Gabriele Svelto

🇪🇺 In the European Parliament, CEO and LobbyControl identified 655 lobby meetings on the Digital Omnibus.

An average of three meetings with MEPs every working day since the Commission published its proposal in November 2025.

🕴️ Business interests accounted for 83% of those meetings.

when ads get through my filters, they're often rather poorly targeted because I don't fit into typical interest buckets for my gender and age, but this ad that's clearly targeted at a Levite tribesman from 1200 BCE is perhaps the furthest from the mark yet

Solar power IS nuclear power. It's just the reactor is really really far away.

hope this helps

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bzdtu4vjo2quk2ef3ykhqtv6/post/3mysp7kzjhs2z

The Poisonous Appearance

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/076.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

RE: https://gamedev.lgbt/@typeswitch/117519528715320413

“Mirth is a strongly-typed concatenative programming language that is currently in development.

Mirth is inspired by Forth, Joy, Haskell, Lisp, and monoidal category theory.”

Michael Nicolls, SpaceX’s vice president for Starlink and president of xAI, appeared recently at the International Astronautical Congress in Turkey to lament the rise of space collisions as Musk and Bezos flood the night sky with low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites: SpaceX Whines About Space Collisions After Gutting Regulators That Oversee That Sort Of Thing https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/26/spacex-whines-about-space-collisions-after-gutting-regulators-that-oversee-that-sort-of-thing/

With this #GitHub runner vulnerability in place, dependencies could have been tampered with and malicious payloads injected into the built software. Any software built with these runners since the #eMudhra was made public and until the runners are fixed must be considered compromised.

https://infosec.exchange/@yossarian/117516807638615410

I found this small collection of pictures of me versus Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler I made five years ago when I forgot to cut my hair for three months and was rocking a backpack, so it was only natural.

#GhostBusters

Sit back, take a good cup of coffee, tea or whatever makes you relax and have a good long dive into the past, when technology was improving instead of going backwards and - shocker - you often could even afford it: https://www.club386.com/3dfx-voodoo-history-ross-smith-interview/

Enshittification is the intentional degradation of products as companies shift focus from pleasing consumers to maximizing profits for shareholders.

The Norwegian Consumer Council hate enshittification and they're using humour to fight it.

🎥 @newslab.no

#Enshittification #Consumers #Capitalism

People should really be talking more about the exploitative sweatshop labor that is foundational to the #LLM industry https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

i know what and why but the phrase “cost of living” really bothers me as a political phrase

bro it shouldn’t cost anything to live. we should be living in community and taking care of each other. our whole thing is so fucked

“affordability” and “cost of living” are alien phrases from rich people

Here's the thing I can say to younger queer folks now in case they don't know this: before the internet they told us there were ZERO others like us. ZERO. They told each and every single one of us that we were wrong and alone and didn't have stories that deserved to be told in fact had stories that could not be told at any cost.

So when they say there aren't *enough* of us now to defend our rights, to stand up for basic human rights, when they say we're too few to consider, too fringe, too little too vulnerable, too outside to consider? They're lying again, still and always.

They want queer people to feel like we're alone when we really, really, really fucking ARE and HAVE BEEN and WILL ALWAYS be here and if you feel alone because everyone around you says you are, remember they lie.

Let's talk about the "Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software" a bit, particularly in relation to the principles laid out here: https://destructured.net/casa

The Four Freedoms, for anyone who doesn't know, are another, earlier quartet of principles that serve as a kind of definition of "free software" in the context of FOSS. They've been foundational to much of how we understand the purpose of open source since their formulation in the mid-1980s.

scientists reveal the pixel art

Preventing methane leaks is in my top five climate solutions. This is very stupid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/climate/trump-methane-rules-epa-greenhouse-gas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L1E.z5jG.PZOg8NpQXZ1N&smid=bs-share

Although it isn't well known, the famous opening scene of "My Neighbor Totoro," showing a bird's-eye view of a truck driving along a country lane, is actually an homage to the opening sequence of Chiba's "1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, Six." The "sick mother" storyline is also featured in both works. 5/5

Manga artist CHIBA Tetsuya has passed. He was 89. I had the privilege of meeting him several times at manga-related gatherings, and he was a humble, funny guy. He's famous for such shōnen manga as ”Ashita no Joe" and "Ashita Tenki ni Naare," but his shōjo manga were groundbreaking and loved by girls back in the day. Before SATONAKA Machiko made her professional debut, she was convinced that no man could have written shōjo manga like that, and believed it was a woman using a man's pen name. 1/5