social.gl-como.it
Yeah, yeah, Facebook, but this is brilliant: facebook.com/share/p/1MCCancxK…
"My favorite thing about The Odyssey is that when you notice how the poem is structured, the whole thing starts looking like Odysseus is just making up an alibi after coming home from a 10-year Fuckboy Tour of the Mediterranean.
See, the parts of The Odyssey that Homer narrates directly are surprisingly grounded. At the beginning we see Ithaca, Telemachus travels around looking for news of his father, and so on. At the end Odysseus returns, kills the suitors, and everyone is happy (except for the suitors). The gods interfere constantly because this is ancient Greece, but mostly it's a story about people doing people shit just like The Iliad.
But in the middle section, the narration very conspicuously shifts from Homer to Odysseus himself. He's explaining to the Phaeacians why it took him ten years to sail home from Troy, and suddenly we're dealing with one-eyed giants, cannibal armies, a witch who turns men into pigs, magic bags full of wind, six-headed sea monsters, and a trip to the Underworld.
Odysseus tells his story to the Phaeacians while he is stranded, broke, and in desperate need of a ship home. And remember that Odysseus is not merely capable of lying – lying is basically his superpower. He routinely invents elaborate fake biographies for himself at the drop of a hat, to the point that even Athena is impressed with his capacity for deception. He is canonically the original male manipulator.
And it makes sense why Homer depicts Odysseus telling all of this to the Phaeacians instead of the much-less-gullible Penelope, since you can imagine how his story would have gone over with her:
"Odysseus, the Trojan War ended 10 years ago. Where have you been all this time?"
"See what had happened was, we were gonna come straight home – but then when we were in sight of Ithaca, my men opened this magic bag of wind while I was asleep and it blew us to the other side of the ocean."
"Why did they open the bag after you told them not to?"
"Ah, well, see, I sort of forgot."
"Your men all died because you had a magic bag of wind that you forgot to tell them not to open and then took a nap?"
"No, they were all fine! But see, then a cyclops and some giant cannibals killed most of the men, and a witch turned the rest into pigs. But don't worry, they got better."
"They got better?"
"Well sure, the witch changed them back after I slept with her."
"...I see. Well, I suppose you had to save your men."
"Exactly! And so after a year with her-"
"You slept with her for A YEAR?"
"Hermes told me to, baby!"
"The god Hermes told you to fuck another woman. For a year."
"Penelope, who am I to question the will of the gods? So then we went to the Underworld, and after a quick detour back to see Circe again-"
"YOU WENT BACK?"
"It was important, babe! She had to tell us how to avoid all the sea monsters!"
"The sea monsters."
"Oh, sure – loads of sea monsters out there. The sea is lousy with monsters these days."
"Uh huh. And did you sleep with her again?"
"I mean, it would have been rude not to..."
"ODYSSEUS."
"Will of the gods, baby, will of the gods! So anyway we're headed home for real this time, but the men ignored my extremely excellent advice and ate one of Helios' sacred cattle while I was asleep, and Zeus killed them all. Damndest thing. So I wash up naked on this beach with a beautiful nymph, and well, one thing kinda led to another..."
"Did you sleep with her for a year too?"
"Of course not!"
"Well, that's a relief."
"It was seven."
"SEVEN?"
"She bewitched me! I was bewitched! Can't fault a guy for what he does when he's bewitched, can you?"
"And did you meet any other women on this epic journey of yours?"
"Well, there was this teenage princess..."
"ODYSSEUS!"
"Nothing happened, babe, I swear! I just washed up naked on the beach right in front of her. Nice girl, you'd like her."
"Odysseus, this is the second time you've just happened to wash up naked on a beach right in front of a beautiful woman."
"I know! Crazy, right? Anyway, when I told her parents everything that had happened, they were so amazed that they gave me all this gold and a ride straight home so I could be with my beloved."
"After 10 years."
"Well yeah, straight home after 10 years. Don't forget the sea monsters, babe!"
"The sea monsters that you are conveniently the only person left alive to have witnessed."
