Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org
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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.
Joined Nov 2022
What can you expect to see - and not see - here: https://ipablosb.com/2023/04/27/what-can-you.html
Today’s pluralistic.net - Death panels post is extremely disturbing. Hard to read, but a good reminder that we need to keep politicians accountable for their despicable actions (or inaction). https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/
I try to be politically correct, but this headline is making it very difficult.
The last two episodes of Ted Lasso (no spoilers) have been amazing. This season is perfect storytelling so far and I’m loving how they’re developing all the characters.
As a non-coder, I felt incredibly proud of myself when last week I managed to set up a macro for ImageJ that lets me execute a selection of actions on all image files within a chosen folder. It’s about 20 lines of code, but it works like a charm. I even coded a “Batch processing done” final message!
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¿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:
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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.
After almost a year, retook our Legacy campaign of Machi Koro Legacy. Had a fun quick game and managed to win, even though my wife always beats me it! Five games done, five more to go. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/259081/machi-koro-legacy
Just finished the Mandalorian. It was good! And (no spoilers) I still think it’s the best Star Wars and Disney have published to date. Some episodes this season were better than others, but the last two are really, really good!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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#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:
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
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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)
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Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
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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.
- Blog
- https://ipablosb.com
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.
Joined Nov 2022
