Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

Road in front of Russian Embassy in #London to be renamed #Kyiv Road :-)

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/london-is-getting-a-kyiv-road-in-front-of-the-russian-embassy-60798/

OLD THREAD REPOST

In 19th century Europe, C-sections were performed only in direst need and maternal mortality was very high. At the same time in Africa, indigenous people were performing the operation successfully saving both. This is a thread on Banyoro obstetric surgery in the 19th century.

i hope, though, that this exponential flood of inhuman content will finally make it impossible not to see that we all have inherent value regardless of what we produce or consume.

care about the world because caring matters. make art because it matters. *you* matter. each of us contains infinities the machines will never understand. don’t let them try to tell you that you can be replaced; you can’t. none of us can.

always ask yourself who benefits from your apathy, your overwhelm, your exhaustion, your loneliness.

usb drives you find lying on the ground are modern day cursed amulets

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

Everyone in Japan wears masks voluntarily. Why?

In 1918, Japan put a lot of effort into educating the public, providing masks for free, and mandating them in public spaces. They continued to do so, even when places like the US stopped.

The result? Long-term behavioral change.

What Japan did in 1918 was so effective in changing long-term behavior that 100 years later everyone in Japan wears masks voluntarily despite there being no mandates these days.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/100-years-and-counting-mask-wearing-japan

#COVID

Me: (Lives a life of reasonable dignity and safety, accomplishing goals that correspond to my values)

Conservatives: This is very offensive, to me; can we make a law against this?

Ok, so there is much discussion about the alt text on pictures. My mom is legally blind. As she has gotten older her sight is almost gone. She LIVES on the computer and to say she gets excited when special attention is paid for the blind is a great understatement. Please use alt text and describe the pictures you post. Describe it as if you had your eyes closed and the only link to the outside world is what a kind soul took an extra 5 minutes to type. Come on, do it, make someone’s day.#AltText

Today’s poem is about saying goodbye.

The Onion is on a roll. https://www.theonion.com/evangelical-leaders-announce-j-k-rowling-finally-bigot-1850129128

if you recall like six library books, and the same person has all of them, i think you should be able to meet in person so you can either get married or fight to the death

When I was younger I used to think Don Quixote was a story about a Donkey called "Oaty"

If you post about any obsolete technology on Mastodon, within 5 minutes someone will tell you that they still use it daily.

There is big conservation news coming out of Scotland today.

The government has adopted new planning rules, known as National Planning Framework 4, which will ensure that *NO* development will be supported if it impacts ancient woodland & ancient & veteran trees across the country.

The new rules have come into force with immediate effect.

These habitats are irreplaceable, so it's a landmark step in the fight against climate & nature emergencies.

#woodland #trees #photomonday #forest #art

I love reading the alt text on photos cause it tells me what the poster finds beautiful or most salient in the image. It’s like a little peek through their eyes at the world

"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."

There is still time to plant bare-root fruit #trees. Bumblebees, solitary bees & other #pollinators such as butterflies and hoverflies love #fruit tree blossom and can often be found collecting pollen and nectar from the flowers in spring. Bare-root trees are much cheaper & better for the environment, there are also lots of trees on smaller root-stocks, especially apples, suitable for small gardens. I planted a new plum tree at the weekend, plum 'Opal', apparently it has very tasty fruit.

Nazis are literally banned in Germany so I'd been wondering how Twitter 2.0's strategy of unbanning the Nazis as a growth hack would play there.

It turns out it doesn't and the company just got hit with its first lawsuit for not enforcing German laws.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/elon-musk-twitter-antisemitic-hate-speech-lawsuit-germany/

the more I think about it, the more it seems that as long as they're controlled by an unethical industry that views humans as something to extract wealth from, machine learning technologies (including LLMs like chatGPT and art things like dall-e) will be harmful regardless of what they can or cannot do.

#AIHype