March 24, 2026

In the shadow of an imperial hegemon and with severe restrictions on its ability to trade and access resources, Cuba may appear as an enigma to audiences curious about the type of cinema that has emerged from such conditions.

The Cuban revolution of 1959 caused a radical break in the development of the country’s cinema. Film-making existed before “this moment of effervescence” but was historically an imitation of Hollywood-style film-making, according to Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, a lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Edinburgh. In contrast, the first decade after the revolution heralded “a very exciting and innovative time, both politically and aesthetically in Cuba”.

The layers of stupid is layered like a onion. Yankkkee doodle dum dums you create your own pain but at least jesus won. Nailed to a cross via the state at the request of a angry mob who would rather barabbas fascist roam free. Free range fascist and kids in schools that literately look like prisions. It is beyond the pale... if you are smart enough to understand and have the means.... just leave. 40 years in the core.... "I ain't mad at cha" it will not improve... liberalism is a right wing ideology. My biggest regret is never leaving now it seems I am trapped. This is all by design by those above. No hope in the Imperial Core.... If I were to be at a no kings protest it would to be to observe your underdevelopment... The Democrats are right wing and progressives are a satellite of them. You have no real choices, you already don't own shit and it is all about managing perception. Capitalism is the comodification of the natural world... epstien this epstein that... you think ol jeff is the only one...it gets worse pffft this is the yankkkee ladder pulling way. This is who we are and we have no say in this. Protest are for goverments that listen and I observe yankkkees like a zookeeper watches over monkeys in a zoo. A nation built for cars and children behind bars... school to prision then free labor pipline. There is a reason why bad things happen. It is a business model.

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD.

Thibault Payet's presentation covered the various options for gaming on FreeBSD as well as the benefits of Linuxulator-Steam-Utils. With the "LSU" approach are workarounds for taking care of GPU acceleration issues, a user chroot to use the Steam runtime, Wine-Proton support, and also gamepad support for Linux games. Linuxulator-Steam-Utils is available via GitHub for those wanting to check it out.

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on Earth. A possible solution to this problem would be to recycle plastic waste, breaking it into smaller molecules that can be used to produce valuable chemicals.

Researchers at Nanjing Forestry University and Tsinghua University recently introduced a new approach to convert polystyrene (PS), a plastic widely used to pack some foods and other products, into toluene, a hydrocarbon that is of value in industrial and manufacturing settings. Their proposed strategy, outlined in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, entails heating polystyrene waste in hydrogen and breaking it down into smaller vapor molecules, a process known as hydro-pyrolysis.