"I don't love where you're going with that..."
"Odysseus, do you know what I did while you were gone?"
"...Waited faithfully for me?"
"I raised your son, ran your kingdom, kept a hundred men from taking your throne, and spent three years weaving and unweaving the same fucking burial shroud every night to keep them off my back."
"That's... actually very clever."
"Thank you."
"You know, between the two of us, that's really more my–"
"Finish that sentence and I'm sending you back to the Cyclops."
“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.
An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”
theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?Katherine Rundell (the Guardian)
How to Build Your Offline Knowledge Library with #Kiwix on #Linux
ostechnix.com/kiwix-build-offl…
Learn how to build a offline knowledge library with Kiwix. Discover how to install Kiwix, organize your library, and access Wikipedia offline.sk (OSTechNix)
You heard it here first:
grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game IndustryGrumpy Gamer
Ron Gilbert announced the development of Thimbleweed Park 2!
Linux to be supported. As a side note - Mr. Gilbert himself switched to using Linux few years back 🐧
👉 grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/
👉 mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpy…
#gaming #news #ThimbleweedPark2 #Linux #pointandclick #adventure #games @grumpygamer
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game IndustryGrumpy Gamer
@holarse Yes, we haven't set up the builds yet, so it defaults to Win, but we will have Mac and Linux.
Secondo le misurazioni di @ooni almeno sei grandi provider italiani censurano, prevalentemente tramite DNS tampering, i siti di informazione sull'interruzione volontaria di gravidanza Women on Web (WoW) e Women Help Women (WHW)
ooni.org/post/2026-italy-block…
This report documents the blocking of Women on Web (WoW) and Women Help Women (WHW) domains in Italy based on OONI data.Maria Xynou (OONI) (Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI))
Grazie al modello altimetrico digitale TinItaly, abbiamo realizzato mappe di visibilità dell’ormai prossima eclissi parziale di Sole, sia dell’intero territorio nazionale sia nelle singole tessere della mappa dell’Istituto nazionaleMaura Sandri (MEDIA INAF)
Pepsi has paid Putin $122 million to support the invasion of Ukraine by choosing to dodge sanctions and pay tax money to the russia terrorist regime. Pepsi pays russia to murder Ukrainian civilians every day.
if you have a conscience please do everything in your power to destroy the company PepsiCo, its profits, and its reputation.
they have more blood on their hands than any AI. $122 million is a LOT of russian shaheds Pepsi paid for.
business-humanrights.org/en/la…
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights CentreBusiness and Human Rights Centre
AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims — amount is 122% of debt reflected on the balance sheets of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-companies-have-hidden-debt-worth-around-usd1-65-trillion-report-claims-amount-is-122-percent-of-debt-reflected-on-the-balance-sheets-of-alphabet-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-oracle?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Tom's Hardware @tom-s-hardware-TomsHardware
Coyote V. Acme
In The United States District Court, Southwestern District, Tempe, Arizona Case No. B19294, Judge Joan Kujava, Presiding
newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02…
(The New Yorker, Shouts & Murmurs, By Ian Frazier; February 19, 1990
From 1990: “Much as he has come to mistrust Defendant’s products, Mr. Coyote has no other domestic source of supply to which to turn.”Ian Frazier (The New Yorker)
I don't know why this post hasn't surfaced in my fedi feed so here I am, reposting it from Lobsters.
It is a post about making animations by abusing progressive JPEGs (and, I guess, web servers that send the image frame by frame with the right delays)
Regressive JPEGs: maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg…
The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixingmindgard.ai
Boulet on sharing on the modern Web
bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2026/0…
"To be an artist on the internet is to plant flowers in a garden where someone is playing with a flamethrower." (Awful translation by me.)
Holy shit! The literal video version of Total Eclipse of the Heart is on YouTube again. I remember looking for a few times, but I guess it kept falling foul of copyright strikes.
