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The perfect day to share your story of how you got rid of Big Tech!
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@Tutanota I deactivated my Instagram account last night! 👏🏻
Useless fact: the highest-ranking military penguin in the world is Major-General
Nils Olav III.
@richlitt ah I missed you! I'm struggling with connectivity and notifications today 😭
@richlitt I'm hanging out at the upstairs tables in F1 for a bit. Not the cafeteria cafeteria but the other area; idk what it's called!
Because a LOT of people are missing the point:
No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".
But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.
Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.
So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.
dischi del mese (fine)
Ci ho provato, ma la mensilità degli ascolti non è una cosa che fa per me: innanzitutto è troppo breve il periodo e arrivo sempre lungo, e non è che ho tutta questa voglia di correre; e poi c'è il fatto che mi capita abbastanza spesso – sempre più spesso – di fregarmene della data di uscita di un disco e di rimandarne l'ascolto a quando mi va. Mi capita con qualsiasi disco, anche con quelli che in teoria attendo «con ansia» (esempio estremo dell'anno scorso: «Umbilical» dei Thou, uscito a maggio e ascoltato per la prima volta a ottobre; poi è diventato disco dell'anno). E quindi butto giù i miei dischi di aprile e la chiudo qui:
- The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks
- Messa – The Spin
- Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film
- Mien – Miien
- Kuunatic – Wheels of Ömon
A nove mesi dall'assassinio* riporto in vita i dischi del mese, in una forma più leggera e rilassata che mescola una selezione di dischi consigliati (nuovi e non) agli ascoltatissimi (secondo le statistiche di ListenBrainz).
Ebbene:
- Zu – Ferrum Sidereum
- Dry Cleaning – Secret Love
- Damaged Bugs – Cold Hot Plumbs (2015)
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis – ST (2024)
- Destruxion America – Gritos norteño (2025)
- Black Mountain – In the Future (2008)
- Hoodoo Gurus – Stoneage Romeos (1984)
- Rain Parade – Emergency Third Rail Power Trip (1983) e Explosions in the Glass Palace EP (1984)
Re. The UK Repair and Reuse Declaration
UK folks, there's a Repair event at Parliament on 25th March as part of a campaign to change the law in favour of repair and reuse.
We can pressure our MPs into going (not all of them need to be pressured, but many will!).
Boosts welcome 😊
https://therestartproject.org/campaigns/repair-reuse-declaration/?__s=kuf986o2ro7yuna0ntf9
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fantinel/115991351707305503
Well-written post, especially the “About Phanpy” part 😉
Very cool to see this.
I'm tired of analyses of the housing crisis locked inside housing policy - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/01/30/europe-s-housing-crisis-is-a-democratic-time-bomb_6749946_23.html
Yes, yes - the decline of public housing provision, the growth of airbnbs... But the bigger - much bigger - issue is not housing: it's inequality.
The fact is that while living standards have stagnated for most people for 20 years or so - 50 in the US - the wealthy and privileged have continued to get much wealthier. About half of all house purchases in the UK now are for 'additional dwellings' - second homes, buy-to-lets, etc - because 10% of the population can outbid everybody else, drive up asset prices, and when it's something people can't live without, like a home, force them to pay unreasonable rents - further increasing inequality, both directly and indirectly, by sucking money out of local economies into elite enclaves.
@GeofCox know what you mean, we have an empty flat in my block, why because someone with a lot of money bought it as a holiday flat, occasionally used by them or their kids in the summer. I wonder how many other flats there are like this in Brighton 😡
@onepict
Here in Canada we value our social safety net and our universal health care. Sure, there are attempts to roll this back or defund it - always by the right wing. They are the problem. Until we vote with our hearts for social justice, not money, this will continue. The money exists to do this if the rich pay their share. They never do.
We are still at #FOSDEM !
If you are considering becoming a recurring donor, now it is your time!
Come to our stand in K level 2 and you get this t-shirt!!
More folks should read Dickens and read Jane Eyre in Full.
Children's Orphanages and the fear of the poor house loom large.
There was a reason so many folks fought for Human Rights in the early 20th Century and the 19th Century.
The politicians in the latter half of the 20th Century were working towards dismantling the social safety net. Breaking the social contract.
We need to hold those in power to account.
@onepict
Here in Canada we value our social safety net and our universal health care. Sure, there are attempts to roll this back or defund it - always by the right wing. They are the problem. Until we vote with our hearts for social justice, not money, this will continue. The money exists to do this if the rich pay their share. They never do.
Because a LOT of people are missing the point:
No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".
But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.
Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.
So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115995187467947699
Ten years ago I was trying really hard to launch a startup in the aerospace industry and this is one of the ideas we considered. The reason why this can’t work is heat, which is produced by computers the more energy they consume, and is REALLY hard to get rid of in space. Unless Musk has suddenly found a way to transfer heat in a vacuum, this whole thing is a dud.
No money in Indian budget for Chabahar port project in Iran amid US threats: What it means
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-money-in-indian-budget-for-chabahar-port-project-in-iran-amid-us-threats-what-it-means-101769939956035.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into India News @india-news-HindustanTimes
Woah 😳 😨🤯
Made a userscript to show me the starred date https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/564752-github-star-date-display
@cheeaun oh I love this haha
Costa Rica Votes for President as Gang Wars Shatter Serene Image
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-01/costa-rica-votes-for-president-as-gang-wars-shatter-serene-image?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Travel @travel-bloomberg
Dear Fedi friends,
Good morning from #FOSDEM!
Yesterday was pure magic: I loved every single presentation in the Social Web devroom, with devs and Fediverse champions sharing their inspiring work.
I didn’t post anything because I was so absorbed in all the talks (plus @liaizon and @Sascha did a fantastic job chronicling the event).
I can’t stop thinking about one of @benpate’s closing slides:
“Every single thing you do to improve the Fediverse is a win for humanity”
YES! 🙌
Starting now, we’re recruiting general purpose servers with open sign-ups. To be eligible, servers must:
- Run default Mastodon (for now)
- Agree to the Server Covenant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans
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