Even after decades of attempts to make it sexy, energy efficiency remains ... unsexy. Nonetheless, it has been an enormous, crucial driver in decarbonization & decoupling. Check out this comprehensive new report: energyefficiencyimpact.org/
This is a pedestal-worthy example of the Rhetoric of Reaction. It’s Jeopardy: the idea that doing something will endanger other goals. #rhetoric #reactionary #conservatives
The #NYTimes is making a rightwing argument— making a prototypical rightwing argument. Do you think the editors know that?
#MartesDeMúsicaMexicana En el año 2007 fue el debut de la primera Orquesta Sinfónica de Mujeres en México, se fundó bajo la dirección de la Mtra. Gina Enríquez (en ese tiempo era la única mujer directora de nivel profesional en el país). Tuve el gran honor y gusto de formar parte de ese momento, en la sección de violines. ❤️ Las cosas han cambiado mucho desde entonces. «Huapango de J. P. Moncayo» youtu.be/5Bi8n3y6D_E
Orquesta Sinfónica de Mujeres del Nuevo MilenioDirectora Artística, Gina EnríquezSala Silvestre Revueltas, Centro Cultural Ollin YoliztliCiudad de México8 de...
Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ
Love this sentence in the last paragraph, sums up the problem statement well IMHO -
"In private hands our [social media] choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought."
What if Google or Microsoft want to have their own instances. Could big players force the little ones out, take it over and leave us vulnerable to another Musk?
This is fantastic news. Once one corporation makes the move, more will follow. The fediverse is quite pleasant, and I can’t wait to integrate Firefox with Mastadon (albeit I’m on my app at present but the browser version is richer).
"In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. "
"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."
Excellent! I think you have a brilliant opportunity here. It would be great to have easy access to federated services that cover the whole gamut of current #SoMe capabilities including being able to access all platforms from one place and choosing how to share data with those platforms, if at all. I really like the #Mastodon set up of protecting posts by only permitting searching by hashtag.
this will need all the same oversight and compliance with EU (as one example) law in regards to content as any of the other major players. How does Mozilla intend to deal with that? Is there a big recruitment drive to come?
Fifteen years late to the distributed social web party - and then not actually committing, just "exploring". For somebody who downloaded the early Mozilla nightlies via dial-up and got excited when it would load and render #Slashdot and stay up for a good 30 seconds before crashing, Corporate Zombie Mozilla is both ridiculous and heartbreaking.
And thank you for making the conscious decision to use the word #Fediverse, instead of the brand of just one particular type of Fediverse server among myriad others.
I've assembled a short list of platforms available to choose from here:
work with @Gargron on content moderation and features. Key features require technical skills; you handle that very well. Therefore, content moderation * will * separate @Mastodon ....look into Quora and Twitter (and their potential and failings). We look forward to seeing you here.
Since Mozilla is also behind Thunderbird, I wonder if this means we might also see proper threaded reader support for social media, just like we had in the 90s?
"In private hands our choice is limited, toxicity is rewarded, rage is called engagement, public trust is corroded, and basic human decency is often an afterthought." 🙏🙏
I've been waiting for something like this for awhile. We need your open source, people-first mentality on this problem. I'm hoping your reach as a global partner can make Mastodon relevant to everyone. . . we need everyone working together on alternatives to this rather stifling current environment. Was pretty horrified to see journalists thrown off the bird while criminals were welcomed back on. . . Here's to an anti-toxicity internet.
Uh, the pretense that social media's problems isnt far right robots spewing lies, hate, anger, bullshit and pus, is pointless and strange.
And NOTHING done will stop the billionaires like Elon trying to destroy it if they cant take it over and make ot into Truth Social, as Elon has done to the late twitter platform.
Today let's go to Spain where a system allowing the blind to control elevators using a smartphone app has been developed. The way it works is by detecting a Bluetooth beacon near a supported elevator using the dedicated app and calling the elevator almost as if we pressed the physical button. We can then choose the floor where we want to go and, once we board the elevator, notify the app about it and wait until we reach the destination. We will be notified about the arrival through a notification in the app. The developers have even thought of Siri support so you can set shortcuts for favourite elevator +floor combinations. The solution is presented within the following session of the Zeroconf conference in Vienna: youtube.com/watch?v=_PcPk3BcUL… #Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #BuildEnvironment #Spain
Welcome to #ZeroCon22 - The Zero Project Conference 2022 on Accessibility!Five high-tech start-ups pitch to experienced investors, who question their potenti...
