@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-12-26 10:07:04
Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-11-26 22:16:34
We joined with some friends this morning for a greyhound walk in Bedfont Lakes. I didn't have a hound to bring because the only one I can borrow now is Violet and she's too old to walk that distance. The three people we met up with had 5 dogs between them though, so Lynn let me keep hold of her boy Freddie.
I didn't take any photos because it was really cold and my hands were full! But here's a recent photo of Freddie.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-22 15:00:22
"How a Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Their Fossil Fuel Sponsorships"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 02:00:45
It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …
2025-11-24 23:43:21
Microsoft: “Managers are lame, we need emperors.”
github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/src/cascadia/WindowsTerminal/WindowEmperor.h
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-26 06:06:02
ANN: Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: Book Talk at Sogang University
https://ift.tt/SuLE7sl
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-23 17:30:28
Railway is technically a PaaS (like Heroku). “serverless” because you don’t have to maintain the operating system. They have evolved buildpacks to Railpacks which will create containers on the fly.
OR you can use it as a Docker host
They are hosting their own bare metal servers. Recommended!
https://…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-10-23 18:48:18
Still thinking about this on the way home...
"maybe we should just give up entirely on optimism or pessimism—we have to do this work no matter how we feel about it. So by force of will or the sheer default of emergency we make ourselves have utopian thoughts and ideas. "
#NCKF25 with an astoundingly profound talk by @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social who reminds us of Kim Stanley Robinson's essay dystopias now. The work starts here.
https://communemag.com/dystopias-now/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-10-21 18:06:01
Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 03:55:33
Antifa,
at least as imagined by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters,
simply does not exist.
The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,”
which is not a legal designation.
His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.
Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,”
nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.”…
