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Your reminder: Texas power providers are not only free from sensible regulations

They are now free from having to provide Texans with power during a storm or emergency

This, while Texas passed an embedment handing Texas energy suppliers over $10 billion in public money for…whatevs

That Lone Star is a review.

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There's just a lot of people on here today saying "give facebook a chance" who do not seem to want to talk about what facebook does with the chances it's given.

I don't get this "people dress sloppily in 2023" assertion.

Every time, without fail - and I mean Every Single Time - if I have a work video call or meeting, I pick the cleaner of my two hoodies.

After the Peugeot 404 Cabriolet and Coupé, today the saloon/sedan. I couldn't locate a photo of my own - a literal case of '404 not found'. Happily Peugeot obliges with this visual gag, which is what you get if you lose your way on the company's website. Surely this is the best 404 error message out there. #Peugeot #404NotFound #WeirdCarMastodon #davidsdailycar

“Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march | Environmental activism | The Guardian”

If these laws had been in place back in the 2000s, I’d almost certainly have a criminal record, after having been arrested at an anti-war or pro-refugee protest https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law

This is awesome. Site dedicated to #DIY toy and game repair via #3Dprinting. https://toy-rescue.com/

Bad headline: "Fediverse 'purists' reject Meta's Threads"

Good headline: "Meta's Threads fails at federation — unable to moderate abuse and hate speech"

My dad the judge taught me that it's not enough for justice to be done; it needs to be seen to be done. The world needs to see that problem is Meta.

(I recognise that we risk weeks of rising abusive behaviour before the defederation happens, and I respect the opposing arguments from people who want to prevent that.)

#Threads #fediverse

I'm about 90% sure threads won't integrate with most fedi content warning protocols which means your lewds will be visible to insta users and you can get yourself - perhaps even your whole server - blocked pretty swiftly. That's the power of hole.

For real, just post hole occasionally on the tl and threads will defederate from you first

Finishing the research for the next episode of the #solarpunkPrompts , the #solarpunk #podcast I realize that it is a really good topic for #writing an #anthology or a full-fledged #novel on.

The Tower is a residential high-rise aiming to be sustainable both technologically and socially. A mixed-use development, with a grocery shop, a community center, laundromat, library, kindergarten.

A slice of a Solarpunk city, a neighborhood in itself.

More on Friday!

#architecture #WritingPrompt

If you're wondering what this #JohnMastodonDay thing is all about, here's the tl;dr:

A year ago, somebody writing for some media thingy in the midst of the whole banning-people-for-social-media-links insanity, made a hilariously silly mistake, and wrote that #JohnMastodon, the "founder of Mastodon", got banned from .

This is obviously an error, as everyone knows Mastodon was in fact created by #JoanMastodon.

Informujemy, że nasz przedstawiciel @piotrsikora weźmie udział w pierwszym spotkaniu Ministerstwa Cyfryzacji z organizacjami pozarządowymi, społecznymi i branżowymi.

Będziemy rozmawiać o priorytetach w obszarze cyfryzacji, przedstawimy nasze doświadczenia z wykorzystania oprogramowania open-source i mediów społecznościowych pozostających poza kontrolą BigTech, czyli #Fediwersum.

Więcej:
https://www.gov.pl/web/cyfryzacja/zapraszamy-na-spotkanie-organizacje-branzowe-i-spoleczne

Czekamy na Wasze zdanie i pomysły w tych tematach, zapraszamy też osoby aktywistyczne i zaangażowane do kontaktu. Mamy nadzieję, że to pierwsze spotkanie otworzy dyskusję i doprowadzi do realnych zmian w strategii cyfryzacji Polski.

Jak wspomniał w jednym z wywiadów Minister Cyfryzacji Gawkowski:
"W Ministerstwie Cyfryzacji zdanie Big Techu będzie na ostatnim miejscu."

Trzymamy za słowo i liczymy na dialog.

My winter sports gear of choice was the chainsaw.

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

We are half way through getting 200mm of rain (8 inches in old money) over a 30 hour deluge. This is how it started. I'll let you know when it stops.

Castricum aan Zee, the Netherlands

(Click to see full photo)

#SilentSunday #beach #dunes #benches #LichenSubscribe #bench #grass #nature #NaturePhotography #NorthSea #photography #Pentax #dslr #PentaxK70 #PentaxK70_RN

17 December 1904 | A Czech Jewish woman, Vlasta Lamplová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Do you want to gloat how many Mastodon followers you have by showing that glorious number on a wall or a shelf? Look no further, I have a solution for you!

You can do it easily with a Raspberry Pi, a four digit display and a simple script. The instructions are in my newest blog post:

https://stfn.pl/blog/21-display-mastodon-followers/

#Mastodon #RaspberryPi

I'll admit, I never really *got* Conway's Game of Life.
It was one of those things which I was vaguely aware of but thought was hideously complicated.
After reading the biography of von Neumann, I suddenly got it.
And, to test my knowledge, I wrote a couple of dozen lines of Python to implement it.
Pretty pleased that I both understood the concepts and was able to knock up an implementation myself.