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.
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.
#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
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)
Holy crap, Nilay Patel just ruthlessly corners Substack’s CEO Chris Best on moderating racist content and I love it
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.
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.
Las grandes corporaciones de combustibles fósiles fueron las primeras en tener datos científicos del impacto de sus actividades en el clima. Hasta hace nada se creía que la mayoría conocía el problema desde los 80, siendo #Exxon la primera, con un informe interno en 1977.
Pero recientemente documentos desclasificados han demostrado que #Shell empezó a recabar información en los 60 y tenía informes científicos en 1975, que decidieron ignorar.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/shell-fossil-fuels-climate-1970s
Lol. From an @alaric thread, I was just reminded of this thing that absolutely did not age well from the CEO of a website who charges $400/year for insights "you won't find anywhere else."
Today is the #TransDayOfVisibility, and this year more than ever, trans folks need _everyone_ (yes, including you) to help fight against truly hateful legislation seeking to actively harm trans people. Trans rights are human rights, and trans folks deserve to be treated with the same rights, dignity, and respect as anyone else. 🩵🩷🤍
Some resources:
Map showing risk status by state: https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/march-anti-trans-legislative-risk
Detailed info on legislation across the US: https://translegislation.com/
I'm really disappointed, and yet sadly not surprised, that we've had so many reports of abuse today after people have posted their support for the #TransDayOfVisibility. This only shows how important this is. There is an ever increasing amount of legislation, vitriol and hate against the trans members of our community who just want to be live their lives, and be treated with the same rights, dignity, and respect as everyone else. All they're asking is to exist without being afraid every time they step out of the house or open a web browser. No-one should have to fear taking up space in the world.
So, to all my #trans friends, you are seen, you are respected, you are loved.
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and it's more important now than ever before.
Trans and non-binary people face an increasingly hostile world with politicians who would vilify them for their political gain rather than to protect them.
At the moment existence is activism, but trans people have always existed, and trans people will always exist.
Hatred and intolerance will never, ever win.
I don’t know whether it’s me getting older or the Internet getting older— but things feel significantly less silly now. Everything is very produced, yet sterile. Everything only exists if it can make money. If it can’t, it either doesn’t get made or dies off.
There was a magical time where it seemed everyone thought this was all experimental. Things were made because they were fun to make. That experimental nature gave us all permission to be weird. Now, it seems, everyone strives for “normal.”
@emilcar hace no mucho hablaste de JustWatch en Daily y me pasa lo mismo que a ti desde que dejé iShowsTV… nada me ha convencido. Acabo de descubrir Sequel, me ha parecido genial, y me he acordado de aquel Daily. Te dejo el enlace por aqui, quizá te interese! Desde luego la UI no parece diseñada por un mono como la de JustWatch… 🙃
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sequel-media-tracker/id1630746993
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.