ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I was on Twitter/X for several years and as the COVID pandemic started it became a key way for people to communicate--scientists, clinicians, policy-makers, advocates. But since Musk took over many have fled and the place has become incredibly toxic (yes, I am slow to learn that not all things get better...). It's just really filled with hate now of all kinds. I just deleted my account. I feel free.

#frost so #chill
#happysnow

I've followed these spear campaigns against municipal broadband since 2005 when #UTOPIA started laying out their fiber to cities in #Utah.

Now that I work for one of the ISPs on the UTOPIA fiber network, I have an even closer view of what Big Telecom is doing to undermine communities rolling out their own public fiber infrastructure.

"Covert" and "sleazy" is only a fraction of the terms I would use.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/18/telecom-monopolies-are-once-again-funding-covert-sleazy-local-attacks-on-community-broadband-networks/

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
Douglas Adams

Hospitals owned by private equity firms are the most in harming patients, staff, and more. https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/01/hospitals-slash-staff-services-quality-of-care-when-private-equity-takes-over/

Not surprising really, but I'm glad it's reported.

There's no point in having institutions of soft power if you don't use them when fundamental principles are at stake.

Hilariously, the Royal Meteorological society chooses to keep this 85 year old article, one of the earliest studies of human-caused climate change, behind a paywall. Find it on @scihub

https://spore.social/@ed_hawkins@fediscience.org/110145986006405198

1930: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred.

2024: Unnecessary systemic poverty, widespread radicalization, division and hatred. Plus: 3,000,000,000+ #bullshitjobs and a collapsing biosphere. Thanks to systemic poverty.

#progress

"There is a sense that however profound the climate crisis challenges might be, the stakes are not yet urgent enough to warrant drastic action. "

#davos #climate #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene

Argonaut does not exist #TerranTradeAuthority #AIArt #midjourney

The Great Dick brand can always be trusted for quality and wholesomeness.

"They'll pretend they always loved you after they kill you." (quoting a person on a social media)

Always wanted one of these

https://www.europesays.com/1000142/ The absurd claim that DEI programs caused Boeing’s failure is similar to the scam conservative talk radio pulls on working people – deflecting blame on bad working conditions away from the greedy corporations by blaming “wokeness”, immigrants, etc. #Economy

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"He [Dionysos] was accompanied [...] by a personal attendant and caretaker, Seilenos, who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛 #Dionysos and a #Maenad with #Silenos, red-figure vase painting dated 360-350 BCE

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

𝓖𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂

Blockchain: a slow database

Crypto: an expensive slow database

NFT: an expensive slow database to store URLs

AI: a way to write slow and inefficient algorithms

LLM: a database that stores text in a slow and inefficient way

Chat GPT: an expensive imprecise query language for slow and inefficient text databases that often returns wrong results

It’s Caturday 🐈‍⬛🐈

Traveling from the US to a jurisdiction with real privacy laws is instructive. Visiting some of the same web sites I always visit, after clicking through a “manage cookies" banner from one (US) web site I saw this. Folks, I’m more than casually knowledgeable about privacy; it's one of my research areas and I write about it, and even I was shocked at the number of (I assume potential) partners in this pop-up, to say nothing of the cookie types that couldn't be disabled.