Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

¿Os habéis preguntado porqué los Centros de Datos se están colando en lugares tan rurales y desérticos como #TalaveraDeLaReina ?

Porque puestos a poner infraestructuras dependientes de agua, lo lógico sería que estuvieran en zonas donde lloviera mucho. Y no hiciera calor. ¿no?

Pero La Mancha es un secarral, y hace un calor para morirse. A priori no parece un buen sitio para un #CentroDeDatos

🧵 Pues abro hilo para explicarlo:

I am so sick of AI related news. Why on earth people wants to replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.
The last time I saw there is no shortage of new music, paintings, writing, etc. Please use AI to improve human life not to replace it.

I gave up over a 150,000 followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, the engagement and reach is a lot less, but I'll build it back up and it will be worth it. I hate to see people run back to Twitter because of friends or careers or whatever. You know what changes that? Being on Mastodon and bring those people here. Musk is a horrible person, don't be one of his enablers.

There are all sorts of economic reasons to fund basic science, but a perfectly good and sufficient reason is that the pursuit of science — the drive to understand the natural world — is one of the things that make us who we are.

The problem with #MastodonThreads

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads-daa33943ac31

A level-headed take on that Substack interview.

Mike Masnick at Techdirt has been writing about free speech and content moderation for ages, and this is about as clear an analysis as you’ll get.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

#FollowFriday to these accounts from #PBS and #NPR, we are very glad you are here!

(and if i missed anyone add them in the comments and I'll add them!)

Local PBS stations:

@gbhnews
@kcts9

NPR folks here:
@timkmak
@nellgreenfieldboyce
@casey
@eric
@shannonpareil
@steveinskeep

And PBS folks here:
@laurasanthanam
@philmeyer
@skrishna
@petertubbs
@Trailanderror

And in Germany, we welcome public broadcaster @NDR

& from Canada: cbcworld@botsin.space

He's not funny because what little sense of humor he has is focused on trolling and punching down, also he's bigoted trash (these two things are related)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-isnt-funny-bad-jokes-twitter-1234712950/

Bye bye

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1931858

Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR35o66A/

You do not need a billionaire or a VC fund to use social media.

They are just middlemen opportunists trying to insert themselves between you and your friends.

The Internet was built to make it easy for you to connect with others, and that is getting easier with protocols like ActivityPub.

You don’t need Elon Musk. You don’t need Mark Zuckerberg. You certainly don’t need any Silicon Valley tech bro to let you use social media.

Substack is not a suitable alternative to Twitter.

If Elon Musk can buy Twitter, he can buy Substack.

However, Elon Musk cannot buy the Fediverse. No one company owns it. It is not for sale.

one useful little rule i have is if the budget affords it i always try to pay my collaborators/contractors enough that i feel “a little bit taken advantage of”.

it’s pretty tough to have a financial transaction that everyone feels great about, so if someone is gonna feel a little bad it should be the person with the most power.

This is the ONLY day you will ever hear me say "happy anniversary!" and Margaret Thatcher's name in the same sentence!

Maybe the real Mastodon algorithm was the friends we made along the way.