Ian.Burnette

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@ianburnette on the bird-site. 🇺🇸➡️🇳🇱 He/him. Woodworker, pole dancer, python developer, and I can bake a pretty mean cookie too. DFTBA!
On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.

@mloxton

Meanwhile, the year is 2026 and the entire world slowly realises cooperation with American businesses is not okay. The entire world? Well, not entirely. One small country of indomitable Dutch still holds out against sanity.

It decided to place all inhabitants' tax data on American servers, granting America access to these servers while being locked out themselves.

Of course, there will be a debate to reassure the people the decision is well thought through 🙄

From recent leaks, a first Council compromise on the #DigitalOmnibus scrapes out some of the most dangerous changes in the original proposal…Yet, let’s not be fooled: the threat to our rights is still very real.

Even with changes, it still reduces companies’ obligations rather than strengthening accountability.

The safest way to protect the 🇪🇺 digital rulebook is to reject the #DigitalOmnibus entirely.

Read our latest analysis & recommendations ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-a-step-back-from-the-brink-but-the-risks-remain/

I just managed to make another watchface, this time (pun intended) it's always 11 AM, but the timezone changes every hour to where it's 11 AM in the world.
There is much truth to this post about about #math textbooks.
If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus
@pluralistic side note, since Cory has guested on so many podcasts, I propose something similar to the Erdős number: anybody who has appeared on a show with him has a Doctorow number of 1. Anybody who has appeared on a show with any of those people have a Doctorow number of 2. Et cetera.
Good one from Corey Mohler’s Existential Comics this week - https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644
Intelligent Life of Earth

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

New video on #enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

Good job, @pluralistic - awareness is spreading!

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...

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New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak

Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

Strength In Numbers