Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

The Twitter takeover shouldn't just dispel the myth of Musk being a genius, it should dispel the myth of him even being able to run a business at all. Guy only became aware of legal action against his own company after the authorities gave up trying to contact him, the story made it to the mainstream media, then several days later an account on his platform dedicated to reporting news about his platform saw the story and reposted it.

Via Tom Harwood of GBNews:

Passenger railways: Europe and North America.

#rail #trains #transit #Europe #US #traffic

Schedule of today's events:

1:00 pm: Trump surrenders at Manhattan DA office.

2:15 pm: Trump brought to Judge Merchan's courtroom for arraignment, unsealing of charges.

2:27pm: Trump enters "not guilty" pleas to each count.

2:31pm: Distraction from smoke bomb in back of courtroom

2:32pm: Trump leaps from courtroom window into mattress truck waiting on side street in dramatic escape.

2:35pm: Mayor Adams calls Batman.

Just 🔥 from @davekarpf https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-needs-professional-help?sd=pf

"The guy can’t work out the logistics of removing verification badges, who wants to put him in charge of their oxygen supply? ...

"These are not special geniuses, bending the world in accordance with their reality-distortion fields. They’re just self-congratulatory rich guys, buying and breaking expensive toys and then blaming the media or the government."

Communique for #BlackMastodon and Black folk only:

(White folk can listen too if they want, but this conversation is not for them).

The people telling you to be very afraid of Artificial General Intelligence don't know what they're talking about. Remember, their last big predictions were:
* Monkey jpegs are now money. Buy crypto.
* Elon will be great for Twitter
* Listening to VCs talk on Clubhouse is the next big social network
* Adam Neuman is a genius, and we should give him more money

This latest JWST image features some spectacular gravitational lensing. A massive cluster of galaxies in the foreground profoundly distorts the images of more distant galaxies.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

Carl sagan’s thought about books:
“When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. So we learned to
stockpile enormous quantities of information outside our bodies. We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have
invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A book is made from a tree. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

#sagan #carlsagan

Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?

It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.

It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.

Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.

Aw… 📚🔦

This is absurd.

If Biden commits a crime, he should also be prosecuted.

And random local prosecutors will not be able to bring cases against former presidents.

The Manhattan DA is bringing a case against Trump because he lived and work in Manhattan for decades.

A state you’re not allowed to take your pregnant daughter out of to procure a legal medical procedure in another state is no longer a state and becomes a dystopian prison.

Idaho is about to become a prison for underage girls.

I hope this is a wake up call for people who aren’t taking this creeping christofascism seriously — they are coming for EVERYTHING that doesn’t fit into their worldview.

If you ever wondered what you would have done in WW2 or Jim Crow, you’re doing it now.

This is how you make a statement.

who decided it was called “emotional baggage“ and not “griefcase” ???