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De #recolonisatie van #Gaza gaat door
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Normally when I read a book I don't like to know too much about the author. But, at last I've had to go find out who is this "Frederick Philip Grove."

He's mostly famous, not for his science fiction book "Consider Her Ways" about ants-- but his books about "life on the prairie" in Canada.

This sounds dreary to me. But I will check it out.

"Consider Her Ways" was the last fiction book he wrote and I don't think any review I've read of it understands it at all.

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In fact, in reviews of Grove's life's works this book is often skipped over, as if it's some kind of embarrassment.

I will say that if you don't know a LOT about ants the book is probably a bit confusing. Grove assumes you know what all of the various species of ants he mentions look like.

It has an unreliable ant narrator and many jokes that are ant-centric.

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For example, the ants encounter a myrmecologist who they regard as a hazard, hapless and baffling. The myrmecologist rides a bicycle: they call him "Wheeler."

*waggles eyebrows*

WHEELER? Get it?

It's this guy:

antwiki.org/wiki/Wheeler,_Willโ€ฆ

Wheeler was a contemporary of Grove. I wonder if they met?

...or if, like me, he just got sick of seeing the guy's name on every ant species.

(Wheeler is no slouch, coined the term 'superorganism' )

If you know anything of Mr. Grove let me in on it.

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That reminds of this book I read by a Norwegian, called "Rat" I think (it was a long time ago) but the story is told entirely from the POV of a rat. Like, an actual Norway rat. Not an anthropomorphized rat, just a rat. It's surreal and terrifying and very stream of conciousness - but the conciousness is not very human at all. Very strange and confusing book, especially to a teenager who like SF and war stories more than anything else.

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#GoogleMaps #OpenStreetMap #SouvTech #souverainete

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How Israeli military-connected corporations are secretly controlling your online privacy
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#vpn #Privacy #spyware #freepalestine #expressvpn #cyberghost #cybersecurity #meta #google #microsoft

โ€œApple is only continuing to patch iOS 18 on devices that canโ€™t run iOS 26.โ€

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0โ€ฆ

Wow. So not only has Apple lost any design culture it had, it also doesnโ€™t give a shit about your security either any longer. This is the mother of all dark patterns right here.

Anyone know if this is the same for macOS?

Via @RosaCtrl

#apple #iOS26 #iOS18 #iOS #securityUpdates #macOS #liquidAss #darkPatterns

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Hymn that awoke me early this morning. (I call them hymn/song of the day)
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Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus,
Drawing from Ephesians 3:18-19
will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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Jeremiah 29:11

"11. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. "
(Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV)

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I talk about food quite a lot. I mostly remember to CW it but sometimes do not. Noone has picked me up on this for absolutely ages. I'd hate to be causing anyone any pain. If there is literally one person who would prefer me to CW any food chat, I will redouble my efforts! X

  • It's fine you don't need to (66%, 42 votes)
  • Yes please CW food chat (9%, 6 votes)
  • No opinion I just want to be included (23%, 15 votes)
63 voters. Poll end: in 22 hours

It occurred to me today that AI is the result of the human desire for a god who is all-knowing and yet endlessly affirming - a god who never tells you you're wrong. Even when you are.

The result of trusting this false god is deception, disorientation, mental decay, and even death - reminiscent of the work of the father of lies "who comes only to steal, kill, and destroy."

I much prefer Jesus. He always tells the truth, even if it's not what you want to hear.
#AI #Jesus #FalseGods #idolatry #truth

Interesting comparison between the US and Europe regarding military, financial, technological etc abilities. ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ”—www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...

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Je galรจre avec App Lounge sur mon Fairphone Murena pour installer de nouvelles applications ou faire des mises ร  jour. Avant en suivant les conseils, je parvenais ร  garder le mode anonyme mais lร  plus moyen. Je dรฉcide de crรฉer un compte Google. La validation du mail se passe bien. Mais ensuite Google dรฉcrรจte qu'il doit vรฉrifier aussi mon numรฉro de tรฉlรฉphone. Je ne l'ai pourtant pas fourni et je n'ai pas moyen de le saisir. Et une erreur se produit ensuite. Je me demande si je ne devrais pas crรฉer le compte Google en dehors de mon tรฉlรฉphone d'abord.
Un conseil ?
#murena #eOS

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I saw this quote from Isaiah 40:31 the other day: "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint". I thought it was mocking my running accident last week. But then I saw this quote from Proverbs 26:27 "If you set a trap for others, you will get caught in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead." Only now, do I realise, it is telling me to rest and relax and watch cartoons! The bible is full of wisdom for every situation!

PROOF Erika Kirk Was CIA ALL ALONG! - YouTube

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Isaiah 41:10

"10. Fear not, for I AM with you; Be not dismayed, for I AM your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.' "
(Isaiah 41:10 NKJV)

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AANES : Les droits sont protรฉgรฉs par la constitution et non par des dรฉcrets temporaires
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Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent US immigration enforcement operation canโ€™t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who arenโ€™t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

US District Judge Kate Menendezโ€™s ruling addresses a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists.

