Juha Autero ๐
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no, computers werent a mistake
no, the internet wasnt a mistake
the mistake was letting capitalism have control of these things
Juha Autero ๐
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In late 2020, a coalition of predatory, money-losing, private-equity backed companies ran a $200m disinformation campaign that resulted in the passage of California's Prop 22, legalizing worker misclassification and mass-scale labor law violations.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#prop-22
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Juha Autero ๐
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Here is a nice article about a guy who photographs bats, because he did a thesis on bats and didn't like that all the pictures he saw of them were snarling and bitey because nobody bothered to do anything other than pick up a captive bat and squeeze it and snap a pic, and he was like, how about....we don't........do that https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/slideshow/batman-forever-october-slideshow?slide=#1
and first prototype of commercial fusion power station after 2050.
People who think that fusion will solve climate chrisis don't understand urgency of the situation.
Climate scientists say we have to act in next 10 years. The first test reactor that is expected to produce more thermal energy than it needs is under construction and planned to start comissioning in 2025 and fusion reaction in 2035. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Timeline_and_status
If everything goes well, this will lead to constructon of nuclear fusion power station that demonstrates electricity production in 2040s (...)
Juha Autero ๐
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i complain that the two wolves meme won't stop but this is my longest running post on tumblr and it never stops
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Age poll pt. 2! Again, this may not apply to you (refer to previous toot if it doesn't).
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Hello all! In the interest of finding out how the Fedi skews, I want to run another age poll. Please pick the decade that you fall in (there are two polls; if you don't belong in the first, you may belong in the second).
Boosts welcome and encouraged!
@matt No, but my pants are down.
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RT @Fly_Cuttlefish@twitter.com
This will always be one of my favorite historical fun facts.
๐ฆ๐: https://twitter.com/Fly_Cuttlefish/status/1355536221385207812
Guess I don't need to learn Rust after all.
Microsoft joins Rust Foundation - Open Source Blog
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/microsoft-joins-rust-foundation/
@onepict @hhardy01 They are already developing technical solutions for that. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55573802
I wonder if those can be confused by wearing a mask with print of (someone else's) face.
@wenotfreeyet The company or the rainforest?
@yarmo @halcek I'm more worried about podcasts moving to siloed systems. For example I can't subscribe to "We Speak CVE" because my client apparently isn't one of the "major podcast directories". https://cve.mitre.org/podcast/
@ignaloidas @toast Same for Finnish.
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I wonder if being trained to think about problems abstractly rather than as issues that can have knock effects on other human beings applies to more than just Law and Philosophy. Could explain a bit, what's wrong with Silicon Valley, no groking of real life ramifications of code
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RT @shengokai
Hello, philosophy? Are you fucking paying attention? Not everything is a thought experiment. https://twitter.com/pronounced_ing/status/13603261โฆ
https://twitter.com/shengokai/status/1360401435339460610
@yarmo @Samsai Google finds email thread that says "no". https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001993.html
@clacke My point is that getting a working LAMP stack on Android is not trivial.
papa smurf x thanos wip - non-explicit nudity
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Joined Jun 2020
