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Saturday, 18 July 2026
quote [ Message +27 73 805 6068 on WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, or email read@thecontinent.org and send “Subscribe” ]
English news on the African continent, originally from South Africa, in a mobile-friendly PDF, also on Mastodon. Thumb is Tintin parody.
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Friday, 17 July 2026
quote [ While the internet has opened up new doors for musicians, the increasing corporatization and algorithmic takeover of online spaces has done irreparable damage to organic music discovery and independent communities. ]
Interesting story .. while I have no relation to the pages mentioned the general spirit among media nerds was indeed one of camaraderie and slight obsession. Guess a lot of these people spend way more than the average music buyer in the end.
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Saturday, 4 July 2026
quote [ The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. ]
Following the quote trail all the way back to '88.
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Friday, 3 July 2026
quote [ mortality risk rises rapidly as daily maximum temperatures increase (Fig. 1c). Days above 40 ◦C cause a >6% increase in weekly mortality rates compared with days around 25 ◦C. In most cases, warmer regions in Europe appear less vulnerable to heat, consistent with evidence of adaptation – but this pattern reverses for days above 40 ◦C, with warmer regions experiencing greater mortality risk, potentially indicating fundamental limits to adaptation (Fig. 1a). ]
The author's blog calls for better heat wave media representation – first-aid people here were indeed very alarmed.
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Wednesday, 1 July 2026
quote [ How can we support the living ecosystems we are part of? ]
An interesting way to accomodate eco-thinking into the coop model – or really any organizational model, as they explain – by appointing a "Speaker for the Living", representing interests of non-human life.
For now, this is an exclusively Dutch thing (see nl.wikipedia.org). Quote ist from the video accompagnying a Dutch residency programme on the concept (see extended).
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Tuesday, 30 June 2026
quote [ there is the challenge of finding a place to put 6 billion tons of CO2 a year. ]
Apart from explaining real-world problems it has some nice graph of projections vs actual outcome (against solar power, see thumb).
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Friday, 26 June 2026
quote [ non-IT people not finding ~ on the keyboard? ]
Yeah maybe you have opinions as well. Thumb via New Old Stock.
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Sunday, 14 June 2026
quote [ I was prototyping an interactive 2D grass shader in GameMaker. While taking a shower, I decided to try making a game about a white wolf that spreads nature to a wasteland, inspired by Okami. ]
Short little Vampire-Survivors-like without combat and an idle mode. Due to the theme it has an entry in both the GoFurry and Incremental DB. Around 2 hours playtime, with an endless mode afterwards.
According to the dev (quote) it took direct inspiration from another game called Nodebuster.
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Tuesday, 9 June 2026
quote [ He called it a “light relay,” patented it, and predicted it would replace incandescent bulbs in high-speed optical communications. We call it an LED. ]
I like how the thumb is cut off below his nose.
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Friday, 5 June 2026
quote [ "I've never seen a character like mine," says Gourrier. "It's a rarity. It should be the biggest indicator or guidepost that so many people are moved by this one particular character. Why shouldn't there be more? Shouldn't [games] reflect the world around us?" ]
Great read on Teen Vogue on representation and technicality. Via Jank.
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