Mastodawn

Loving #MIstralAI and its #LeChat LLM chatbot - the latest version feels like a great alternative to the non-European #AI options.

Its agents are especially useful. 👍 https://mistral.ai

Mathias Black 3d ago

Factoid of the day:

"One EV (electric vehicle) needs the lithium of 10k smartphones, and 350m+ EVs are expected by 2030."

H/T @MorningBrew #lithium #climatechange #tech

Mathias Black 4d ago

Excellent advice from a variety of thinkers/experts/does on how to live a better life with your #smartphone:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/04/well/phone-screen-time-scrolling.html

#tech #mindfulness

How to Reduce Screen Time: Tips to Put Your Phone Down

We asked screen-time experts how to avoid the relentless pull of our devices.

The New York Times

Mathias Black 6d ago

This is where I'm at this #monday: practicing #mindfulness but thoroughly distracted by an exciting potential new #communications and #marketing project with a client... 😀

Mathias Black Jun 4

"Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination." - Mark Manson

Case in point: Before I finally wrote my 1st novel, I owned 50+ books on #writing. Today, with 14 books published, I'm a bit closer to balancing things out. Dunno if that makes me so smart, tho. 😆 #writers

Mathias Black Jun 1

I've been having bad dreams lately. So I decided to read this horror novella. 😀

Blurb: "At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. ... What no one knows is that Phil is a prisoner, and that up until a few weeks ago and a chance encounter at a grocery store, he had never seen the child before in his life."

Parenting as eldritch horror. After finishing it, I slept like a log, bad dreams exorcised.

#books #reading #horror

Mathias Black May 7

Cory Doctorow May 7

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again); and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/

#Pluralistic

Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Mathias Black May 5

LibreOffice May 5

Get more out of #LibreOffice by downloading the free guidebooks created by our awesome documentation community! Here's a recap of what they did in 2024, from our Annual Report: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/05/libreoffice-documentation-in-2024-tdfs-annual-report/ #foss #OpenSource

LibreOffice Documentation in 2024 – TDF's Annual Report - The Document Foundation Blog

In 2024, the documentation community continued to update LibreOffice guidebooks, and the Help application (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) New and translated guides Throughout the year, the documentation project closed the gap between LibreOffice’s major releases, and the updates of the […]

The Document Foundation Blog

Mathias Black May 5

Love this insight into the #Fediverse growth: https://new.fedidb.org/stats

H/T @dansup

Mathias Black May 2

I've rediscovered my #music collection (digital and CD, no cassettes, unfortunately) and the joys of pre-streaming music. Listening to music in an app that doesn't try to push its content into my face. So delightful. And I can see that this may be a slippery slope toward an old-school MP3 player... 😀 So long Spotify! 👋