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Co-founder of Ravioli (@ravioli). If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

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Brent Toderian 9h ago

In a sane world, this would be the biggest, most important news story in the world.

‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.

“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”

“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”

#ClimateCrisis
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/tipping-points-experts-issue-urgent-message-to-world-leaders/

‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders

World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almost 200 delegates have endorsed a statement

News

Nicholas Head 2d ago

There's a special place in hell for those who set off fireworks in residential neighborhoods. My poor dog is terrified.

Kill me now https://www.telli.com

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Randahl Fink 2d ago

Only Trump would promise to "drain the swamp", and then build a USD 450,000,000 concentration camp in a swamp, which gets flooded right after opening.

Idiocracy at work.

Dave Rahardja 2d ago

I’m amazed when people still look up to techbro startup billionaire types. They are usually the worst humans on the planet, because it’s really, really hard to become a billionaire without being a sociopathic, manipulative, enshittifying parasite of a human being.

When will people learn?

Dave Rahardja 2d ago

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.

And don’t forget:

• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).

And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.

Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.

#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro

“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/spotifys-ceo-invests-1-billion-into-an-ai-military-startup-and-musicians-are-fuming/news-story/78805666e2374281801622066dc87319

Malte Engeler 2d ago

Speaking from experience: Taking a risk by calling things out can be a very isolating experience. Don't applaud people that do. Do as they did: Take a risk, speak up, call shit out.

Because the more people do so, the less risk everyone has to take. And eventually what was once daring to say has moved into the realm of ordinary again.

Kees van der Leun 2d ago

Today, the green/social-democrat opposition party started a petition to block these laws in the Senate.
It has 60,000 signatures already:
https://groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/stop-de-asielwetten/

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Teken de petitie: Stop de asielwetten | GroenLinks-PvdA

Stop de asielwetten! Deze wetten van het kabinet Wilders-Yesilgöz zijn asociaal, onverantwoord en onmenselijk. Teken de petitie en hou ze tegen.

GroenLinks-PvdA

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George Liquor, American 2d ago

@crk5 Philomena Cunk in front of a dilapidated railroad track. Top panel: "With its cowboys and guns and steam train rides, America became known as the land of the free.
Bottom panel: "which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves."
#AltText #Alt4You

@liquor_american thank-you!

Weird Socks 2d ago

@crk5
The relationship between slavery and cowboys and steam trains is important and dark but this here is just an obnoxious ignorance of what happened when.

aprilfollies 2d ago

@ohmu @crk5 She’s a comedian. It’s a bit.

Hiisikoloart 2d ago

@aprilfollies @ohmu @crk5
The bit is funny because it is dark humor based on real events. It is also poking fun at the irony of the blindness people have about US history who belived in the "Land of the Free" slogan (and those who still believe).

Weird Socks 1d ago

@hiisikoloart @aprilfollies @crk5
Thank you.
Another person explained this is a character who is funny because (among other things) she presents history and thinks she knows it but doesn't.
It *IS* darkly funny injuxtaposition. Or I could see ways it might be.
After all, many cowboys were former slaves. That isn't in many Western stories or at least not the famous ones.

Hiisikoloart 1d ago

@ohmu @aprilfollies @crk5
My knowledge of US history is not the best, but even I (Finnish-Karelian person) know the main "hits" what comes to slavery, and even bit about the cowboys.
(Like many of them came from Mexico and the whole "white cowboys only" thing was propaganda, and that many were slaves, or people who didn't want people to ask too many questions about their former, or current lives.)

Dark humor, for some, is a hard art to spot and understand. (:

Weird Socks 1d ago

@hiisikoloart @aprilfollies
There is a fair chance that what you mentioned here about the US western settlememt period is more than most US high schools teach. Plenty of dark humor to be found there...
And you've given me reason to look up what Karelian means.
Pleased to meet you!

Hiisikoloart 1d ago

@ohmu @aprilfollies
I learned some of it in school and other things from listening to essays in Youtube from students of history, with special interest to queer history. (:

Karelian history is a depressing but fun subject if you have the will to dwelve into it.

Have a lovely day!

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A country that chooses an idiot for a president is never going to grasp the deadpan humour behind a character that is an idiot TV presenter.

My guess is Alan Partridge is also a fail.

vurpo 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

@ohmu she plays a comedy character on tv who tries to present history but is wildly ignorant of it

Weird Socks 1d ago

@vurpo
That context helps. Thank you.

Angela Scholder 1d ago

@ohmu @vurpo Philomena Cunk, played by Diane Morgan, is just brilliant satire.

@crk5 the zingers come non-stop on Cunk. Its a damn near perfect implementation of edutainment imo. FWIW she doesn't take prisoners with other countries either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunk_on_Earth

Cunk on Earth - Wikipedia

aprilfollies 1d ago

@crouton @crk5 I love her, she’s hysterically funny. And she has mastered the deadpan delivery of the most outrageous lines… 😂

Alexander Goeres 𒀯 2d ago

@crouton FWIW she doesn't take prisoners with other countries either. what's so special about that? when did brits treat other countries decently?

@jabgoe2089 no they didn't. My point was more about the screencap was related to the US, which some people might interpret as only being critical of the US. Its not.

corrado937 2d ago

Not to mention the natives, from which that land had been freed from

Yup... and the Indians too...

@crk5 I saw several series with Cunk on youtube several years ago. Did they release it on Netflix lately?

aprilfollies 1d ago

@ximaar @crk5 Yes, it’s on Netflix in the U.S., at least.

Angela Scholder 1d ago

@crk5 Just absolutely brilliant!