#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 23
FRIENDS I GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF A TUX GAME LOOK AT ITTTTTTTTTT
E por falar de figuras a quem o Observador dĂĄ vozâŠ
Ao saber que o tema desta #musiquinta ia provavelmente ser a #estrada veio-me logo à cabeça o disco Spectre dis Laibach: não só o CD rodou imenso comigo mas gravei-o para cassete para ouvir no carro, e desde então (até ao carro ter ido para a sucata, muitos anos depois) era a cassete que tocava nas nossas viagens mais de 90% das vezes.
E como o musiquinta nĂŁo Ă© sobre discos mas mĂșsicas, e o tema nĂŁo Ă© sobre o que se ouve na estrada mas âqualquer mĂșsica que mencione viagensâ, entĂŁo a mĂșsica deste disco que escolho Ă© a âWalk With Meâ. Uma canção (e todo um disco) com jĂĄ mais de uma dĂ©cada (o tempo passa!) mas com uma mensagem importante para os dias que hoje vivemos.
âLater in the evening, posting on X, #Macron said: âIâm banning #socialmedia for #children under 15. Platforms have the ability to verify age. Letâs do it.â
French authorities are already progressing with efforts to force certain social media sites â including X, Reddit, Bluesky and #Mastodon â to introduce age verification, by classifying them as pornographic websites.
French measures forcing porn sites to verify their usersâ ages came into effect on June 7, prompting the worldâs largest porn website, Pornhub, to stop operating in France. Demand for virtual private network services, which allow users to trick websites into thinking they are in a different location, immediately surged.â
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-social-media-ban-minors-france/
Media Markt ĂŒbernimmt: Zahl der Saturn-MĂ€rkte bundesweit halbiert
Von den einst 150 Saturn-Filialen in Deutschland sind kaum 70 ĂŒbrig geblieben. Es sollen noch weniger werden. ( Saturn, Media Markt)
Trumpâs troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear
Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers -  Politico
_Stephan: What is see in Trump is a bully in a panic. He wants to create misdirection so the media stops covering his bully-off with Elon Musk, and the nasty oligarch benefit bill his morally spineless Republican vassals in Congress are trying to pass. Like all cowardly bullies, his solution is to over ⊠â Read more
HBO and CNN owner Warner Bros Discovery to split in two
The media giant will separate its studio and streaming business away from its cable TV networks. â Read more
HBO and CNN owner Warner Bros Discovery to split in two
The media giant will separate its studio and streaming business away from its cable TV networks. â Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Only 10% of the German population had Internet access in 1998: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Diagramm_Internetnutzer_in_Deutschland.svg I guess I was lucky in that regard.
(If todayâs tech wasnât constantly trying to track and scam you, I might still be an early adopter.)
Feudalism Is Our Future
Cullen Murphy,  Editor at Large of The Atlantic. -  Reader Supported News | The Atlantic Magazine
_Stephan: As I read Project 2025, I realized it was a modern version of Hitlerâs Mein Kampf, and understood that what Trump and the Republican Party planned was to replace American democracy with a fascist feudal system. Although this reality is not discussed on corporate media, I am not the only person who sees this clearly. Here is how Cullen Murphy, Editor-at-Large at the Atl ⊠â Read more
âStraight up sore loserâ: Biles calls out former swimmer for trans stance
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has called former US college swimmer Riley Gaines âsickâ for mocking a social media post about a high school softball team with a trans player. â Read more
Accused Australian drug smugglerâs family wants a âjust outcomeâ
In a short statement given to media on Friday, Stephanie Ahchee thanked Indonesian authorities for their âprofessionalism and impartialityâ. â Read more
Climate activists fined $10k each after Woodside stench gas media stunt
Three climate activists who planned to release stench gas in an attempt to cause the evacuation of a Woodside annual general meeting in Perthâs CBD have been fined $10,000 each. â Read more
Knights NRL player told in trolling message âI will end your lifeâ
Knights winger James Schiller allegedly received multiple messages on social media threatening physical harm during last nightâs NRL game against Manly. â Read more
Russian weapons plant hit by drones in Tambov Oblast, media reports attacks across country â Read more
Para a #musiquinta #LGBTQIAPN+ visto-me de cor-de-rosa para rodar âIn Pinkâ de Âź.
Pode parecer, mas este nĂŁo Ă© o disco de Âź mais âdentro do temaâ, nem esta a mĂșsica mais representativa - mas entre a fome e a vontade de comer, decidi escolher a mĂșsica que mais me apeteceu ;-)
Why is Gen Z obsessed with blind boxes?
The blind-box market is worth billions of dollars per year, and the most successful players in this industry thrive on loyal fans, social media and some clever marketing tactics. â Read more
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 22
Trump Amplifies Another Outlandish Conspiracy Theory: Biden Is a Robotic Clone
Zolan Kanno-Youngs,  White House Correspondent -  The New York Times
Stephan:Â Fascist, aspiring dictator Trump is a psychopath who lies compulsively. Every person who can think rationally knows this. What many donât seem to know, and that media is not properly covering, is how truly bizarre his lies have become. This is an example of what I mean.