"James the Just was a man of prayer. A first-century historian reported that James spent so much time in prayer, his knees became hard and calloused like a camel....
"To be prayerless is to be non-Christian.
"Prayer is to faith what oxygen is to the lungs.
"Show me a person who does not pray, Iโ€™ll show you a person who is spiritual dead."

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SYRIE. Lโ€™Occident livre le Rojava ร  Jolani
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"SYRIE / ROJAVA โ€“ Kobanรช, Hassakรฉ, Qamishloโ€ฆ lโ€™ensemble du territoire du Rojava est dans le viseur des gangs turco-jihadistes avec la bรฉnรฉdiction de lโ€™Occident qui a comptรฉ sur les Kurdes pour se dรฉbarrasser de DAECH. Pourtant, indรฉpendamment du massacre des Kurdes en cours, dont on en a cure, les gangs djihadistes sont au sommet de [โ€ฆ]
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Jan 17, 2026 @ 07:26 Good morning family & friendsโฃ๏ธ I'll probably be going back to bed shortly but since I woke up at 02:15 and couldn't get back to sleep I figured I might as well get some things done. Once I finished my Bible reading (first thing before getting out of bed), I got hotel information for next month (a long day of brain testing downstate so Casey & I are getting a room) and the Lord guided me straight to a page that shows places to stay that offer discounts to those using that medical facility, so that was pretty cool, will cost less than I thought it would! Then I put up a new Saturday post; I think I mentioned that I'm taking a break from Caturday as it's getting harder and harder to find fresh memes and, frankly, it just isn't as fun for me anymore! So you'll find a link below to Saturday Signage which had me literally laughing out loud several times as I worked on it. It's not even light outside and my day is half over hahaha! I am not sure if I will be posting any more posts today or not but either way I will see you this evening, as far as I know...have a sensational dayโฃ๏ธ๐Ÿ™Œโœ๏ธ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿฅฉ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ‘ด๐Ÿ‘ต๐Ÿ•โ€๐Ÿฆบ๐Ÿฆœ

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Iโ€™ve turned off automatic updates on my Mac to ensure I donโ€™t run into the same bullshit with the automatic iOS 26 update on the phone and I suggest you do the same.

Keep the security updates toggle on, though.

First time Iโ€™ve had to take such action in about two decades of owning a Mac.

๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#apple #macOS #tahoe #liquidAss #trainWreck

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@aral I updated my iPhone because security updates are not delivered to supported devices, sorry


So I havenโ€™t updated because of Liquid Glass, that I can tell. What I didnโ€™t know is that ยซAppleโ€™s most recent security updates for iOS 18 are only available for phones that canโ€™t run iOS 26 at all, like the iPhone XRยป ๐Ÿ˜ซ arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0โ€ฆ

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Demonstrators Mark the Oakland Federal Building as a Site of ICE Operations
crimethinc.com/2026/01/17/demoโ€ฆ

"A report from a march that smashed 47 windows at the federal building in Oakland and covered it with spray paint in order to identify it as a base of ICE operations."

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Dream team here, this โ€œBoard of Peaceโ€

Have been detecting a new emotion recently triggered by news like this - same when Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump.

Barely an emotion; more like cold resignation to the surreal evil of our times; when you recognise there might have been outrage before but now itโ€™s barely a flicker, like the last little flame when you switch off a gas cooker.

Need a name for it!

1/4 (mini #Geopolitics #Psychology ๐Ÿงต)

#Gaza #Trump

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2/4 Also (more uninformed musings linking psychology and geopolitics with no expertise in either):

Trump is basically abusive, he is abusing/gaslighting all of us. Our times are so distorted that we have all become super quick to detect individual abuse (โ€œhe is gaslighting you โ€; โ€œyou need to leave himโ€), but absolutely noone in MSM is calling out Trump in this way. They are all co-creating Trump world, gaslighting for him, reporting on him as if he is a normal person.

#Gaza #Trump

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3/4 And now remembered this excellent recent LRB (my sanity sanctuary these days) article by Amia Srinivasan, โ€œThe Impossible Patient. The Return of the Unconsciousโ€, about psychoanalysis and politics. Really recommend it - really worth exploring all this!

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/amโ€ฆ

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4/4 Lastly: have also been musing about how we, ordinary citizens, normally donโ€™t talk about #Geopolitics.

We have this brief phase of doing โ€œOrigins of the first world warโ€ at school, where we briefly learn to think in that way, but after that most of us just become extras in someone elseโ€™s film and donโ€™t even bother to understand the plot; occasionally rallied when crowd emotions are needed but no actual grasp of anything.

Itโ€™s crazy really that we all accept this.

