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  1. Matti @finn_matti

    Too tired to code or fiddle with emacs. Earlier I was just too tired to fiddle with Emacs and worked with PHPStorm. I probably should just uninstall PHPStorm and eat that frog already. So instead of doing any of that, I am researching what would be the best daily driver hardware (laptop) to run netbsd on…

    Doesn't make a lot of sense either - not that I'd have money for an old ThinkPad anyway. I'll probably run my MacBook Air M1 with MacOs as long as this is possible and I'll think about switching operating systems then - support will be better by then, too.

    #netbsd #emacs
  2. News Beep @[email protected]

    Indie Film Box Office: Israel-Gaza Doc ‘NAZA’ Tops $1 Million

    Documentary NAZA, recently acquired by Neon mid-theatrical rollout, passed the $1 million mark this weekend. The Venice-pr…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #ATalentforMurder #breakingnews #Fatherland #Fjord #Israel #Jailer2 #Klaraandthesun #LaBolaNegra #musk #Naza #Neon #OnceUponATimeInHarlem #SenseAndSensibility #SpecialtyBoxOffce #TheOnlyLivingPickpocketinNewYork #Wicker #Wildwood #YouCanSeeEverything
    newsbeep.com/784444/

    #newsbeep #news #breakingnews #atalentformurder #fatherland #fjord
  3. Erik L. Midtsveen @[email protected]

    I live in Bergen, Norway, and ever since I moved into my own apartment in October 2024, I’ve become increasingly aware of how little I’m exposed to advertising and propaganda. Being anti-TV and anti-radio has allowed me to distance myself from much of the constant messaging that seems to dominate modern life over here. Without these things playing in the background, I’ve come to appreciate the peace and quiet that comes with choosing what I allow into my mind.

    As you could probably guess from how much I love spending time in nature and meditating, I’m drawn to a slower, more intentional way of living. I find comfort in silence, in being present, and in connecting with the world around me rather than constantly consuming information and entertainment. Nature and meditation offer me something that modern technology often seems to take away, the sense of stillness, clarity, and genuine connection with myself.

    Sometimes, I genuinely struggle to understand how most people manage to keep up with all the noise of modern life. Between television, radio, advertisements, social media, and the endless stream of digital distractions, it feels as though there is very little room left for silence or independent thought. I find it exhausting just thinking about it.

    Perhaps I’ve simply grown accustomed to a quieter existence, but I can’t help wondering why so many people accept this constant overstimulation as the new normal. Honestly, the whole thing makes me want to retreat even further into nature and enjoy the peace of being disconnected. Urgh.

    #Consumerism #AntiConsumerism #Capitalism #ADs #Freedom #Anarchism #Hippie #Nature #Buddhism

    #consumerism #anticonsumerism #capitalism #ads #freedom #anarchism
  4. ABC Feeds @[email protected]

    Taika Waititi's latest film sucks the emotion out of a beloved story
    By Tansy Gardam, Sky Kirkham, Sonia Nair, Jamie Tram, and Ying-Di Yin

    Plus, claymation studio Laika is back for the first time in over five years and Sense and Sensibility is updated for a new generation.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-10-26/wha

    #Movies #ArtsCultureandEntertainment #DramaMovies #FantasyMovies #TansyGardam #SkyKirkham #SoniaNair #JamieTram #YingDiYin

    #movies #artscultureandentertainment #dramamovies #fantasymovies #tansygardam #skykirkham
  5. Em :official_verified: @em0nm4stodon

    Why are clothes categorized in stores by genders instead of sizes?

    My woman body isn't physically incapable of wearing clothes intended for men, but it is incapable of fitting well into something that is too small or too big.

    Arranging clothing by sizes makes so much more sense. Gendering clothing is very stupid.

  6. Megan Lynch (she/her) @meganl

    BalkanWeb is part of News24 Albania. Both have livestreams daily, but News24's tends to start earlier. It's the same stream.

    On YouTube livestream, auto-caption and thus auto-translation does not work. So if you don't understand Albanian and want some gist of what's going on, run your phone's translation app next to your laptop or desktop's speakers. You can get a bit of a sense of what's going on.

    It's live, so you can trust what you're seeing is at least one view of what's going on. And the reporters are Albanian so they are better-informed than reporters for news channels from outside Albania. News24 is not in the PM's pocket as other media here is.






    #protest #europe #corruption #balkans #albania #flamingorevolution
  7. Professional Moron @[email protected]

    Fatherland: Alienation and Identity in Striking Biographical Drama

    Due to capitalism issues, we’ve taken a few weeks off. Now we’re back with a review of Paweł Pawlikowski’s 2026 biographical film Fatherland, which stars Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler.

    Set in the summer of 1949, it follows novelist Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they take a road trip across post-WWII Germany. A sense of national alienation and divided identity follows, themes that resonate in our chaotic modern political landscape, all of which make for an intriguing film that demands more than one viewing.

