โ€‹:boost_appreciated:โ€‹Okii, migration done as far as I can tell, though it doesn't look like my follows/following quite survived as much as they probly should have. Presumed woops โ€‹:shironeko_blush:โ€‹
If you thought you were following me already from my Kitsuclub account, give it a quick check again, and I have a bunch of follow reqs sent out. Appreciated, thankies~! โ€‹:silvervale_waves:โ€‹

Don't Look at the Thermometer | by David Rodenas PhD - Freedium


#environment #climate

Having seen the effect of urban planning on temperature and the fact that we're increasingly heading towards hotter summers, we need to urgently rethink public spaces. And having seen that artificial shadows are not as good as the work of trees, it's clear that we need to promote tree-lined areas. Shadows "just" prevent the sunlight from passing through, but trees, in addition to blocking the sun they cool the environment.


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Gene Collier: Fear and loathing at the Library of Congress | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette โ€“ DrWeb's Domain

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โ€œIt wasnโ€™t the bullet in the head that killed this child, it was the unrelated cardiac arrestโ€
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmsโ€ฆ


Iโ€™m kind of speechless with this one. I canโ€™t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesnโ€™t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

The Bloody Legacy of โ€œPlan Daletโ€: From Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide journal-neo.su/2025/08/17/the-โ€ฆ

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They also look at the new diplomatic wave led by many Western states promising to recognize a Palestinian state and, specifically, how that state recognition is juxtaposed against the International Court of Justiceโ€™s rulings on Israeli occupation.
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@palestine

โ€ผ Fight Chat Control - protect EU digital privacy โ€ผ

The EU may soon mandate scanning private messages and photos, possibly by October.

PLEASE, contact your MEPs now - the site has their details (for all EU countries!) and even a message generator to make it easy!

fightchatcontrol.eu/
#chatcontrol

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The primary and possibly the only step demotivating me from contacting my MEP (or more specifically the premier since the council is made of the heads of the executive branches of each member) is the fact that there are elections about 2 weeks before the deadline.
Elections in which populists are heading for a comfy victory and will happily form a coalition with Brown Nazis and Red Nazis just out of principle. A cherry on top is that the upcoming shitstorm is extremely close to a lower house supermajority (capable of constitutional amendments). So doing this, while a good thing, is like pouring a bucket of saltwater into the sea. At least in my case.

Monopoly Round-Up: Will Trump Deal Away a Google Break-Up?


#politics #monopoly #GAFAM #Google

thebignewsletter.com/p/monopolโ€ฆ

URGENT mutual aid

I've lost my job recently. It happened after having my hours nearly cut in half, which meant only half the money last month.

I honestly thought it was just my boss having a scheduling trouble because a lot had happened a month prior, and it was chaotic, but no, they just fired me. Bastards. It was a standard layoff, too. Just because they felt like it. No notice, too. Just learnt I don't have a job one day.

So, I'm looking for a new room to rent, so I spend less to house myself and I'm searching for a new job -- any job, really -- to keep me afloat during this. But I'm having terrible luck, or maybe the job market is just scuffed? Can't tell for sure. The room searching isn't good, either. All the guys want to rent it for a full year, which is like, crazy.

And the real culprit is, you know, that the payday is on the 8th of the month, and right now, I've got something like 320 PLN, which is an equivalent of roughly $90. So it's not good.

It's not that I'm panicking -- I can't afford to -- but the situation could be much better. If you helped. So please, help if you can. Because that would make a difference.

Right now, I woke up at night and can't fall back asleep because all this.

ko-fi.com/szczursky/goal?g=3
PayPal: radnow@tutanota.com

@mutualaid #MutualAid

Thanks to many volunteers, there are now translations into German, French, Spanish, Italian and Danish! Much love! All linked from berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatโ€ฆ #chatcontrol

Des zones de guerre aux รฎles tropicales : un voyageur solitaire de 19 ans a visitรฉ 118 pays | Euronews


#voyage

fr.euronews.com/voyages/2025/0โ€ฆ

When discovering the ins and outs of #Amiga hardware during late 80s I learnt about the custom co-processors inside the Amiga:
โ€ข The Blitter โ€“ A coprocessor having ability to copy rectangular blocks of memory around while applying bit-logic operations on them and to draw lines.
โ€ข The Copper โ€“ A general purpose coprocessor synchronized to display beam position, able to control most of the other custom hardware, such as sprites, color palette, display properties and control the Blitter.

Even though the Blitter can perform only a limited set of logical operations on bit-level, the operations can be combined to perform more complicated logic. Tomas Rokicki demonstrated Conwayโ€™s Game Of Life by employing the Blitter already back in 1986.