Ashes tickets pre-sale sets new record but leaves some fans âfrustratedâ
Fans complain across social media about the issues faced in buying tickets, with one saying it has been âone of the most frustrating experiencesâ he has been through. â Read more
Am Wochenende wurde mit Eisstielen, Stempeln und dem Lötkolben gebastelt.
Das Ergebnis sind Namensschilder fĂŒr die KrĂ€utertöpfe. Die unegale Optik finde ich sehr angenehm.
Police investigate social media âstabbing listâ posted before town show
Police investigating an anonymous social media post containing a âstabbing listâ say it is not connected to an alleged triple stabbing in Dubbo. â Read more
Paraglider video out of China likely doctored with AI, experts say
The ABC was among hundreds of media outlets which reported on the incredible footage. Experts say the video was at least partially manipulated by artificial intelligence. â Read more
A #WikiConPT terminou com a inauguração do #WikiLovesEarth 2025, um concurso fotogrĂĄfico para o qual podem participar durante todo o mĂȘs de Junho!
âHERCULEAN TASKâ Emirates airline president reveals staggering cost to transform Qatari âsky Palaceâ into Trumpâs new Air Force One jet
Georgie English,  Foreign News Reporter -  The U.S. Sun
_Stephan: The story of the corruption of Trump, represented by his grift to get the Qatar âflying palaceâ has passed from the attention of the corporate media, but that doesnât mean this corrupt scheme has ⊠â Read more
Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer -  EcoWatch
_Stephan: Under the Trump Republican MAGAt coup the United States is not only not preparing for climate change the country is being taken backwards into greater carbon energy dependence. The complete lack of ethics in the Republican Congress, and the failure of the media to focus on this tr ⊠â Read more
NATO officials reject Russian demand to halt expansion, media reports â Read more
Num evento a ser jĂĄ aliciado para o prĂłximo: o segundo dia da #WikiConPT começou com o anĂșncio da #GLAMWiki 2025, que vai acontecer em Lisboa:
O evento de hoje Ă© a #WikiConPT, na #biblioteca de #Seia. E como Ă© uma biblioteca, com jardim, livros e sombras, damos por nĂłs assimâŠ
QR codes, already posted about them in the last two posts, but I want to hear your hot takes: Should they only be black and white, are they even worth doing in 2025, incorporating them into things,..?
Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!

