Toppi is a genius.

Nope, I use ⧸ as a replacement.

This stuff is unbelievably mesmerising

I’m wondering how much % of FOSS software is done with some degree of AI input today. It seems to be becoming unavoidable.

I guess they can just put the ads in the middle of the AI responses/searches?

Same, by the time I switched to LibreOffice I hadn’t been using anything other than ribbon for over a decade, and yet switching felt like a relief, coming back to the familiar. The 97-style probably got baked into my brain back when I was a kid writing nonsensical fantasy tales in Word.

I understand. Being a layman I didn’t really pay attention to that, as I said, so I’m thankful for the correction.

According to LoC, it is a part of their collection “Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection”. Although I’m not sure if that’s sufficiently precise - hopefully they have more info on the provenance elsewhere (I would expect the LoC to be pretty on point with that sort of stuff…).

I’m not sure why you say the wikimedia rendition is better.

The scan is of far higher resolution, and the colours are more vibrant - I assume, reflecting the original colours, rather than the more washed-out version I posted originally.

So I assume(d), perhaps mistakenly. The source on Wikimedia Commons isn’t unknown, it is from the Library of Congress, as stated in the “Source” field. However, below the LoC link, the page says it’s a “restoration” by a Commons editor, god knows according to which standards. The original LoC page has a more washed-out version, colours seemingly the same as the Brooklyn Museum version, but also of a far better resolution which was the basis for the Commons version (5615 x 8400 pixels). It’s at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.02940

You’re also right that the colours are a bit misaligned here and there in the LoC/Commons version, even the cat is coloured a bit differently. I paid no attention to that.

Just checked, there was a better scan at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiroshige,_Asakusa_ricefields_and_torinomachi_festival,_1857.jpg

This is not a “pro-Russia” stance

Saying stuff that nearly perfectly aligns with the official Russian narrative and military goals, and yet mechanically insisting that your stance is not pro‐Russian, is just not terribly convincing.

it’s a deliberate wish to end the war as soon as possible with as little bloodshed as possible. This is pure “peace is war” doublespeak on your part.

There’s at least one other option to end the war as soon as possible – having Russia cease the invasion. But in the pro‐Russian narrative, that option is not on the table, since the invasion was justified and necessary. It is not Russia that you want to see giving up, but Ukraine.

A ceasefire that gives concessions to a genocidal aggressor that is likely to attack again afterwards to get the rest of what it wanted is a pretty worthless peace, there’s nothing doublespeak about that conclusion. E.g. I also wouldn’t be advising Stalin to go beg Hitler for a ceasefire and giving concessions to the Third Reich while the Wehrmacht was encircling Leningrad, even though continuing and properly ending the war would and in fact did cost hundreds of thousands of lives – as tragic as it was, it was the correct decision, rather than some grotesque peace treaty. So spare me this selective pacifism.

Per DSA:

We also oppose US and NATO military interventionism and the tens of billions in military aid and weapons shipments which only further exacerbates the war and undermine a negotiated settlement, as well as sanctions that will harm ordinary Russians.

So, pretty much as I said. Let Russia win and call it the anti‐war position, lol.

Ukraine is getting hollowed out for parts by western countries

Ohhh, evil western exploiters… Unlike the humane Russia that wouldnt hollow it out at all.

None of this position is based on support for Russia as a founding reason

It might not be the founding reason, but the outcome is the same.

https://xkcd.com/2071/

I mean, the French are named after a Germanic tribe but they’re not Germanic, Bulgarians are Slavs even though they’re named after a Turkic tribe, and Macedonians are Slavs who are named after an ancient Greek kingdom.

Names have weird histories and shouldn’t be treated literally.

the anti-war activists

Putting aside the fact that OP’s idea is a vile edgy fantasy, this “anti‐war activism” is frequently a veneer for this narrative: US is effectively solely at fault, Russia’s invasion is justified, the west should stop aiding Ukraine and let Russia win. This is the position I’ve seen from .ml users.

And it’s not easy to not see that as indeed being pro‐Russian.

I understand that, but:

The first one can be translated (and toned down) into a rather “common sense” measure of caring or not caring about people different from you. If a right winger called me a liberal, I would agree (with some caveats, of course).

The other two however rely on much more specific frameworks. Outside the frameworks the terms are meaningless, they just reassert the distinction the person believes in. If a leftist calls me a liberal or if someone described my positions as populist (though the latter hasn’t happened in practice), I can do nothing more than simply shrug.

These all capture some amount of truth

I fail to notice this certain amount of truth. The terms are borderline meaningless to me, except for “liberal” in the US sense of “mostly doesn’t want to put minorities into death camps”.

(Solid explanation overall tho.)

2026 Lemmy edition:

Kind of like how socialism failing and reverting to capitalism (USSR, Yugoslavia) is the fault of capitalism.

I’m asking you to pay attention to his wikipedia page. Check it on a regular basis.

Would be good to let actual Wikipedia editors know this, e.g. on the talk page. They will probably be more successful at noticing and correcting manipulation than random readers randomly checking the page.

The edit logs are publicly visible, one of the recent editors has already been banned for sockpuppetry.

I think they are the ones who pump batmobile’s tires.