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  Subject: List of Minetest projects For: #Minetest and personal associates Image: Screenshot of the world Legends of Dragons Short link: https://dansu.org/minetest-projects As some FOSS #gamers know, over the past decade, Minetest has split into five branches and/or groups. I’ll offer the list below. This post was prompted by an email exchange 📧 today with McKaygerhard of #Minenux. I’ll post the email exchange separately. Minetest 1 of 5. #Luanti aka Trolltest [led largely by Andrew Ward ak...

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  Subject: Personal letter to McKaygerhard of Minetest For: #Minetest and personal associates Image: Oskar Zwintscher painting related to mortality and grief Short link: https://dansu.org/mckaygerhard-260929 This is an email exchange from this week between McKaygerhard of Minetest and me with a February 25, 2026 email added as background. For more context, see the list of Minetest projects at: https://dansu.org/minetest-projects On 02/25/2026 11:35 AM, McKaygerhard wrote: The first thing is t...

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  Subject: Return of Ruslan1 Grand Test Auto For: #Minetest Image: Screenshot of Ruslan1 Grand Test Auto Short link: https://dansu.org/ruslan1-gta Minetest and #Luanti people will be familiar with Ruslan1. He’s been around for at least 7 years, but we’ve never known much about him. We figure that he’s neurodiverse, his age is in the 20s, and he’s probably located in one of the Slavic countries. He’s always been polite, regardless, and this month I’ve tried to honor his one request. I created a M...

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  Subject: AI industry numbers For: #ai and @stux Image: SMBC comic about AI startups Short link: https://dansu.org/ai-industry-numbers stux said: It’s all just big tech buying datacenters and hardware from each other while investing in said loop. It’s a disastrous circus 🤡 It’s a bit worse than disastrous. Apocalyptic is a better term for the likely outcome. stux posted an image that listed the following 2025 #Anthropic figures: $4B in revenue, $40B in annual loss, $500B in obligations, and $2...

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  Subject: Fediverse scheduled posting For: #mastodon and @krutonium Short link: https://dansu.org/fediverse-scheduled-posting krutonium said: I wish Mastodon base features included scheduled posting (unless i’ve missed it?) Sometimes you just want to schedule a post months into the future to when it’ll be relevant! Newer releases of Mastodon 🦣𓃰 include a scheduled 📅 #posting feature. It’s limited in some respects, but it might work well enough for your purposes. If your Fediverse instance [Mas...

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  Subject: Film Review: Orion and the Dark (2024) For: #movie #reviews Type: “Inception” for Children. Time Travel. Existential Dread. Oddity level: Pretty Odd Image: Orion and Hypatia flying with a children’s version of The Endless Short link: https://dansu.org/review-orion-and-the-dark I stopped watching films and TV shows in 2007. I didn’t see either again on a regular basis until 2021. In 2021, I started to watch #videos from different sources. I purchased a pile of BluRay discs, for exam...

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  Subject: How to identify bot and “AI” accounts For: @globcoco and @elduvelle Also: #Fediverse #Mastodon #selfhosting Image: Clones deployed to your instance Short link: https://dansu.org/identify-bot-and-ai-accounts globcoco and elduvelle discussed a Pixelfed account that had followed globcoco. She said, “Someone wants to follow me but it feels weird and I cannot remove him…” I’d like to point out something odd about the third account’s numbers. It isn’t a “someone”. That account was create...

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  Subject: A rescued kitten and real vs. fake For: #cats #ai Image: A rescued kitten that feels safe Short link: https://dansu.org/kitten-rescue-real-vs-fake The attached photo is from a story published in the Baltimore Sun. 🗞️ The story is behind a paywall 💸 , so I’m not able to confirm the source of the photo. However, it might be of the actual kitten 🐈‍⬛ as opposed to stock or “AI”. 🤖 The story feels like an old Hallmark TV Special. 📺🦋𓍯𓂃𓏧 The vibes are the same. However, real life doesn’t have...

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  Subject: The purposes of Creative Commons For: @davidrevoy Image: The Creative Commons library that I’d like to see Short link: https://dansu.org/creative-commons-purposes David Revoy said: “Anyway, in a world where you can’t even protect a content with classic ©️ Copyright anymore, hoping that Creative Commons could do something is naïve anyway.” Changes related to #AI are needed. Creative Commons has never been assumed to prevent copying, either manual or automated, regardless. Illegal use...

