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I still think the most under-reported, most holy shit tech story of the last 5+ years is how good e-bikes have gotten and how much more affordable a decent e-bike has become.
E-cars and trucks are a nice change but mostly meh. E-bikes, tho? They are magic.
They deserve subsidies and way more press attention.
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E-bikes outsell electric cars and trucks, and are the best-selling Electric Vehicles.
Meanwhile most journalists focus on the traditional automotive market and use the term EV to refer only to e-cars/trucks.
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@marion_grau E-bikes sell more units than cars in the US. Globally they sell *far* more units than EVs (see below).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/10/17/electric-bikes-cars-cost-testing/
Globally they save more oil than EVs.
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.Ars Technica
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yesterday my son had a fever and we were out of kid’s meds. Pharmacy closing in 30min. Took the eBike without question or hesitation. You know down to the minute how long the trip will take. No stress.
When I got to the shops the car park was literally jammed with cars. They were all crawling around below walking speed. The air was thick with exhaust. I heard people swearing.
After completing my purchase I passed cars I saw on the way in. Still trying to park.
Dear New York Times et al,
He was never a successful businessman.
1. He inherited 400 million dollars and turned that into zero dollars.
2. He went bankrupt 7 times.
3. Some of those bankruptcies were casinos, literally a licence to print money which he couldn't manage.
4. He conned kids with cancer out of money once. That's why he can't run a charity anymore.
5. The following business ventures no longer exist or are insolvent:
a. Trump Steaks
b. Trump University
c. Trump Mortgage
d. Trump Vodka
e. Trump: The Game
f. Trump Ice
g. GoTrump.com
h. Trump Magazine
i. The New Jersey Generals
j. Trump Airlines
k. Trump Entertainment Resorts (filed for bankruptcy FOUR TIMES)
l. Trump Tower Tampa
m. Trump Taj Mahal
n. The Trump Plaza
o. Trump Castle
p. Plaza Hotel
q. Trump Media and Technology Group
r. Truth Social
s. Trump Shuttle, Inc
t. Trump Fire
u. Trump Power
v. Trump's American Pale Ale
w. Trump Marina
x. Trump Casino, Indiana
y. Trump Style
z. Trump World Magazine
aa. Trumpnet, LLC
ab. Trump Entrepreneur Initiative
ac. Trump Fragrances
ad. Empire by Trump
ae. Trump Mattress
af. Tour de Trump
ag. Trump Network
ah. Trumped!
ai. Trump Menswear
aj. Trump Home
ak. Success by Trump
al. Trump Hotel Bedding Line
am. Donald J. Trump Eyeglasses
an. Donald Trump Regency Lighting
ao. Select by Trump Coffee
6. Of the 16 companies that were manufacturing Trump-branded products in 2015, only 2 remain in business less than 10 years later. Neither of those companies are American. One is located in Panama and the other is located in Turkey.
Stop saying "successful businessman". My little company founded in 2014 has been in business longer, employs more people, and makes more income than 99% of his ventures. The difference between him and me is access to capital, which means he gets unlimited bites at the apple, and I get just this one if I'm lucky.
Signed,
a small business owner in Washington
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uBlock Origin filter list for sites that contain AI-generated content for uBlock Origin. Useful for scrubbing AI-generated bullshit from Google, DDG, and Bing image search pages.
Edit: I didn't make this! Just seemed useful.
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/tree/main
GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.
A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-BlocklistGitHub
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#Chevron Will Pay Record Fines for #Oil Spills in #California
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The penalties come after an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica found that companies were profiting from illegal spills and California’s oversight of the industry was lax.
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Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
California may be a global leader on combating climate change, but state regulators have allowed companies like Chevron to make millions from inland oil spills that can endanger workers and damage the environment.ProPublica
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There's no amount of money that could possibly give those people back their lives & livelihoods, or repair the damage done to what God created to be beautiful & healthy.
The executives 🤴 don't pay fines or get jail, when a individual would likely lose their home if they did the same crime.
We got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.
Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. 😊
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The ‘queer.af’ Mastodon instance disappeared because of the Taliban
The administrator of the “queer.af” Mastodon instance was surprised to find the Afghanistan Taliban government had disabled its domain two months before its renewal date.Wes Davis (The Verge)
.am Armenia, Automake
.as American Samoa, ActionScript
.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands, C++
.gs South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Google App Script
.ml Mali, ML
.mm Myanmar, Objective-C++
.pl Poland, Perl
.pm Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Perl module
.py Paraguay, Python
.rs Rust, Serbia
.sh Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Shell
plus many I've no doubt missed
well..
rust IS actually really cool.
when my friends ask me if its hard to get into, i tell them there is no learning curve.
rather a learning-wall that you hit really hard and its going to hurt.
but clippy will carry you trough all the pain till you are clean and enlightened.
join the cult!
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Whatever it is... the letter is very lovely 😊
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But i‘m sure you treat that like a surprise inheritance from nigeria…
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@CatDad I don't care if they care. It needs to be said. It deserves to be said. If nothing else for whatever super tiny bit of good it might do in having others see it.
But I'm not going to use X even for something this important.
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Maybe I'm just a knee jerk Dem but I like what Biden's done. His admin revived US manufacturing. He got a global corporate minimum tax rate adopted at home and abroad. He lowered inflation without steering us into a recession. And he led when it came to Ukraine even if Republicans tried to sabotage him.
If I lived in NH, I would have happily written in his name today.
I can't look at this as a good thing "for the country" just because of what it says about America. But I think the path to beating Trump is better understood and has less potential for ugly surprises than if the GOP could manage to run anyone else.
Really the GOP running anyone else scared me since most people "get" what the issues with Trump are but I worry that many fail to see how deeply those issues have spread among all Republicans.
Haley isn't "better."
And still, virtually no one brings up the fact that according to Sec. 3 of the 14th Amendment, anyone who's previously taken an oath to defend the Constitution and then "engages in insurrection or rebellion" is disqualified from holding public office again.
