Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

I'd say podcast tech "moves very slowly", but even that's generous — podcast tech hardly moves at all.

But that's a GOOD THING!

Most efforts to move podcast tech "forward" have failed due to insufficient adoption. But most would’ve meant more potential for platform lock-in and increased ad-tech and tracking possibilities, either by design or as unintended consequences.

Podcasts' technical simplicity is not a problem to be solved — it's a defense from platform vultures and ad-tech assholes.

The Internet is fine and vaccines are nice, but I will burn this mother down if they don't give a Nobel prize to whoever put graph paper lines on the inside of wrapping paper.

Of course he does...

Elon Musk backs German far right party.

Musk is backing the AfD in the upcoming German election after Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed.

Musk has already expressed support for other far-right, anti-immigration parties across Europe.

He will join Trump’s administration as an advisor.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/20/elon-musk-backs-germanys-far-right-afd-before-elections?traffic_source=Connatix

#Musk #GermanElections #AfDParty #FarRight #USPol #Plutocracy .

"Ohhh we're losing all of our land to solar panel farms... "
No. We're not. This is a lie. And it's meant to deceive us into sticking with fossil fuels for longer.
Excellent data-driven, graphics-based story from the Australian ABC at..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/survey-of-the-worlds-solar-shows-global-boom/104006096

The last 2 weeks shamefully exemplify the hierarchy of human life:
•1 CEO killed—national news for weeks, new security hired, people charged with terrorism
•488 mass shootings in 2024—no major legislation to stop future shootings
•200K+ Palestinians killed—send even more bombs to Netanyahu

This is unsustainable. This is unacceptable. This is indefensible. This must change.

With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom's story:

My mom got polio when she was a kid living in southern California, pre-vaccine. She survived it, but it put her in a wheelchair for a while, then leg braces. She was actually a literal poster child for the Polio vaccine: they used her picture on some March of Dimes posters.

But this was not a thing that just affected her for a while, and then she was better. As a result of having Polio, her right leg is slightly shorter than her left. For her entire life, she's had to have special lifts put into her right shoe. When she drives, she uses her left foot for the brake pedal because she's concerned that her right leg might not be strong enough to stomp on the brake hard if needed. She has always been limited in how long and far she can walk: I remember many times on family vacations where the rest of us would go off to do something and she'd have to sit it out because she knew she just couldn't do that much walking.

Now that she's elderly, a lifetime of this is catching up: her bones, joints, ligaments, tendons are all messed up from having a weak leg and an unbalanced gait. Her mobility is declining much faster than it should be, even for someone of her age. She had to have her ankle fused because of the constant pain it was causing.

Polio didn't ruin her life, but it has stolen it in slices. Times she couldn't keep up with her kids, times she was just too tired to be able to stay on her feet, chronic pain, losing the ability to climb stairs in her own house as she ages.

Vaccination is the greatest public health success humanity has ever produced, and we forget this only at our own peril.

For all you cis folks. Feel free to boost.

#trans #transgender #FirstTheyCame #MartinNiemoller #Allies

We’ve gone from people idolising CEOs as heroes, to the public laughing when a VC/startup-oriented bank fails, to CEO assassins becoming spontaneous folk heroes in fairly short order

I think it’s a fair guess that the US is in for a wild ride over the next decade