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  Subject: Turnabout is Fair Play [MS-Word] For: #AI #Microsoft Image: Screenshot of Wordcraft Short link: https://dansu.org/wordcraft-261015 Microsoft has folded #GitHub into its CoreAI division. Github is supposed to be turned into AI now in some manner that isn’t clear. So, I wonder how they [MS] are going to react to Wordcraft [which is hosted on Github]. My adopted son Harold Poetry directed me this morning to the following link: https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft.git That is the code...

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  Subject: More on Nicolium For: #selfhosting and/or #Fediverse power users I've tested and tweaked #Nicolium, a front end for Pleroma and other Fediverse back ends. With the tweaks in place, it works well for me. I'll share some of them in patch form at a later date. Features include hashtag follow, emoji reactions, borders on focused posts, Markdown, WYSIWYG editor, real-time chat, draft posts, URL cleaning, direct messages, enhanced interaction policies, theme editor with export suppo...

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  Subject: Novelty song. This is a short #humor novelty #song. It's the Alien Song from "Asteroid City" (2023). https://peertube.dansu.org/w/uQYR6yeUWYeYZ6YivjxMJK

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  Subject: Personal biography @gutenberg_org said: lovely photo, I am a big fan of cats Here's my own #cat of 55 years ago, then. The year is 1971, the cat is named Crystal, and she's dozing on my #photo enlarger. The city is Walnut Creek, California. This was a dignified but friendly cat who enjoyed life and assumed the best of everybody. I'd choose to have the cat back as opposed to anybody who was in the household.

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  Subject: Video: Doraemon Time Paradox Ending This is a post from, and a test of, our new PeerTube site. To see a short Doraemon cartoon, click on the PeerTube link below: https://peertube.dansu.org/w/msAzZ3r75vvp5hANyKow3v For best results, play the video in full-screen so that the subtitles are fully visible. The full-screen link is in the lower left corner of the video frame after you start playing. This cartoon is a novelty. It's an unofficial final episode in the 50+ year long Ja...

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  Subject: Graham Platner speaks to the working class in Maine. The link below goes to a June 05, 2026 speech by Graham Platner in Maine. The video is excerpted from an MS-NOW live-stream. https://peertube.dansu.org/w/4jSxgdK6o2V5W4C2UDeaQ9 @mastodonmigration I've edited this video as requested. This copy is taken from roughly 0:04:37 to 00:20:10. Feel free to indicate a different range for this video or for others. I can concatenate videos, rotate them, and do other minor edits as wel...

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  Subject: 3-day water fast I completed a 3-day water fast on Thursday, June 11, 2026. This was the 2nd such fast in the past month. This one ended up as 92 hours or slightly less than 4 days. The goals of this type of fast are to induce ketosis and autophagy, to partly reset the immune system, to reduce inflammation, and to improve insulin sensitivity. It's a cornucopia of benefits. However, there are risks as well. The fast was easy in part because I spent most of Sunday to Thursday i...

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  @KarenKeiller I've posted the YouTube video that you asked about. You should see the link in Direct Message. If you don't see the link, let me know.

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  @WataruTenkawa_1 Hi. I responded to a post of yours yesterday, but I neglected to respond in the thread. So, you didn't see it and this is a day late. Additionally, I can't find your post again, but hopefully the context of this response will be clear. You called for comparisons of the Fediverse, Bluesky, and Twitter. This was due to a post by somebody else that you considered ill-advised. I wasn't able to see the post that you were commenting on. However, regardless of...

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  @_L1vY_ @mastodonmigration There have been no complaints that I'm aware of related to my PeerTube instance yet. Nor has Legal in Support at the host commented yet. However, one person in Support is saying that the host doesn't permit any "sensitive" videos to be hosted. By "sensitive", he means, more or less explicitly, videos that might inconvenience Donald #Trump. This includes Status Coup #ICE protest videos. This is a surprise as the h...

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  Subject: Admiral Wonderboat and webcomics. Illustration: Typical comics from Narbonic, Superosity, and one of the incarnations of Few and Far Between. @admiralwonderboat : Admiral Wonderboat continues to achieve a balance itself. [I'm referring to the subject of the latest comic.] It looks at serious subjects at times but is accessible to all ages and offers productive takes. I think that I've commented to you before. I might not have mentioned that I've followed webco...

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  Note that biometrics are being added. So, actually, now, it's also to, in the end, physically remove individuals who are so presumptuous as to question the powers that believe they be.