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
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
I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?
To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
A damaging #tornado has impacted densely populated portions of the #Milan metro, specifically Cernusco sul Naviglio, #Lombardy, NW Italy about 2 hours ago.
https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1682341727808413698?t=dC4jP3bddko7BwHXg0ZSuw&s=09
@trinsec Totally agree. It’s just the best. “Every power you cast gives you +2 lightning, all lightning hits all enemies, now fry them to death”. And if you need to kill a big guy, the attack that hits with 7 for every lightning orb you had. Bwahaha
@trinsec One of the best things of the game is how different all characters play. Using the Watcher makes it a completely different game. And as much as I like the watcher, the Defect is specially fun if you manage to get a deck full of Powers and the lightning combos.
YES. DO IT DO IT DO IIIIIIIIIIT! #sagaftrastrong #wgastrong #unionize #Solidarity #unionizemarvel #cgi
@Shine_McShine llevo unas semanas probando Kagi y aunque sea de pago sus resultados son espectaculares. Te da 100 búsquedas gratis para probar, luego hay que pagar por ello. Eso si, te aseguras que tienes cero anuncios y resultados solo relevantes. Ese es su modelo de negocio.
@_Davidsmith @connected please bring us the nano widgies! Let my fingers deal with the trouble of hitting the right button 🤣
This is REALLY important.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.
#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
He/Him. Molecular scientist, Postdoc at Stanford. Plays with flies for a living.
I'm interested in too many things for the time a lifetime has. Some of them: board games, RPGs, music, playing my guitar, learning new languages, TV shows, tech and visiting new places.
I toot in English and Spanish.