Trump can run, but theoretically he can't sit (in the Oval Office) even if he wins. #14thAmendmentSec3
Why is everyone seemingly accepting Trump will be on the ballot? The constitution could not be clearer this time!
Amendment 14 Section 3:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/
Yes, Democrats need to make it clear that constitutional democracy is at stake. Is that a winning strategy? Not clear; many seem not to care.
They should *also* hammer the Republicans on abortion rights at every opportunity. I think that's one of the GOP's most vulnerable areas. Even if Trump backpedals, it needs to be emphasized at every opportunity that Trump's appointments were what overturned Roe v Wade.
There is a slim chance Haley gets enough votes between now and Super Tuesday to still be viable. Then maybe something major happens and the GOP decide to ditch Trump at the convention.
And by slim chance, I mean low single-digit percent chance.
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In 100,000 years an alien ship enters our solar system. The earth has no remarkable intelligent life, but it's a beautiful biodiverse planet recovering from some bad extinctions. The aliens don't notice the traces left by humanity right away, this is just a survey trip and not much monumental remains.
But, they do pick up a signal, coming not from Earth, but from Mars. "How strange?" they think. Mars is obviously the inferior planet for life. Earth is incredible. But they go to investigate. 1/
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In fact, most of the aliens do not go to Mars, the least senior members of the team are sent, since tracing such signals is core to their mission. Everyone else wanted to stay on Earth taking in the vast herds of wilder-beasts, the insects and plant life, the remarkable coral reefs.
The junior members of the team lament being back in space suits on a cold dead planet-- but such is the lot of a new explorer. They make their way to Olympus Mons where the signal originates. 2/
Though there is art on the walls and books on the shelves, everything has been replaced thousands of times all this effort, the vast strip mine, the fleets of machines have only one purpose: to prevent change.
Inside the house there is no air to breathe, the residents do not need it.
"Greetings Alien visitors! We always knew you would come to find us some day!" Say the three figures seated at the table in the dining room.
"Who are you?" Ask the junior alien researchers.
4/
"We are the people of earth!" The machines proclaim. "It is sad, but we are all that survives."
The aliens share a look of skepticism between them. They saw an awful lot that survived in the little time they got to spend on Earth, and speaking of earth they want to get back so try to rush through their interview with these weird machines.
The machines tell of a civilization, an environmental crisis. How they, the very best of Earth went to Mars so all would not be lost. 5/
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The machines of Mars tell the aliens how they "uploaded" their minds.
"Oh no." Says one alien involuntarily, but his friends nudge him to be quiet.
The machines of Mars have many questions to ask the aliens, but the aliens are growing bored. They just saw a video on their ship's social feed of senior officers diving & swimming in jewel blue waters with sea turtles & colorful fish. And there are photos of the remarkable birds-
"uh. We are honored to meet you and all but for now we must go." 6/
Somehow they manage to extract themselves from the Mars machine men... who happily cannot leave their compound-- they needed their maintenance machines.
"Do you think these count as gray goo? Do we need a quarantine?" Asks one alien as they make their way down the mountain.
"Nah! That's only if it's nanotech. I can't believe you almost told a group of immortality AIs the truth about uploading!"
"They would have never believed me!"
7/
Having done the least desirable task in the mission the junior alien researchers go back to earth and they have a wonderful time. They never go back to Mars. And other than wondering how anyone could be so clueless, they never even really think about "The best of Earth" again.
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this is so evocative of Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains.
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
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Awesome...
(Funnily, I'm currently writing a prequel to that story, I don't know if it'll be any good, we'll see)
You know if you're an upload you can drive a robot body anywhere, even send off multiple copies and reintegrate later.
Go read Greg Egan's Diaspora. Or for that matter, Arthur C. Clarke's 2001.
Biology is the tadpole phase of intelligence, being scared of that ending is literally juvenile.
Maybe you don't see many of my posts but it's kinda condescending to tell me to "go read" Egan and AC Clarke.
Like not exactly obscure authors and writers whose work I've often discussed.
It's interesting that you think the point of this story is that "uploading is scary." Thanks for the feedback.
Me: Thanks for housesitting!
Cousin: np anytime!
Me: Where's my Nintendo?
Cousin: I setup an emulator! Look, you can play your games!
Me: Where's my Nintendo?
Cousin: Look! It's got Zelda!
Me: Where's my Nintendo?
Cousin: ...
Me: ...
Me: Where's my Nin-
Cousin: The pool. Things got a little out of control.
You think uploads are stuck in a cave, while biolife explores the stars. Is that not what you wrote?
The exact opposite is the case. There's no plausible path for biology to zoom around the Universe diving in alien coral reefs. Why not have Elves if you're just writing fantasy?
Well right now neither is possible. And one doesn't even exist.
I think you are getting a little too worked up about this? Maybe?
I think you're being very defensive about criticism of a poorly thought out short story. I'm not being mean, this is a pretty mellow reaction while I get breakfast.
No fictional thing exists, that's why it's fiction, but we can determine how plausible a thing is, how it'd work, and its consequences. SF is about taking the science at least a little seriously.
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we can determine how plausible a thing is, how it'd work, and its consequences. SF is about taking the science at least a little seriously.
And I think this story did exactly that.
You're acting like there's something terribly wrong with this story. There isn't.
OK, WTF Is 'Longtermism', the Tech Elite Ideology That Led to the FTX Collapse?
Longtermism and effective altruism are shaky moral frameworks with giant blindspots that have proven useful for cynics, opportunists, and plutocrats.Edward Ongweso Jr (VICE)
I just posted a short story that mentions uploading. I don't think it's "pushing" it?
