Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

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

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

Latest comic on the writers' and actors' strikes being called "disruptive"

#labor #unions #wga #sagaftra #strike #work #jobs #economy #inequality #writers #actors #hollywood

Pay $84/year for a chance to win thousands of dollars. This business model sounds familiar but I can’t quite put my finger on it? 🤔

I'm assuming that 403 years ago this person died very unexpectedly.

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

#Mailand #Lombardei #Milano

Stop blaming strikes for economic damage. Strikes are a logical response to overreach and greed from corporations and the wealthy. If there is resulting economic damage, look to those who drove the workers to strike in the first instance.

Buenos días. Os dejo por aquí el homenaje de Jan a Ibáñez.

the people who kept telling us that movie piracy is a serious crime don't actually seem all that interested in paying people for making movies.