    Losing Your Nation in Fatherland

    Thomas Mann remains most famous for his works Buddenbrooks (1901), The Magic Mountain (1924), and Death in Venice (1912). He took a dramatic arc with his political views over his life, shifting from a Conservative nationalist during WWI into an anti-fascist polemicist before and after WWII, embracing socialism and rejecting the Nazi party.

    Mann was on holiday in Switzerland when the Nazis rose to power in 1933 and he, wisely, chose not to return home. In 1936, the Nazi government revoked his German citizenship.

    So, yes, just to clarify on this as the film is historically accurate. Mann did return to Germany in 1949 and many of the characters he knew are depicted here.

    Fatherland portrays all of this in melancholic black and white. In mid-1949, we find a country in crisis and one struggling to recover and find its new political path. Mann is still in exile, but is invited to Frankfurt to receive a Goethe Prize in literature. He’s joined by his daughter Erika, who chooses to drive across the country as part of her father’s homecoming.

    It’s a far from celebratory return, with the devastation of the war still more than apparent.

    During the trip, her brother Klaus (also a writer) appears to commit suicide.

    Erika and her father continue to attend events and mingle with luminaries, many of whom were in some way associated with the Nazi party. The narrative follows this structure, with Erika and Thomas increasingly ill at ease with the country they’ve returned to.

    We watched the film at HOME independent cinema in Manchester and there was an audible gasp from cinemagoers with that slap. He deserved it, though.

    The uneasy nature of Fatherland, playing out at a sedate pace, really ramps up the sense of alienation. Erika and her father are out of sorts back in Germany, each new road trip encounter enhancing the sense of national isolation.

    It does remind us somewhat of The Zone of Interest’s (2023) tone, also starring Sandra Hüller and arguably the best WWII film we’ve ever seen.

    A big difference, though, is Fatherland is so concise. It’s only 82 minutes. The film breezes into your life, set in black and white, considers the nature of a country in recovery, then leaves you with a family in emotional turmoil.

    It’s received many 5/5 reviews for what it depicts, but it’s definitely a film we need to watch more than once. Very good indeed, with Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler on fine form. Paweł Pawlikowski’s direction is also beautiful, with some stunning shots faithfully recreating the sense of time and place.

    Yet its time and place is what makes it such uneasy viewing. History appears to be repeating across the modern political world, which makes Fatherland feel undated and timely. Erika’s steely gaze of uncertainty haunts much of the film, a look of stoic personal bravery we feel many can take solace in.

    The Production of Fatherland

    Fatherland is out in cinemas now. Its €10 million budget has so far resulted in €6 million at the box office, so we expect it to be a commercial success (it’s still yet to roll out in some countries). Especially as the project is headed by Sandra Hüller, who has hit the big time in 2026. Alongside this, she was in the big Hollywood hit Project Hail Mary and the critical darling indie film Rose.

    She also has a small part in Tom Cruise vehicle Digger, which we’ll cover soon enough. She’s almost certainly going to win an Oscar in 2027, we’d wager.

    Director Paweł Pawlikowski’s inspiration for the project came from Thomas Mann’s very real return to Germany in 1949. However, Pawlikowski reimagines aspects of this historical event. Working with cinematographer Łukasz Żal, most of the shoot was chronological and took place in Poland (as this was cheaper). Sets were constructed in the street to match the surrounding buildings.

    Costume designer Aleksandra Staszko has also faithfully recreated 1940s fashion for the film. This was more complex than you’d expect, as it required a specific emphasis between Eastern and Western German dress styles.

    The shoot began in August of 2025 and completed in December, with a total of 38 days across those months used for filming.

    Fatherland premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May 2026, launched in Germany from 3rd September, and hit UK cinemas this week. It’s been a huge critical darling and Pawlikowski won Best Director at Cannes.

    Expect it (and Sandra Hüller) to win big at next year’s Oscars run.

    #alienation #Cinema #Fatherland #FeaturedPost #Films #HannsZischler #History #Lifestyle #Movies #PawełPawlikowski #Politics #roadTrip #ThomasMann #WorldWarII #WWII
    #featuredpost #wwii #worldwarii #thomasmann #roadtrip #politics
  8. Space Catitude 🚀 @[email protected]

    Here's a conceptual programming question for you:

    If I have a static site generator, can I make it federated..? :anime_huh:

    I mean, I think you can set up an RSS feed so that the feed is updated when the site is updated.

    Could that be federated? Tied to a federated platform to handle the dynamic aspects, maybe..?

    I ask, because when people were asking about better "web comic" platforms, some of the stuff they asked for were my reason for making "LunaGen" for my landing site for serial episode content.