Since Game of Life is Turing complete, if I could make it run without any CPU control itโ€™d also mean that the amiga chipset itself would be (granted this has been known to be the case for a long time already). This required controlling the necessary blit operations entirely from the Copper alone, something I already knew was feasible: I would only need to build a Copper program that would trigger the necessary blit operations in sequence. If the setup was done correctly, I could just let the copper list run while the CPU would be idling. Eventually I managed to get this working after dealing with all kinds of Blitter programming woes, such as coming up with the correct barrel shift register values for -1 and +1 cell fetch operations. This is a limited case of Turing Completeness as the total memory size is limited, also limiting the complexity of the system that could be emulated.

Having a Game Of Life running entirely with the Copper and the Blitter alone was all nice as such, but I could make it even more fancy by entirely wiping all CPU instructions from the memory after the setup had been done and stopping the CPU execution. I implemented this by copying section of the code inside one of the temporary buffers used by the Game Of Life blits and jumping to this code. The code would wipe all other system memory to zero, enable the DMA to start up the Copper, and finally execute โ€œstop #$2000โ€ instruction to indefinitely stop the CPU. The first iteration the Game Of Life would then wipe the remaining CPU instructions, entirely erasing last remnants of the 68000 code from RAM. I believe this method was used by some of the copy protections in some #Amiga games (Dragon's Lair is often mentioned).

Having successfully implemented the Game of Life I was already quite pleased with myself. Yet, I felt that there was more that could be done to spice things up. The copper list was static and only repeating the same program indefinitely after all. But what if I would use the Blitter to rewrite part of the copper program itself? That is: Maybe I could build a feedback loop where the Blitter would modify the Copper programming, building more complicated self-contained dynamic programs?

After tinkering around for few hours I came up with basic control blocks that are necessary to implement self-modifying Copper programs in practice. The minimal primitive consists of:
โ€ข Setting up the Blitter copy operation of 2+n*4 bytes
โ€ข Set the blit target address to the position where the lower 16-bits of the source address for this blit are set, and then n*4 bytes of arbitrary Copper instruction payload
โ€ข Execute the blit operation and wait for it to complete

This will update the Copper code in a way that on next display update the n payload Copper instructions piggybacked by the blit operation will get executed. The source address is used to chain together sequence of payloads with the last one of them pointing back to the beginning of the chain. In short, rather than actually diverging the path of execution of the Copper it dynamically modifies fixed section(s) of the Copper instruction flow for each screen refresh effectively resulting in different Copper instructions getting executed on each iteration. While it would also be possible to modify the โ€œprogram counterโ€ address of the Copper itself but this requires more code, and is less flexible.

I used this construct to create two separate repeating loops:
โ€ข Background color cycle of 24 different colors in an RYB color wheel.
โ€ข Displaying animated sprite with 8 different frames.

This is rather naรฏve use case for the capability however. Since the Blitter can do logic operations you could easily store higher level logic and conditional execution controlled by the Blitter source. In effect this demonstrates second means of achieving Turing Completeness.

I had always wondered if something like this could be pulled off. Now I know for sure.

#retrocomputing #programming #hack

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>Looking for a new dystopia
>Go into the Torment Nexusโ„ข๏ธ consultation center
> Ask the receptionist if this new dystopia is 1984 or Brave New World
> The receptionist looks confused
> Take out my chart depicting what's 1984 and what's Brave New World
> The receptionist laughs "It's a good dystopia sir"
> Sign up for the dystopia and upload my consciousness into the Torment Nexusโ„ข๏ธ terminal
> It's Fahrenheit 451

DeSantis should sue Newsom and CA over this murder. It would be fun to watch what happens.
thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/bโ€ฆ
As The Gateway Pundit reported, an illegal alien, who obtained his truck driving license (CDL) in the Democrat-run sanctuary state of California, killed three Americans after he made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway this week. The driver, identified as Harjinder Singh, was arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide after he made an insane U-turn directly in front of a car to his left on Floridaโ€™s Turnpike. The animal showed zero emotion after he exited the 18-wheeler and examined what was left of the vehicle โ€“ a pile of mangled metal and three dead bodies.
The White House press office responded to the incident on X, "This individual is an illegal immigrant who was granted a commercial driverโ€™s license by the State of California โ€” and now, three innocent people are dead..."

