Brian Gomes Bascoy (pera) @trobador@mastodon.social

Hey @HachetteUS@twitter.com, @HarperCollins@twitter.com, @WileyGlobal@twitter.com, @penguinrandom@twitter.com, I will not buy any more books from you until you stop harassing the Internet Archive with lawsuits, and I will advice everyone I know to do the same.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program/

RT @rdevro@twitter.com: Hale on the privatization of the war on terror.

Tomorrow US whistleblower Daniel Hale will be sentenced for releasing documents exposing, among many things, how the military labeled unknown civilians assassinated during drone strikes as EKIAs ("enemy killed in action"). #EspionageAct #DronePapers https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1419456562935091200

All you need is SK 🎶

RT @AmnestyTech@twitter.com: Journalists and @amnesty@twitter.com have had access to over 50k phone numbers of people of interest by clients of spyware company #NSO.

It includes world leaders, activists and journalists.

Here's how our Security Lab analysed the phones -

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/

A marvelous renaissance piece, My Lady Carey's Dompe (Anonymous):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puNp4qm83CA

I was ignorant of this greenwashing scam called "biomass" (i.e. burning wood to generate electricity). Here is a very interesting and extensive article that shows the negative impact of this industry in a community in North Carolina, USA: https://twitter.com/MajliedePuyKamp/status/1413504083256696838

RT @Winnie_Byanyima@twitter.com: The #PeoplesVaccine Alliance advocates for 3 urgent actions to maximize global vaccine manufacturing:
1) sharing technology & know-how via @WHO@twitter.com's #CTAP
2) #TRIPSwaiver at @WTO@twitter.com
3) investing in enhancing manufacturing capacity in developing countries, especially in Africa.

#PCB48

If you are from the US please watch this video of "one of #ExxonMobil’s most senior Washington lobbyists" confessing their work to undermine climate science and climate change policies (part of an undercover report from Unearthed in collab with Channel 4):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1Yg6XejyE

Today while walking in les Gavarres' woods just outside of the city of Girona we found this huge floating sculpture that looks like a three-dimensional projection of an hypercube. Thanks to whoever made this piece 😍
#Maths #art #Catalonia #nature

RT @appledaily_hk@twitter.com: Hong Kong police raid Apple Daily, arrest executives under national security law

Read: https://bit.ly/3xrLt4d

#AppleDailyENG #NationalSecurityLaw

RT @DanielEllsberg@twitter.com: 50 years ago today, the New York Times published its first story about the Pentagon Papers, exposing the truth about the war in Vietnam. In this podcast from @GroundTruth@twitter.com & @UMassAmherst@twitter.com, I reveal what led me to blow the whistle on the war: https://www.umass.edu/ellsberg/whistleblower/

I'm having some fun with #haskell + JACK + PureData. I didn't expect this combination to work so well to be honest: I can compile synths on the fly and connect them through JACK to a pd patch. The next step would be to have a way to evaluate expression during run time to do some live coding sessions 😄

https://vimeo.com/556861891

The influx of new users in #libera asking for cloaks is simply amazing. If you haven't yet, register your nick with nickserv ASAP.
#freenode #IRC

Sometimes I wish I were a tatami maker making a living in the outskirts of Kyoto...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQKWIMJuvag

RT @DanielEllsberg@twitter.com: Good account by @AbramskySasha@twitter.com about what I'm thinking and doing now. (via @thenation@twitter.com) https://www.thenation.com/article/world/daniel-ellsberg-nuclear-war/

Hey @BristolCouncil@twitter.com could we have just one day without that freaking police helicopter flying in circles for hours? Thanks! #Bristol

Today while scrolling through some docs I realized that my peripheral vision seemed to capture movement slower than the more central part of my visual field. Here I found more information on this odd perceptual phenomena: https://doi.org/10.1167/16.6.20

RT @Demoscene_AOC@twitter.com: The #demoscene is writing cultural history. We are stoked to announce that @unesco_de@twitter.com 🇩🇪 has enlisted the demoscene as intangible cultural heritage! Thank you 🙏🏼to all supporters who helped @digitalekultur@twitter.com to make it possible! Let's celebrate soon!🎉bit.ly/2ORaYLJ