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/110612590011958752
In 100,000 years an alien ship enters our solar system. The earth has no remarkable intelligent life, but it's a beautiful biodiverse planet recovering from some bad extinctions. The aliens don't notice the traces left by humanity right away, this is just a survey trip and not much monumental remains.But, they do pick up a signal, coming not from Earth, but from Mars. "How strange?" they think. Mars is obviously the inferior planet for life. Earth is incredible. But they go to investigate. 1/
Well if you don't like this story and would rather read one from the point of view of a machine intelligence (and one with increasingly mixed feelings about 'bio life' ) You may enjoy this story I wrote about a robot AI on a job interview:
https://www.booksie.com/638613-new-york-city-hypogeographies-chapter-4
New York City Hypogeographies: Chapter 4 - Ian's Interview, book by Susan Donovan
Chapter 4. "Recycle my body O-Lord. That I might never die." -Traditional Robot Proverb Ian sat tense in his best and only dress shirt and pants borrowed fro... Read the book free on Booksie.www.booksie.com
Better (wow I hate the inline editorial on that page!), but still a little anachronistic, how can they have AI robots that mimic Humans, but still be using paper forms, blood tests instead of a scanner at the door if they're concerned about this? When's the last time you filled out a paper form, instead of a web page and sign on a screen? (my finger-writing is *appalling*)
Maybe more overtly Metropolis would make it consistent?
Some humans in this world really don't like technology because they don't like robots.
I like your story.
@elight
I read it as humanity went extinct this century — runaway climate change or nuclear winter ? — but treated somewhat impassionately as the latest (?) large extinction event followed by a recovery in the long cycles of such events in Earth's history.
@mdhughes
Treating so-called hard science fiction as the only SF worth reading is … a thought. I prefer SF on the harder side, but I find macguffins like wormholes etc. easy to suspend my disbelief for 🤷🏻♂️
Prefer SF too, and the thing about good SF is that it tends to subvert your expectations, rather than give you what's obvious. This story is SF in the best tradition, reminds me strongly of Asimov at his short story best (I'm not a Bradbury fan)
@futurebird @elight @mdhughes
Actually speaking of this kind of reminds me of "The Last Question," mostly in vibe but also it does have some themes in common. Asimov considered it his best story. Have you read it? It's very good, although it might not be "hard" enough for you
@futurebird @elight @toolbear
I always thought part of what "The Last Question" was about was the power of imagination-- But I'm not certain about that. It's a much more complex story than it appears to be on the surface.
I get some Wizard of Oz "but you had it with you all along" vibes.
Some people think it's religious ... but I don't personally buy that.
Content warning: Spoilers for The Last Question
I can say with confidence that although Asimov had a traditional Jewish education, as an adult he was firmly atheist 😊
I am not very good at putting my finger down on what I like about a story or what it means to me, but I think that it's very interesting that after striving after immortality all the way to the heat death of the universe, humanity starts back up on the path to embodied life.
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I've got to admit I'm now curious about what the truth about uploading is.
What a lovely and thought-provoking fable. Thanks for sharing it!
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Nice story!
Aliens will be able to find us for millions of years. The Lunar Landers are still on the moon and though they will be peppered with tons of micro meteorites they will still be recognizable as being man made.
Hehe, a really, really nice story! Thanks! 🙂
Speaking from experience working with machines all my life, may I suggest a small change to your story, when the explorers get to Earth?
They won't find a signal beacon and if, by chance, they go to Mars, they'll find a dusty quiet place with heaps of dusty, greasy machines and three broken humanoid robots. Nothing works because some cheap fuses burnt out, killing a few other ICs, disconnecting the AI from its sensors and actors. The machines were not able to react and the station was understaffed anyways to keep the systems going. The End. 
Bravo!!! 
In a way you reminded me ofthe stories in love death and robots where three robots with a personality explore the ruins of earth to try and figure out what happened.
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Now wondering if it's possible to do targeted DMCA takedowns against an original, non-uploaded, fleshy brain.
(There are some really annoying earworms in there I'd quite like deleted. Plus advertising jingles from aeons ago...)
The aliens are losing their minds over oceans -- gaseous water and liquid water just sandwiched together, yet stable. Absolutely ridiculous.
"Wait until you hear this -- if you go toward the poles, there's solid water too, just floating there!"
"In the sky? What keeps it up?"
"That's the craziest thing, it *floats* in the liquid water!"
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@kroc
Sometimes I have nightmares about one day something ripples through the universe... and from then on ice contracts rather than expands when freezing...
and all the glaciers sink to the bottom of the ocean.
I asked #BingChat (creative) to "Write an allegory about super rich people who plan to upload their minds into machines"
The result came out, how should I describe it, a bit anti-techbro-billionaire
#Singularity #AI #GenerativeAI
That's part of it. But, I think it's also likely that the first experiments with "uploading" will focus on the brain-- not the entire body. But we aren't just brains-- our nervous system is integrated into our entire body, our heart, our lungs, our gut--
I don't think a brain focused upload could even be called a full clone. It's a new version of you without a body. That will change how they think.
The only path seems a multi-year process of integration. If that's even possible.
But more to the theme of the story I suspect the first people to try to "upload their mind" in an attempt to become immortal will make a lot of mistakes we can't even anticipate. Our understanding of the brain is very shallow. The complexity is immense. It may not even be possible to simulate minds efficiently on digital computers.
We may need totally novel hardware. I think there is a lot of hubris and nonsense floating around of late.
I loved how many things this little story left open for the reader to interpret.
Makes you think, like great stories always do!
@alexis
The first superwealthy pioneers will experiment with new mind-cloning technology
They will complain about safety culture slowing innovation, and fire any scientist or engineer warning of the dangers
And once they've cultivated their compliant teams of young inexperienced but absolutely loyal technology soldiers, they will convince themselves to take the plunge
and their brains will catastrophically implode under the weight of their folly
@alexis also there is the point of stagnation - with immortal hierarchies, a social/cultural/technological mistake might not just die and become a dead end
death is the reprojection onto humanity as an organism
100,000 years is not enough to restore the loss of species diversity completely, or for the most pernicious poisons to dissipate. But, it's more than enough time to erase all obvious traces of human built environment. Nature is powerful. Shocking how quickly a forest can gobble roads and buildings.
