In a recent press release, Amazon noted that some new features were coming to Kindle. Weโre adding new AI-powered reading features that preserve the magic of reading on Kindle.
Iโm currently reading โAbolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture,โ by Angela Davis. If I used a highlighter in this book, about 90% of it would be yellow.
Salt Lake City โ Prosecutors announced last week that they would not pursue charges against Arturo Gamboa, an activist in Utah who was arrested in June after a volunteer โpeacekeeperโ opened fire at a large โNo Kingsโ protest injuring Gamboa and killโฆ
๐งโ๏ธ Salt boxes are here to help keep our roads safe during winter weather.
But sometimes, the salt boxes need a little help too ๐ If you see a salt box thatโs damaged or empty, report it to 311 and our crews will take care of it.
Iโll say it again โ #Mozilla had the opportunity to add decentralised / #P2P networking to #Firefox when they were the no.1 browser and force the hand of Microsoft, Google and Apple to follow suit and instead they removed #RSS.
The weakness of #opensource isnโt technology or software, itโs governance. This has become all too clear with many open source projects getting infected by the #AI scam and end-users being pretty powerless to stop it
One church leader in MA is facing criticism from the Boston archdiocese for his display. The church leader says itโs staying for now. โYou feed the hungry, you take care of the homeless, you clothe the naked, you take care of people and their needs,โ said Father Josoma. โ[ICE raids] are the complete antithesis of that on so many levels.โ
Across Illinois, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, faith communities are refusing to stay silent. Churches are using their nativity scenes to call out the Trump administrationโs cruel and chaotic anti-immigrant policies that are tearing families apart right now: open.substack.com/pub/americasโฆ
โIf the Holy Family had been in Charlotte two weeks ago, they would have been putting the baby Jesus in handcuffs because he wouldnโt have his papers,โ said one faith leader.
This immigrant woman landed in the US decades ago, has never even set foot in a kitchen or done any cleaning, takes thousands of dollars off the state every year, and spreads dangerous woke antifa propaganda about democracy, inclusivity, and equality.
it was the disco is cannon that gave it away๐ Not shitting on discovery, I quite like it, my wife pointed it out it probably meant the series. My dumb ass was just nodding along thinking Sisco would totally have been a disco icon in the 70โs
They'd have to do far more than reverse. They'd have to purge govt of all the fascists and billionaires & rewrite laws & establish new protocols to prevent this from happening again. Otherwise, the Overton window keeps moving further and further to the right, with future Dems to the right of Trump
the fact that they refused to reverse things is why people get disillusioned and then stop voting for them, which I suspect is the plan. I'm at the point where I just assume malfeasance he's motherfuckers
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@billseitz And the resort guests are tired of the surly dissatisfied nature of their staff. They are trying to replace us with robots as quickly as possible.
In the late 19th century there were a lot of horses. What happened to them after the automobile took over?
@mike805 @Inkican @Bill Seitz I assume most of them died of old age, but the horse breeding industry definitely wound down as the automobile became more popular.
@Natanox Both Tipeee and Patreon have found that only 1% of their creators use the "per-creation" model. It seems they're streamlining their features to focus on more popular options.
Patreon initially planned to switch to the new model in Nov2025, but due to technical issues with a payment processor (Apple), they've postponed the deadline several times. Tipeee recently announced a Jan2026 deadline, so I've decided to move both platforms to the new monthly subscription model at the same time.
@halla Thank you for your words and your support since the first episodes! As you can imagine, this change affects me so much... That's why I'm releasing three comic pages to talk about it. ๐
The change will take effect on Patreon on 12 January. Until then, the page still shows 'per-content'.
This is because I have decided to give one month's notice to allow my patrons to adjust their budgets. (Don't worry though: I won't release the 'per-content' mechanism during this period.)
@Numerfolt Liberapay. This is because it doesn't have the 5% fee that Patreon and Tipeee take. (To fund Liberapay, you have to support them... on Liberapay.)
Okay, I looked at their FAQ and basically there are the transaction fees that I pay? Like I send you 1โฌ per month and pay some cents so you can get the full โฌ? And I can donate to them too, which is nice.
@fr3d Unfortunately, that's one of the side effect; I wrote them an email in October about it. I'm still around as a volunteer contributor now, but it is clearly not the same time budget. ๐
@Tywele Monthly or yearly? It certainly will depend on how much you pay in fees when you transfer money. If your bank charges high fees, it may be better to transfer money in one lump sum. If the fees are small or zero, monthly payments are great.
My preferred platform is Liberapay because the creator and admin are on Mastodon and the platform doesn't take 5%.
