"You can't recycle your way out of climate change. You can't shop your way out of monopoly. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
What the individual can do is think of themself as part of a movement. If you join a movement, then you and the people with you can make change. But not you on your own."
—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
From birdsite
The interface for GDPR compliance should have been implemented on the side of browsers, it kind of makes sense that websites make it as difficult as possible to disable data collection.
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RT @Robotbeat
GDPR made the internet significantly worse. We can admit this now, right?
https://twitter.com/Robotbeat/status/1614856613030137857
In der Ukraine wird deutlich: Auch Männer erfahren im Krieg sexualisierte Gewalt. Warum der Umgang damit so schwerfällt, erklärt Yuriy Nesterko. http://www.taz.de/!5903500/
I find it interesting to see, by a kind of revealed preference, what people really value via what qualities about someone they criticize or insult.
E.g., in the progressive circles I run in everybody agrees that body shaming is wrong, but shaming people for having having body parts or disabilities that don't match the standard masculine ideal is their go-to default insult, so it's pretty clear they don't mean it when they say all bodies are ok or even that trans men are real men.
Humanity has historically eaten 6,000 plants; now we eat mostly NINE: This is a great (scary) story from Bloomberg on how global diets have converged on a few crops in a few decades – with many alarming implications. Well told (super smart graphics!) #food #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?cmpid=BBD010523_prognosis&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230105&utm_campaign=prognosis&leadSource=uverify%20wall
Wenn die Katastrophe richtig kickt wird das aber nicht so bleiben. Dieses System funktioniert nur mit halbwegs stabilem und nicht zu heißem Klima. Wer näht denn unsere Billigtshirts, wenn Bangladesh nicht mehr ist? Wie funktionieren denn die Lieferketten wenn ständig irgendwo ein Sturm oder eine Flut Produktionsstätten zerstört? Corona war da nur ein kleiner Vorgeschmack. 2/x
While everyone is worrying about the new @nature@twitter.com paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x, at least some elements of the answer are obvious and have been known for a while.
RT @Meaningness@twitter.com
Prophesy: Leo Szilard—the physicist who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction and who urged the US to undertake the Manhattan Project—explaining how science would stagnate, in 1948. https://rootsofprogress.org/szilard-on-slowing-science
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1611068453745725440
While claiming that you cant see more than 60 fps is obviously wrong, I think at a certain point we can stop increasing refresh rates.
540 Hz really seems overkill
@BenjaminHCCarr Maybe I dont know enough about the specific topic but I really dont see whats so special about the actual paper.
Like its probably very interesting it just doesnt seem to warrant a "groundbreaking discovery" claim, and the article doesnt even really explain why this type of entanglement is special
“Young people these days can’t afford housing, health care, or college because they eat too many avocado toasts, drink too much, and go to too many concerts”
Data: ❌ ❌ ❌
https://www.axios.com/millennial-spending-income-demographics-trends-153a5f33-7f56-4f1d-b72b-501e30ae6003.html #avocado #avocadotoast #inflation #highered #healthcare #studentdebt #debt #affordablehousing #sociology
Physics masters student @Universität Paderborn | he/him