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we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over
always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
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An EFF analysis of millions of searches of Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) data by police has uncovered a troubling patte
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Kind of tone deaf to say âI donât know why these super strict laws exist to protect wild animals in the United States I didnât ask for thisâ when cattle ranchers are successfully pressuring Trump into removing Bison from federal lands as we speak.
We can argue about raising Bison for human consumption instead of cows on federal land all we want, but by all accounts we are missing like 25+ million bison because of their wholesale slaughter over the past few hundred years. They do serve an important ecological function.
YouâŚdonât know why laws existâŚto stop people from killing eagles and wolves and bison and coyotes and turtles in the United States?
Iâm listening to these podcasts about how private homeowners/landowners can do more to make their lawns better for native wildlife, and one new thing Iâd never heard until recently before was plant a bunch of local berry producing bushes. So much is about planting flowers for caterpillars to munch on for birds to eat, or flowers for pollinators.
So why berry producing bushes? Because we killed off bears.
Bears used to eat huge amounts of berries and fish, shit out the seeds, and spread berries around the US just like birds do. Except we killed like 99% of the bears, and weâre doing our best to exterminate the birds as well.
Who thinks of a bear as a creature that distributes seeds (and also technically fertilizer from eating hundreds of pounds of fish a year and then pooping farther inland).
Stupid shit you donât think about, like missing bears roaming around the whole US, have changed our environment in ways weâre still figuring out.
Itâs one thing to not know why a law exists. Totally fair. We should question why something was written.
But itâs another thing entirely to assume a law was written specifically for you as an individual, and if the law isnât serving you right here right now, then the law is stupid.
With any law/rule you're tempted to break, ask yourself two questions:
Who will it hurt if I break this law?
Who will it hurt if EVERYONE breaks this law?
The second is particularly important in "victimless" crimes, especially wildlife protection.
If I decorate my fabulous hat with heron feathers (that I find while kayaking), that harms no one. If everyone decorates their hat with heron feathers, people are going to start shooting herons to sell their feathers. Soon, no herons.
If I remove that osprey nest from my property after the nesting season, that harms no one. There are plenty of other places for the ospreys to nest. Besides, those nests are eyesores! But if everyone destroys nests off-season, next year there will be fewer good nesting sites, fewer ospreys born and raised to adulthood. Soon, no ospreys.
I am one of everyone, and so are you. If there is a law or rule against an action, odds are good that you're not the first who's wanted to do it.

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Sight & Sound's "Greatest Film of All Time" â 2022 decennial. After 7 decades of S&S votes, a series of walkouts at Jeanne Dielman's first Cannes screening, a half decade since Akerman's death, at last her film's legacy has aligned with its monumental contribution to the art of cinema
Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles European; Belgium, 1975 Feature film stills, 35mm color film stock; video interview with Akerman
This film is part of Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair this year!
She was also part of the editing team for Martin Scorseseâs 1970s films âTaxi Driver,â âAlice Doesnât Live Here Anymoreâ and âNew York, New
Marcia Lucas was the editor on 1983âs "Return of the Jedi" and the pre-"Star Wars" George Lucas-directed films "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti."
She was also part of the editing team for director Martin Scorseseâs 1970s films "Taxi Driver," "Alice Doesnât Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York."
Marcia Lucas was often called the unsung hero of "Star Wars," the original film that after sequels, prequels and spinoffs has come to be known by its subtitle, "A New Hope."
She convinced husband George that he should have Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, in his light saber battle with Darth Vader and become a spirit guide to Mark Hamillâs Luke Skywalker.
And she had to make sense of the raw footage that couldâve been a mess in the wrong hands, including the climactic rebel attack on the Death Star.
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"Her influence on film is indelible, but those who knew her best will remember the way she made life feel more vivid, more beautiful, more fun, and more full of love," a family statement said. "Her work was known for its emotional intelligence, rhythm, and humanity â a rare ability to find the truth of a scene and bring heart, momentum, and clarity to the screen."
yo been busy but here's an illustration i made for the 2026 objecthead zine!
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But... Stochastic Parrots.
This is the paper. It's excellent, highly recommend reading it.
I remember reading about Gebru's firing but I had no idea this was the paper she was fired over.
The artist's voice before and after selling out to AI.