EVERYTHINGâS GNARLY đ” đȘ
The album is released next sunday, but why wait?
You can already listen to the full new #kokori album - a split with Floating Ashes - either by streaming or download (with a pay as you want - including nothing - option). So⊠Enjoy!
And relember, if you want a physical edition on #CD, you can leave a comment down there and Iâll get you one for 10âŹ, shipping included.
https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com/album/idiossincrasias-vol-1
The Final Checkmate: Republicans Move to Destroy the Balance of Powers
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator -  The Hartmann Report
_Stephan: Corporate media and newspapers like The Washington Post and the The Los Angeles Times, both owned by MAGAt billionaires, as well as local television stations owned by MAGAts, and the social media rightwing disinformation network are not reporting what is happening in the United States accurately. They do not acknowledge that ⊠â Read more
How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy ⊠Read More â Read more
How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy ⊠Read More â Read more
Iâm finding this very interesting⊠An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of itâs evolved âbrainâ that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play. 
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 21
gamado Ă @aperture@aperture porque hĂĄ meses/anos que quero escrever um texto sobre esta postura, e esta imagem explica tĂŁo bem o problema
(fonte)
Thereâs a hidden provision in that big ugly bill that makes Trump king
Robert Reich,  Chancellorâs Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley -  Raw Story
_Stephan: As you can see, I am not the only person who tracks the trends shaping the United States, who sees what is going on with the Trump MAGAt coup. In this article he points out something almost no one else in corporate media is talking about even though it ends democra ⊠â Read more
President Trumpâs approval rating: Hereâs what latest opinion polls show
Kathryn Palmer,  Trending News Reporter -  USA Today
_Stephan: The truth that corporate media doesnât seem able or willing to touch is that the transformation of the United States into a fascist autocracy by Trump and his vellains is only happening because a small majority of Americans voted for it. Fascism never comes into power through violence; it is always voted into office by ⊠â Read more
Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Is Only âAbout the Babies of Slaves.â Historical Evidence Says Otherwise.
Damon Root ,  Senior Editor -  reason
Stephan:Â Here is a fact-based exegetic essay on U.S. birthright citizenship. I have looking at MAGAt media to see how it was playing this issue, and the racism and ignorance on this subject is astonishing.

*for context: long ago, there were some complaints, about some of my sitting drawings, where the legs are apart, not using dithering/more shading and one of my favourite artists, made a video, exploring the use of QR codes, in art
P.S.: the code just redirects to my websites
This is one of my attempts: 
$ go build ./cmd/xor/... && ./xor
Generation 95 | Fitness: 0.999964 | Nodes: 9 | Conns: 19
Target reached!
Best network performance:
[0 0] â got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.000) â
[0 1] â got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.990) â
[1 0] â got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.716) â
[1 1] â got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.045) â
Overall accuracy: 100.0%
Wrote best.dot â render with `dot -Tpng best.dot -o best.png`
A @aiscarvalho e eu viemos ao sul para falar de texto e design no Algarve Design Meeting; entre outras aventuras vamos tb abordar o @PureDeNoticias
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY,  Reporters -  Associated Press
_Stephan: The United States is becoming a fascist pseudo-democracy so quickly that I donât think many Americans understand or realize what is happening. We have never experienced anything like this. Harvard, according to aspiring dictator Trump, can no longer enroll foreign students. The media is covering this, but what they aren ⊠â Read more
E que tal este hino anti-pirataria de 2010s, cantado pelo MagalhĂŁes (sim, o computador) numa versĂŁo do Chamem a PolĂcia? Juro que Ă© ainda melhor do que a descrição dĂĄ a entender, ouve!
(se o ĂĄudio nĂŁo der depois de carregar no play, experimenta clicar em âdescarregar ficheiroâ ali em baixo Ă direita)
Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez, Â Â - Â The Intercept
_Stephan: Here is yet another report about Trumpâs attempt to use your tax dollars to âdisappearâ people into a global network of concentration camps. I think this is a very big deal that is not getting anywhere near the media attention it should. I question whether a large percentage of Americans who get their news from MAGAt Media even know this is ⊠â Read more
NASA satellites show Antarctica has gained ice despite rising global temperatures. How is that possible?
Patrick Pester ,  Trending News Writer -  Live Science
_Stephan: I chose this for two reasons. First, I saw a misinformation report in a conspiracy group social media saying it showed climate change wasnât real. Second, because it shows that climate change is more complicated than is generally understood. We are going ⊠â Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org maybe 3D printed toys are the solution, to the dust collecting problem. My collection of 3D printed canines, just expanded today, with this new keychain:

Trump just uttered the most despicable lie pushed by GOP in decades
Thom Hartmann,  Contributing Writer -  Raw story | Commentary
Stephan:Â Although Trump is a terrible multi-bankrupt businessman, as I have pointed out repeatedly, he has real skill with lying and manipulating media to focus on fake or irrelevant stories to avoid attention on the real stories. Thom Hartmann explains what I mean very well.

