Kat Five

@katfive
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please fight back, do something that is in your capacity to stop hate and wars, even small things matter

<3

Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko: "What makes Ukrainian culture particularly unique in gender terms?...Here’s a simple way to put it: we never burned our witches....the ancient pagan tradition of strong, wise women endured in Ukraine far longer than in most of Europe".

Such an idea! Rather than cancelling commercial flights, the FAA could cut private jet flights. Or close private airports. This would ease the burden on air traffic controllers much more than the 10% cuts we’re currently seeing.

#travel

https://www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa-should-cancel-all-private-jets-during-shutdown-say-millionaires

These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown

Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.

Fast Company

Great to be speaking at the
@ethicalconsumer conference in London on Friday, discussing ‘Moving away from tech monopolies’

https://conference.ethicalconsumer.org/

#ethicalconsumer #ethicaltech #musictech #music

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I hope this happy onion finds you well.

This is so sad. The whole idea of arXiv is to have a way to do science even when the peer review system is doing more gatekeeping than actual review. arXiv already even has things like the endorser system to prevent spam papers, too.

Seeing them of all institutions buckle under the stress of AI slop. Well. It's pretty fucking awful.

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115475618755048102

Dare Obasanjo (@[email protected])

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs. https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

mas.to

PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.

edit: huh, this blew up so I'm adding sources. Here's vimeo's own announcement: https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138
and the wikipedia page for bending spoons has their track record of past acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

Vimeo Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 Billion | Vimeo, Inc

Vimeo stockholders to receive $7.85 per share in cash Bending Spoons reinforces its commitment to innovation in the video platform market NEW YORK , Sept. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vimeo, Inc. (NASDAQ: VMEO), a leading video platform for business, today announced that it has entered into a

Vimeo, Inc
The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759891
#hackernews #tech
The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology | Hacker News

Excited to be collaborating with ace 3D artist Tank Thunderbird for my next music release!

We’ll be taking you on a surreal, anime-inspired trip, think ‘The Matrix meets Final Fantasy’.

#electronicmusic #immersivevisuals #vr #3danimation

Ouch.

Total cost of the outage could reach hundreds of billions of dollars, expert says
#tech #AWS
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/amazon-tech-outage-10-20-25-intl