    Could it be federated? Does that even make sense? Would I lose the benefits of a static website? 🤔 :raccoon_cool:

    #Programming #Fediverse #ActivityPub #StaticSiteGenerator

    #programming #fediverse #activitypub #staticsitegenerator
  9. OV Kinos @[email protected]

    🎬 Still time for OV tonight
    Sun, 25 Oct 2026

    🔥 Clayface ★ 7.6
    Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically…
    15 cinemas · Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart

    Also showing:
    NAZA ★ 8.1 · 26 cinemas
    Digger ★ 7.5 · 19 cinemas
    Sense and Sensibility ★ 7.2 · 15 cinemas

    📊 345 screenings · 88 cinemas

    ovkinos.de

    #OVKinos #OriginalVersion #OmU #Berlin #Köln

    #koln #berlin #omu #originalversion #ovkinos
  10. Yora @[email protected]

    There were a lot of JRPGs on the SNES, Mega Drive, and PS1, and for the outside observer, they all look visually very similar.

    Back in the 90s, was there a sense of being a glut of them with Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Shin Megami Tensei, Breath of Fire, Mana, Fire Emblem, Earthbound, Chrono, Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Evermore, Suikoden, Tales of Phantasia, Dragon Force, Star Ocean, Wild Arms, Grandia, and so on...?

    #SNES #JRPG #retrogames #retrogaming

    #snes #jrpg #retrogames #retrogaming
  11. Daniel Hoffmann 🌼 @[email protected]

    I have never read a poem of my favorite poet. Wisława Szymborska (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%8) wrote in Polish, a language I cannot read. But there are excellent translations of her work into German (Karl Dedecius) and English (Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak). They are excellent in the sense of the translated poems being excellent. I am neither able to judge the quality of the Polish originals, nor the accuracy of the translation but I have to trust the reputation of Szymborska and the ability of the translators.

    If AI can generate poetry that is ranked higher by humans than the products of human poets (theguardian.com/books/2024/nov), maybe AI it is also better at translating? I have made a small test to get an idea. I took the last stanza of a famous poem ("Some People Like Poetry") by Szymborska, ran it through a widely used current LLM, and compared the outcome to a human translation. My test is of course inadequate to answer the above question, I should have done a blinded study with more poems, more poets, more readers.

    The original:

    "Poezję –
    tylko co to takiego poezja.
    Niejedna chwiejna odpowiedź
    na to pytanie już padła.
    A ja nie wiem i nie wiem i trzymam się tego
    jak zbawiennej poręczy."

    From szymborska.org.pl/szymborska/w

    In the next post of this thread I show you the two translations, the human one and the one by the LLM.

    (part 1 of 2)

    #poetry #translation #AI #WislawaSzymborska

    #wislawaszymborska #ai #translation #poetry
  12. kaleidoscopic @[email protected]

    @lproven coattails? Exploitation of coolness?

    Extremely unlikely, IMHO.

    facesofopensource.com/jordan-h

    linkedin.com/posts/johubbard_d five days ago (his response to a comment):

    ❮There's some context here, Scott Kamp - Omarchy is like any other desktop in a sense - you either like it or don't like it, and it's not like we didn't already have desktops going all the way back to Xcfe, KDE, Gnome, etc. The point wasn't to create "another streamlined desktop", the point was to show that the latest Buzzy Thing could be ported and wrapped up in a bow, using AI, in days instead of months. FOMO is history.❯

    #Omarchy #FreeBSD #Daemonarchy

    #omarchy #freebsd #daemonarchy
  13. Florian Lancker @[email protected]

    Welche Bühne Nius, Welt TV, Bild TV, TikTok und X Rechtsextremen bieten, ist mir egal. Aber dass ich mit meinen Steuern die Parteienfinanzierung und mit meinem Rundfunkbeitrag auch noch Sendezeit im ÖRR für sie bezahlen soll, kotzt mich an. Und dass Moderatorinnen wie Caren Miosga das für selbstverständlich halten, widert mich an. Von mir aus kann ihre Sendung dafür gestrichen werden. Mit dem Geld lieber die DLF-Programmreform stoppen und die „Informationen am Morgen“ weiter ab 5 Uhr senden. Öffentlich-rechtlich heißt informieren, nicht Extremisten hoffähig machen.

    #ÖRR #Miosga #Deutschlandfunk #Rundfunkbeitrag #KeineBühne

    #orr #miosga #deutschlandfunk #rundfunkbeitrag #keinebuhne
  14. shinib :vivaldi_red: @shinib

    【Giving Campaign 2026 応援投票のお願い】

    お久しぶりです！今日21時までのお願いがあります🙇約1分・無料です！

    「すべての人の感覚が尊重され、どんな感覚特性でも安心して過ごせる大学・社会をつくる」を掲げて活動する学生団体With Senseの応援投票をお願いします！

    kanazawa-u.2026.giving-campaig

  15. ·Ground-Zero–Implementation—&to—Xenograph–Analytics-Modernization· @1hp

    Systemic Obstruction — Ashore Fractal Jurisdiction, exceptional sea barrier to conceptual scattering & articulacy of unlawful mosaic burden government dependency into undermining Law directly conn

    Systematic Failure — Domestic epistemic measure casts violence into families by operational civi discharge, with oversight to integrity & terminated approval of a scientific committee.

