Sylvain Miermont @miermont@social.cleverlibre.org

Remember the new @mozilla CEO whose first action was to post a link to her Linkedin profile?

Some said I was harsh that we should let her the benefit of doubt.

So here are the first true actions: firing 60 people working on useless products to focus the company on its true mission.

The useless products?
- Relay (privacy, protection against spam)
- VPN (privacy)
- Mozilla.social (Mastodon)
- Monitor (privacy)

True mission to focus:
- AI (???)

You can’t made that up

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

“It’s not too late. It’s not fine. It’s exactly the time to demand a better world.”

Love this by @ClimateAdam and Rosemary Mosco (Bird and Moon Comics).

The news and our anxiety about it can seem devastating and overwhelming - but there's more to the story. The action we take now will and is making a difference, and, at the same time, much more needs to be done, by more people to make the difference that's needed.

And you don’t have to do it on your own, find or start a local Transition group and together reshape your community to be more resilient, fairer and thrive for the future.

https://transitiontogether.org.uk/groups/

#climateaction #community #itsnottoolate #transitiontown #climate #climatechange

Discarded products are often viable goods that are often tossed prematurely.

By repairing them, we will save €12 billion for consumers in the EU per year!

Soon, you will benefit from new consumer rights that make repairs more appealing and straightforward after the legal guarantee has expired.

Together, we can make a difference.

#EUGreenDeal

once again floored by Bell Labs gorgeous artist renderings of possible future scenarios. this image is from 1969 and imagines the future of the Picturephone - revolutionary for getting people to think, for the first time, about "face-to-face" interactions over phone lines #othernetworks

Yes, heat pumps also work in cold climates.

Almost 5 million heat pumps have been installed in Finland, Sweden and Norway with 10 million households combined.

My article for Carbon Brief here:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-heat-pumps-became-a-nordic-success-story/

Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.

Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.

It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.

#books #mRNA #science #biography

A cool lil training station where you can practice mounting your bike to a bus in peace.

TELEZ BioReactor Controller by 1bit controls a collection of pumps, load cells and other hardware. Integrates with Particle Electron for cellular connectivity.

Article by @ishotjr https://www.pjrc.com/telez-bioreactor-controller/

Detailed Info:
https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/telez-teensy-realtime-raspberry-fileserver-particle-cloud-connection.45513/

It's worth noting that Andreessen Horowitz is running a huge marketing blitz around this book.

This isn't just Chris Dixon misreading the room and publishing his book two years too late — they're trying to drum up the next story to sell people on crypto.

Enjoying posting this to Mastodon, which I have been informed by Chris Dixon is a failure.

He's real mad Mastodon won't use a blockchain, btw.

Hurricanes are becoming so strong due to the climate change that the classification of them should be expanded to include a “category 6” storm, furthering the scale from the standard 1 to 5, according to a new study.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/05/hurricanes-becoming-so-strong-that-new-category-needed-study-says

Happy birthday RepRap, thank you for you stunning work and approach of the industrial world. RepRap is so much more than a bunch of machines, it is a different way to see how human kind could move forward better. 💚💚💚

https://reprap.org/wiki/Wealth_Without_Money

#reprap #3dprinting #opensource #selfreplicating @3dprinting

HEADS UP

In a short while I'm going to be asking for a lot of donations, or maybe some big ones, for a project that has taken nine years to see completion. If you want to write some whopper of a check NOW (it'll be five figures) that would be hot. Tax-deductible donations to https://archive.org/donate - mention "Jason's Project".

Details come in another day or two.

"The emission savings from replacing all those internal combustion engines with zero-carbon alternatives will not feed in fast enough to make the necessary difference in the time we can spare: the next five years. Tackling the climate and air pollution crises requires curbing all motorised transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possible"

#Cycling
#ClimateEmergency

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

Spain’s showing the world what it is to retain your moral compass.
#UNRWA

Happy Birthday to one of the most beloved media players out there!!! 🥳 ✨

@videolan

#opensource

The stylish, unknown & extremely rare SEGA AI COMPUTER (1986) promised natural language processing and "artificial intelligence" via its Prolog interpreter.

We're making available today, for the first time ever: system roms, game cards, tapes recordings, scans, photos, MAME driver & more: https://smspower.org/SegaAI

I would like to ask the people who marvel about the Fermi Paradox and hope to one day communicate with an extraterrestrial civilization what they think about our inability or unwillingness to communicate with the other technological civilization we have right under our noses on Earth: the termites.

Gonna need to throw every trick in the book at this layout.

This book, that is. Luckily the little one is asleep so she's not trying to read it :p