Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
Trailer for "The Book of Clarence". Very much under the radar but looks a hoot. LaKeith Stanfield leads a stellar cast in this comedy set in Jerusalem , around AD33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNS-ANoMyM
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Imagine you have a dam. Fish want to get through the floodgates, but the gates are locked. You want to open the gates when a fish wants to pass through.
If you are a tech bro, you might say “we can use AI to solve this problem”
If you are the municipality of Utrecht, you instead say “what if we put a livestream of the canal on the internet and instructed viewers to push a button when they see one”
Just found this - a set of events for #Neurodiversity Celebration Week
https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/events
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Putin and 'democracy'
Allowing elections where there is no prospect of defeat is far more effective for a dictator than suppressing elections.
It is basically saying: "look, elections will not help you".
@Norobiik Sainsbury's error related?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235
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I just found out about Operavision: livestream and on-demand opera, for free!
https://operavision.eu
@fgraver @RustyBertrand Can't see it on mobile apps. If you look at your profile / following, there's an option to see people that have moved their account. Just don't know where this is stored in your profile.
@fgraver @RustyBertrand I've seen in some profiles that the fedi somehow keeps a record if you've moved to a new account. I don't know if that's something manual but it's worth checking so your followers know you've moved. Seen it if I look at my followees list.
@Norobiik Really wierd. Whilst a lot of the equipment is standard across the world, each country/region has its own systems and software, including EPOS (or at least used to). And restaurant operations are something very different from corporate.
@Free_Press Seems illogical and smells like a false flag. Why would they attack civilians? They know the election is rigged so what's the motive here?
Commodore brand revived with badge laptops and bluetooth earphones. https://commodore.inc/prodotto/gep-810/?buy
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DHH is truly unhinged these days. I'll never be able to wrap my head around people who see diversity efforts as somehow worse than the naked authoritarianism creeping into every nook and cranny of government and capitalism in the 2020s. Sure, people can go overboard in accusing others of racial insensitivity or mansplaining or whatnot. But LOOK AROUND YOU, MAN. If you really think DEI is the thing that's wrong with the world in the year of our lord 2024, you're madly out of touch.
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The Comics Grid: Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.
What's that you say, a 4 hour documentary series on one of the greatest satires of 80's American culture? All wrapped up in one of the most quotable action #movies ever? Sticking my data spike straight in for Robodoc: Making of #Robocop https://youtu.be/lyBL9eINHO8
@jordinn They used to do this in Argentina as well, a surprising discovery coming from the UK where (at the time) we had small bottles delivered in the morning and modified our request on a little clock. Spillage anxiety was significant.
Seems they still do:
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@mapto @Geri Fundamental to this was his threads/articles describing how Russia functions as mafia state, drawing on parallels with Mexican cartels. Tl;Dr: such organisations prefer extraction or farming because it doesn't require complexities of production, manufacturing and distribution... Which needs effective managers. Such people aren't motivated by violence, which is the mafia's only tool.
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@Geri sanctions are only as effective as you make them.
Kamil Galeev has been very good at documenting this.
Unfortunately, he's on ex-twitter and substack only. Here's what I think is an acceptable way of reading him
https://threadreaderapp.com/scrolly/1501676859741904898
I recommend him as a way to understand Ruskiy Mir. Goes without saying that he's to be read critically. Even though he's very informed historically and a good narrator, his way of thinking has its own Russian biases.
@mapto That method above, via threadreader app, was ok for the last article. I think that's based on a twitter user calling on the particular article.
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
