Hi. If you see "Biden only gave {tiny amount} to help {issue X} while spending millions on Ukraine" in any of your social media, that is propaganda. It's from Putin's disinfo shops aimed at convincing the west to stop supporting Ukrainian defenses against the Russian invasion.
You can and should report and block those accounts.
Exactly 14 years ago , Satoshi Nakamoto designed the most pathetic / inefficient system ever invented by humankind : the blockchain.
Today, it weights 60 000 tons, wastes constantly 10 gigawatts .. to process less than 7 transactions per second :
Less than a 33 bps modem from 1990.
This could be joke if it didn't have such gigantic environmental impact, wasn't enabling billion dolllars ransomware industry and was not crushing thousands of lives in the process.
‘If you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries.
Are they voting to fund their libraries?
Are they voting to keep them free?
Then vote for those guys.
They're probably the good guys.
And by the same token, the book burners, the book banners, they're probably the bad guys.’
What is truly stupid about SELLING vaccines is that a major benefit of vaccination is to the OTHER people around you. It is a classic example of a PUBLIC good.
They should be free.
We can afford to do that.
We can afford to make most medical care free.
We're choosing not to, and for dumb, self-destructive reasons.
Me: The earth isn’t flat!
fiat earther: correct
me: huh?
fiat earther: it’s the shape of an Italian car
me: what?
fiat earther: you read my name wrong didn’t you?
When I'm reflecting on #Britain' trouble(s) I'm sometimes tempted by a form of #linguistic determinism.
#languages with complex tense/verb structures, require the speaker to form the whole sentence before starting to speak (#German would be my go to example).
But #English allows a speaker to start a sentence with little idea where it will end, with sentences rambling & developing while remaining grammatical.
Making it up as we go along' served us well for generations, now not so much!
I made a page so I can explain to clients why I'm not using #Zoom.
#Capitalism is wild.
#Zoom, a company which came into it's own during the Pandemic now wants to destroy itself by going all in on 'AI' and also telling it's staff that "Work From Home is over"
Bye then Zoom....👋
I don't use #Zoom much, and I was tempted to just delete the app after reading this post. If I do use Zoom, it will be with the camera and the microphone off; I'll just watch and listen.
https://sfba.social/@MedievalMideast@hcommons.social/110838371669792161
I checked and the terms do indeed say they can use your image and voice for training #AI; see items 10.4
https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/
Zoom's terms of service now include training GenAI with no ability to opt out
Check section 10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use.
“But people on the whole were pretty dim upstairs, and if you started dwelling upon this or that person’s dimness, ranking it and measuring just how dim this or that motherfucker was, before you realize it half the day is gone.”
— Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead
I have moved to https://mountains.social/@countingquoll