I'm certain the aliens in the story will find traces of humanity eventually- but, if you discovered earth wouldn't you be so distracted by the biodiversity that you might not get to that right away?
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Great and fascinating story! Mind talking a bit more about the truth about uploading?
BTW: As far as we know, Mars is the only known planet inhabited only by robots.
I'm working on a story called:
"The Truth About Uploading"
because people keep asking LOL. If it's any good I might share it.
@alexis “I’m not really me” has always bothered me least about teleporting/uploading b/c it’s the same as aging or even healing.
Nonetheless, developing a whole person artificially would generate a whole person, even if they’re different as a child. The Martian techbros might be as far as the technology got before humanity sputtered out, but an alien that can traverse the stars is SOMEHOW operating on orders-of-magnitude greater timescale than any chemical life we know.
The aliens could be not that advanced and on a generation ship that took forever to reach this promising planet they discovered (Earth) I think it's clear that they are very compatible with Earth's environment. Who knows how far they have come to find a thriving, geologically active, watery, radiation shielded, ecologically diverse world?
They could also be advanced, using tech we don't know about.
I don't think it changes the story much either way.
@alexis By the time were talking about a generation ship, they could be delighted to discover the rich biodiversity of their-life-compatible Earth because it’s where their ancestors are from! They could be the civilization spreading from Proxima Centauri who have lost the knowledge that their ancestors (and it’s ecosystem) came from here!
So the techbros were so excited about their 1.0 release that they missed going to the stars because they couldn’t Move Fast & Break Things.
"I'm not really me" in the sense that some "uploading" process would result in a kind of ... fake?
I think first attempts at "uploading" may focus on the machine doing a convincing imitation of the subject. It might involve wearing recording devices for a year, using the data to create a system that responds probabilistically like the subject.
Impressive to see-- but, not immortality (probably not even a 2nd conscious instance)We are more than the sum of our "outputs"
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It's hard for me to imagine anything more precious than this world we have evolved to fit into-- and a world that has evolved to fit around us.
I'm just so dispirited that so many of the great and mighty men who claim they want to save the world don't seem to care about the world at all.
I think a software emulation of my entire brain and body, right down to the atomic level, could reasonably be said to be "me." On this, I agree with the techbro futurists.
Where I disagree with them is whether this is a plausible option, at least within the foreseeable future. The technology just doesn't exist, and may in fact be outside the bounds of physics as we understand it.
I’m not convinced of the existence of consciousness anyway. If it means having a model of the self with proprioceptive feedback, we’re at best c-grade. We hold inaccurate models (sometimes wildly) of what we’re like all the time.
The kicker for me would be an inability to change (which is why I think humans struggle to be conscious). These robots, despite working for a length of time comparable to all humanity, haven’t evolved despite reproducing.
Totally agree with this. And the kind of model you describe poses big problems for computing as we know it. So, they are looking for short cuts.
We might not be able to model every neuron... but sphinxGPT has identical responses to sphinx 94% of the time! It's basically the same person! (Please, step into the pod and pay your upload fee.)
Exactly! And this gets into the fuzzy and dangerous area between actual personhood and mere convincing facsimiles of personhood. In other words, the Turing test is bollocks.
A sufficiently-trained LLM might be able to mimic my words well enough to fool even my loved ones, at least most of the time. But it still doesn't THINK or FEEL, any more than a photograph of me thinks or feels.
@sphinx Yeah, the question of practicability, even in principle, is substantial. Nonetheless, if you could be close, it could still be a person. No one has ever been the same person before, though, so I’m not sure that’s the bar to choose.
The Techbrobots obviously think that what could continue forward was their egos. I think their failure in the story is a generous interpretation of where they would get to.
Why do they think that being able to remember death is a way to escape it?
@Linkshaender By coincidence, I just finished writing a thing where you can take on others’ experiences, and a character accidentally takes on the experience of someone else dying. It’s a trauma no human has ever had to live with. But it’s a part of every human existence.
They think they’re escaping death when — assuming success — they’ve just made others experience it for them. Over and over.
@Linkshaender Sorry, overedited. In my story, the shock is that you can have other people’s human experience, which includes dying.
But in the “upload my mind before I die or even experience endemic inconveniences I don’t want to carry forward” model, the subject is not preventing suffering. They’re just continually asking their former selves to experience it in the hope that somehow they’ll avoid that fate in the next generation.
They’re making a one-consciousness samsara.
This is the one I might be willing to sign up for.
Let me integrate these machine systems into myself over years. Let me reflect deeply on how I change and if I like it.
I thought about this a lot when I was writing the 2nd edition of Sufficiently Advanced. Like, a lot a lot.
I'm gonna go into some Deep Physics Shit here; skip if not interested.
Human bodies are a Ship of Theseus situation. We lose and replace cells. You can't say "that's my arm" in any kind of technical sense because the arm you had 10 years ago is in small piles around the world.
Some brain cells stick around forever, but... quantum tunneling is a thing.
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hm, way back in 2005, David Archer did some science on the long tail of global warming, and found that after 100,000 years, about 7% of the CO2 industries have added to the atmosphere would still be present. If anyone knows how the last 18 years have treated this work, that would be wonderful.
RealClimate: How long will global warming last?
RealClimate: Guest commentary from David Archer (U. Chicago) The notion is pervasive in the popular and scientific literature that the lifetime of anthropogenic CO2 released to the atmosphere is some fuzzy number measured most conveniently in decades…david (RealClimate)
That doesn't sound that far off.
Climate CHANGE is bad for us since we would need to move everything, grow different crops, etc.
