Interesting interview with Jaron Lanier (2018): https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618756/jaron-lanier-deleting-social-media-book-kara-swisher-too-embarrassed-podcast

Question: “How [do you] respond to the argument that without viable alternatives, walking away from Facebook or social media more generally is a privilege?”

JL: "If you’re privileged enough to have the option of walking away from social media, and yet you don’t, you’re failing to use your privilege to defeat a system that traps other people who are less fortunate than you."

As the summers become hotter - will it become harder to protest against climate change or harder to convince the police to wear big-ass armor in the streets, while they see their future melting?

@feonixrift :D when the piracy-subreddit for gluten-free bread is shut down by the authorities #cyberpunkproblems

If I could download bread, I would.

Als ob es irgendein Problem irgendeiner Frau sein sollte, dass ein Mann in ihr Banane essen irgendwas Sexuelles interpretieren möchte. Ist auch gar nicht creepy, wenn sich die Beteiligten nicht kennen.
Und solche Witze fördern das gar nicht, nein, nein.

@jom oops, und lass mal den Bot aus den Mentions nehmen.

@jom @nbg_ticketfrei
Wenn man ne systematische Verkehrswende durchführen würde, und Autos konsequent ensubventioniert (Firmenwägen, Abwrackprämie, Pendlerpauschale, Diesel-Subventionen...), ist ein bundesweiter Nulltarif + ÖPNV-Ausbau plötzlich spielend finanzierbar.

Das Problem bei der Umsetzbarkeit ist halt, dass diese Kosten im Bund gespart werden, während die Investitionen in den Kommunen anfallen, und die sich das deswegen idR nicht leisten können.

it is pretty incredible the degree to which corporate enterprises have exactly replicated the governmental bureaucratic hell they were supposed to liberate us from

@douginamug damn right :D

Guess who spends their friday night coding #Ticketfrei and doing admin tasks

In the light of smusi.ch instance folding I have started a new, small invite-only instance for everyone who are working in the field of music creation - songwriters, algorave livecoding, bedroom producers or modular synth addicts...

After you've read https://sonomu.club/about/more let me know if you want an account.

Please boost!

#smusi #smusich
/cc @smusi @reto

RT @TamyEmmaPepin@twitter.com

Congratulations to Katie Bouman to whom we owe the first photograph of a black hole ever. Not seeing her name circulate nearly enough in the press.

Amazing work. And here’s to more women in science (getting their credit and being remembered in history) 💥🔥☄️

@luka thanks!

@luka oh, maybe I should look for a new one :D

Can you find beards beautiful and annoying at the same time?

I meet so many hot people with beards, but I don't even consider starting anything with them. Because there is a little voice in my head whispering over and over again: "nah. Too complicated to get beyond all this hair."

Eliminating the legal enforcement of DRM -- by criminal, mind, not civil law -- would effectively destroy all business models based on proprietary digital information.
-- Kevin Carson

#anarchism #quote #bot