Paul O'Rorke

@PaulORorke
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Apple’s Prehistoric Planet 2 is full of feathery and ferocious new faces https://www.theverge.com/23728352/prehistoric-planet-2-review-apple-tv-plus
Prehistoric Planet 2 review: full of feathery and ferocious new faces

The Apple TV Plus series Prehistoric Planet 2 features even more kinds of dinosaurs and ancient creatures, but the same formula that made the first Sir David Attenborough-hosted season a hit.

The Verge
@brewsterkahle Brewster: would using speech to text to make audiobooks with an IA owned voice (especially of books that currently don't have audiobook versions) violate copyright law? I notice that audiobooks (even new versions of existing audiobooks) seem to get new (later) copyrights. Even if it is necessary to get permission from copyright holders, it still might make sense for IA to strike a deal with publishers to do it for books that they feel don't have a sufficiently profitable market?

One has to wonder what SpaceX's risk management is like given the recent "rapid unscheduled disassembly" (explosion) and the "failure is success" mindset. Is it better than Morton Thiokol and NASA's after the Challenger O-Ring disaster? Is SpaceX building on best practices learned over decades of aerospace experience? Or is SpaceX's risk management more like Tesla's for their self driving software?

#SPACEX #STARSHIP #MUSK

Calling it a gotcha that I "critique Biden policies after voting for him" is what's wrong with US politics today.

Voting for him doesn't mean I can't critique him—it's literally the best reason to be critical. It's called holding electeds accountable. It's how democracy works. And it’s how political parties work when they aren’t cults.

Biden has approved yet another massive fossil fuel project in Alaska: an 800-mile long Liquid Natural Gas pipeline whose operation would produce ten times as much carbon as the Willow project he approved, and by itself would increase Alaska's greenhouse gas emissions by 30%. 😡☠️
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RT @SenMarkey
We can’t keep doing this. This dirty project will be online by 2030—just in time to blow up our climate targets and undercut any argument that …
https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1646984857715654656
Ed Markey on Twitter

“We can’t keep doing this. This dirty project will be online by 2030—just in time to blow up our climate targets and undercut any argument that this will move the needle for our allies or lower fuel prices. Short-sighted approval with long-lasting damage. https://t.co/sHIWcXxDIp”

Twitter

spacex rocket explosion (rapid unscheduled dissassembly) is a success
---corporate media

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
---Orwell's Ministry of Truth

Imagine the headlines and news articles if this had been a government (NASA) launch rather than a privatized corporate one

#SPACEX #STARSHIP #MUSK #ORWELL #1984 #SINCLAIRLEWIS #CORPOS

Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress.

If Kevin #McCarthy refuses to hold #GeorgeSantos accountable, then we will.

Some researchers use the API to track misinformation on Twitter. EFF’s @jgkelley: “Without that kind of access, people will have to rely on what Twitter says, and that shouldn’t be the only source of information.” https://gothamist.com/news/it-may-be-lights-out-for-some-of-nyc-best-twitter-bots
It may be lights out for some of NYC’s best Twitter bots

Automated Twitter accounts could shut down as the social media company ends free access to its backend platform, known as its application programming interface.

Gothamist
New to Mastodon? Here's an overview of privacy and security questions for this new way of doing social media. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look
Is Mastodon Private and Secure? Let’s Take a Look

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on what the fediverse is, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastadon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.With so many users migrating to Mastodon as their micro-...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden
Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastodon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.A wave of people have announced that they're leaving...

Electronic Frontier Foundation