On a long scale the earth has endured and blossomed under far more destructive pressures than humans. We are more of a danger to ourselves than to the Earth in the long run.
So, I don't think this contradicts the idea that with humans gone for 100k years the earth would probably be in much better shape than it is even today in terms of biodiversity.
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Somehow we manage to both underestimate the delicacy of ecological & climate systems essential to *humanity thriving* but also overestimate our destructive power against Earth in the long term.
Many think if we set off all of the nuclear bombs we could erase life from earth. Not even close. The Siberian traps couldn't do it! Our weapons are toys in comparison.
Is it cold comfort to think: if humans die, well, we'd at least leave a scar?
In reality? over deep time? It won't even be a scratch.
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The question is how long would it take for Earth to "recover" from the impacts of humanity.
Perfect recovery is impossible. But, for the rainforests to come back? For the reefs to heal? For the planet to gain in biodiversity (barring an astroid or extreme event of volcanism) it's not all that long. IDK it's not a very precise conversation I guess.
If we time traveled to such a future earth it would be HARD to find any evidence that humans existed at all just from walking around.
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I once had a colony of Nylanderia sp. ants. They were tiny, golden brown ants with lovely shiny gasters.
I put a water feeder in their outworld which was the size of a silver dollar and connected to their nest, which was a little larger than a quarter. The ants used sand to try to block the water- but instead released a flow-- the next morning I found them all drowned.
THAT's what it's like for Humanity on earth. They altered their environment! It was catastrophic, but also still very tiny.
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I have since acquired water feeders that won't empty like that if ants put sand in them.
I loved that little colony. And unlike us they had no way of knowing what their actions would do. In the wild putting sand on water is a good idea.
I do take blame for them passing to the great formicarium in the sky... even if their own actions were the proximate cause.
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I’d venture maybe a scar like one of history’s other mass extinctions? Because this is a mass extinction, and one of the fastest in the planet’s history. (Even the K–Pg Extinction may have unfolded over centuries or millennia.)
The outcome of those past extinctions: Earth filled with life again, but different life. The scar remains in the evolutionary history and its outcomes, visible in contrast (but only in contrast) to what came before.
Dougal Dixon allowed 50 million years in *After man: a zoology of the future*…
Thank you! I love the story. Well-written. Nice shifts of interest. I will wonder what humanity did to make this happen. How the aliens travel around. Why the aliens did not want to interact with the AIs. What the truth about uploading is.
Plenty of questions that I can keep pondering about myself nicely.
For me, that is the point about SF & Fantasy: the author does not need to answer those questions for me, they can stay open questions, so I can fill it in with my own fanatasy.
@Michael Gemar @llewelly @myrmepropagandist
I think future civilisations will be able to tell our existence, though. Plastic. It's in everything now. Not just in our blood and our brains; new minerals with plastic in them have been discovered. Future geologists will find an entire soil layer containing compounds that are not found anywhere else.
@Joshua A.C. Newman :condemned: @Alexis :verifiedtransbian: @myrmepropagandist
That's also an often ignored issue in Star Trek. The transporters there are basically replicators that destroy the original. The signal goes through a computer system that can filter pathogens out, or be used to introduce something new. And occasionally the destruction of the original body goes wrong; there's an episode where a transporter mishap leads to a duplicate Riker.
So basically you're killed every time, and a new person is created that happens to have your (nearly) exact body and mind.
@llewelly
@mat I think I found it. It was in the final email from David Brown to Earth from the shuttle Columbia before it broke up on re-entry, which makes it all the more impactful to me.
"“If I’d been born in space I know I would desire to visit the beautiful Earth more than I’ve ever yearned to visit space. It is a wonderful planet.”
Source: https://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/astronaut-david-m-brown/
Beyond the Beautiful Earth - Arlington Astronaut David M. Brown
Laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery, David M. Brown was as down-to-earth as he was starry-eyed. He perished on the space shuttle Columbia.Kim O’Connell (Arlington Magazine)
That presupposes Earth survives after the wealthy escape to NEW NEW New York - Mars
So good they named it t̶w̶i̶c̶e̶ thrice.
I enjoyed your story, but didn't understand one aspect of it. We're the Aliens saying that via uploading to machines, the Humans negated - completely lost their Humanity?
You conveyed so much in such short prose. Great writing. Kind that haunts for years - in a good way. Thank you.
Myth: The #Fediverse™ Is Decentralised™
I run my own #Mastodon instance just for myself. An instance of one. What does that mean on today’s fediverse?
It means I’m on mastodon.social.
What?
That makes no sense!
Let me explain:
Since I have my own instance, surely I decide who I follow and anyone can follow me, right?
Wrong.
For ~1M accounts, Eugen decides. If he blocks my instance, a large number of people who follow me today will no longer be able to.
So I may as well be on his server.
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The same goes for other large servers.
Look at how many of the people you interact with are on the handful of the largest servers and imagine that just those handful of servers blocked your server.
Come, let‘s take this further…
Apparently Facebook/Meta is “joining” the fediverse. How nice of them. Now imagine that the largest instance is run by Zuckerberg. (Or <insert your favourite Silicon Valley billionaire here>.)
Imagine they become large enough to do the same thing to mastodon.social…
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I'm no expert but I think I see what you're getting at.
Malevolent intentions will wreak havoc.
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OR they get blocked by the people.. i.e. reddit style.. i.e.
NBGAF style.. END IT !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62VjlkIg29Q
/// can happen again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i55dafZQvFA
WASTE OF SPACE (///) avion de basura! END IT from Baltimore is a great band///
.. pa la come' mierdas! de pvtin. =plane of garbage/ for the sh!t eaters of pvtin "; p0pe, 3rdogan etc.. a5sad.. Nicolae Ceaușescu- Romania *YouTube
If you develop in the public you give away control. It's by design.