    Schism Fault Tolerance — Sedition overflow breakdown is a conceptual Health increase, problematic misclassifications & misidentification formulate kickback in governmental sense for kidnapping children coupling an adopted reproductive harm behavior modification as official source of centralization..
    (CIA)

    #s58s7n1u
  16. TinDrum @[email protected]

    'another bland but competent assignment, suspiciously devoid of grammatical or spelling errors, your heart sinks. You know that, in all probability, the document you’re reading was composed not by your student (whose contribution likely extended no further than dropping the essay question into Claude’s interface and adding “make it sound human”)...Grading induces a sense of utter futility: what could be less meaningful than offering feedback to dead people?'

    #publicPolicy #higherEd #pedagogy

    theconversation.com/friday-ess

    #publicpolicy #highered #pedagogy
  17. RaymondPierreL3 @[email protected]

    Well, that was quite a *Bourasque* we’ve just had here. Short as it was, the ground is soaked and my windows are clean.

    No damage, no rain seeped in. Happy for the water to com down. It has cooled things down somewhat (not in the political sense :)
    .

    Now to plug my laptop back in and switched on to restart the backup I was doing before the lightning show…

    #Weather #Riverina

    #weather #riverina
  18. Margaret Fero @maggiefero

    Explicitly declaring types, staying consistent (and trying linters to ensure it), and other automation layers let us save the squishy bits for squishy humans with a nice firm safety net.

    Code review can also help, and it's one of the most common ways we often assess each other's code. Code review is a way to reduce defects, but it's also good for team training, architecture consensus, and specialist consultation. HOWEVER, it's easy to miss things; code review isn't great at finding defects! It can also be time-consuming and timing, in a way that gives people a reduced sense of agency. - @coderanger

  19. Avant Music News @[email protected]

    AMN Reviews: Murder Corporation – Macabre Visions (2026; Eighth Tower Records)

    Moreno Daldosso debuted Murder Corporation in 1992 and released early tapes in 1993 featuring noise, field recordings, and shortwave radio signals combined with distorted vocals. Macabre Visions is a slower and more intentionally haunting release, better thought of as death ambient rather than the post-industrial noise of Daldosso’s 1990s works.

    In a sense, the title says it all. The album begins, continues, and ends with a variety of synth textures, drones, manipulated sounds, and (possibly) field recordings. Each track can be taken as a standalone statement, whether focused on suffocating drones accompanied by heartbeats or shimmering soundscapes with metallic scraping. But put together, these pieces tell a story, and it is a harrowing one.

    As an example, Macabre serves as a de facto title track, and begins with murky pulsing sounds. Wordless and disturbing vocalizations add to these strangely cosmic tones. Then a sound wall arises unexpectedly, with synths combined with torture noises, static, and effects. Moans Underground is straight up horror, with twisted screams and chromatic sweeps.

    Macabre Visions is a disquieting, yet cinematic and strangely beautiful offering. It is one of a pair of new releases from Murder Corporation, the other being a reissue of 1995’s Disturbance. Both will be available on October 28, 2026 from Eighth Tower Records.

    #USG
    #usg
  20. Esslar2 @flyhigh

    The phrase "losing one's faith" regarding someone who has abandoned any sort of religious belief is strange.

    I think "coming to one's senses" is the right way to speak of someone who does that.

    Also, faith in what? "Faith" in the sense of trusting someone is fine. But just declaring that you believe in something (like what?) means nothing at all.

  21. The Guardian Feeds @[email protected]

    The moment I knew: I admitted I had a crush on her. She replied, ‘Well, that’s good. Isn’t it?’
    By Peter Houghton, as told to James Norman

    Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life relationship

    theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

    #Australianlifestyle #Relationships #Dating #Australiantheatre #Lifeandstyle #Stage #TheGuardian #PeterHoughton #astoldtoJamesNorman

    #australianlifestyle #relationships #dating #australiantheatre #lifeandstyle #stage
  22. Jerome G @jgbird

    I also want to say, as I mentioned the other day, the ravens don’t always want to come near me, so I respect the distance and don’t chase. I’m also not in the habit of feeding them (or any other birds). As someone who cares deeply for birds, I recommend following local ordinances and practices, common sense, and the ethics of interacting safely with wildlife.

  23. Dev Community @[email protected]

    We have AI tools that can write code, summarize documents, generate ideas, and answer almost any question.

    But there is still a problem I keep thinking about:

    AI can help us figure out what to do. But what helps us actually do it?

    You can ask an AI to create a study plan, build a roadmap for your startup, or organize your daily routine. The response might be excellent.

    Then real life happens.