Anyway, in honour of the memory of the great Bonnie Tyler, enjoy one of the finest things YouTube has ever hosted.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.artistwithouttalent (YouTube)
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My name is Daniel Connell. I prototype and develop basic technologies which anyone can make using recycled materials and simple tools.
The aim is for everyone everywhere to be able to build and maintain their own infrastructure; producing their own energy, food, clean water, communications, and anything else they need.
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This might be useful. I worked on the first edition back in the day, one of my proudest professional achievements, a portable, easily shipped compendium in plain text on how to build and maintain essential infrastructure, intended at the time for use by rural areas in developing nations (UNDP)
archive.org/details/humanity-d…
1. The Humanity Libraries ProjectThe Humanity Libraries Project of the NGO Global Help Projects is a network project of more than 100 partners. Its aim is to...Internet Archive
Jezus: UK's Reform Party has gotten two-thirds of its funding from fossil fuel interests.
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million...
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal.Adam Barnett and Sam Bright (DeSmog)
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V
theregister.com/software/2026/…
A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
<- by me on #TheRegister
A third of world’s energy needs should come from electricity by 2035, says Turkish minister Murat Kurum, as he sets out priorities priority for this year’s UN climate summitFiona Harvey (the Guardian)
So, seems like Microsoft's *.olc.protection.outlook.com mail servers are currently using certificates signed by an distrusted root CA[1].
That seems like a shocking level of incompetence.
It means that any mail server supporting MTA-STS is currently unable to deliver any mail to them.
[1] DigiCert Global Root CA which has been scheduled for distrusting since 2023 knowledge.digicert.com/general…
On March 8, 2023, at 10:00 MST (17:00 UTC), DigiCert will begin updating the default public issuance of TLS/SSL certificate to our public, second-generation (G2) root, and intermediate CA (ICA) certificate hierarchies.knowledge.digicert.com
you can take a walk with a friend, as a treat
I have very conflicting feelings about this :D
I think this is well worth reading. I've been a bit frustrated by some over-confident claims that data centres in space are literally impossible due to the cooling issues alone, and other claims that those issues are fairly minor. I am nowhere near close to being familiar with all the real-world engineering nitty gritty; I understand a fair bit of thermodynamics, but that is not enough to really settle things. FWIW, the arguments here seem well grounded in physics and the technological/economic/legal issues raised strike me as plausible.
robtow.substack.com/p/spacex-i…
Rob Tow · Nova Lux, New Mexico, USA, Sol III · 17 June 2026Rob Tow
400+ Arch User Repository packages have been compromised in a massive, sophisticated supply chain attack, including a rootkit installation.
discourse.ifin.network/t/400-a…
#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN
Last Updated: 2026-06-12T04:22:42Z (UTC) What’s Happening It appears a new AUR package maintainer (arojas) adopted and infected 408+ packages. The compromise was reported and other AUR maintainers have been working to remove the infected packages.IFIN
From the WTAF dept:
Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.
tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.
"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."
socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulu…
IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.
Newer packages in this compromise use native extensions and .pth loaders to execute JavaScript stealers in developer environments.Kirill Boychenko (Socket)
Salad dog hopes you're all keeping cool and hydrated!
#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour
It looks like Microsoft's DevOps libraries for Azure Functions might have been compromised. No statement yet but Github is nuking Microsoft's own repos.
opensourcemalware.com/blog/mia…
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5.opensourcemalware.com
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestormRaphael Rashid (the Guardian)
Just turned in final revisions on "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON"
It's going to exist at last, everyone!!! ❤️🔥
Big, deeply-built, intricate Norse myth fantasy.
Book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME"
Coming from Tor Books Summer 2027
Still lost with Dolores in the library 🥺
BUT Yes OMG
@gullevek
I honestly did the same thing! 😜
@grumpygamer
aww yiss.
Twinbleweed Pearks 2
Great news! Thank you all in advance for hours of enjoyment 🌼
Ron Gilbert Talks About Thimbleweed Park 2!
Tech Talk with Daniel Albu (YouTube)I mean ... the .gif says it all! Please and thank you.