There are a number of principles we will need to hold close and defend over the next several years. The Library Bill of Rights is among them, as worth championing today as it has been since its establishment in 1939. Quoted in full, with link, herein. 🧵(9)
Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still 50 states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets most votes, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the state Capitol.
“Bad shape” by @kissane https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
“The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.”
This is how it's done! Chicago Transit Authority abandons X.
"After careful consideration, CTA has decided to suspend the use of its general information (@ cta) and service alerts (@ ctaAlerts) accounts on Twitter/X.com, as this social media platform no longer provides the value it once did for us to effectively reach and communicate with our riders."
Simply walk away. Don't look back. No need for elaborate explanations. Leave.
+++NEW ANALYSIS+++
UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade
Highlights:
🏭end of coal power after 142yrs
🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share
🌄renewables at record-high 45%
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-electricity-was-cleanest-ever-in-2024
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I don't think people realised how disgusting the change from maps.google.com to google.com/maps was for a privacy point of view. If you allow location access now for google maps, google.com now has access.
Use encrypted comms platforms like Signal everywhere you can. ESPECIALLY for banal and innocuous stuff like organizing your little league team or your neighborhood potluck or your coworker's lunch bunch. The more people using encrypted comms platforms for absolutely boring things, the easier it is for those of us to NEED encrypted comms to be lost in the noise.
Edit: someone in the thread points out that this formulation was paraphrased from Sean Tejaratchi: https://web.archive.org/web/20130621083214/http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ledger/2012/03/taking_the_piss
This photo was taken in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, a city central to the Soviet space program. After seeing it, I want a science fiction series inspired by this aesthetic…
The Mac SVG viewing app Gapplin is quite good, I like it, but holy shit its icon is just fantastic. How is this icon so good‽‽
Live jazz at R.House in Remington (Baltimore) — always a highlight when I can make it!
’Tis once again the season to hold this timeless holiday message close to our hearts.
AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”
Company boasts "AI workers" that never complain about work-life balance.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
My next startup will be a Web site that explains Chris Nolan films.
I used to be married to an active, vibrant, happy young woman who decided one day to hang a bird feeder in the back yard, and now I’m married to a glassy-eyed, unwashed maniac that stands at the kitchen window all day screaming at squirrels.
This Dropbox page is really scammy. I have to upgrade in order to see my files, and I have lots of upgrade options but none of them show the cost. Come on.
Is there a tool that’s basically jq, but with a non-perplexing query/transformation language?
A note from some recent conversations on how to adopt a style guide:
A style guide doesn't produce consistency. It is the artifact of a culture that values consistency.
Any mutuals in North America have an M1 Mac Mini they might want to sell to me?
My first interaction with Azure tech support and I am decidedly unimpressed.