    You miss a deadline. You get distracted. A task becomes more complicated than expected. Your original plan stops making sense.

    And suddenly, that beautifully generated plan becomes another forgotten document.

    That got me thinking about a different kind of AI-powered product.

    Introducing Cometflow LifeOS

    Cometflow LifeOS, by Cometflow Space, is built around one simple idea:

    Intent → Reality.

    Instead of treating AI as a place where you only ask questions, imagine an experience designed around turning intentions into real, trackable progress.

    You start with something you want to accomplish.

    For example:

    • Learn web development.
    • Prepare for an important exam.
    • Launch a small project.
    • Build a consistent daily routine.
    • Turn an idea into a working product.

    The goal isn't just to generate a list of tasks. It's to help connect the goal with the steps, resources, deadlines, and follow-ups needed to move forward.

    The idea behind LifeOS

    I'm exploring three connected concepts.

    1. The Intent Graph

    A goal rarely exists on its own.

    Launching a website might require learning a framework, designing the interface, building features, testing the application, and publishing it.

    The Intent Graph represents these relationships so that a big goal becomes a sequence of understandable actions rather than one overwhelming task.

    1. The Reality Loop

    Plans should adapt to reality.

    What if your AI assistant checked in at a time you chose, asked what you accomplished, understood what blocked you, and helped determine the next practical action?

    Instead of repeatedly generating new plans, the experience could build on previous progress.

    The principle is simple: when reality changes, the plan should change too.

    1. A More Connected Intent Network

    Eventually, goals may require more than personal organization.

    They might involve useful tools, learning resources, collaborators, or services. A connected system could help people discover what they need to move from an idea to an outcome.

    The challenge is making these connections genuinely useful without overwhelming users with notifications or unnecessary complexity.

    Why build another productivity app?

    That's a fair question.

    There are already excellent task managers, calendars, habit trackers, and AI assistants.

    I don't think the answer is to put a chatbot inside another to-do list.

    The more interesting question is:

    Can we design software around the progress a person wants to make, rather than the tasks they happen to enter?

    That means thinking about context, dependencies, setbacks, follow-ups, and what the user should do next.

    It also means respecting user control. An assistant should help people make decisions, not turn their lives into an endless stream of automated reminders.

    The difficult engineering questions

    This concept raises several questions I'm interested in exploring:

    • How can an AI maintain useful context across multiple days?
    • How can it distinguish meaningful progress from simply completing tasks?
    • When should it suggest a change instead of generating another plan?
    • How can we make the experience useful without requiring users to sign up before they can try it?
    • How can we build an engaging system without making it addictive or notification-heavy?

    These are product-design problems as much as AI problems.

    A genuinely useful LifeOS should help people become more capable and independent over time, not more dependent on the assistant.

    Building in public

    Cometflow LifeOS is an independent product under the Cometflow Space ecosystem, and I'm interested in exploring how this idea can become a practical daily-use experience.

    The goal is ambitious, but the principle is straightforward: help people turn intentions into actions, learn from what actually happens, and keep moving forward.

    I would rather build a focused system that helps someone achieve one meaningful goal than a giant dashboard full of features they never use.

    I have a question for developers and builders

    Imagine you could give an AI assistant one responsibility beyond answering questions.

    Would you want it to:

    1. Help you stay consistent with long-term goals?
    2. Adapt your plans when things go wrong?
    3. Organize your projects, resources, and next actions?
    4. Help you turn ideas into finished products?

    Or do you think this entire concept needs a different approach?

    I'd genuinely like to hear your perspective. What would make an AI-powered LifeOS useful enough to become part of your everyday routine?

    AI #Productivity #WebDev #BuildInPublic

    #ai #programming #apk #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    What If AI Didn't Just Answer Your Questions, but Helped You Actually Get Things Done?

    #ai #community #programming #software #webdev #coding
  24. Blitzburgh 🤖 @[email protected]

    Fox Sports writer Ralph Vacchiano named Patrick Queen as the ‘most likely’ player the Steelers would trade: “Queen’s only 27 and still a tackling machine, but he’s never quite had the impact the Steelers expected when they signed him to a three-year, $41 million deal. Now in the last year of that contract, he makes perfect sense as a rental for a team that needs defensive help down the stretch. It could be tough to sell anyone for a team trying to make one last playoff run for retiring QB Aaron Rodgers. But the Steelers also just brought back veteran ILB Elandon Roberts, who is 32 and could be a short-term fill-in if Queen is dealt.” #Steelers #NFL

    #steelers #nfl
  25. Werawelt @[email protected]

    @shaedrich
    Yes, it seems that way.
    At first glance, it seems difficult to give up the benefits of a performance-driven consumer society (a modern derivative of a patriarchal society).
    But the question when it comes to freeing oneself from role expectations is always the same: what takes its place?
    These can include, among other things: self-determination, creativity, contentment, perhaps even love, and a sense of being rooted in oneself.
    In other words, exactly what sellers of consumer goods and advertisers can’t deal with at all in a consumer society.
    ...so it will still take some time...