_Stephan: In my view, the Chinese have played Donald Trump like a flute in the trade war crisis he created. I donât know why corporate media hardly mentions that Trump has gone bankrupt six times; he couldnât even make a success of a gambling casino. He is a terrible businessman. What he does understand is how to manipulate American media with big ⊠â Read more
Iâm thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only â toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.
The founders fought tyrants, the morbidly rich, religious elites. Remind you of anyone?
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator -  Commentary | Raw Story
Stephan:Â Thom Hartmann describes something I have known, but never before seen covered in the daily media. As Hartmann explains, what is happening in the United States today is exactly what the Founders did not want the country they were creating to ever become.
The American Revolution wasnât just ⊠â Read more
En estos momentos, no sé si un dios le estå pidiendo que libere su pueblo felino o estå mirando una paloma
i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i donât think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal
Trump AGâs latest vow is straight from dictatorâs playbook â and itâs a threat to us all
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator -  Raw Story
_Stephan: The assault on media, and the weaponization of misinformation is a high priority goal of the aspiring Trump dictatorship, and that is straight out of Hitlerâs playbook. Thom Hartmann describes what the Trump coup is trying to do under the guidance of Pam Bondi, perhaps the most unscrupulous, unethical A ⊠â Read more
HydraLink Offers Open USB-to-Automotive Ethernet Interface for Testing and Diagnostics
HydraLink is now available on CrowdSupply as a compact and open-source USB-to-Automotive Ethernet adapter intended for engineers, researchers, and others working with in-vehicle networks. It supports both 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 over single-pair Ethernet, enabling direct access to automotive Ethernet without the need for media converters or additional lab equipment. Hy ⊠â Read more
âThe universities are the enemyâ: why the right detests the American campus
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD,  Historian and Contrbuting Writer -  The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The Republican fascist coup does not like facts. Therefore, they donât like universities, they donât like museums, they donât like public education, they donât like science, they donât like a fact-based media, and they actively weaponize and spread misinformation. Here is the lates ⊠â Read more
A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are âweather weaponsâ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman,  Reporter -  CNN
_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus Americaâs gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an ⊠â Read more
smug woof

