A scary quick calculation: there are 10,375 Starlink satellites in orbit https://planet4589.org/space/con/conlist.html, all coming down within 5 years.
That's an *average* of 5 or 6 a day for the next 5 years. And the v2's are bigger than the v1's. v2's are (conservatively) 1000kg and (conservatively) half aluminum. That's 2.5-3 tonnes of aluminum per day. 8 times the natural infall rate of aluminum (and there's lots of other scary things like lithium). What will that do to our atmosphere?
SpaceX is awful.
She is soooo awesome <3
How senior engineers are *really* made
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0MS-TZN1OE
Please boycott JK Rowling. I do not have the health to listen to defenders of Potter on why they won't boycott. Take that somewhere else please.
For those boycotting, here are alternative worlds from authors who are supportive of marginalized people:
* Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
* Emelan series by Tamora Pierce
* Akata Witch series by Nnedi Okorafor
* Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
* Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
* Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn
Share others below!
TIL crows, starlings and similar birds only *look* black to us â theyâre actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. đ¤Ż
Remember that next time people canât see your âcolorsâ.
Some colors just require different eyes.
Funny how AI bros never name their bot Dave and treat it like a new friend. Their mate Dave.
Instead they give it a woman's name and flirt with it. Very odd behaviour.
Most of the streets in my neighborhood are paved red, which in NL means âfull-width dual bike/car, cars are to take the bikes seriouslyâ
Just saw a toddler wheeling down the middle of the street at 0.1kph with an ever-growing parade escort behind him
"Trans children have such awful lives, isn't it better for them to not suffer?"
Transness is actually really awesome. It's the transphobia that sucks. If everyone responded to trans kids coming out with "thanks for telling me, I love you" and being affirming, trans kids would have GREAT childhoods.
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
⢠Official identification of every adult using social media.
⢠Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
⢠Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
⢠Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
⢠Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
⢠Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
⢠Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
⢠Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
⢠Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
⢠The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
as some of you know, I was raised in a fundamentalist proto-maga environment, and so I have extensive first hand experience with cognitive dissonance and cult tactics
I wanted to point out that if someone wildly disagrees with you: theyâre not lying. No matter how stupid or obviously wrong you think their take is, theyâre not lying to you about what they believe; almost no-one does that.
To be clear, Iâm not talking about national politicians or billionaires or obvious influence campaign bots. Iâm talking about real, normal people that you know perfectly well are real, normal people but their take is so ridiculous or extreme to you that you feel tempted to conclude theyâre lying.
There are real, actual reasons they believe those things and real, actual reasons they feel the need to tell you about it. If you canât engage with that, youâve not only already lost any chance of convincing them, but youâre setting yourself up to believe patently untrue things yourself, because you have taught yourself to shut down contrary thoughts with âtheyâre lying.â
accepting that the people I was told were agents of Satan *werenât lying about their beliefs just to hurt me* is a big part of how I got out of fundamentalism.
Saw an article about this that linked to a video on another platform. I don't love posting content from elsewhere, but I will make exceptions....
Most autistic people, despite everything, actually like being autistic.
Not all, of course. But most of us.
And I donât just mean âmaking peace with itâ.
I mean: it's bound up with who we are.
A thread đ§ľ
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(refs at the end)
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent
Good news for our trans friends:
The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that European Union nations must provide transgender citizens with identification documents reflecting their "lived gender" rather than their gender at birth.
To translate this for non-EU people, it's the equivalent of the US supreme court (the ECJ here) ruling that states (the EU Member States here) must respect people's gender choices.
Source: https://www.euractiv.com/news/gender-changes-must-be-recognised-across-borders-eu-top-court-rules/
So yeah, bottom line: I will not tolerate this identity verification bullshit on any platform.
I will not allow my absence from said platforms to dictate my ability to participate in public life.
And I will build spaces that respect and empower my neighbors.
Itâs going to be inconvenient, but itâs also punk as hell, and the right thing to do.
Finally, to the authoritarian pricks trying to destroy my home, online and off; fuck you, I hope you choke.
As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.
Maybe the governmentâs hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. Iâll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
#Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0
I also made a video including details & instructions.
Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness.
PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K
YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA
Text (instructions only):
https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
Hmm... Well.... I thought at least a good year about these questions and did not yet come up with better words.
I mean, yes, our journalists are creators, which clarifies that. But then our users would be consumers and thats not better. And I cant call them journalists as not every user is one. So client maybe? But that would be a better fit for the Organizations as they are the ones talking with sales and paying the money.
All in all: I really am at a loss for better words here.
Nonetheless, thank you for your time đđť
I do know about bounded contexts and DDD. Our code is structured to make clear in which context we move. I guess its more of a "Ubiquitious Language" Problem when talking with people about what we need to do and what not.
Did I mention that not *all* our "users" are journalists? Some are just "consumers". So I still need a word to mean both at the same time as they are the ones to get authorized to different parts/services of our Software.