Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I increasingly resent the term 'social media', because what people call social media now is rarely social media in any meaningful sense.

Like, the Fediverse and to a lesser extent Bluesky still IS social media. You follow people you want to follow, and you interact with them, and a lot of the time they interact back. You make online friends. You forge community..

Everything else is just an automated firehose of digital slurry from people you don't know and will never interact with, or, worse still, Brands(tm).

Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us towards the precipice:

https://collapseos.org/why.html
https://collapseos.org/civ.html

"Collapsniks are often portrayed as alarmists by people who point out that our civilization can easily absorb short term effects of climate changes and that the real tricky effects of it will only show themselves in 50 years."

"What I'm more interested in is that regardless of its timeline, we're going to get there, we're going to reach the threshold where civilization collapses. So, you can make the point that civilization still stands at 3C. When does it fall? 4C? 6C? 8C? We're going to reach it because we've already failed. 1.5C was the limit, we busted it. The goalpost has moved to 2C, but we're going to bust it too. The feedback loops have begun and are out of our control now.

So what if "business as usual" only takes us to 4C in 2100. What do you think happens next? Nothing? Good job Johnny, we've made it? No, the feedback loops continue to make our lives increasingly miserable, continue to divert our energy from de-carbonisation and into dikes, masks, water desalinators, mechanical replacements to bees, replacing infrastructure degrading prematurely, power generators to cope with increasing grid failures."

#Collapse #Essay #PermaComputing #Forth

Windowsn't

Until YouTube makes it possible to boost quiet audio natively in the web player, I will not feel a single drop of guilt about using yt-dlp or watching maintainers fix whatever they broke for the third time this week. Google can throw billions at walling off their platform, but no amount of corporate money will ever out-code a bunch of nerds driven by open-source idealism and a deeply autistic need to archive everything. Just give up already.

Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

Techbros have literally solved and then re-created the problem of lack of access to information in one lifetime.

It's funny how in my lifetime I've gone from:

“you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world,"

to:

“just bring your magic phone thingy and it will have all the answers for you,"

back to:

“you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world"

again.

Often the species that are labeled "invasive" don't just need humans to move to new places, they tend to be dependent on humans to thrive. They are anthrophilic you might say.

It's really us.

There have been a few cases, where on a small island rats, or some other pest has been eliminated. It's much easier if there aren't any people around.

4/

TIL #github censor some topics about #p2p: got 404s trying to view #bittorrent topics while any random topics i've tried works 🤷

https://github.com/topics/bittorrent
https://github.com/topics/bittorrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent

#GithubCensorship