Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social

Recycling is the weakest of the three Rs. We need to emphasize the Reduce and Reuse parts way way way more.

We need to consume less. Stop ordering everything online and buy stuff manufactured locally to cut down on packaging.

We need to reuse containers. Don't just reuse shopping bags. When I go shopping I bring a bag full of jars and containers to hold bulk items to cut down on trash.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
-- Bertrand Russell

#anarchism #quote #bot

@Zero_Democracy

Chat App Hell

As seen from Switzerland, the US seems to be an insane dystopia if you look hard enough. «If a friend appears to be having suicidal thoughts, DON'T CALL THE POLICE. Check in yourself or have a friend do so. Otherwise you increase their risk of death.» says @cwebber in a comment on the Chelsea Manning police action. And here I am thinking that Switzerland could do much to improve the police...

@rey

90% of animals did NOT appear at the same time in evolutionary history. Now waiting for the first creationist to cite that claim.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/07/writing-synopses-of-science-articles-is-hard/

programmers on my home timeline: ah yes well i hacked the bios and divided pi by the square root of the big funny calculus symbol and now im able to decode strings into a high tech cryptologlggygjgn stack development git

me: ahh yes. the computer. i know it.

Police break into Chelsea Manning's place with guns drawn for a "wellness check" https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/

> Manning was out of the country at the time of the incident, said Janus Cassandra, a close friend [...] “If Chelsea had been home when these cops arrived with guns drawn, she would be dead.”

If a friend appears to be having suicidal thoughts, DON'T CALL THE POLICE. Check in yourself or have a friend do so. Otherwise you increase their risk of death.

My boss showed me #DeepL - a translation website that has really good results. So far, the translations by DeepL are not at all awkward like these from google translate are sometimes. https://www.deepl.com

In case you wanted to see all of Emoji 11.0 right now, I've updated my poster for Twemoji, which already has support for it.

Up at https://aschmitz.org/output/emoji/twemoji_11_poster.png

Some people have started working on #"GitPub is a #decentralized #federation protocol based on the W3C's #ActivityPub, which extends #ActivityStream 2.0. It provides a server to server API for pull request, #forking and subscription of repositories provided by #Git web services."

https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub/issues (yes, can't beleive even this is still on f-ing #github!)

@cwebber

As a software developer, it pains me to admit, but must be shouted from the rooftops anyways:

Technology can't fix harassment.

Anyone expecting tech to fix harassment only enables the clever assholes.

Algorithms that boost messages are overwhelmingly used by the most vocal and ruthless of any population to polarize the rest of that population.

Let people boost messages, not algorithms. Let people stop harassment, not algorithms.

And PAY the moderators and community leaders their due!

I love you bunch! Yes, you! Even the ones I disagree with in (be it publicly or in silence).

One of the things I love about Fediverse is, despite all the wars and in-fighting, we seem to survive it by mending our ways, learning from mistakes, and level-up on our empathy levels, as well as our iterations.

At least, this is what I see from my standpoint of view.

Image from page 291 of "Noticias americanas [microform] : entretenimientos fisicohistó ricos sobre la América meridional, y la septentrional oriental : comparacion general de los territorios, climas y producciones en las tres especies, vegetal, animal y m

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20592614446/

hey everyone. if you don't know what hecke.rs is, it's a community project i sorta run that offers tools for people around here.

i just launched a new one, https://md.hecke.rs/. it's an instance of HackMD - think Google Docs or Hackpad/Etherpad, but with Markdown, open-source, and hosted by someone who actually cares.

feeel free to use it. or don't. it's up to you.

My GitLab is now live!
Open registration, shared CI runners enabled

https://octo.sh

#gitlab #git

tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.

rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.