1. You block anything related to Meta. You exclude everyone that use Meta.
2. You do not block anything related to Meta. You welcome everyone that use Meta.
Meta will probably embrace, extend and extinguish whether you choose 1. or 2. that doesn't matter, but with choice 2. you at least will have some people who will be signing up with an instance not Meta.
Regardless of choice, you'll end up with 2 separate networks.
The task is not to demonize Meta for the fact that they come to the Fediverse, but the task is to ensure that those who come additionally to the Fediverse, also distribute themselves and not all go to Meta, because there is star A or Influencer B. And then at some point you no longer have the problem that 10% of the users fall away because an instance falls away (block or delete).
hmm, most of the people that i still interact with are on smaller, niche servers, or self hosted ones
Perhaps this instance here is already muted or blocked to reach the big servers, i dont know
@decathorpe Not on the fediverse, no. It just wouldn’t be feasible with the current design. But on the Small Web, yeah. That’s what it’s being designed for :)
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
What is the Small Web?
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player.Aral Balkan
what only time will tell us is whether the people will do anything about it?
Nice thing about mastodon is that if you're not happy on one server, it's not much work to move. The popular vote will win here bc if any one instance owner does something the majority disagrees with, they will migrate elsewhere.
Of course, they might not. But that's democracy.
Do I like it? No, because it is a risk that the majority is objectively wrong or immoral. Do we have a choice? Probably not?
well, I don't agree with the part that fediverse is not decentralized. It is. BUT the effect you see is the direct result of people's behavior. Out of ignorance or due to historical reasons they almost all gathered in less than 25 instances. This is still not centralized, but it is not as distributed as we like it to be.
Lets replace mastodon.social with gmail in your sentence: "If gmail blocks your domain, you might as well create an account on gmail"
Now, how does it look?
As a recent arrival, it's counterintuitive to me as to why I would move to a smaller server.
I'm sure that's my own ignorance, but if you could explain conceptually why we should spread out, that would probably help with the people like me coming over from Reddit to grasp these new ways of doing.
A video or guidelines or recommendations.
What I found before I came was more descriptive than prescriptive.
Also, moving to smaller instances can help those larger instances as well. For example, the users there can experience less issues with the service, the moderation will be easier and the cost to run the instance will be lower.
Also, you might want to try another software that provides features that Mastodon doesn't. There are lots of instances out there to try out. For new users, I suggest visiting fediverse.party to see what the fediverse can provide.
@aral
- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
That leaves only 90% of the Fediverse, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats. So, I call bullshit.
I hate Eugen's approach as much as you do, but please stop spreading FUD.
Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.
Fediverse Servers Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
Dropping this 1M means that 90% of the Fediverse, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats, can still reach you. So, I call bullshit.
I hate Eugen's approach as much as you do, but please stop spreading FUD.
Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.
Fediverse Servers Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
@phoe And what’s the trend towards centralisation and the growth of the largest servers? And how will that be influenced by the entry of centralised trillion-dollar corporations with money to burn?
Let’s see in a year or two whether this was FUD or not.
I hope that unlike the web, XMPP, and email that this time, for some reason unbeknownst to me at this time, it will be different and I will have been wrong. Will be celebrating if that’s the case.
You're making a hypothesis about the future ("trend towards centralization" + "let's see in a year or two" above) and then claiming that they are true in the present (that the centralization already happened, see your previous post). This is bullshit in its purest form.
I've followed you for a while and I know your intentions are good, but making a conscious lie in an attempt to achieve your goals isn't going to work.
@phoe Yeah, man, I’m making a conscious lie, I’m terrible, blah blah blah. Wonderful. You really showed me. Congrats on choosing the right target to unload on. Go feel good about taking a dump on someone working to make things better.
Seriously, fuck off.
Organise the exodus of users from mastodon.social. Let us do a Reddit on this one instance.
Stop using Mastodon, the software, which is not very good and extremely resource-hungry, from what I understand.
Make the Fediverse truly decentralized again.
@Howard Let’s ask mastodon.social and just the ten most popular servers to block your instance and see :)
(They have the power to control whether or not you reach a huge percentage of the people on the fediverse. So they’re not just moderating their own servers, they’re moderating the fediverse. The larger they or others get, the more pronounced that effect will be. It’s about power differentials.)
Yes, very good, tens of thousands of people choose to have Eugen moderate for them, their choice, good for them.
I *just* need to be comfortable with my choice of moderators not everyone else's.
(my moderator is me, it's a privilege and I will figure out how to contribute to the community as a result)
Let's be frank here:
So.
Fucking.
What?
None of us is here chasing big follower numbers or any of the big social media games, we're here to communicate with people. We lose a bunch of followers and are unable to connect to that big instance, we just carry on, the Fediverse becomes temporarily smaller, then carries on and continues to grow organically again. Plus you underestimate how many of us will move out of the big instance if it becomes not to be trusted.
Yes and no.
While your assessment is spot on, you miss one point:
Even with mastodon.social being that big, it's not the only big instance (and will probably never be).
So, while Eugen could block you from >1 mio. users, he can only do that for those.
Additionally, the users are still in power and can move to any other instance when they want to.
Both are fundamental differences compared to Facebook and Twitter.
Is it ideal? Not at all!
Is it better? Hell, yes!
As much as I agree with your general idea that large servers are a bad idea, I humbly disagree with the notion that therefore, it’d be a “myth” that the fediverse is decentralised. Of course it still is, not matter the influence of any or all large instances!
Firstly, I’ll have to agree with @phoe and this reply, https://functional.cafe/@phoe/110570567349604055
Secondly, if you are looking for as many followers as possible, what you say has some relevance. But if you are looking for meaningful conversation with like-minded people, the “rest” of the fediverse with its thousands of small servers/instances will certainly be a great place still.
Dropping this 1M means that 90% of the Fediverse, according to https://fediverse.observer/stats, can still reach you. So, I call bullshit.I hate Eugen's approach as much as you do, but please stop spreading FUD.
Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.
Fediverse Servers Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!fediverse.observer
Not quite my experience. Less than 10 % of my follows are from #MastodonSocial (fools!). Being deferated from them would be annoying but hardly devastating.
Far worse for me would be to be defederated from the dear people of (in order of frequency):
fosstodon.org
chaos.social
eupolicy.social
social.coop
wikis.world
I also run my own instance, that a dozen people use daily as their own… just wondering why you would imagine that mastodon.social or any other “big” instance would block yours…
I have been running and participating in online communities for 40 years (since fidonet / bbs days). I have never been blocked by anyone. Honestly, why would your experience be any different?
Also, I have no issues with big tech companies joining the fediverse… you can silence/block their instance if you wish (something I would not do myself, but hey, it’s up to you as an instance manager).
Although I dislike Facebook / meta with a passion, and do not use any of their sites, I do not have a problem with the people that make different choices. Glad to follow and be followed by some of them.
I really don’t get it. I follow you, love reading your posts, but do not share some of your views. I respect others, with different opinions and perspectives, live and let live.
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While your point is completely right saying fedirverse is decentralized is wrong because the fediverse is federated. So the main risk is what you said you have to trust some admins. As someone else said before.
Is it the ideal? No
Is is better? Yes.
And if, while on "His" server, he decides you are still not worthy of his association, those millions of users will still block or mute you. He could make your life even worse by NOT throwing you off his server but keeping you their friendless and ignored.
At least with your own instance, you have choices, using someone else's server you need to abide by their rules and potentially warped views. 🤷♂️
Are you suggesting a particular direction to solve this problem?
Thinking about this, I think we need to think in terms of dynamic behaviors, not just instantaneous snapshots: if mastodon.social removes access to you for a lot of followers for whatever reason, at some point, the policies they set in place are going to upset their own users, so those will start to pressure the admins. Either the admins cave, or eventually they will lose users in a migration.
A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit
None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.David Roberts (Grist)
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We’ve been discussing the impact of price gouging on inflation on this instance for awhile. (If you missed it, big corporate price gouging is responsible for a lot of our current inflation and their profits aren’t hurting at all.)
Here’s one thing you do about it.
U.S. government sets penalties on 43 drugs over price hikes |
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-sets-penalties-43-drugs-over-price-hikes-2023-06-09/
U.S. government sets penalties on 43 drugs over price hikes
The Biden administration on Friday announced it would impose inflation penalties on 43 drugs for the third quarter of 2023, having fined 27 earlier this year, in a move it said would lower costs for older Americans by as much as $449 per dose.Reuters
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Arrgh, deleting completely is not winning.
Years of the human experience online... lost 😭
I want the Power Archiving Suite - which saves full offline copies through @webrecorder so I can keep the public content I care about alive on IPFS.
THEN delete. You still end up w/ a shit ton of 404s, but at least you have the stuff you care about.
https://trouble.social/@mookie/110532602536221075
If you're considering leaving #Reddit, don't leave the content that you have created behind for Reddit to monetize on.When you delete your account, all your posts and comments actually stay on the site with the username changed to "Deleted User".
Delete your posts and comments using the Reddit Power Delete Suite.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
GitHub - j0be/PowerDeleteSuite: Power Delete Suite for Reddit
Power Delete Suite for Reddit. Contribute to j0be/PowerDeleteSuite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Not exactly what you're talking about but potentially of note, @edsu wrote a nice little Python script that changes all the t.co URLs in your Twitter archive to their real URLs. Check it out here: https://inkdroid.org/2022/11/20/t-dot-co/
2 problems re this:
1. yes, SO many useful search engine results are people providing helpful tips / answers on reddit. So, deleting fully hurts many future people (including you) who have nothing to do with Reddit.
2. I don't think moving it to IPFS is a great solution (now). IPFS is cool, but realistically few use it and its results don't show up in search engines, so it's functionally the same result.
@masukomi No need to conflate the "solve problem for everyone" with "save the content i care about" - the priority i shared in my original post.
If I've learned anything, it's that the larger coordination problems (cf web standards 😂) can take decades...
(I like that aspect of the #indieweb principles - "solve own problem first" as a design characteristic.)
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I was more focusing on the "Years of the human experience online... lost 😭" part of your initial statement. From the perspective of someone who derives a ton of value from useful answers on reddit. Folks deleting everything hurt me too.
So, yes, i agree re the "solve own problem first" but i think for most of us the real loss is access to _other_ people's posts, not our own.
@masukomi
yep, we can save all kinds of peripheral stuff like "threads i participated in" or whatever, but can't predict the things we want to look up next week. impossible problem.
one of the reasons i've been interested in IPFS is that content addressing as a primitive allows *loose* coordination down the road, for those kinds of content systems.
there's no universe where anything HTTP+DNS gets us future-protective publishing, let alone coordination+linking.
@muvlon YES, always keep *your own* copy of anything you find dear.
if you also want to *publish* it, then you go down the road of how to do that - whether pinning yourself or paying someone else.
IPFS is not magic - just *very pragmatically* local-first, and when connected, p2p amplifiable.
i need to make a nice diagram of how IPFS and HTTP compare from a "floor" vs "ceiling" of data availability...
One of my greatest fears from day 1 of the idea of Trump as president was him having access to the most top secret intel of the US. (Many others had this same fear.) Trump is a unique threat to the national security if the country. The many in the GOP who support this dangerous buffoon are despicable.
Of course he wants to be reelected in order to save himself from jail time. Easily predictable and also a threat to the rule of law.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/11/trump-indictment-president-00101406
Opinion | How Screwed Is Trump?
The former president faces his most serious legal threat to date, but he is hard at work on his most potent defense — his reelection bid.POLITICO
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Biden Bars Trump From Receiving Intelligence Briefings, Citing ‘Erratic Behavior’
President Biden said there was “no need” for former President Donald J. Trump to get the briefings, traditionally given to ex-presidents as a courtesy and to keep them informed if their advice is needed.David E. Sanger (The New York Times)
Fantastic article that spells out exactly why we have to work to GOTV and support Democrats at every level in the upcoming elections.