Nobody want to be a shitty programmer. The question is: Do you do anything not to not be one?
Reading blogs or social media and watching YouTube videos is fun. After them, your code may be a little better, of course. But you need a lot. You need to study! Read good books and study the code of other programmers, for example. Maybe work with a new language, architectures and paradigms. You need break the routine.
If you know Object-oriented programming, you learn functional programming.
If you know Model-View-Controller, you learn Model-View-ViewModel.
If you donât know anything about architectures, you learn Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, etc.
If you know Python, you learn Ruby or Go.
If you know Clojure or Lisp⊠you donât need to learn anything else. You are already a good programmer. Just kidding. You can learn Elixir or Scala.
Be a good programmer my friend.
@bmallred@staystrong.run It really is đ€Ł 
happy free comic book day! my store was out of freebies but i got some of my pulls and also a trade of one of my favorite reads last year!
Iâm not even being facetious here either. Iâd llove to see you âunit testsâ this: 
Pam Bondi fires âwarning shotâ at free press with âmost chillingâ guidelines yet: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll,  Contributing Writer -  Raw Story
_Stephan: This is all straight out of the Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Orban playbook. and completely predictable. You get your uber-rich supporters to buy your seat in office, then you get them to buy major media, as has happened with the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Fox Propaganda, then ⊠â Read more
Confession:
Iâve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other âmodernâ social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very âego-centricâ. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great â and it didnât even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But itâs not that great and the protocol isnât meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of âlikesâ has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. âčïž
White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump
Alex Isenstadt,  Staff Writer -  Axios
_Stephan: This article is yet another move straight out of the fascist coup playbook. Get the billionaires to buy big media, both print and electronic. Try to scare and suppress the rest of the media. Create chaos amongst journalists. Start the coupâs own media. Weaponize and distribute misinformation. Everything Trump is doing is straight out of the Hitler playbook, a ⊠â Read more
E nĂŁo Ă© que os finĂłrios do Airbnb conseguiram encaixar um artigo no PĂșblico como âopiniĂŁoâ?
Dois moços em 2003, ainda sem a noção de que tinham criado um banger
(gamado do passaralho)
DOGE has made a big impact on Washington. But government spending is up.
Sophia Cai and Irie Sentner, Â Â - Â Politico
_Stephan: I think it should be obvious by now, to anyone paying attention, that the whole point of DOGE was not saving taxpayer dollars; it twas about creating chaos, confusing and misdirecting the media, and dismantling the Constitutional Federal Republic of the United States (what Americaâs governmental form should really be called). All ⊠â Read more
Oh wow, that 48 hours timelapse from SDO is super cool: https://social.bund.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/413/834/747/006/466/original/91b1698392ae5188.mp4 At the end, the moon is whizzing by.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
Michael Tomasky, Â Â - Â The New Republic
Stephan:Â Psychopath Trump may be the most corrupt man in the United States. He is a convicted sex offender, multiple felon, multiple bankrupt, and multiple convicted fraudster. And yet the media never presents that list, nor as this article describes, do you often see anything about his current ongoing corruption.

Teens, Social Media and Mental Health
Michelle Faverio , Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park,  Research Staff -  Pew Research Center
_Stephan: Are you old enough to remember a time when there was no internet or social media, and what your life was like. More social activity. More physical activity. More hanging out physically with friends. Drive-in movies and dances. Todayâs teens are fatter, less socially comfortable, woefully misinformed, and influenced by the weaponization of misinform ⊠â Read more
P.S: the couple first Seasons and Her (The movie) are the main reasons I find it a bit difficult to go back to mainstream social media or even care about smartphones đ
A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents đ 
- asynchronous evolution
- drift into failure
Hereâs an example of what you end up with (I donât follow the feed, but itâs in my podâs cache) 
Now comes the âwomanosphereâ: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican
Anna Silman,  Reporter -  The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Most of the Trump Republican anti-democracy coup is straight out of Hitlerâs playbook. The one thing that stands out for me, however, is the growing weakness and gender fear of a large percentage of American men. They are frightened by and resentful of gender equality. ⊠â Read more
This is the best I can do! 
god i love XG so much like who else is rapping like them in k-pop. cocona my girl!!!!!!!!
good morning yarn verse. have a ruru clip
PR to Add improved styles for the logo for twtxt.ndev

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org âhmmm, marzipanâŠ.â

This one just occurred to me randomly.

Trumpâs Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears
James Risen,  Staff Writer -  The Intercept
_Stephan: Despot Trumpâs racism was inherited from his father, and has been a life-long attribute of his character, and is a defining aspect of MAGAt world. Black MAGAts donât seem to get this, but then there were Black slave owners in pre-Civil War America. We donât talk enough about this White supremacy racism in the Republican Party, and media doesnât cover it properly, if at all. But ⊠â Read more
yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:
This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:
- Sharing small posts
- Sharing links
- Sharing media
- Having long conversations
- Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
- RSVPing to virtual or physical events
**(#6kkpdda) This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:
Sharing small posts
Sharing links
Sharing media
Having long conversat âŠ**
This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:Sharing small posts
Sharing links
Sharing media
Having long conversations
Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
RSVPing to virtual or physical events â Read more