Hi David! I heard your interview on #HPR and really appreciate your stance on licencing and using Open Source tooling. Moreover, once I found your content, I think it's excellent. I had planned to go and subscribe but hadn't done so, so this thread is a great reminder - thank you! Having read your FAQ on your webpage, I will use liberapay, so you get as much of the donation as possible. Best of luck with the developing adventure!
cheer up! We'll keep supporting your amazing and generous work. Your transparency is as always very much appreciated. One quick question: does this change will also apply on Liberapay? Youention Tipee and Patron, but if we support you through Liberapay on per-content basis, shall we switch to monthly?
@Notus Thank you very much for your support! ๐ Liberapay always prefered (from the start) to not include a per-content system. So, since I have the account (back in 2017) I receive 'weekly' donation on it.
Liberapay allows me to download a table with the donation amount and date, and so, with a little table-math I can convert this into a monthly thing and merge the names on the credit ( I'm trying to standardize this to peppercarrot.com/ext/credits-aโฆ )
I signed up for the minimum for now: $1.00 a comic. I hope it's better than nothing. Your art is wonderful as are your stories and I appreciate your anti-genAI stance.
To me, the monthly support just feels better even if it didn't make a difference financially. Instead of paying in return for something (which is a transaction), it feels like more like supporting the ongoing work and life of a great artist that has given so much to free/libre culture.
tu sais David, mรชme si le passage en mode mensuel n'a pas ta prรฉfรฉrence, elle a la mienne. Au moins je contribue rรฉguliรจrement ร aider quelques artistes. Bravo ร toi et merci pour toutes ces belles aventures avec Pepper et Carrot
you might want to change the denomination of your membership options on patreon. I see 5โฌ/month in the overview of all my memberships, but when looking at your membership options it still shows as "xโฌ / episode".
I really enjoy the short stories you post here. I hope(expect) you will beginn posting them on patreon too, once the switch to monthly is done?
Yes I saw it and I'm afraid I can't change it at the moment. Patreon will make the change on their side one month after I publicly announce it. It's all part of their policy for moving accounts around. Just to let you know, I won't be posting the episode until the 12th of January. (the effective date for my first monthly) :) I'll post something on Patreon to let my supporters know about it.
@gws Ha ha, you mentioned something that made me struggle while drawing this announcement. At first, I drew a little guy with a two-day beard and a brown haircut, sitting at my desk in front of my monitors.
But I was worried it wouldn't be really iconic, so I decided to go with Pepper as my avatar. I was fine with it, as I often used her for various things, but maybe it's a bit awkward in the end. ๐
Imo per content model is dangerous anyway. It rewards churning out quantity rather than quality. It means that an artist might need to release unfinished stuff just for the sake of being able to pay their bills. And for the supporter it is unsafe because there is little control to how much you pay. If someone pays 5โฌ per creation, assuming 1 creation per month, and suddenly you turn in 1 creation per day or something this might be more than the person can or wants to afford.
So per month or something means stabilty for both artist and supporter, just extra effort is not awarded. Per creation creates pressure for the artist and exchanges uncertainty of delivery for uncertainty in when and how much you pay.
@lazy I'll see, but I've never received anything monthly in my life (except the Liberapay weekly support, and thank you very much for being a part of it, but it was a minor part of income so far). I'm a freelancer working 'per task' since I was 18. I only knew that: making the work, getting paid, and I'm 44 years old ๐ ... I really hope this change will be a good thing!
โขWhite supremacists terrorized Black and Indigenous people for 300 years. โขAnd when that terror was finally made illegal, white rebel groups rose up to further terrorize Black and Indigenous people another 100 years. โขAnd now, while 0 reparations were paid to remedy that 400 years of violence, teaching about that history is called a โterror threat by Antifa.โ
America: Where actual white supremacy terrorism is ignoredโbut documenting that history is terror. ๐
It's the same kind of ongoing colonial violence happening in Canada too. We're dealing with residential school denial & more related white supremacy abuses.
23 Democrats vote NO on Trump impeachment. The man is literally enacting fascism, funding genocide, abandoning our allies, and invading Venezuela -- and these 23 are perfectly okay with that. Primary every one of these fascism enablers and vote them out of office. Who needs MAGAs with these complicit corporate Democrats โฌ๏ธ 1 / 3
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida Jim Costa of California Jason Crow of Colorado Henry Cuellar of Texas Sharice Davids of Kansas Donald G. Davis of North Carolina Shomari Figures of Alabama Jared Golden of Maine Vicente Gonzalez of Texas Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire โฌ๏ธ 2 / 3
Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey Adam Gray of California Rick Larsen of Washington Susie Lee of Nevada Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan Jimmy Panetta of California Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington Josh Riley of New York Hillary J. Scholten of Michigan Kim Schrier of Washington Greg Stanton of Arizona Thomas R. Suozzi of New York Eugene Simon Vindman of Virginia
The usual suspects out of WA,. Larsen usually votes with the pack but for some reason has a soft spot for GOP presidents. Perez especially has been a POS from way back; she's probably a Trojan Horse candidate who just ran as a Dem because the GOP was unelectable at the time. Kim Schrier represents a pretty solidly monied, conservative area but usually she's smarter than this.