"all Trump has to do is persuade one person who ends up on the jury that the case is illegitimate and that person can then hang the jury — which would result in a mistrial and a major political mess for the Justice Department."
This is one thing that may not be getting enough attention. It is awesome he's been indicted, but it's far from certain that he will be convicted. Even if he doesn't win the election and aquit himself.
This is true of many cases being tried.
Also true is that federal prosecutors have a >95% conviction rate.
So Donald will spin his wheel of fortune. Only a desperate fool would play those odds.
Given that the entire sample of cases used to get to that 95% number involve non-presidents, I'm not sure it's particularly informative here (or, in statistics-speak, it may not be externally valid).
The article points out that Trump has an unpresidented ability to sway public opinion that could lead to a hung jury.
In gambling-speak, if you have me 19/1 odds (the fair odds assuming a 95% conviction rate) I'd put a substantial bet on Trump not being convicted.
Much of what you point out here is conjecture and assumptions.
Trump may be a boogie man to you and others, but to many he's just one man that isn't above the law. But, I'm looking forward to his day in court.
I'm curious what you are claiming is conjecture or assumptions. Trump is certainly the first president charged with criminal activity. I don't think I (nor the article) makes any assumptions or conjecture by claiming he has disproportionate power to sway a jury.
I'm not claiming the guy is 'a boogie man' I'm just pointing out the odds you calculated from previous convictions will overstate the likelihood of conviction.
Go with that my friend. We all have eyes and ears and we will see.
The fucking Bundys never went to prison. Never assume a trial's outcome in advance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff
@ricardoharvin It was clear, that Trump is a national security threat, after he traveled to Moscow on July 4th, 1987, & 2 months later had full-page ads in the Washington Post, the New York Times & the Boston Globe published, trying to drive wedges between the United States & her allies.
(Not only the Soviet) Intelligence agencies should have had their eyes on him at the time already.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us
#RuleOfLaw #CounterIntelligence #KremlinAssets #Espionage #EspionageAct #AidAndComfort #Treason
@ArenaCops He didn't have anywhere near the level of influence then as he had by 2015, and thus could not and did not pose as serious a threat.
No one could have considered him a clear and present danger in 1987, that would have been laughable.
A threat? Maybe, sure.
Yes, he's been a Russian asset for decades, but he's only been a serious and immediate threat to our national security for less than one, so far.
@ricardoharvin Do not miss to mention eg the Trump-Putin meeting & performance in Helsinki, including a secretive tête à tête between the two, no one except the interpreters knows the contents of.
He's been a national security threat for much longer than less than 1 year, already due to his sociopathic disorder.
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The unconfirmed allegation is raising concerns that the coffee chain is the latest corporation to cave to far-right attacks on #LGBTQ people.
Starbucks Is Banning Pride Decorations, Workers Union Alleges | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/post/173589/starbucks-take-down-pride-decorations-disgusting-cave-far-right?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social
Starbucks Is Banning Pride Decorations, Workers Union Alleges
The unconfirmed allegation is raising concerns that the coffee chain is the latest corporation to cave to far-right attacks on LGBTQ people.The New Republic
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- Twitter Closing inactive accounts
- Google Closing Inactive accounts
- Internet Archive & Wayback Machine Under Attack
- Nintendo going after Emulators
I'm starting to see a pattern.
Now would be the time to back up ANYTHING you have not secured locally. 
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Supermensches: Comic books' secret Jewish history - Israeli Culture
Did American comic book figures’ traumatic backgrounds and secret identities reflect the Jewishness of their creators?Nirit Anderman (Haaretz)
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Being edgy by talking about superheroes as fascists ignores the very real people who created those works as a warning AGAINST fascism.
If you think all superheroes are just power fantasies, you're entirely missing the point of them.
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Meanwhile, bus shelters in Korea
not in england. hope this helps
Finally it's my turn
Based on a (somewhat blurry) example I got, Meta's new app looks a lot like Twitter.So, could this take over all the Twitter screenshots we've been seeing on the Feed lately? Maybe.
It’s impossible to predict how audiences will respond but this could be an alternative.
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The app will have creator controls and account safety features.For example, accounts you’ve blocked on IG will carry over
Hidden words you’ve selected on IG will also carry over.
The app will have a centralized feed showcasing your followers and recommended contentYou can post text updates up to 500 characters (that’s less than an Instagram caption, an extended tweet or a LinkedIn post so be concise!)
And also videos and images.
The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon.So, users on other apps will be able search for, follow and interact with your profile and content.
Meta’s been briefing creators on it’s upcoming text-based app — now looking at a possible late June launch.Details are in my newsletter but I’ll list some highlights 🧵
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@RaineyOvalle The loyal knight of the northern region challenged any who stood in his way, his words bellowed through the air like thunder."What's good???"
His opposition trembled at the mere sound of his voice
"Aite den" he spoke firmly, as he returned his sword to its sheath.
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When the dust settles EIon Musk will not be remembered for his wealth or his businesses but rather the sheer volume of separate, distinct instances where it was made obvious that he has absolutely no idea what he’s doing or talking about.
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Don’t know if this is my best but it’s something
https://twitter.com/getthesurgery/status/1659002645233782787
@xoxogossipgita I agree, but if I may make an addendum: make the art even if it sucks, because there can be value in bad art!
@xoxogossipgita I want more mediocre art! Like, art by people who are just okay at whatever it is but who really want to make it and just enjoy doing it!
Write your comic! Draw your illustrations! Draft your novel! Write fic and make zines and express yourself, nothing matters anyway!
In the face of a real eradication of the structures that allow people to make art for a living, I think everyone should make art with wild abandon
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