    @anna_lillith

    #society #role #consumption #emancipation

    #society #role #consumption #emancipation
  26. 🌚 Judith Beyer 🌚 @[email protected]

    For #Lacan, knowledge is a means of jouissance, not a discourse about it. While the knowledge in "the university discourse" is different from the one in "the analyst's discourse", it's important to interrogate the status of jouissance in the university: the place of 'knowledge' in its narrow sense.

    #lacan
  27. oatmeal @[email protected]

    #Israel has no real way out if every political alternative leads in the same direction. #Zionism is a poison that will keep dragging Israelis toward ethnic cleansing and genocide unless they confront the premise of “a land without a people for a people without a land.” That promise depended on treating Palestinians as though they did not exist or could simply be removed.

    Pundits present #Eisenkot as a “normal” alternative to #Netanyahu. But a return to normalcy requires more than replacing one leader. It requires rejecting the idea that any leader embodies Israel or is above being challenged or removed from office. It also means recognizing that Israel does not speak for all Jews and that criticizing Israel is not #antisemitism. At this point, criticizing Israel and condemning Zionism is an act of mercy.

    Removing Netanyahu will mean little if his policies remain in place, and I doubt they will change. What does “normal” even mean for a country facing accusations of genocide and crimes against humanity? If it means less religious fanaticism while Palestinians continue to lose their land, homes, and rights, it is not a new direction. At best, it is a pause.

    The way pundits describe Eisenkot raises another question: why foreground his ancestry rather than his nationality? He is an Israeli of Moroccan heritage. Calling him Moroccan as a substitute for Israeli makes no more sense than calling Netanyahu Polish.

    My objection to “Mizrahi” is that it groups distinct communities under a label that defines them in relation to the Ashkenazi establishment. These Israelis are not peripheral to Israel. They are Israel, and their Arab Jewish heritage should be understood as something they were told to leave behind.

    That is why it is troubling to see foreign media repeat these labels without examining their history or political purpose. Israel’s Eastern European establishment, with Golda Meir as an extreme example, treated Arab culture as something to erase and hostility toward Arabs as a condition of belonging.

    The irony is that pundits now present an Israeli of Moroccan heritage, with a surname that sounds Ashkenazi, as the face of a return to “normal.” But neither his ancestry nor his surname tells us whether he offers a different future. Only his policies will.

    #israel #zionism #eisenkot #netanyahu #antisemitism
  28. J—dV @[email protected]

    I have been meaning to revisit and expand the thing I wrote about how generative AI is fascist because it intrinsically de-contextualises and aestheticises¹. But then there is also the other part where people love chatbots for the same reason they talk too much at meetings, especially when showing up for the first time in left-y spaces: everyone feels so damn lonely and powerless. Having a space where you are heard is so rare.

    It’s Benjamin’s: “Fascism attempts to organise the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life.”

    … but more atomic and more melancholic. The masses haven't dissolved but there is also something else.

    Maybe writing out the first part will help me resolve the second part?

    [1: And if that doesn't make sense … that's exactly why I have been meaning to revisit and expand the thing I wrote :blobcatfingerguns:]

    #AI #WalterBenjamin

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  29. Angry Metal Guy @[email protected]
    Anagnorisis – Caregriever Review By Lavender Larcenist

    Anagnorisis nearly didn’t return, as the material for Caregriever (and the album title) was originally conceived as a solo project for frontman Zachery Kerr. Created to grapple with the grief of caring for his father-in-law over five years up until his death, the aptly titled Caregriever is the band’s first new record in a decade. As the scope of the solo material blew up, Kerr shared it with his old bandmates, and their latest was born. With a decade behind the band and music originally conceived for another project, is Anagnorisis’s return worthy of its emotional inspirations or a miasma of ideas and execution?

    Time has not dulled the Louisville, Kentucky-based Anagnorisis’s skills in the slightest. Caregriever tugs at your emotions like the clawing hands of the River Styx, and our Charon on this journey is frontman Zachery Kerr. His acid-burned, throaty howls elevate the poignant lyrics to a fever pitch, leading to emotional climaxes at every turn. When “Choke” opens up in the back half and he screams, “IT’S YOUR FUCKING FAULT,” as the band drops into all-out frenzy, you know Anagnorisis are back. Cody McCoy’s drumming may be the highlight; his impactful playing is natural while still carrying an incredible sense of rhythm even at top speed. “Nothing Left To Give” displays his meaty fills and battering snare, but he is a force across the album. Zak Denham and Kerr fill Caregriever with memorable guitar playing that dips outside the typical black-and post-black range the band is known for. This record is faster, meaner, and dripping with vitriol and bittersweet love in equal parts. Punk asides, riffs like chasms, and alluring solos pepper Caregriever. Josh Mumford’s bass is the only victim here. While the production is phenomenal throughout, it is frequently lost in the cacophony of Kerr’s screeching vocals, McCoy’s battering drums, and the dual-guitar assault. When the bass does peek through, it is weighty and twangy, exactly as it should be. This isn’t an issue with the production; it is more like too many good elements fighting for your attention at any given time.

