Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

READ: It’s a pretty big deal when this KEY MESSAGE is in Scientific American. It suggests a bigger tipping point. “We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent: Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

@mcp @anto_fedro In effetti l'account segnalato non esiste più: i titolari hanno ricreato un account con lo stesso ID utilizzato già su altri social, ossia @milanoup

"The reality is you can't build a $100b industry around techn that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, and that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if and only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations.You certainly can't justify the kind of exploitation, extraction, and environmental cost the industry has been mostly getting away with, in part because people have believed lofty promises of someday changing the world."

- @molly0xfff

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

#AI

Telegram founder and notorious weirdo Pavel Durov says he's given an interview to Tucker Carlson.

There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza.

This is a nightmare. And it's going to take significant pressure to prevent this from becoming business as usual--a selling point for oppressive regimes, as opposed to a cautionary tale.

https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

@mustapipa

Jonathan Haidt's response on twitter

https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1774571680511508601

How jurors will be selected in Trump’s legal cases - a criminal law expert explains
https://theconversation.com/how-jurors-will-be-selected-in-trumps-legal-cases-a-criminal-law-expert-explains-216049?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Conversation US @conversation-us-ConversationUS

We wrote a guide to help #Threads users better understand what the #Fediverse is, and how it works.

A lot of people over there are enthusiastic about Fedi, but need to have things explained in a way that makes sense to newcomers. This is part of our public education campaign to help people find their bearings.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/threads-fediverse-beginners/

Why so many super excited articles about nuclear power in the press everywhere??

Techbros<>Nukebros

"AI Is Giving Nuclear Power a Big Lift. 4 Stocks Riding the Trend."

Nuclear is not coming to save the world, it is coming to feed Silicon Valley unicorns

#NuclearPower #AI #climate

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ai-nuclear-power-stocks-8852a830

I would like to wrap up work on my SQL tutorial (https://gvwilson.github.io/sql-tutorial/) by Friday April 26, and have a structural question - if you can spare a couple of minutes, please add comments to https://github.com/gvwilson/sql-tutorial/issues/49.

Ciao Barack!

Benvenuto nel fediverso!

@barackobama ha attivato la federazione del suo account threads!

Precisiamo: Threads non è federato con il fediverso, sono i singoli utenti che scelgono di federarsi!

Ma anche se l'account è "federato" non vedrà i vostri commenti o reaction, la federazione sarà completata solo nei prossimi mesi.

Threads è quindi "silenziato" su M1, potrete comunque vedere e seguire chi vi interessa. Oppure bloccare tutto o chi vi pare, la scelta spetta a voi.

Interreg Black Sea Basin programme: Call for projects to be funded https://lemmy.world/post/14049821

Italy’s healthcare system under threat, experts warn https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/italys-healthcare-system-under-threat-experts-warn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jupyter notebooks in 2024 is still not accessible.

In his #PyCascades talk, Venkatesh Potluri (who is blind) noted that popular Python libraries like matplotlib etc still can't embed alt text.

He made a patch for it, but the notebooks still don't pick up alt text.

#accessibility #Python #jupyter

"The way #Parisians are now #traveling from the #suburbs to the #city #center , especially during peak periods, has undergone a #revolution thanks in part to the #building of many miles of #cycleways ."

#Paris #France #biking #velo #vélotaf #BikeTooter #fahrrad #bicicletta

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/04/06/french-revolution-cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-paris/?sh=4bc41ef93640