 If you have been fully gainfully employed, a commuter, usual 9-5, and want to give yourself a culture shock about the prevalence of disease in your society, try this. When you do get a day off. Go to town. Or city. Not the shiny expensive bits. In your usual working office hours. The old high streets. Now look around you, at people. Really look. The illness and disability and advanced decrepitude rate is staggering. Society can separate you from seeing them by the social divide of a commute. Today, after half a year of talking, we may hear the announcement of a right-far-right government in the Netherlands, led by Wilders' PVV party and supported by @minpres Rutte's VVD, newcomer NSC, and 'farmers party' BBB.
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  @Sustainable2050 Hoping they're as ineffective as most populists. That's the best possible outcome until we're back to voting in 3.5 years. Thanks everyone! We closed the loop! Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles. No humans needed any more! Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.
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 @ploum it's getting that way... According to one study some 50% of Internet traffic is bot activity. #deadinternet here we come! https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html @ploum which supports my theory that the corporation is the dominant organism on this planet. Trump's administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules over four years. Now, he's promised to do whatever Big Oil wants if they give him $1 billion for his campaign. That's the thing with Trump: He'll sell us all out for his own gain. Be warned.
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@rbreich @rbreich Caring about our future... Not so much. @brucelawson Yep, last week I got the "Pay an extortion fee, or agree that we can ignore EU laws" message again. So, I just closed the browser...  @brucelawson @plexus the last few weeks for me have been sitting in workshops about all of this stuff. It's still unclear how we are going to comply with it all, but we want to - but if every company comes knocking at our door demanding access to Smart Home data on behalf of their users that could get tricky - here it would be good to have standards for this IoT and customer data (we are currently investigating Data Pods) It's kind of weird that over the next couple of decades, the stereotype of "grandparents don't know how to use computers" is going to have to give way to "grandparents remember when computers worked at all and won't shut up about it."
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 @megmac or "grandparents actually know how to properly use a computer for more than just a web browser and can set it up and fix it on their own." Also for context: having been pretty much only on French trains the past month, today I’m travelling Ravières - Strasbourg - Offenburg - Berlin, tomorrow Berlin - Büchen - Lübeck - Hamburg, and Wednesday Hamburg - Köln - Paris - Ravières. A lot of km on German railways. So rather than slamming Deutsche Bahn (which is a German national sport), I’m instead praising what I miss about DB when I’m in France I hope you're all working hard on fixing the year 2038 problem because I don't plan to come back from retirement for this. I just discovered that 2038-1973=65 which is the current retirement age, here in Switzerland. 📝 I messed up with git. But a gist saved me. And its comments section is an oasis in the desert of internet comments.  @jimniels `reflog` is probably the best command in git, haha. Not in the way it works (as opaque as everything in git), but that it allows you to restore almost anything. Enjoying some Oolong tea from Taiwan. Gang Kou Cha, 港口茶 – something about the sea? In German, it's named "Meer Oolong". Babelcarp to the rescue: https://babelcarp.org/babelcarp/junk.cgi?phrase=%E6%B8%AF%E5%8F%A3%E8%8C%B6 → "literally Harbor Tea: a lightly-oxidized Pingtung oolong, traditionally rolled and dried in the same wok, with appearance similar to meicha" Best #Eurovision #ESC2024 performance: The BBC sign language interpreters Edit /addendum:
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 @NaMi I saw an interview about the sign language recently and the person was explaining that it's actually much more than just doing gestures, the body language is very important and there is a cultural factor to the point you can tell if someone has been born without hearing or if it happened later in their life. I guess like being fluent Overall it's a very very rich language 
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@GryphonSK counterpoint: Denying that your movement has a problem being peaceful towards #Jews is the language of the victim. Fossil fuels generated less than a quarter of the EU's electricity in April. The drop in fossil fuel generation was driven by wind and solar growth as well as the recovery of hydropower. #ClimateChange At a writing group I attended today, an attendee mentioned she was losing her hearing. Someone at the local Commission for the Deaf had told her about an app she could someday use to get live captions at in person events, but she wasn’t sure how it worked. Within a few minutes, I had this app called Ava downloaded, connected her to the session I started, and we had an hour or so of free, auto-generated (so, imperfect, but better than none) live captioning for the discussion. It was incredible. AI tools can be used in really cool ways that can really help people, and change people’s lives for the better! It’s unfortunate that the current AI craze is mostly not that at all, however. I've been training for my 1st marathon! I picked a 16 week training plan, and then picked a marathon to race at that was 16 weeks from that - the Brisbane Marathon. 3 weeks to go and feeling nervous! I've followed the plan religiously and I feel fit. Fitter than I've ever been (obviously). It's funny how things escalated. 4 years ago a 5km run was tough. 2 years ago, first 10km, last year was 2 half-marathons (21km), so a full 42km was the next obvious goal. 🙃 The Guardian asked hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists for their views on the most effective actions combating climate-ecological breakdown. The top 5 actions were: 1. Vote for representatives who pledge strong climate action. 2. Reduce flying and fossil fuel-powered transport in favour of electric and public transport. 3. Reduce meat consumption. 4. Reduce home heating or cooling emissions. 5. Join a campaign or protest group.
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 Source (for anyone else interested): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take  @GeofCox Yet no mention of offing fossil fuel CEOs or their political lapdogs, pour encourager les autres. finally had the opportunity to go through my photos from hong kong, so I made this photoessay on why i love hong kong: |
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Then remember most vulnerable people, given a choice won't go out in a pandemic. Many are housebound. You're only seeing the walking disabled, the functional afflicted. There are many more.
Always remember when you work and commute, you only see half the people in the world. At best.
Things, are not ok.