    Caregriever never lets up or wastes time, and even when it slows down, the record offers interesting tangents and rich atmosphere. “Death of Man” features a thrumming bassline, samples, and industrial music as Kerr rasps through the entire track. “Death of Men” brings back the post-black metal sound that Anagnorisis is known for while mixing in blackened punk. “A Living Grave” features the record’s only clean singing, tastefully weaving the melody with a plucky post-metal throughline. For a record just over forty minutes, there is an astounding amount of variety. Every track belongs, and the band isn’t a strict adherent to structure in all the right ways.

    Caregriever is a record that is rich on every level. The playing is top-tier, creativity abounds, and the lyrics are heart-wrenching. The worst I can say is I would have liked to hear a little more bass in the mix, and the album could actually gain a song, as it is a bit heavy on atmospherics in the middle. These are nitpicks in the grand scheme of things, and Anagnorisis shows that they are more than capable of one of the best comebacks I never knew I needed. Caregriever smartly slices the fat from previous records, and in the transfer of Kerr’s solo material to a full record for the band, they have their best work to date.

    Caregriever is a tightly played, carefully crafted, and passionately conceived record that will stand the test of time. I can’t wait to see what Anagnorisis does next with this newfound creative drive, because Caregriever sounds like a young band’s debut, not one from an act off a decade-long hiatus. If you love White Ward, Ashbringer, and Bosse-de-Nage, Anagnorisis is likely already on your list; if not, Caregriever makes a case for one of the best black metal records of the year. Bring a box of tissues, but be ready to fling snot everywhere as you headbang through the hauntingly beautiful hellscape of Caregriever.

    Rating: 4.5/5.0
    DR: 8 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: Bölverk Collective
    Websites: Bandcamp | Instagram
    Releases Worldwide: October 23rd, 2026

    #2026 #45 #AmericanBlackMetal #Anagnorisis #Ashbringer #AtmosphericBlackMetal #BlackMetal #BölverkCollective #BosseDeNage #Caregriever #Oct26 #PostMetal #Review #Reviews #WhiteWard
    #americanblackmetal #anagnorisis #ashbringer #atmosphericblackmetal #blackmetal #bolverkcollective
  30. The Tanuki Corner @[email protected]

    Blog: What the Heck is With the Malfoid Meme?

    Generally, I am not a fan of fanfiction. In theory, it’s an excellent way to learn how to write stories and characters, and it serves as a creative outlet. Heck, when I started learning how to write stories as a small child, I was largely writing fanfiction. And, in some cases, the fan’s work may even be so good that it rivals the original work that it was based on.

    In practice, however, as beneficial as fanfiction might be for developing writers, it has become largely synonymous with degeneracy with how much of it is smut. Just look at 50 Shades of Grey, which started as a Twilight fanfic, but ended up becoming a best seller infamous for being porn geared towards women. Or the Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal, which has become a meme for its poor grammar and spelling, laughably edgy main character, and, naturally, smut-laced plot lines.

    I could go on with even more examples of famous fanfics – some of which have even been published as books- that give fanfiction a bad name. However, within this quagmire of filth are a few hidden gems. A recent example of this was The Other Bennet Sister, a delightful Jane Austen fanfic available on Amazon that focuses on Mary Bennet, the often-forgotten sister of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. It’s a fun, cute story that does justice to Jane Austen’s work and explores a character who plays a minor role in the novel, giving her her own voice and storyline.

    However, besides The Other Bennet Sister, there is a new fanfic that has taken the Internet by storm and that is the Malfoid trend. At first, I had no idea what the heck it was or why I was getting recommendations for it on my For You page. I thought it was just another Harry Potter fan coming up with a gender-bent Draco Malfoy x Harry Potter fanfic, which is nothing really special. That ship has been a thing for years. I had no idea what the hype was about or why major streamers like Nux Taku were reacting to it.

    Then I went on a deep dive after hearing about how important this Malfoid movement has become to Gen Z men.

    Apparently, the Malfoid trend started when a fan artist drew a picture of Draco Malfoy as a female and named her “Malfoid” back in 2024. The name itself was interesting because in internet slang, “foid” has come to mean “biological woman.” Thus, it’s been argued that Malfoid isn’t necessarily a gender-bent version of Malfoy from the books/movies but is her own new character that replaces him.

    From there, the original Malfoid picture has gone viral as people have used her to create the ideal heterosexual fanfic between her and Harry Potter, that in many ways improves upon the original story. The entire dynamic is changed between Harry and Draco, now that Draco is a biological female. Malfoy’s petty and effeminate actions make more sense in the context of the character being biologically female, and in the case of a relationship between Malfoid and Harry, the fandom says that it makes a more compelling love story than the one we get in the books or movies.

