ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

You traveled to a nearby town.
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You are safe in a town, what would you like to do?

The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

Despite being disproportionately responsible for the climate catastrophe, the super-rich will be the least affected by it........Astoundingly, Reid Hoffman, the multi-billionaire who cofounded LinkedIn, reports that “more than 50 percent of Silicon Valley’s billionaires have bought some level of ‘apocalypse insurance,’ such as an underground bunker. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk

#news #business #economics #politics #ClimateChange #psychology

Why did the W3C, which is part of MIT, a supposedly respected academic institution, take my name off the RSS 2.0 spec? They should explain this, fix it, and probably apologize.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html

When we organized against Google's Maven contract w US DOD, it wasn't just about 1 contract to build AI for an illegal drone war. We were concerned w the leverage it gave the US military over a massive surveillance corp & the shared incentives for war such dependency would instill

We were right.

https://www.tni.org/en/article/militarising-big-tech

Not a cat for #caturday but I couldn't resist sharing Tattoo Pig 😀

get it here: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/tattoo-pig-lisa-s-baker.html

#pig #pigs #farm #farmanimals #art #artwork #digitalart #artist #artistonmastodon #mastodon #mastoart #saturday #fediart #fediverse #creativetoots #painting #TheArtDistrict #fun #smile #joy

I wonder how many persons with an IT background use fedi vs people with no IT background...

​:renoteRequested:​ for reach (?

Episode 15: A child naively sets a disaster in motion, which definitely isn't a recurring motif, and also a villain gets to paste her propaganda directly into the narrative. https://www.wattpad.com/story/343286820-glory-in-the-thunder

#fiction #lgbtq

#Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd

What a difference between the heroic work of people like Daniel Ellsberg (who recently died) spreading important information, compared to people like Joe Rogan & RFK Jr who purposely mislead for personal gain, despite the harm done with the misinformation they spread.

In case you didn't know already, hanging out with a 4-year-old is EXHAUSTING. It's 9:30am, & I'm ready for a nap.

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

Anyone who was ever in a debate club knows that a debate is entertainment. It’s a word game and there are rules and judges you can win like you win at basketball.

No one thinks that debate is a good way to share information or change the public’s mind. The only person who ever thought this was Socrates because he believed that debate awoke memories from your previous lives. ‪¯\_(ツ)_/¯‬

Do you miss MySpace? No, right?

These dudes absolutely dependent on convincing you that they got all the power but dawg all these sites started out as a tiny thing. "We own the data" - my friend, I *AM* the data, and if you treat me like shit, I'll take my valuable saleable self someplace else.

Nobody cries for MySpace.

Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡

Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.

Me, to toddler: do you know what the internet is made of?

Toddler: um ... Cats, girls, and feet?

#Internet #Cats #girls #feet

So the garlic is actually looking pretty good a couple of days later. Probably could have left the bigger ones in a bit longer but the small ones a couple are starting to separate the cloves so it’s all good. @fifilamoura @yvan

I’m just going to make this post and pin it, in the hopes it gets some traction.
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If you are upset about what’s happening to the trans community in the US &want to help but aren’t local/hooked in to a particular danger-zone/state, please consider searching any of these hashtags to find folks you can help out. Even a few $$ can make a huge difference.

#transmutualaid #gtfomystate

And boost this shit to straight allies that might step up.

Happy Pride. 🏳️‍🌈

#Queer #Trans #Pride