Yesterday, after failed negotiations, the Writers Guild of America went on a strike. I support them and wish them success in their petition for a fair treatment by the industry giants.
WGA on strike https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/wga-on-strike
Happy International Workers' Day: https://ipablosb.com/2023/05/01/on-april-australian.html
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/
Eat the rich https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65308769
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!
¿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:
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
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.
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.