Jobu Tupaki

@RubyTuesdayDONO
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liberation technologist, secular humanist, empathy seeker: a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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For understandable reasons, we have been focusing a lot on the West, but there's a much broader signal. Many stations across the entire southern half of the U.S. are recording their highest average maximum temperatures on record so far this March.

Graphic by https://sercc.com/

European robin (Erithacus rubecula, 🇩🇪 Rotkehlchen, 🇵🇱 rudzik) - #portrait

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

This sci-fi author chose Emacs over AI tools.

https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

It's FOSS
It's not that AI agents will multiply our power if only we can constrain them from doing unexpected and unwelcome things, but that their frustrating unreliability reflects the broader point of all AI, which is to strip us of agency altogether.
We don't need sovereign hyperscale data centres because we don't want them or the shoddy tech that depends on them. What we do need is a democratic control of our energy and water resources that orients towards sustainability. Goodbye Thames Water, and take Anthropic with you!
“Boundaries” went from a therapeutic term to “I can treat you however I want and you can’t react.” Incredible speedrun. No notes (they’re a boundary violation)

Inside Netanyahu's head. Cartoon from 2024.

#Israel #Netanyahu #empathy