ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

"It takes a Kafkaesque flourish of spite to withdraw help from desperate people on the grounds that they committed the crime of which they are the victim."

#UKPolitics
#Immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/14/stop-the-boats-britain-tory-campaign-rishi-sunak

#birds #bird #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #pnw #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #birdwatching #sharebeauty

Warble at my feeder. It is a good moment when everything stressful fades because a bird looks you in the eye and says good morning. I always leave before it becomes agitated, knowing we will greet each other again.

I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)

#MichelleYeoh #StarTrek #Oscars

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Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

One of the things that came out of several industry focused projects I worked on across Europe in the last decade that is not dependent on the size of company is that unless you have the C-suite pushing for ethics/responsible innovation the most it can ever be is a box checking exercise or lip service. Microsoft showing this in practice this week, after Google and Meta have done before. I hate to be cynical about these efforts but they were largely doomed from the start.

The Great Gray Owl showing the talon.

See it larger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/the-talon-jan-luit.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #Birds #SpringIntoArt #FediGiftShop #Art #WildlifePhotography #Owls #NaturePhotography #fotografie #PhotographyIsArt #Photography #Natuur #birdsofmastodon #Nature #Birdwatching #Vogel #NatureBeauty #Naturelovers #Ontario

The Wall Street Journal editorial pages regularly read like satires of right-wing blindness, but blaming the Silicon Valley Bank failure on corporate "wokeness" is worthy of the Onion for self-parody.

#birds #bird #birding #wildlife #photography #nature #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #pnw #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #birdwatching First killdeer pic of year.

Reflection

Short Mountain, Hedgesville, West Virginia — March 6, 2023

#daily #art #artbooster #photography #photo #WestVirginia #nature #naturephotography

The unwelcome task of re-organising photo files. It does have the compensation of uncovering images you had forgotten about... patterns in frozen puddles...

Or perhaps, just perhaps, the nation’s supposedly leading business newspaper would have better seen these failures coming if they had focused more on market, economic, and business conditions and less on obsessively rooting out the woke menace of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and veterans(!) gaining token admission to the corridors of power and wealth.

you do not need corporate algorithms to recommend you movies and music: ask your friends!

your friends:
- have your best interests at heart
- will not sell your data for money
- enjoy sharing interests with you
- know your tastes and interests based on more than your purchase history

I'm not being hyperbolic. This was literally the bank that the most anti-woke people used. The people that write anti-woke books like this.

Black folk weren't architects of either the hedging strategy or the bank run.

Don't bank run on your own bank, then try to blame it on us.

I'm not saying that Black folk didn't care about the Venture Capital money in Silicon Valley Bank. I'm just saying that we probably cared about it ~98% less than the rest of y'all. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Doctor Doom toots as he PLEASES!

A Barred Owl in the Louisiana swamps.
#OwlsOfMastodon

“Waited a very long time for it to finally fly out from behind a tree and it landed on a dead tree that was level with me.” - photographer Joe Fontenot

the tenor of reporting on crypto projects sure has changed in a year

(WSJ: https://wsj.com/articles/justice-department-probes-collapse-of-do-kwons-terrausd-stablecoin-10bd5ffb)

A Deep View of the Dwarf Spiral Galaxy NGC 3109 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2jCSJYJ