In breve, guidati dalla Danimarca, molti stati membri dellโ€™UE sostengono la necessitร  di obbligare WhatsApp/Signal/ecc. a ispezionare tutte le nostre foto e i nostri link, utilizzando lโ€™intelligenza artificiale (IA). Se lโ€™IA ha qualche โ€œdubbioโ€ che si tratti di pedopornografia, la tua foto, posizione, numero di telefono e altri dettagli vengono segnalati a Europol e a una forza di polizia locale: berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatโ€ฆ

Gaza reports 47 martyrs, 226 wounded in 24 hours english.almayadeen.net/news/poโ€ฆ

The occupation is expanding its destruction in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, issuing warnings to the areas of โ€œAsqulaโ€ and its surroundings. People are being displaced at this very moment, at night, in a tragic scene!โ€จThe occupation is destroying Gaza City and reducing it to ashes in silence, using a new method described as โ€œsilent erosionโ€โ€จ@palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza #StopGenocide #war #genocide
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En resumen: bajo el liderazgo de Dinamarca, muchos paรญses de la Uniรณn Europea quieren obligar a las compaรฑรญas de mensajerรญa como WhatsApp o Signal a inspeccionar todas nuestras fotos y enlaces con ayuda de inteligencia artificial (IA). Si la IA tiene la mรญnima duda de que pueda tratarse de material relacionado con abuso infantil, se enviarรกn a Europol y a la policรญa local tu foto, la ubicaciรณn, tu nรบmero de telรฉfono y otros datos personales. berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatโ€ฆ

En bref, sous lโ€™impulsion du Danemark, de nombreux ร‰tats membres de lโ€™UE demandent que les messageries comme WhatsApp/Signal/etc. soient contraintes dโ€™inspecter toutes nos photos et tous nos liens en utilisant de lโ€™IA. Si lโ€™IA a le moindre โ€œdouteโ€ quant ร  la possibilitรฉ quโ€™il sโ€™agisse de pรฉdopornographie, votre photo, votre localisation, votre numรฉro de tรฉlรฉphone ainsi que dโ€™autres dรฉtails sont signalรฉs ร  Europol et aux forces de police locales. - berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatโ€ฆ

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ไบŽๆ˜ฏ๏ผŒๆฏ…็„ถๅ†ณ็„ถ็š„ๆ‰พไบ†้ป„็‰›

้‚ฃๅคฉ้™„่ฟ‘๏ผŒๆœ‰ไธชๆœ่ฃ…ๅบ—ๅผ€ไธš๏ผŒไนŸๆ˜ฏๆŽ’ไบ†ๅพˆ้•ฟ็š„้˜Ÿไผ

ๆˆ‘็ป่ฟ‡้‚ฃ่พน๏ผŒๅŽปๅƒ็ซ้”…

ๅไธ‹ๅˆทๆ‰‹ๆœบ๏ผŒๅˆทๅˆฐ้‚ฃ่พน่ฟž็ปญๅŽปไบ†ไธค่พ†ๆ•‘ๆŠค่ฝฆ

่ฟ™ไธช้’ฑ๏ผŒๅฐฑ่ฏฅ้ป„็‰›่ตš

Die deutsche Regierung scheint ernsthaft darรผber nachzudenken, das amerikanische WhatsApp zu zwingen, all unsere Fotos und Links mit KI zu durchsuchen. Dann werden wir bei Europol und der Polizei gemeldet, wenn die KI auch nur ansatzweise "denkt", dass es Kinderpornografie sein kรถnnte. Sorry, aber das ist echt ein vรถllig irrer Plan: berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatโ€ฆ

Gamespot just posted:

Retired Lego Bowser Muscle Car Is Only $24 At Amazon, Sold Out Everywhere Else

Lego Super Mario: Bowser's Muscle Car (458 Pieces) $23.95 (was $30) | Retired by Lego (Set No. 71431) Get deal at Amazon Amazon has restocked the newly retired Lego Super Mario: Bowser's Muscle Car. The popular 458-piece building set was first listed for retirement by Lego alongside two other Super Mario Lego products back in May. ...

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#gamingNews

The Jeeting of Texas - Vox Popoli

It turns out all of that โ€œdonโ€™t mess with Texasโ€ talk was just that, talk. A Texas housing developer was forced to deny that a new community being built in the Dallas area will be exclusively for people from India. Sankalp Developer became infamous for the now-viral tweet that claimed they were building โ€˜a development [โ€ฆ]

[THREAD]Place yer bets.
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@rooster_capital: "Wonder if the the illegal immigrant that killed three people was the same Harjinder Singh that destroyed a bridge in Arkansas five years ago by negligently driving his truck over it w [image]"

#openborders #illegalaliens

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