@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-16 00:43:45
Thom Hartmann: It's time to hold co-conspirator Ginni Thomas accountable - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/ginni-thomas-news/
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2024-06-14 18:21:14
Is it my problem that I’ve been “obsessing” for 6 months over a problem that you’ve been exclusively in power to do something about for the last 6 months, or is it your problem that you’ve been exclusively in power to do something about it and instead have done nothing.
#ScottThoughts
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2024-04-05 17:50:52
"The findings show that mainstream parties have raised the issues of the far right and brought them from the fringes into the mainstream debate. Instead of drawing attention to far-right actors and issues, mainstream parties could use their public visibility to highlight the issues and ideas they represent and offer political alternatives."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-05-08 14:15:32
NBCUniversal signs deal to make iHeartMedia the exclusive audio partner for the 2024 Paris Olympics; iHeartMedia will create an original iHeartPodcast (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nbc-iheartmedia-paris-olympic…
@kennysmith@mstdn.social2024-05-08 23:09:32
“iHeart will provide 24-7 play-by-play audio channels for select NBCU linear coverage of the Olympic Games. In addition, iHeartMedia will create an original iHeartPodcast for the Olympics.”
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nbc-iheartmedi…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2024-04-16 09:49:12
Perhaps the most interesting article I've read on Europe's efforts to decarbonise road transport, the controversy over electrification, the proposed alternatives, Chinese manufacturing and a way forward for Europe.
(article in French, screenshots translated with DeepL)
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@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2024-03-31 18:04:33
Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" (from Portal) is an Easter song, and the lyrics don't even require that much tweaking to work. Imagine Jesus singing it to all of humanity:
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here
"Huge success"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
My Father's Kingdom
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying over every missed line
You just keep on trying till you run out of wine
And the tombstone grows moss and you make a neat cross
For the people who are still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart
And killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta, we're releasing on time
So I'm glad I got burned, think of all the things we learned
For the people who are still alive
Go 'head and leave me
I think I'd prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you
Maybe Ron Hubbard?
That was a joke, ha-ha, fat chance
Anyway, this wine is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me, still talking when there's religion to do
When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you
I've experiments to run, there's salvation to be done
On the people who are still alive
And believe me, I am still alive
I'm doing preaching and I'm still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
While you're dying, I'll be still alive
And when you're dead, I will be still alive
Still alive
Still alive
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 04:57:53
I think the rationalist obsession with general artificial intelligence as an existential threat is baffling, but I find it baffling because I come from a Green philosophical background. I'm horrified by AI systems as they are today because they are destroying ecosystems (both literal, our climate, and more abstract — art, economy, authorship).
From a relational point of view, they are a disaster. A few mega-corporations are steering our information ecology, in an instrumentalist way. They cannot even see the bonds they are destroying. We are far poorer for it.
We already have paperclip maximizers: billionaires. Corporations. Profit motive. Money is just paperclips with power attached.
These ways of thinking can only see a system so far as to instrumentalize it. After that they switch to modes of control that eliminate any need for understanding.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-04 14:57:21
Gas prices gonna go up - SA working with Russian partners to make it happen...
Inside the Saudi scheme for killing Biden’s election hopes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/biden-saudi/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-24 11:35:43
Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more (Brian X. Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/technol
