While Heinlein had a valid point in this authorial insert, he tiptoed around his own cognitive biases: if entertainers and athletes were inappropriate, WHO did he think deserved to be taken seriously? And why are entertainers and athletes disqualified? Consider President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, or President Vaclav Havel of Czecheslovakia—a comedian on one hand and a satirist on the other, both went on to be statesmen.
Hast du mal #DieGrünen gewählt und bist enttäuscht? Reporter Rico Grimm will von ehemaligen Wähler:innen wissen, was sie der Parteispitze gerne sagen würden. Mach mit bei seiner Umfrage! 👇
Hoy acompañamos a la plantilla de MasOrange que enfrenta un ERE forzoso e injustificado en el que la empresa pretende despedir a 795 trabajadores y trabajadoras.
Destruyen trabajo para precarizar, especular y enriquecer a los accionistas. Nos tendrán enfrente.
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Deutschland: "#Deutschlandticket nicht bezahlbar muss teurer werden!"
Portugal: "Landesweites Ticket, das sogar für Intercities gilt, für 20 Euro."
Es ist alles nur eine Frage des Wollens, finanzierbar wäre sowas auch bei uns.
Die Typen hinter ShiftPhone machen das ja aus religiöser Überzeugung: "ein Unternehmen, das komplett Gott gehört"
Wir waren gerade im Entscheidungsprozess zwischen FairPhone und ShiftPhone und sind überzeugte Atheist*innen und unterstützen daher nicht gerne wissentlich Unternehmen, die Gott gehören. (Mag für manche meiner Followys ein Pro-Argument sein, für uns spricht es total dagegen.)
Proč jsem přešel z #Windows k #EndeavourOS? Opouštím i další služby Microsoftu 🐧
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@Friendica Support
Wenn ich in die Suche einen RSS Feed von YouTube einfüge, dann bekomme ich folgende Meldung:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at anonsys.net Port 443
So sieht die RSS Adresse aus
youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
? ist eine Sache, die an der Konfiguration des Webservers liegt. Siehe dieses Issue: github.com/friendica/friendica…
Wenn ich nur die YouTube URL eingebe, wird das gefunden.
Jedoch wenn ich auf folgen gehe, erscheint derselbe Fehler.
I’ve been a fan of Stevie Wonder for as long as I can remember. That’s why I’m proud to share The Wonder of Stevie podcast from Higher Ground and @Questlove, which explores the five-year period starting from 1972 where Stevie released some of the most groundbreaking albums that transformed music.
I hope you'll take some time to listen on Audible or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Our closed beta testers have finally gotten their hands on Thunderbird Appointment, and it seems like they like us! Check out this review from @ZDNet - and kudos to them for trying the self-hosted install as well!
I hope a better notification system for the event calender etc. Comes to.
Something like a dialog in the center of thunderbird screen would work.
Don't use the incoming e -mail notification bubble. Turned that off long ago.
Nice write-up over on @ZDNet for @thunderbird Appointment. We're so glad to see appreciation for this open source scheduling tool - and we're just getting started.
The current Mozilla seems to believe that there is "good" advertising and "bad" advertising, and that furthermore there is "good" ad tracking/ad surveillance and "bad" ad tracking/ad surveillance, and all they have to do is do a lot of the "good" advertising and "good" surveillance and somehow this will cause there to be less of the "bad" advertising and surveillance. As if there is a limit on how much advertising it is possible to fit in the world.
good point. I am mainly disappointed that management didn't read their own list archives—did Internet freedom people compromise with any of the other possible dystopia timelines?
Clipper Chip (US government) no, we have e2e encryption now
Codec patent cartel (huge IT companies) no, we have free media formats
DRM mandate "Fritz Chip" (US government + big media) no, we dodged this one too
Can't beat this stuff with compromises that leave supporters feeling creeped out
@dmarti About "free media formats" there a few things they botched, self inflicted.
1. EME to allow DRM. Not an uptick into the market share.
2. some initiative didn't work with Firefox without proprietary codec because one part of the company had to clue (won't give the name of the initiative)
I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving further into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.
But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.
Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.
World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw… by
@sjvn
Can Sir Tim transform the Web to its golden age where individuals and not mega-corps set the tone with Solid Protocol? He certainly hopes so.
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Having the computed value of CSS variable directly in the variable tooltip in @FirefoxDevTools is sooo good! Hope you'll enjoy this as much as I do, and be ready for more!
2 dead, 1 in critical condition as major fire burns in Old Montreal
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fi…
Same slumlord as the 2023 fire in the old Montréal that also had death. Coincidence?
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •HighlandLawyer
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Charlie Stross
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •2/ Nobody is unidimensional, and merely excelling in popular entertainment doesn't mean one is incompetent in others. (Random example: Rosi Sexton, a Cambridge University maths PhD with a career as a mixed martial arts fighter and Green Party politician.)
The deficiency Heinlein was railing about didn't lie in the people he was talking about: it lay in the corporate entertainment media environment, and the capitalist system that focused it on delivering eyeballs to advertisers.
Charlie Stross
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •modulux
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I'm amused even Heinlein drew a line on organ trade in The Cat Who Walked through Walls: