A legend, an icon and a trailblazer.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116660325978301467 “Your call is important to us”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116652304432605284 more things should be multiples of trees

For those who mute my boosts or B**y, an important read: Musk has committed crimes against humanity and may end up responsible for more deaths than Hitler. Probably paywalled, unfortunately […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116640591670931457 d) big arsed switch to turn off all machine-learning-and-large-language-model-powered functionality i may neither need nor want at the moment

are the paradoxes of zeno of elea about space or about time? (answer on reply, but think about it because there’s something interesting in my question)

god or no god, we die. #sixwordstories

nature doesn’t have rules; it has guidance, and, as margaret fuller quipped, “provides exceptions to every ‘rule’”. humans invented the concept of rules to cope with their insecurity, dominate the world around them, and feel in control—when there’s none ever. from my observations […]

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116617015192202090 Sonic Youth Radiohead Massive Attack The Notwist Battles Portishead Yo La Tengo Ry Cooder Wye Oak Daft Punk

if you are interested in speaking english with a more refined effect, learn spanish. most of the educated, intellectual, rarefied words in english come from either french or latin, and they’re relatively colloquial terms and idioms in spanish. (examples: example, interested, refined, effect […]

some days—sadly, more and more—the united states hit me as the poorest richest country in the world.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116606769999893756 wait until you figure out what plants eat…

make the bed… unmake the bed… #sixwordstories

hmmm.. wonder why no one is developing an a.i. model that does the work of a c.e.o. or a senior vice-president…

do what you love and you won’t need a.i. a day in your life

a.i. doesn’t “optimise” your little life. it just degrades it: makes everything a little faster and a little worse. the question a.i. should make us ponder is why are we doing so many thing we both want someone else do and want done faster, because it does not sound like that life is full of […]

This is a little overwhelming, in a very pleasant way. About 20% raised within the first eight hours of this stretch goal to make a #solarpunk short film about a future without central governments, no politicians, and no #capitalism We start production in two weeks time and your support means a […]

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. The poster says it better than most speeches: When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116585282062804688 it feels to me like money engenders racism engenders money engenders racism… and since racism is bad, it follows that money has to be also bad. and an excess of money may engender more racism. (no such thing as an excess of racism […]

i’m almost completely convinced that advancing one’s career as a “boss” is entirely predicated on one’s capacity to make quick decisions without **almost any thinking**. “bossing” is a contact sport, and knee-jerking is the strategy.

the amount of red lines exposed by almost every social media post would, all by themselves, completely explain the anguishing paralysis we may feel. any step in any direction—let alone forward—seems to cross one of those lines, so we stand still, transfixed, stun, tantalised.

consider: every time one questions the flaws of humanity, in a not-so-well-written post, a less-than-professional drawing, a childish or immature take, an unpolished or low-brow opinion, one may be silently but relentlessly advocating for the use of AI by others in order to satisfy one’s […]

The optics of this US trip to China are wild. The US delegation all look like wide-eyed country children seeing the big city for the first time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116567133794144863 were longer tho.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116564066668779167 many an english-native speaker can’t even speak—let alone write—proper english.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116558012574003720 even before… i still miss bbs, irc, and gopher.

i read it, and now i believe it to be right: entitlement might as well be a mental health issue. a brain making one feel superior to other human beings is akin to a brain making one believe one can fly or a brain making one paranoid of everyone around.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116542583024883535 ✅ yes and no

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/116545847617359270 might be that Google were using non-GAAP emission measurement?

“i don’t see the problem with it” is not the infallible answer many think it is, but indeed an almost sure tell of their ineffable unconscious bias.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@raspiduino/116528988039338728 know lots of people in the u.s. that may disagree…

aera: remember, it’s your decision. do it anyway. alian: but wouldn’t i go mad then? aera: mad is good, alian. mad is good.

also remember that for every privileged person trying to bring the past back—because that is what wanting to bring the past is, privilege—hundred of thousands are living a better life today with more access to water, better food, clean air, decent work, freedom from indented servitude, dignity […]

kids are the future, and they build the future, because they’re not all day thinking about the past and trying to revive it. no matter what one wants to bring back, it is the bringin it back what ruins our present. either one accepts what it is, or one finds ways to improve it, but the past is […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116522779033155633 “i do not understand others being different from me” is probably not the start of a enjoyable and wonderful life people think it is.

i find it amusing when people think that we *hear* with our ears. that would be akin to thermometres *feeling* temperature. we receive soundwaves through our ears but it’s our brain that “hears”. (and our brain is weird. like very very veeeery veeeeeeeeeeeeeery weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird) […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116520974949321360 mine: 1. oh, a conference with a theme i like! giving a talk would be fun. but people!!! better no. 2. go to step 1

The Situpsons #fitnesstvshowsorcartoons #hashtaggames

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116489697525420186 also remember: for every “einstein”—yes, only a rather basic metaphor—uni may help find, it will help millions more get out of, or help avoid, poverty. that is much more real, and so much valuable.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116515701196441022 the u.s., the land of the multi-millionaire traffic-salespeople

sometimes i think we (in the u.s.) are where we are because 40-odd years of touting “small acts of kindness” have made almost everyone forget that is big sacrifices, chabges of routine, and getting out of one’s way, and not “small” anything, what engenders change and progress.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116481963230269054 yeah, indeed, let’s spend more and more money and space in services to have even more excuses for more cars that ruin our public life and make our lives less accessible by making us subordinates to the machine’s paths and space even in […]

world’s best tiramisù record left to stand undisputed. (i find extremely puerile the concept of a “world record”, unless it’s food and it’s given away for free afterwards, then i’m “all in”) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmem8n8xego

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116472053991331484 not sure, my back-of-the-napkin calculations project something more like this (artist’s scientific rendering):

i think what we need here in the u.s. is “free” (state-run) healthcare and a month of “vacation” (holidays) every year. most european countries have both and they have less billionaires mostly because most people there are happy with a small boat and don’t need a 28736-feet-long one, and have […]

i’m a designer with 30+ years of experience in graphic, product, fashion, and ux design, can do the user research and programming too, and starting to look for freelance work. i’m looking to work with disabled, neurodivergent, or minority people or groups that have an idea of a product that […]

psa: bigots are not bigots because they haven’t been explained things more reasonably, logically, concisely, detailed, or loudly; bigots are bigots because they already decided that those implausible reasons they prefer are true and need no proof because they prefer, or is convenient for them […]

almost all religions propose a system where one is—to a high degree—able to choose not to be directly responsible of what happens around oneself, and we wonder why so many don’t care or don’t do much about the current state of the world, let alone their own communities.

what keeps me up at night is that if those people did not have religion they would believe science, since it would be either scientific knowledge or nothing, and people never choose nothing.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theonion/local-r0v6to22z/-/a-rlZC_XE8Qky0GfdEKenYAg%3Aa%3A2687680055-%2F0 damn! we should have done the same with steve jobs memories!