Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

"Because I am a benevolent queen, I’ve decided to offer some feedback to Kid Rock on how to fire his weapon."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/kid-rock-doesnt-know-how-to-shoot

also, are you supposed to say the quiet part aloud?

"...journalists are put off by Musk’s antics, and dunk on him daily. But those same journalists — along with a bunch of people Musk arbitrarily suspended, fired, or laid off — continue to tweet just the same..." https://open.substack.com/pub/platformer/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter?r=15jk4b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"For the journalists who have come to rely on it, there is almost no indignity they won’t suffer to get their fix. ... The company was symbolically shitting all over them, and journalists couldn’t get enough" https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter @caseynewton

Via Tom Harwood of GBNews:

Passenger railways: Europe and North America.

#rail #trains #transit #Europe #US #traffic

Schedule of today's events:

1:00 pm: Trump surrenders at Manhattan DA office.

2:15 pm: Trump brought to Judge Merchan's courtroom for arraignment, unsealing of charges.

2:27pm: Trump enters "not guilty" pleas to each count.

2:31pm: Distraction from smoke bomb in back of courtroom

2:32pm: Trump leaps from courtroom window into mattress truck waiting on side street in dramatic escape.

2:35pm: Mayor Adams calls Batman.

Just 🔥 from @davekarpf https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-needs-professional-help?sd=pf

"The guy can’t work out the logistics of removing verification badges, who wants to put him in charge of their oxygen supply? ...

"These are not special geniuses, bending the world in accordance with their reality-distortion fields. They’re just self-congratulatory rich guys, buying and breaking expensive toys and then blaming the media or the government."

Communique for #BlackMastodon and Black folk only:

(White folk can listen too if they want, but this conversation is not for them).

The people telling you to be very afraid of Artificial General Intelligence don't know what they're talking about. Remember, their last big predictions were:
* Monkey jpegs are now money. Buy crypto.
* Elon will be great for Twitter
* Listening to VCs talk on Clubhouse is the next big social network
* Adam Neuman is a genius, and we should give him more money

This latest JWST image features some spectacular gravitational lensing. A massive cluster of galaxies in the foreground profoundly distorts the images of more distant galaxies.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

#sagan #carlsagan

Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?

It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.

It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.

Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.

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