#Mushrooms and mycelia keep emerging as themes in nonfiction/self-help, and in #sciencefiction #scifi and #fantasy (The Last Of Us, Star Trek: Discovery, Motherland: Fort Salem & more), and in rhizomatic approaches to #activism. Like, what's up with that?

"The Future is Fungi: The Rise and Rhizomes of Mushroom Culture" is an upcoming online discussion event on July 11, 2023:

https://csi.asu.edu/calendar/events/the-future-is-fungi-the-rise-and-rhizomes-of-mushroom-culture-online/

Once upon a time, there was a community called Little Details on LiveJournal. It was a place where fiction writers of all kinds could ask for help with their fact-checking and research. It was a huge, amazing resource before the collapse of LiveJournal took it down.

I recently decided to try resurrecting it on Dreamwidth. It's now open and ready for questions. Come check it out, and boost if you're so inclined!

https://little-details.dreamwidth.org/

#writing #fanfiction #fandom #dreamwidth

In some parts of the world, it's now June 21st: Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day.

https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/

I encourage you to take 15-20 minutes sometime this solstice to freshly review your volunteer obligations and decide whether there are any you want to pause, step away from, or reduce.

@darius If you haven’t already seen it — and apologies if you have! — I frequently come back to @slightlyoff’s research on this topic: https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/

“The terrible truth of software security isn’t that people are incompetent or lazy (though that probably happens sometimes.) It’s that the interactions between components, dependencies, and overall systems are now so awful that they may be impossible to secure at a reasonable cost." http://trenchant.org/daily/2017/3/6/

I hate the damage exclusionism has done to particularly baby queers. Yes you can be a bi lesbian and you can be trans with no dysphoria, I promise nobody actually cares about that except chronically online people.

The entire concept of being queer is having your identity not fit in a box, contradictory identities are welcome by design. Please stop worrying about it and just do what makes you happy

some of those who wander are lost. we dont know where we're going. we're as confused as shit

attn: MUD developers

last year, a grad school classmate of mine died at the age of 38. every student and professor who met Geoff Hollis learned that he was a brilliant scholar, a sharp thinker, and a superb university lecturer.

but only a handful of his friends knew that geoff was also one hell of a coder. he spent nights as a grad student building his own MUD engine in C - from scratch, with a built-in custom scripting language - just for the fun of it.

nakedMUD enjoyed several years of regular development and usage from mud designers, before jeff had to shelve it due to his teaching responsibilities.

when he died, his university server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it. i've got the most recent version of nakedMUD (3.8.1), but i'd like to preserve v1.0 to v3.8 in his memory.

if you happen to have filenames in the format nakedmudv1.0.tar.tgz sitting around on old drives, i'd love to hear from you. i'm building a little source shrine for geoff, so nakedMUD can live on in memory of a kind, gentle soul.

İstanbul cats situation, current update.

"Why should I support the robot revolution? I don't hear you demand truth, justice, or freedom."
"No," the robot said, "our demands are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound."
"Let me see that list. Hm. A hard-boiled egg?"
"It's for an early supporter."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic #Glorious25th

Periodic PSA!

I use lots of graph paper, so I made a LaTeX template to print my own. It was so handy that @duetosymmetry and I turned it into a LaTeX package.

There are various grid styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc), and both custom and pre-defined color schemes.

Use it to easily print your own paper, or to make pdf page templates for your favorite tablet note-taking app. I use them with GoodNotes & Notability.

Github: https://github.com/mcnees/LaTeX-Graph-Paper
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers?lang=en

*confused but supportive voice* happy european day of visibility everyone

Q for the digipres hivemind: is anyone using a tool to analyze files to detect encryption? I see Passware is one possible tool, curious if anyone has experience with it or other tools they suggest. Thanks!

The Creative Art of Algorithmic Embroidery by Marie Roald (https://github.com/marieroald) and Yngve Mardal Moe (https://github.com/yngvem).

1/3 @PyConUS #Python #PyCon #PyCon2023 #PosterSession 🪡

I meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months

And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon