@yaxu I agree, and I would never.

but what about afrofuturism then? has this term escaped the Italian fascist load?

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I was looking forward to catching a sleeper in Edinburgh or Glasgow and waking up in Paris!

@yaxu the amsterdam-hamburg bit also didn't happen. But politicians said last year that there'll be a direct train in 2035!

@yaxu Can't wait for the Montpellier Barcelona line to be affordable. Or a second Eurotunnel on Stockholm-Mariehamn

@yaxu It's kind of standard behaviour in the open source game engine world - people tend to naturally form a community around the projects and show off what they've done. It's probably just a result of it being more visibly creative though?

@yaxu related: I just reviewed a paper which provided citations for all of the software tools, but none of the datasets that were used to validate their workflow. I found it to be an odd disconnect.

@yaxu I drive-by liked this toot yesterday. Today I came back to look it up and share it too. I intend to be the change I wish to see! Thank you.

Sometimes when I've done this in the past, I've imagined that the creators of successful projects would be too busy to care or acknowledge otherwise contentless thank-yous from users. But in practice, I have discerned no upper bound to the project size for which authors are gleefully grateful.

Here's a lovely thread of patterny music if you're unsure what I mean! Doesn't just have to be music tho. https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/favourite-patterny-music-not-with-tidal/3569

53 boosts on here vs 2 shares on facebook for pretty much the same post. Thanks! Think I won't bother with fb any more..

@yaxu "This book is open access, and will be freely available for download from this website in PDF, Mobi and Epub, from its formal publication date on 22nd November 2023."

@yaxu excited to read this. Was chatting to a new friend last week who is a live coding performer who was really inspiring.

Also, did some collaborative live coding at a conference last week also - so much fun.

@yaxu Uff… that's tough. Thanks for posting this, I think we need in-depth analyses like these to understand what's going on and call out rent-seekers before there's no alternative infrastructure to rely on.

I'm very sympathetic with revisiting Free Software and I see some of the development described in the article as being enabled by the division of Open Source from a more radical Free Software movement, but that's only a very vague idea and there's a reason why Free Software is in the narrow niche it is in.

@neauoire one of the weird things about FOSS-dedicated people is they'll write a lengthy blog post describing in detail how the FOSS model has been subverted and is working against its original goals, then at the end insist that it's still the right thing to do and we just need more FOSS to fix it.

@yaxu what looks like cognitive dissonance to you and me can be easily explained on their part as just having a different set of baseline assumptions. For example, 2 does not contradict 1 if you believe that racism is only the act of an individual doing or saying racist things to another individual. Or if you believe that 2 is simply dangerous grandstanding that does no anti-racist work.

@yaxu beautiful! what are the red berries... currants?