocks all connections to trackers or ads. It works wonderfully.

Of course Google wouldn't let it in the Play Store.
https://f-droid.org/app/org.blokada.alarm

In the 90s-era demo scene, rendering a 3D object was called "vector" and rendering a 3D object made of translucent polygons was called "glenz vector." I never thought to wonder what "glenz" meant until recently. It turns out to derive from "gläns," Swedish for "glitter"!

speaking of throat singing brought into different genres of music, mongolian throat singing rap goes fucking hard as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el93MIxAf-c

📖 All new default brushes in #krita 4.0 are now documented here:

https://docs.krita.org/The_Krita_4_Preset_Bundle

#introductions

hi i'm a friendly former mastodev; Western MA Sanctuary activist; hobby poet; queer shitposting furry; jack of all trades creative-type; and grad student studying Library & Information Science. Most notable thing I've made is http://sailingroughwaters.com which is a website about coping skills for the mental stress of dealing with daily racism/sexism/homophobia/ableism etc. with a focus on being accessible in all senses of the word.

Also check out Better Everyday on stipes.co

Photogrammetry is the most recent topic to go right over my head.

#libreplanet

A good friend of mine was like, "do you know anyone in MA? fairly urgent stuff around imminent legal work around immigrant rights"

I think most of the MA folks I know are on the fediverse, so here you go:

http://www.safecommunitiesact.com/

via our friend, @willrad

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT THE RED HAT LOGO IS ACTUALLY A T-REX PUNCHING A TRICERATOPS

https://mobile.twitter.com/willrad/status/607737190735618049 https://witches.town/media/dMSLMS4B-4J9LVzZsiA