schlgr @schlgr@qoto.org

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie immer mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne via Satellit SDO.

Wenn wir es schaffen, Windräder in einem halben Jahr zu genehmigen und zu bauen und Solarparks mit der gleichen Geschwindigkeit wie wir jetzt die Energieterminals hochgezogen haben, dann sind wir auf einem guten Weg, sagt @sterner im DLF. Atomkraft sei auch wirtschaftlich keine Alternative,, die Kilowattstunde koste insgesamt 40 Cent, zehn Mal so viel wie Strom aus Erneuerbaren. https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.3265.de.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_ca6c45c9

When AI text and image generators start training on themselves: "We may be witnessing, in real time, the birth of a snowball of bullshit"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/20/1065667/how-ai-generated-text-is-poisoning-the-internet/

We wrote last month about how ChatGPT, by mixing authoritative text with garbage, has become the "greatest bullshitter ever"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/10/chatgpt-ai-helps-written-communication/

censorship

Please watch this inspiring speech & video by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. It has English sub-titles and images from Russia's attack on Ukraine, and is well worth your time.

https://youtu.be/ANaVkRxDPCI

You can read an English transcript here:
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/novorichne-privitannya-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelens-80197

But some words won't make sense without the video images that go with them.

#Ukraine #Zelensky #NewYear
#RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar
#RussianWarCrimes

My listening through the embers of the year is the new 12-part BBC audio adaptation of Susan Cooper’s THE DARK IS RISING, with a new episode each day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvp7

[it must be time for @neilhimself’s annual reminder that you can listen to BBC Radio anywhere in the world]

I didn’t intend to write 2,000 words about Twitter and the FBI and how “transparency” misleads, but here we are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/twitter-fbi-story-relies-far-more-insinuation-than-evidence/?itid=ap_philipbump

I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.

My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.

Some people "Things can't go viral on #mastodon

#JohnMastodon: "Hold my beer."

Um 12 Uhr geht es los im Livestream: Carolin Emcke im Gespräch mit Kira Vinke und mir in der Schaubühne in Berlin!
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RT @C_Emcke
Der #Streitraum morgen an der @schaubuehne zu "Klima und Emanzipation" mit @rahmstorf und @KiraVinke ist ausverkauft. Yes. Wer kein Ticket bekommen hat: es gibt den Live-Stream hier:

Youtube: https://youtu.be/5RkU6kAp2xw

Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1MYGNgNOeYPJw
https://twitter.com/C_Emcke/status/1604037993815310338

Fiebermedikamente für Kinder fehlen genauso wie bezahlbare Mieten. Die viel gerühmten Märkte regeln das nicht. Die Diagnose heißt Kapitalismusversagen. http://www.taz.de/!5900276/

I am once again locked out of Twitter.

Twitter just locked my account after I asked Twitter's head of Trust & Safety Ella Irwin why I haven't been informed of what tweet broke Twitter's policies

Seems they forgot to force me to delete the tweet the first time, like they did the other suspended journalists.

This is the tweet they want me to delete to get back into my account:

BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby https://social.trom.tf/objects/dbc8dc44-26093b36-4caad7ab5350731e

In just the few weeks since I joined Mastodon — and then continued to most use Twitter — I have kept checking in here and the conversation has gotten extraordinarily better.

Happy to see it.