Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
My last New Year's resolution was to improve my art as much as possible and I would definitely consider my resolution kept. I've never drawn this much in one year. I usually have 2-3 hyperfixations at the same time but this year I was only hyperfixated on drawing because my skill development opened a deeper level of self expression for me that feels more satisfying than ever. Now I'm drawing whenever I can and when I'm not drawing I'm thinking about drawing.
My resolution for next year will be the same as last time. I already have my brain filled with ideas and an endless drive to create.
Was folgt auf den Beschluss zum Gaza-Friedensplan?
Die Reaktionen auf den Gaza-Friedensplan sind gemischt: Netanjahu spricht von Frieden und der Entwaffnung der Hamas - die das ablehnt. Die palästinensische Autonomiebehörde fordert die sofortige Umsetzung.
„Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. (...)
Key elements of the resolution:
(...) Implementation: Urges the full & immediate implementation of SC resolution 2735 (2024) (...).”
A screenshot of the front page of FollowTheCrypto.org, showing total amounts raised by crypto-currency focused PACs ($203 million) and amounts spent ($38 million). There are also graphs showing expenditures by political party, and expenditures by PAC. There is a list of the top elections influenced by crypto industry money, of the most highly-funded super PACs overall, and of recent expenditures by crypto-focused committees.
‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza
"Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets — all with their commanders’ permission"
Jüdische Organisationen gegen Antisemitismus-Resolution
Die Kritik reißt auch Tage später nicht ab.
„Letzten Donnerstag hatte der Bundestag die sogenannte Antisemitismus-Resolution verabschiedet. Am Montag haben weltweit Gruppen, wie das „International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network“ sowie einige Ableger von „Jewish Voice“, einen gemeinsamen Brief herausgegeben, in dem sie die Resolution verurteilen.
„Während sie Lippenbekenntnisse zu ‚allen Facetten‘ jüdischen Lebens macht, verengt die Resolution dieses Leben auf ein Element: den Staat Israel“, heißt es in dem gemeinsamen Statement. Wieland Hoban, Vorsitzender des deutschen Vereins „Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost“, findet diesen Punkt „besonders schlimm“. Sein Verein hat den Brief mit unterschrieben. So sagt er der taz, der Antisemitismusbegriff der Resolution mache Israel „zum Hauptpfeiler jüdischer Identität und ‚jüdischen Lebens‘“…..
Und bei Amnesty International Deutschland heißt es: „Diese Resolution schafft Raum für Missbrauch, kriminalisiert legitime Kritik an der israelischen Regierungspolitik und bedient das rassistische Narrativ vom ‚importierten Antisemitismus‘“ (siehe 👆)
There’s a long-standing bug in Fedora (also in Fedora 40), where the sign-in screen is displayed at the wrong resolution (it doesn’t use the settings you have set in the Settings app).
So, for example, if you have 4K@2x set in your settings for your monitor, the sign-in screen will still display at a tiny 4K@1x.
To fix, download an app called GDM Settings from the Software app and press Display → Apply current display settings → Apply.