Updated... (I had posted this updated version at other websites, kinda forgot to post the update here until just now...)
My contribution to #ArtTips:
Enjoy being where you are.
No you're neither Einstein, Napoleon, Jesus nor Muhammad.
But just enjoy being who you are.
Because if you fail to enjoy being who you are, you'll probably loose all the energy you actually *need* to become who you're actually *meant to be*.
Working on getting the snap updated for the upcoming @inkscape release. If you've got a moment to test it I'd appreciate it. You can switch using this command:
snap refresh --candidate inkscape
And switch back with --stable.
I personally recommend discussing the essay either at Charlie's blog, or over at Joerg Fliege's Diaspora post:
https://diasp.org/posts/619e6e50b21a013ac999448a5b29e257
...though yes, at the moment, there have been no discussion at Joerg's Diaspora post so far.
Charlie Stross: "The Impotence of the Long Distance Trillionaire"
๐ http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/05/the-impotence-of-the-long-dist.html
Read the essay yes, but also just as important read the solid criticism in comment no.22...
#fz_links / #PoliticalEconomy #Mammon #Influence #Power #Geopolitics #Politics #postCapitalism #ExploringPostCapitalism
Politics: Ahimsa, Satya Graha, Swadesi
I don't know it's like, I know nothing about nothing, but increasingly I find myself wanting to declare my political views as a most idealistic as possible version of Ahimsa - Satya Graha - Swadesi...
Would this effectively be close to, or far from, left-leaning anarcho-syndicalism? I honestly don't know...
(A thorough understanding of various terms are left as exercises for readers)
Iranian film workers arrested, homes raided:
๐ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-film-industry-arrests-rasoulof/31851268.html
Mohammad Rasoulof, an Iranian filmmaker, has said that the offices and homes of several filmmakers & industry professionals were raided and some of them have been arrested. He posted the statement on Instagram late on May 14, signed by dozens of Iranian movie industry professionals.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, today (15/05/22) with reporting from AP News
A Samsung.com โexpertโ has been fired after speaking up about working for free
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/13/23067868/samsung-expert-ibbu-terminated-pay
The ArTist - Erik JOHANSSON is a surreal photographer from #Sweden, based in #Prague, but working all around the world. He tests the boundaries between what is real and fiction. - Titles: Land fall / Arms break... Go your own road/ A place like home / The cover up/ - https://www.erikjo.com/ - #ericjohansson #photography #fotografie #art #streetart #mastoart #unreal #NatureArt #natur
CW paywalled-article "disk-horse"
"You have one free article left"
Many if not most paywalled NY Times and WIRED articles, if you share their links to your Pocket account, you can read the text of those articles within Pocket an unlimited number of times for free.
Also works for (some) articles at the Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, others...
Early on in the conversation the witch said
"Your existence does not require anyone's approval."
What followed was as heartrending as she knew it would be, with more unanswerable why's than she liked, but in the end her guest said:
"My existence needs no justification."
"True."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories
This is a really good piece on "Web3" and I'm not saying that because Gilad Edelman let me rant at him for hours as part of his research. It also feels like the first *WiReD* article I've read in Wired for years: https://www.wired.com/story/web3-paradise-crypto-arcade/
From Indonesia. ๐ฎ๐ฉ he/him, but they/them is fine, too. | #fz_drawing | #fz_thinkingOutLoud | #fz_links | #fz_webVideos | #Socmed addict but working on it. Recently unemployed, but still hopeful that I'll get stable employment soon enough. Very occasionally depressed but not infectiously so I promise. On the Mastodon side of the Fediverse since 2017-ish. How many characters of profile text do we get anyways on Masto nowadays? On and on and on and on...