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cybertrucks are so amazing to me. sure it may be unsafe to drive and unimaginably expensive and ugly as shit but at least everyone who sees you driving it thinks youre a nazi
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Study of ancient Mohenjo-daro finds inequality declined as the Indus city expanded and improved public infrastructure.
The US government has officially declared âradical pro-transgender groupsâ to be domestic terrorist organizations. This will certain remain for the duration of this administration, and may hold into the next.
This opens the door for not only the targeting of trans individuals, but also trans communities, the broader queer community, and even allies and family members of transgender people.
Everyone, be safe. Look out for each other. Cherish small wins, and moments of joy.
Surviving is more than grand acts of defiance. Living is in the small, the everyday, the imperceptible. Living is holding a hand, or being kindâ little things that you donât remember the day after. Love each other, and love yourself in equal measure. Tyrants are brittle things. Never has a dark time failed to end.
And before anyone accuses me of overreacting, let me be clear. The last line of the Presidential Foreword in the new policy document literally reads, âWe will find you and we will kill you.â
Springing off of my addiction post once more, I am also skeptical at best of 12-step programs, because their framework has just never remotely aligned with my actual experience.
The substance I was addicted to was heroin. While I was actively addicted, it absolutely came before everything else. My life shrank around it. I kept using despite very real, very obvious negative consequences. If youâre looking for something that fits the âcompulsion + harm + loss of controlâ model, that was it.
But whatâs always sat strangely with me is what happened when that context changed.
Once my abusive relationship ended and I was no longer in an environment where it was readily available, it was shockingly easy to stop. Iâm not saying it was physically comfortable. My body was pretty pissed off for a while. But psychologically, it just didnât have the same hold anymore. I wasnât spending my days white-knuckling cravings or constantly thinking about it. It dropped out of my life in a way that, according to the 12-step model, is not really supposed to happen.
And thatâs where my issue with that framework starts.
Because 12-step ideology tends to assume that if you have ever had that kind of relationship with one substance, it reveals something fundamental and permanent about you. That you now have a generalized âaddictive natureâ that will attach itself to other substances or behaviors if youâre not constantly managing it. That you are, in some essential way, always on the verge of transferring that pattern onto something else.
And that just hasnât been true for me.
I was a near-daily cannabis user for years. When it started consistently making me feel physically uncomfortable instead of good, I stopped. No drawn-out battle, no existential crisis, just âthis isnât giving me what I liked about it anymoreâ and I moved on.
I drink occasionally, in social or celebratory contexts, and I genuinely find alcohol kind of boring outside of that. It doesnât have much pull for me.
I tried gambling once, got annoyed at how tedious and overstimulating it felt, and left the casino in under an hour. I have not felt remotely compelled to revisit that experience.
I use the internet a lot, and I play a handful of video games, but I can also go on a camping trip with no signal and be completely fine, unless you want to try and find something pathological about nature photography, in which case you can blow it out your ass. If anything, I generally enjoy the change of pace. Thereâs no sense of panic or withdrawal or âI need to get back to my computer/consoles immediately.â
So when I hear the idea that addiction is this broad, transferable trait that will latch onto anything with quick reward or low friction, I just donât see it reflected in my own life.
What does make sense, looking back, is context.
When I was using heroin, I was in an abusive relationship. My environment was unstable, stressful, and honestly pretty bleak. The substance didnât just exist in a vacuum. It fit into a specific set of conditions where it functioned as relief, escape, and regulation.
When those conditions changed, the behavior changed with them.
That doesnât mean there was no dependency. There obviously was. It doesnât mean there were no consequences. There very much were. My grades suffered. I dropped out of college. I lost my apartment because staying out of withdrawal and numbing out from the abuse felt more important than paying rent.
But it does suggest that what we call âaddictionâ might not always be this permanent, identity-level trait that needs to be managed forever. Sometimes it looks a lot more like a relationship between a person, a substance, and a specific environment.
When thatâs the case, then a framework that assumes universality - âif this happened once, it will always be waiting to happen again, with anythingâ - is going to miss a lot of variation.
Iâm not saying 12-step programs canât help people. Clearly they can, or they likely wouldnât exist in the way they do. But I do think theyâre often treated as the model of addiction rather than a model that fits some people and not others, and when your experience doesnât match that model, many people who swear by them will assume that you are misunderstanding yourself, in denial, or ânot taking it seriously enough.â This paternalistic attitude only serves to make me even more skeptical of the framework.
For me, what mattered wasnât declaring myself permanently âaddictiveâ or treating every pleasurable behavior as a potential threat.
What mattered was getting out of the environment where that pattern made sense in the first place.
Rat Park, people. Stop forgetting about Rat Park.
âaddictionâ might not always be this permanent, identity-level trait... Sometimes it looks a lot more like a relationship between a person, a substance, and a specific environment.
I have helped change more individual behavior by changing the environment around them than I have by working on their behavior.

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Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy | ScienceDaily
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signa
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And if youâre streaming this song on Spotify,
then we both fund weapons-grade AI.
But if it wasnât here, then how would you hear it?
Weâre over a barrel, but we donât have to cheer it.
I DONâT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK TO DO
when hypocrisy reigns and nothing is true,
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