Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

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ME: Yes, I would like a Caesar salad please.

SALADBOT 9000: [ stabs me 23 times ]

Good news. Looking forward to being able to read and vote on the proposed deal. Hope that they now can close an acceptable deal with SAG-AFTRA.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/24/business/hollywood-writers-strike-news?unlocked_article_code=LgL_T0mRX5_jVSu6uOLO4wC8wpQEwAnET8k6CKDfTjgSDB4CSgJqLO8M-N6zP6LGTVHIcSF7k1NbuyyuIqJMUHKbiJcV6l57YWJAeqNKSywmlCTjDMJZ70HP7NK1YHdJ8EAztPK-2d-o8uhvRbUHgjuUxfLltDXRbCRTbMpqVwmDCzSrGmd1yQYZqxq9qS6OecJDDtISvTrWgTBQui-Lr-0qAbi25t-8FrNghQzm2b4bp6ObhsHdFo0Zuwz_SayVvAoZ1LXKqE2YGPpgcaARANhat_nNLmC0tl2gBLMX7TO3xUq3irDRM3YFPWP4iLCJObCIUOPurhaibWyop9oXeeZ9BzSI9ybP6icDrlK-mqrnlA&smid=url-share

"Changing to the metric system is hard and would confuse people."

Has Armageddon ever sounded so good? 👼 😈

The main theme from @neilhimself's #GoodOmens, composed by David Arnold, was one of the delights performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Huddersfield Choral Society at the #BBCProms this year. The concert was conducted by Anna-Maria Helsing.

📺 Watch Fantasy Film Music at the Proms now on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/3LvUbba

#StarWars #LOTR #LordOfTheRings #NeilGaiman #fantasy #film #soundtrack #OST #movie #BBCConcertOrchestra #AnnaMariaHelsing

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Favorite meme of the day. #ElonMusk #twitte

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

TIP: Any fans of the excellent natural language calculator app Soulver? This action, and associated shortcut, make it easy to select text in Drafts, and have Soulver calculate a result and return it (works with Soulver on Mac and iPad). https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2M1

The other day I was arguing with a colleague, & I said that I thought 95% of the funds getting thrown at AI would be better spent strengthening infrastructure to handle climate change. He said “AI will fix climate change.”

Now I think 100% of those funds should be redirected.

Due to global warming, Vivaldi's Four Seasons have been reworked so that the Summer movement is 30% longer and played fortissimo, winter is 10% shorter and played pianissimo, with some random bars played sforzando, to account for the slowing of the North Atlantic Current, and both Spring and Autumn are now played very quickly and with abrupt changes in key, indicating their chaotic nature.

this has been my favorite response so far

From Tumblr. I might as well post it myself...

a blockchain organization and an oil company collaborate to fix the climate

https://www.gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-shell-collaboration

#crypto #cryptocurrency #greenwashing

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.

Corey Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

Uhhhh yeah sounds good

Over-simplification, I'm sure, but it seems like the rhetoric of the right boils down to “things would be better if not for X” where to solve for “X,” someone needs to not exist...which leads to policy ideas that do not seek to solve the original problem, but to figure out how to eliminate “X” as if that's some panacea.

Is “X” immigrants? Black people? Jews? LGTBQ+? Pick your poison, it's all rubbish. We're all just people and the rhetoric is not about helping anyone. It's about control.

Happy people can't be monetized, this is why billionaires and tech companies need to keep you unhappy, angry, or scared. Resist. Be happy.

//hat tip to @Archie8