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TRON was released 42 years ago today. This film was so far ahead of its time.
Tron with Disc, Ektachrome continuous-tone transparency:
We're all lonelier than we want to be, and we all think it's our fault.
It isn't.
Modernity has been optimized for labor, not for life. The result is the destruction of spaces and institutions in which you can make new connections as an adult.
And in a very real sense, this is what the owners want—if you are alone, you cannot organize resistance to inhumane conditions. Instead, you spend your time further optimizing yourself for labor, telling yourself (and others on LinkedIn) that you are living the dream. It's someone's dream, alright.
I don't have a master plan for how to reclaim a sense of local community, but I know that without it, we'll never be as united or as strong as we could be.
does anyone know / is anyone here a #UK solicitor? i need a wee thing: nothing serious at all, but i'm just wondering if it's possible to do it remotely and so would love to chat v briefly to someone about it and get it sorted if possible.
thank you!
You can’t say anything these days unless it’s woke, according to a man who spends about eight hours every day freely expressing opinions that could in no way be described as ‘woke…NewsThump
I think the most regrettable thing about AI is how the resource requirements quickly became abstracted behind datacenters.
It costs so much power (and therefore emissions) to run, but because we now fire these requests off to AWS / Google Cloud we don't see the damage we are doing.
Goes for regular workloads too, but x1000
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51yvz51k2xo
The tech giant says it will be difficult to meet its net zero target due to AI using so much energy.Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)
Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:
Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained pam_tacplus for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.
I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.
But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.
polyfill.io was crazy huh, we just let a third party run any JS without even checking integrity. lol
anyway please add this snippet for google tag manager, marketing needs it
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Con Veteran pro tip: If your hotel room curtains don't close all the way and you always get woken up by the SUNBEAM OF DEATH in the morning, get a clothes hanger from the closet and do this to fix it:
#anthrocon #anthrocon2024 #furrycon
Good move, Affinity! They're offering a 6-month no obligation free trial of their software.
Sounds like a perfect time to see if this is your chance to escape Adobe subscription lock-in!
I use Affinity Designer to create games, posters, book covers and more, and Affinity Publisher to create activity books, and a fully interactive planner for teachers. Very glad I made the switch from Adobe all those years ago.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/trial/
#design #GraphicDesign #apps #adobe
Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps for professionals. Try for free or buy for one low payment.Affinity
Scrolling through a page on my phone and as I am away from my PC I noticed loads of ads. And I noticed a new little bit of country - below each ad there is a block of white space, and as you scroll each ad PAUSES at the top of the screen and you have to keep scrolling to make the successive text scroll up through the white space and eventually push the ad away.
What absolute cunt thought that little bit of shittiness up? Someone fucking coded that. I hope they never have a good vindaloo again.
Are you old enough to remember when the much-celebrated Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted back in 2015? Emissions, we were told then, would be reduced as soon as possible, down to “net zero” by the middle of the 21st century, which would limit the overall temperature increase to below 1.5C of global warming.
Hallelujah! We're saved!
Well, maybe not. Because it's now 2024, and...
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The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F) greater than their average before the fossil fuel era. Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, scientists have found, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64C [‼️] hotter than in pre-industrial times.
“Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which analysed the data. “This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.”
Whether pumped out the chimney of a coal-burning power plant or ejected from the exhaust pipe of a passenger plane, each carbon molecule clogging the Earth’s atmosphere traps heat and warps weather. The hotter the planet gets, the less people and ecosystems can adapt.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climateAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
"Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests"
Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affectedPeter Walker (The Guardian)
‘While there is no evidence any of the candidates are fake, if that turned out to be true, it would be a serious electoral offence.
#Reform were keen to win as big a share of the national vote as possible, which is helped by a full slate of candidates. Some of the seemingly invisible candidates won several thousand votes.’
Hmmm…and suddenly it all becomes clear.
Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact detailsPeter Walker (The Guardian)
It’s not unreasonable I think for the Electoral Commission to request evidence that all of #Reform’s candidates really exist…I mean, we have to provide #VoterID to prove our existence as voters now, so surely candidates have to exist too or else it’s a complete mockery of democracy. Will the new Labour government ensure the Commission has teeth?
Also arguments for introducing PR based on vote share equally have to based on votes for candidates that really exist.
Potential crime #Reform may have committed:
‘False Statements in Nomination Papers: It is an offence to provide a statement on a nomination paper, which you know to be false. For example, if you know you are disqualified from election you must not sign the consent to nomination.’
But not ‘Personation’…that’s a voter crime.
It seems a #Tory candidate was found guilty of electoral fraud last year for faking one of the 10 signatures of support required for him to stand as a candidate.
Which means if they check the legitimacy of supporting signatures…the Electoral Commission will surely check allegations of fake #Reform candidates very seriously indeed…one would hope.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6py02w15n9o.amp
Mohammed Afzal submitted a false signature on a Hyndburn Council nomination paper, police say.BBC News
wanted to draw my little guy a little bit ago! 🧋💜
#projectXERO #MastoArt #Furry #DigitalArt #FurryArt #art #xero
Sir Tony, who launched an ID card scheme when he was PM, says they could help control migration.Becky Morton (BBC News)
Beware of any argument a person makes that benefits themselves without clearly benefitting anyone who isn't just like them.
On the other hand, any argument someone makes that benefits other people while doing nothing to benefit themselves deserves a good listen.
Electron (aka "Chromium but with the security and privacy features turned off")
I just keep hitting the good blogs these days
Pssst.
Just in case no-one has told you today:
Love you all 🩷
How did elections offices in local councils not verify them? Well, you see, candidates sometimes are selected through agents, ie the party or someone they hire, will do all the paperwork on their behalf and the elections officials will just accept it at face value.
So we have a country where you must prove your identity to vote, but not prove your identity to be voted for.
"Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds"
Exclusive: South Cambridgeshire experiment led to fewer refuse collectors quitting and faster planning decisionsRobert Booth (The Guardian)
Councils pursuing a four-day working week are "on notice", says the government.BBC News
@Sorvall I had read pre-industrial revolution, people worked an average of 24 hours a week. Varying between 2 and 6 hours a day, depending on need.
I don’t think our labour saving devices work very well…
@Kestenan if it was pre-industrial then yes 2 - 6 might have been the norm as work was largely agricultural during that period (long periods of minor work followed by seasonal heavy work).
Industrial period onwards was for most people a six day a week dawn until dusk hellscape. Most of that wouldn’t change until labour movements of the early 20th century.
"Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths"
Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995Justin McCurry (The Guardian)
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I deeply feel these things need regulation. You *should* pay for the emissions you create regardless of whether it's your GPU or some massive server farm.
The fact that it's so cheap to do this means we're going to kill the planet by scanning pictures of food and generating fake news.