Mother of Elon Muskโ€™s child sues his AI company over Grok deepfake images aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/17/mโ€ฆ

Sometimes, my computer is very slow and sometimes really fast. Fedora 43.


Hi everyone!

My daily driver is a Surface Go 1 running Fedora with 8GB of ram and 128GB of storage. It is always hooked up to a Philips 273B screen via USB-C.

Most of the time, it is really fast and a perfect tiny Linux and Gnome machine easily hookable to a big screen for when you're not travelling.

However, sometimes, after installing updates but maybe not always, it is slow as hell. Sometimes, detaching the Surface from the big screen and hooking it again, solves the issue, but not always. It is a behavior I already had when I was using Ubuntu and I've had on Fedora since version 36.

Here are some useful printscreens from HTOP and the ressource management system:

#high cpu usage

#low cpu usage

I thought that maybe installing the Surface kernel would stop the issue, but it didn't..

Sometimes it's annoying enough to make me just want to use my wife's MacBook Pro 2012 running Fedora as a daily driver but the form factor is less practical.

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Apart from what others said about power/throttling, I wonder if the filled up memory during the upgrade (or other memory-heavy use) pushes some central pages to swap and then they stay there after?

After the upgrade and you have plenty of free memory again you can force back everything to RAM by temporarily disabling swap:

swapoff $swapdev && swapon $swapdev  

To list swap devices, just run swapon.

Also switching to an X11 window manager can be quite a lot snappier than modern GNOME for older hardware. You could try Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, or KDE with the X session.

If it's not throttling/thernals, I wouldn't be surprised if those two together is what made things worse after migrating dist.

If you've been swapping heavily over time you might also want to check disk health with smartctl and check that you don't have related errors in dmesg.

If you press tab in htop you can also see if there is high IO load going on.

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This looks like a hardware issue.
I'd guess at overheating, or an error with the CPU's energy management.
First thing I'd do is look if there's a BIOS update available.
Then install lm-sensors (there's also a GUI frontend called psensor and a gnome shell extension) to show CPU temperature, and check if they're too high. If they aren't, you could set your CPU to always use max power and see if that fixes it, but it will reduce battery life.
Or try a different distro from a live USB and see if that makes a difference.

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Finally some good news in the housing crisis: Melbourne, our most liveable city, is now the cheapest capital to rent a house in Australia โ€” average house rents actually dropped 1.7% to $580/week while everywhere else keeps climbing.
Why? Victoria's stronger supply of new homes + 'harsh' tax settings on investors (higher fees, vacancy taxes pushing properties onto the market) have scared off speculators and forced more realistic pricing for renters. Investors fleeing to NSW? Good โ€” let them speculate elsewhere.
The real headline should've been: 'How to tax property to benefit all โ€” Victoria leads the way'

#HousingCrisis #TaxTheRich #VictoriaLeading

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Social web - FOSDEM 2026


Livestream from room H.2215 (Ferrer)

Topic: Social web
Schedule:
10:40 JSON Databases and Small ActivityPub Servers: A Perfect Combination (Darius Kazemi)
11:00 Democratise the Fediverse (Matthias Pfefferle)
11:30 Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon (Hannah Aubry)
12:00 Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse (Benjamin Bellamy)
12:30 Reaching out to the wider society: Why the open social web needs to matter to more people โ€“ and how we can achieve that goal (Bjรถrn Staschen)
13:00 tags.pub - following hashtags globally (Evan Prodromou)
13:10 Increasing Long Term Stability of Relations Between Fediverse Identities using SSI (Paul Fuxjรคger)
13:20 Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server API (Django Doucet)
14:00 Federated Bookmark Sharing (Rafael Epplรฉe)
14:10 Are digital rules a show stopper for the Fediverse? (Rebecca Sieber)
14:30 The Social Web and Digital Sovereignty: Building Social Advocacy Networks in and for Europe. (Sandra Barthel)
14:40 Building a sustainable italian fediverse: overcoming technical, adoption and moderation challenges (Fra - OpenForFuture, Filippo Della Bianca, Valentino Spataro)
15:10 How to level up the fediverse (Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon)
15:40Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration - A Fantastic FediVariety Circus (Peter Mechels, vishnee)
16:00 ActivityPub at Scale: Institutional Entry Points into the Social Web (Melanie Bartos)
16:10 The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials (Pepijn Lemmens)
16:20 A wild FASP appears! Integrating your app with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers (James Smith)
16:30 Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits (Maho Pacheco)
16:50Splinter - Split long articles into Mastodon threads (Eyal Ron (Neiman))
17:20 Bonfire: Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks (Mayel de Borniol, ivan minutillo)
17:40 Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain (Hong Minhee)
18:00 Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025 (Tobias Diekershoff)
18:10 Fedi legacy (Ian Forrester, Samuel Margerison)
18:20 Mobilizon - share events on the fediverse (Stรฉphane, Alexandra)
18:30 Emissary and the Fediverse (Ben Pate)

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