Nathaniel Harari @natharari@qoto.org

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

"Putin bears responsibility for the suffering of millions of people, from Ukraine to Syria to Georgia. But the first victims of Putin’s abuses have been Russian citizens themselves." https://www.thebulwark.com/my-friend-the-traitor-russia-putin-kara-murza/

"Sadly, there is nothing broken about what we’re experiencing: The system is working exactly as intended. We are all now living, and dying, with the consequences." @ryandbusse on the long slide toward irresponsibility in the gun industry: https://www.thebulwark.com/even-the-gun-industry-knew-we-would-end-up-here/

#chatgpt

Cool! @Flipboard is now curating news on the Fediverse with four topical “desks”. They are:

1. @NewsDesk
2. @TechDesk
3. @CultureDesk
4. @ScienceDesk

What’s sold me on this concept is that this news is curated by humans—not bots!

Yay for hand-picked news!

https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/flipboard-brings-editorial-curation-to-mastodon-with-desks-for-news-and-discovery/

@fediversenews

To those that say only the privileged can afford to leave Twitter, I argue that it is far more privileged to ask your audience to join you on an immensely hostile and hate-filled platform. This is not ok. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-quietly-edited-its-hateful-conduct-policy-to-drop-transgender-protections/

if i had one #chatgpt #ai tip to share it would be stop treating it like google

#ChatGPT #Emacs shell delegating markdown blocks to #org babel

https://github.com/xenodium/chatgpt-shell

#mordillo #art

"Either Justice Thomas is remarkably careless when it comes to financial disclosure requirements that apply not just to #SupremeCourt justices but to large swaths of the entire federal government, or it's worse and that he's actually deliberately withholding this information from his disclosure forms because of what it would look like if this came out." -Stephen Vladeck, professor of constitutional law, University of Texas

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170508824/is-clarence-thomas-fit-to-serve-with-ties-to-a-gop-donor-a-law-professor-weighs-

#news #politics #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS

Learned some new, maybe basic, #emacs features today!

When coding, try out `M-x imenu` and `M-x occur` to quickly explore / navigate source code you're working with.

What a relief!

@natharari @davep

Arse. That link is missing episodes 7 & 8. This one has all 8 episodes:

https://archive.org/details/foundation-trilogy_bbc-radio_1973_complete

@couts

Here's a long thread with news organizations that have accounts (NOT bots) on Mastodon. Some are more active than others.

https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/109535917701223440

If you know of any news organizations (not individual journalists) that are not included on the list, please let me know.

A few of my favorites are:
@ProPublica (GOOD investigative journalism)
@TexasObserver
@damemagazine (women-led)
@gbhnews (an NPR affiliate (unless I'm mis-remembering))
@TucsonSentinel