What's infuriating is that if all the "present" voters had voted "no" this wouldn't have been tabled.
Iโm guessing maybe thereโs more behind that. Perhaps they donโt want JD Vance to ascend to the throne? Whoโs really pulling the strings anyway? Let Trump fail in the eyes of his supporters first rather than let him use an impeachment to gain support again? The psychology of when to impeach? But when is the right time?
Josh Riley is a democrat in the same way Trump is a businessman. You can call yourself whatever you like, but his voting records speaks volumes about his character (or lack thereof).
โ ๏ธ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.
There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.
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is this for real? someone said they accidentally reported my account and said to contact this person now they say they want me to change my email address
edit: confirmed scammer. do not respond to a text like this
Something very similar was attempted with me through Steam. That was two or three years ago. I think the perpetrator got what was coming to him, because I reported the incident to all three mediums/platforms he tried to exploit to do it.
Also, don't feel bad if you fall victim to a scam. There's no shame in it. We're all vulnerable to one type of scam or another, and the biggest protection is accepting that and staying vigilant.
p.s. To add a bit of context, the scammer may message you to claim they reported you by accident. They then try to convince you to get in touch with a different account that pretends to be an admin who can "fix" the situation. All of the things they tell you are lies.
The scammer is actually running both accounts and just wants to take over your account by tricking you into changing your email address to their email address. They would then use your account to post other scams.
I've seen a similar scam go around on discord. I'd imagine it'd be easy to fall for this sort of thing if you aren't tech inclined or don't know about this stuff. I hope all of these jerks get exactly what's coming to them and like someone else said in this thread, let's not shame people if they do end up falling for scams.
Yeah, never a good idea to shame anyone as: 1) They are victims, it's just wrong to shame victims 2) All of us are vulnerable, we should all be keeping our guard up 3) Shaming discourages victims from warning others, so the shaming is just helping the scammers
@Kaliah They're doing this as a full-time job and putting their whole attention on it. As @pluralistic says, the scammer only has to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.
It is the kind of scam where someone asks you to empty your bank account into theirs in order to keep your money safe. It seems like people still fall for that. @markwyner
Not just for Mastodon, any service that uses email for resetting your password will have people trying this scam.
Don't fall for it anywhere.
And yes, a real admin will be able to change your email and password, etc on their own, so any time someone claiming to be an admin asks you to do that, it's a red flag.
self hosting with Ghost is so much better and less expensive. If you canโt hang with all the techiness of self hosting, there are a few hosts out there that can and for about what the substack will cost you.
Well, not fail per se, just be a piece of garbage.
I think I mentioned that I was planning on ordering a Boox Go7 which is an Android e-reader, which is to say its basically an Android tablet just with an e-reader launcher installed and an e-ink screen.
That's it laying on my Lenovo 11in tablet. Umm, I would've expected a 7 inch tablet to be around half the size of the 11, but oK. Problems started out of the box, the thing was thin, light, and felt more like a toy. Initial start up was glacially slow.
And things basically went downhill from there. Turn it off on the launcher screen? It not only closes all open apps, but it also defaults apps back to standard, ie FireFox stops being my default browser, and the factory installed browser takes over. Oh, and FireFox now launches all web pages in desktop mode which is much smaller print and harder to read.
Then there's the random glitches, like my keyboard having no visible space bar, the graphics on my solitaire game giving me a headache, or my RAR program basically not having any interface.
Ummm, I hope this isn't an example of what to expect with Android e-ink devices.
Oh, and I already got the replacement, no surprise, but I did what I should've done in the first place, just grabbed a Lenovo 8 inch tablet. A more classic design than my 11's (I have two, the old and the newer one), but its about the right size, and I expect it'll be typical Lenovo, won't knock your socks off, but it'll do the job at a very reasonable price, in this case, $99 on sale. Funny thing, if I picked it up today from Best Buy via Lenovo's website, I got an extra $10, so I guess I got rewarded for being impatient?
BREAKING: House Oversight Democrats release 19 photos of rich and powerful people with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. The Oversight Dems have 95,000 photos in their possession as furnished to them by the Epstein Estate.
Came to diaspora when G+ closed years ago, then the instance closed and I moved to diasporasocial,net That server was disconnected days ago. All of this week it shows as Error 500, with no other information, and no heads up from the admins. A friend here suggested I join. Now I have to figure out how to regain content, and contacts.
I have been a photographer (never a professional) for over 40 years. Now retired from a long career in IT, am devoting most of my time to travel and photography.
Will post more when I regain contacts, and figure out how to connect in diaspora again.
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