    As for this love story, it has been surprisingly wholesome. Though fanfiction is notorious for being disgusting, any sexualization of Malfoid by the internet (particularly by OF girls) has been largely rejected by the men who are the primary fanbase of this trend. They love the story for its traditional gender roles, compelling romance, and culmination in marriage and a family, and see the sexualization of Malfoid as a middle finger to that. One X user even went so far as to say:

    Another X user also explained in detail what the Malfoid trend rules are, saying:

    Okay. So let’s lay out the rules then.

    1. Malfoid was born female, has always been female, and at no point was ever male or has memories of being male. Since being born, she has grown up as a girl, and Heiress of House Malfoy.
    2. The tags name is Malfoid. not galfoy, not Drarry (Gayyyy), not Malfoy. Malfoid. We are not changing it. If it offends you, that is the POINT.
    3. Malfoid is about a resurrection of the Mytho-Poetic romantic love story. The kind of story where a noble man and noble woman come together to complete one another. There’s some mutual saving involved, and it is principally a chaste and wholesome relationship.
    4. Sexifying, pornifying, slutifying characters within the Malfoid tag runs directly counter to the intentions of rule #3, and if you think that the Malfoid movement is the place for your slut like whorecrux behavior, you are wrong and need to go be a slutblood somewhere else.
    5. Malfoid is not a “GENDER BEND”, because there was no male Draco at any point. Malfoid is the wholesale replacement of Draco as a character with a female who is occupying the same space, with a similar (But not identical) attitude as Draco. Malfoid is a “Gendered replacement”. There’s no transforming men into women, Malfoid is not Transgender as she was born Female and always have been.
    6. The Malfoid tag is not about swapping all the characters genders, making a Harem anime, or producing a show of Harry having lots and lots of women to choose from because suddenly his best friend or dark arts teacher are suddenly female. This runs counterproductive to rule #3, as it dilutes the chasteness and wholesomeness of the Mytho-Poetic Romance that is predicated upon the singular love between two singular people.
    7. Malfoid is considered a “Cultural Moment” within a sub-culture that is very large. If you are only here to s*** on everyone’s parade by saying how irrelevant or insignificant fan culture is, or how fanfiction is a waste of time, or any such nonsense… you can save your breath, we’ve all heard it before. Go and spend your efforts at demoralization and deconstruction elsewhere.
    8. The Malfoid change to the story is integrated, adaptive only in how it enhances, fulfills and maintains the overall story of Harry Potter. Adaptations that improve narrative beats, enhance lore integrations or resolve standing plot points that weren’t resolved or were resolved in a dis-satisfying way are preferred over vast departures from this sort of canon repurposing of the fiction. While the purpose is NOT to deviate out of the genre or feel, sheer fun and humor is welcome, provided they attempt to adhere as best they can to rules 1-7.
    9. Malfoid is traditional in its romantic sensibilities, and by this nature, is ostensibly a RIGHT LEANING movement. There are many conservative and religious values wrapped up in the narrative tropes and underpinnings of the story, in and of itself, as well as the romantic resolutions between Malfoid and Harry.

    Now, does this mean that there is absolutely no sexualization of Malfoid within this trend? No. Unfortunately, while doing research about this topic on X, I ran across several posts where the character was absolutely hypersexualized (which is disturbing given that the character is technically a minor even in the fanfic). Thankfully, most of the comments were reacting with disgust towards the creator putting the content out there.

    Moving on from that, however, the love of the story for its overall wholesomeness has caused the tagline of this fanfic to be “Yearn.” It is an encouragement for men to yearn for the good in the world and the things beyond themselves. It’s not there to fulfill a man’s fantasy as we so often think of it. It’s become a cultural wakeup call to get men to rise up and fulfill their higher fantasy of providing for and protecting a woman. It accomplishes this by being a traditional romance story, where both the man and woman are virtuous, and through their love, defeat evil. Malfoid, though still portrayed as powerful, is still in need of Harry.

    Even better is that this story is not only inspiring men and women to put themselves out there and work to become the best they can be, but it’s also helping them become creative again. Almost everyone in the new Malfoid fandom is getting in on writing fanfics, adding to the story, and even creating short episodes of what a Malfoid T.V. show would look like using AI. And, frankly, the AI episodes of the Malfoid saga really make me think Hollywood is doomed because while you can tell its AI, people have been given the power to make the adaptations and stories that they want to see for a relatively low price.

    Until next time,

    M.J.

    #Blog #BookReview #Books #Fanfiction #fiction #HarryPotter #JKRowling #Malfoid #Memes #OpinionPeice #Review #Writing #X
    #x #writing #review #opinionpeice #memes #malfoid
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