timorl @timorl@qoto.org

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Good read: You block ads in your browser, why not in your city?

The article reminded me of this quote:

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. … Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

— Adaptation from a Banksy essay in defense of remixing (“vandalising”) public advertisements.

Fundamentally, all these ads share the quality of showing people content they didn’t ask for to lure consumers into spending money they otherwise wouldn’t have. Why the wouldn’t I block them everywhere? It’s disgusting.

I know many people like to argue that they’re a “necessary evil” to pay for content, but I have little patience for this argument because it assumes that vendors are entitled to the success of their flawed business models, and people should give up freedoms to support the industry.

My consciousness is not for sale, sorry.

Polecam obserwować👌🏻

https://mastodon.social/@razem

#job #parttime #freelancing #translation #teaching #chinese #cantonese #mandarin #english #Germany

A good friend of mine has relocated from China to Germany (full legal) and now is looking for some extra income.
Possibilities:

-- Language teaching for English speakers: Cantonese, Mandarin
-- Translation English <--> Chinese
-- Cultural & language assistance and consultancy for all contacts with Chinese counterparts.
The gentleman in question is young, competent, discreet, UK schooled and trustworthy. Not to mention his contacts back in China.

I hope someone may benefit from his services.

modern mental health erroneously views the brain and mind as some kind of like "academic soul" when it is actually a physical organ that has physical problems like any other organ does

@rysiek @brie @robert_wolniak @mkljczk I jeszcze jedna kwestia: mam też poczucie, że stawianie często nierealistycznych wymagań odbiorcom/użytkownikom/konsumentom nie przynosi ostatecznie jakichś pozytywnych skutków. Bo jakie niby przynosi?
Oczekiwanie, że użytkownik będzie wszystko wiedział o produkcie/firmie/platformie i na tej podstawie podejmował decyzje (korzystać/nie korzystać itd.) jest nie zrealizowania. Po prostu. No i nie da się żyć w takim świecie, w którym jest się obarczonym tak wielką odpowiedzialnością za swoje decyzje, które dotyczą korzystania z jakiegoś medium, czy zakupu jakiegoś produktu.

W historycznej sali sądu w Poznaniu, gdzie odbywały się procesy robotników w 1956 roku, zaczął się właśnie największy od czasów PRL proces polityczny.
32 osoby, które w październiku 2020 protestowały przeciwko stanowisku kościoła rzymskokatolickiego w sprawie praw kobiet, stają dziś przed sądem, oskarżone o złośliwe zakłócanie praktyk religijnych.
Przed budynkiem sądu odbyła się spontaniczna pikieta solidarnościowa, która zebrała liczne grono osób z różnych środowisk.



#katedra #poznań #protest #aborcja #kobiety

Boost please.

Rising sea levels through AGW are a preemptive strike against georgists taking everything over and instituting LVT – "if you tax something, you get less of it"

"Zespół naukowców pod kierunkiem prof. dr hab. Dariusza Jemielniaka z Akademii Leona Koźmińskiego wykorzystał możliwości, jakie daje internet, do zbadania trafności „prawa Godwina“ w praktyce. Przebadał blisko 199 milionów konwersacji na Reddicie (uważanym za największą platformę poświęconą dyskusjom ) i pokazał, że w dającej się analizować rzeczywistości prawo Godwina (analogii do Hitlera) nie działa."

https://naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C90571%2Cargumentum-ad-hitlerum-na-dywaniku-u-badaczy.html

Niesamowite. To się naprawdę może udać. Pierwszy otwarty polski system stenotypii.
```
{
...
"XTPULBT": "żółt",
"XTPULBW": "żółw",
"XTPULBSO": "żółć",
"XTPIA": "żą",
"XTPIAC": "żądz",
"XTPIAGW": "żącz",
"XTPIAT": "żąt",
"XTPIALT": "żądl",
"XTPIAB": "żąp",
"XTPIAW": "żąw",
"XTPIATO": "żąć",
"XTPIALB": "żął",
"XTPEI": "żę",
"XTPEIT": "żęd",
"XTPEITO": "żęć",
"ZTPLJA": "żła",
"ZTPLJACB": "żłach",
"ZTPLJECS": "żłem",
"ZTPLJAU": "żło",
"ZTPLJAUB": "żłop",
"ZTPLJAUCS": "żłom",
"ZTPLJEU": "żły",
"ZTPLJU": "żłó",
"ZTPLJUB": "żłób",
"ZTPLJUW": "żłów"
}
```
https://stenografia.pl/blog/

NFT in polands are wild.

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician find themselves in a joke, indeed a joke quite similar to many that you have no doubt already heard.

After some observations and rough calculations the engineer realizes the situation and starts laughing.

A few minutes later the physicist understands too and chuckles to himself happily as he now has enough experimental evidence to publish a paper.

This leaves the mathematician somewhat perplexed, as he had observed right away that he was the subject of a joke, and deduced quite rapidly the presence of humour from similar jokes, but considers this joke to be too trivial a corollary to be significant, let alone funny.

this reminded me of a joke website idea I had a while ago, where, if vivaldi's four seasons were to be stretched out across an entire year, which note would be playing

@chjara @Paradox You just need running water. Fluid dynamics is Turing-complete.

@timorl

This is a weird bug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Convert#Weird_behaviour_when_target_unit_is_specified_as_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vananui&diff=1057305451&oldid=986493280