I've honestly never heard of this thing in my life. If it's a thing, ONCE (the all-encompassing blind organization) is not making a big deal out of it at all, and no-one else seems to be either. Sounds cool though. A more widely used example for something in Spain may have been Navilens (our QR-like system for easily scannable labels that we use on the Barcelona subway) or Ciberpass (the on-demand traffic light system).
@guilevi Thanks for the heads up. I thought it might be a pilot, the way it was presented, I also heard about it being tested somewhere in Germany. I saw it, however, being added to the Spanish accessible apps directory so thought somebody was actually using it. Where can I read more about Ciberpass?
Looks like the newest iteration is called Pasblue. This is all in Spanish, but machine translation should be decent enough. Let me know if you need any clarification. tacse.es/es/producto/sistema-a…
[:es]El modelo PASBLUE es una óptica LED de 200x200 mm que integra, junto a un peatón verde, un sistema acústico de ayuda a invidentes. Esta solución se puede instalar en cualquier modelo de semáforo al ir integrada en la misma óptica.
I'm bored, so have a random recording of the very old fire alarms at my school. I got two recordings, one from in the classroom and one as I was walking outside. The attached one is the latter, because it's much more interesting. You get to hear some quite interesting things they do, as well as me running into a table like an idiot.
Its a tad choppy in places, I think probably because I was on a really bad connection and it was trying to stream it to iCloud, but it still sounds pretty good I think.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
An attorney whose firm is in litigation with MSG Entertainment was barred from attending a Radio City Rockettes’ show with her daughter and other Girl…
Rules. I've always missed having a culture of in-tree summaries of how the pieces of projects fit together. "The code is the documentation" doesn't really work when you're downstream and have to switch between and apply fixes to dozens of projects and you've got limited time to spend on each one. Human language can compress the gist of thousands of LOC into a single paragraph.
Kelly Conlon took her daughter to see the Rockettes in the Christmas Spectacular in NYC, but was not allowed in after facial recognition identified her because…
Tried a succubus drawing but not that happy with the shadows. #manga #mangaart #mangadrawing #artist #drawing At least on Mastodon I can post the full image. Not cropped like on Instagram 😭
We are nearing the end of our #fundraiser and we still have a bit to go. #Donate now and get your hands on some cool digital #goodies! Such as "I donated" badges to display on your social media, designs for digital and printed cards, and the new #Katie and #Konqi Santa mascots.
Your donation allows KDE to continue developing the spectacular Plasma desktop and all the apps you need for education, productivity, and creative work.
New paper from 42 experts in misinfo (not me!) identifying the 10 most important interventions against online misinformation and manipulation and the evidence for them - paper psyarxiv.com/x8ejt/ and website with interactive tables summarizing the evidence interventionstoolbox.mpib-berl….
A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.
Tweet from Miroslav Bobek „Prosím vás, ať se to dozví co nejvíc lidí: 24., 25. a 26. prosince mají děti do 15 let vstup do @zoo_praha za 1 korunu. Takže vezměte i ratolesti známých nebo třeba sousedů a přijďte! A díky za retweet :-)“
Crazy that 10% of Twitter's users has joined Mastodon. It's too late now to stop the bleed with features, at least in my opinion. theverge.com/2022/12/20/235183…
Mastodon, a decentralized Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket from about 300,000 monthly active users to 2.5 million between October and November, Mastodon’s CEO Eugen Rochko said in a blog post.
Knight K10 Upright Piano, that is.I've had this piano since 2015 and the longer I have it, the more I love how warm it sounds.Not long having been tuned, it'...
Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other.
Remember that you can add your Mastodon link on your Castopod website! But also Discord, Facebook, @funkwhale, Instagram, LinkedIn, @joinmisskey, @mobilizon, @peertube, @pixelfed, #pleroma, @PlumeDev@fediverse.blog, Slack, Twitch, Twitter, @writefreely, Youtube. Your choice. ✊
@fmuellner took me nearly a dozen different locations until I found one that was being used. Turns out she just wanted a spot that was close to me and at my level! Now I find her here any time she sleeps 😍
While I might be the only dinosaur still loving and using @thunderbird, I'd like to encourage you to contribute to its development as well if you or your company relies on it:
Federico Mena Quintero
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