90% of Ukraine's grid equipment is unavailable and 50+% permanently (according to a Ukrainian who reports on this). The rivers are drained because the dams that still make power are using all that flow for power, no water stored. Nuclear plants are often turned off or run on low in case the grid goes down to the nuclear plant causing the core to be ( Read more... )

Theft was the reason for grifters promising protection and grifters started to claim legitimacy via nepotism. I decided a long time ago that borders are just in place for taxation purposes and the old anarchist line "taxation is theft" applies. YouTube is still horrible at choosing videos and channels to recommend where about 90% of their ( Read more... )

The original microblogging format was "webcomics"... Just a lot of images put in an order. There still isn't a common format platform for webcomics although a few comics-specific websites are out there with limited usefulness with mobile devices (instead of a normal "desktop" os where FTP file transfer or similar file access is available). I just ( Read more... )

One way to discover identity of social media account people is by their political leaning. "The right" got chased off most social media platforms so Trump helped draw in the crowd to make Truth Social. Now "the left" is being enticed to move from Twitter to several Twitter-like platforms and especially BlueSky Social (or bsky). Furries who left ( Read more... )

Years and decades of internet use by novice computer users has made browsers quite robust to malware adding attempts. If the computer has only one UI (user interface) in the form of the browser, further messing with the OS (operating system) becomes impossible (or potentially so). I am mentioning this because I think my OS design goals and ( Read more... )

I found a "cognitive dissonance" among the meritocracy advocates: some people are assigned merit instead of earning it. Citizenship or "landed legal immigrant" is a form of unearned merit. Yes, someone might have done a lot of effort and self-sacrifice to achieve that merit (for themselves, for others, for unborn future offspring) but it is still ( Read more... )

On a post a while ago (September 21), someone asked ( Read more... )

Saw pencil test animation of this movie on X so checked dailymotion: success

title on dailymotion: "Wolfwalkers 2020 1080p" channel: Izay Entertainment

Watching Tales of the Riverbank movie, a puppet version of the shows with Hammy Hamster, one character sounded very familiar but I couldn't figure out what other character sounds like him. I looked up the voice actor and he hasn't voiced a main character in anything I have watched but has done some minor characters in stuff I have seen. In the ( Read more... )

Just in the last hour, I have had exiting (for me) discoveries in 9 very unrelated topics that don't fit my single topic of X of "artists willing to create intelligent nonhumans" (including photography/films/animation/fursuits/aliens/computers-who-think ( Read more... )