Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

What a weird bubble racists are living in.

After checking their toots:
Their main passions (in alphabetical order):

#christianity
#murder
#necrophilia
#pedophilia
#racism
#sexism
#tolkien
#torture
#trump

Well, it seems that this post has gotten the attention of some racist trolls on the outskirts of the Fediverse.

I was able to clear up the worst of it by using https://rapidblock.org/ 🙏 as well as blocking domains in this post:

https://troet.cafe/@baddadda/109644887742976187

Sorry for anyone in this thread who may have gotten swarmed by racists. I think if you add those domains to your personal or instance blocklist, you'll get rid of the worst of it.

A stream cutting through the snowy forest.

In the linked YouTube video - https://youtu.be/vzcoC2CqmTM -I talk about brushes and paints, and also share my thoughts about: 1. Strange revelations about visual perception. 2. Winston Churchill's philosophy of painting. 3. And a more Taoist view of the painting mindset.

Any “neutral” position favors the aggressor.

Please, stop the ridiculousness. Tanks are not obsolete. Neither ATGMs nor especially drones make tanks obsolete. There is no perfect weapon.

Is this a new Russian campaign to discredit aid to Ukraine? Ukraine needs tanks. Tanks will make a huge difference. Please send tanks.

Valerii Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: we need tanks.

https://www.economist.com/zaluzhny-transcript

Oleksii Reznikov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine: we need tanks.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/879537-amp.html

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine: we need tanks.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraines-zelenskiy-asks-western-leaders-wide-range-weapons-systems-2022-12-19/

Is anyone else with a birdsite account seeing more right-wing, unsolicited tweets from accounts you don't follow? I've had to delete a few and block at least one in the last 24 hours.

Some strange stuff going on over there.

Hey there everyone. This is now the official mastodon account for the Stable Horde.

Stable Horde provides free Stable Diffusion for everyone through crowdsourcing it on volunteer PCs.

You can generate for free, or join the horde to generate for others and get priority on your own generations.

We have 4 different UIs (3 web and 1 local) and other tools like GIMP and Krita plugins.

Homepage with links to everything: https://stablehorde.net

#ai #stablediffusion #aiart

Weekly analysis is out
-🇷🇺 ops in 🇺🇦 using latent compromises
-🇮🇳 ops in 🇵🇰
-🇵🇰 ops in 🇮🇳 with a new implant
-🇰🇵 ops in 🇰🇷 inc 📱
-🦹‍♀️ ops against 🇫🇷 speaking banks in Africa
-🦹‍♀️ ops in 🇪🇨
- many n-day ops

plus the usual blue/red tradecraft analysis..

https://bluepurple.substack.com/p/bluepurple-pulse-week-ending-january-1bf

Ok, this is cool: a team of biologists worked out that turtles can talk. The hatchlings even talk to each other in the egg to coordinate their hatching. Turtle talk is at frequencies not very audible for humans and it can take hours for some species to reply to each other.

“Had we had a bit more expansive imaginations, we might have caught this earlier,” said Karen Bakker, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/

Turns out the key to solving the mystery of why Roman cement lasts longer than modern cement... was to stop underestimating ancient people.

"...samples of Roman concrete contain small lumps known as lime clasts that are not found in modern structures.

While these have previously been explained as arising from poor mixing of the mortar or other errors, the team suspected there could be other reasons."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/06/self-healing-roman-concrete-could-aid-modern-construction-study-suggests

If you've ever wondered what the terms box, stack, heap and pointer mean in relation to computer memory, then this talk will help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEE1GKMbtgw