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aral, 8 months ago to climate

“British Petroleum, the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals. It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term ‘carbon footprint’ in the early aughts.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

Via @ajsadauskas

#BP #ClimateChange

aral, 7 days ago to Israel

Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

#USPol #JoeBiden #GenocideJoe #Israel #Palestine #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #zionism

aral, 9 months ago to random

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

– Naomi Shulman

aral, 9 months ago to ai

We call it AI because no one would take us seriously if we called it matrix multiplication seeded with a bunch of initial values we pulled out of our asses and run on as much shitty data as we can get our grubby little paws on.

#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #MachineLearning #LLM #LargeLanguageModels

aral, 8 months ago to random

We call it capitalism because greedy shortsighted self-destructive shitfuckery is too much of a mouthful.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent

aral, 29 days ago to mastodon

Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

#Mastodon #BizStone #SiliconValley #BigTech #Threads

aral, 6 months ago to Israel

Mehdi Hasan to Mark Regev, senior Netanyahu advisor:

“If Hamas gunmen were hiding out in a school in Tel Aviv or in an apartment block in Haifa, would you be OK with the Israeli military dropping bombs on those buildings, leveling them, killing the innocent Israelis inside in order to get the Hamas gunmen? Would you do that?”

He doesn’t answer the question.

https://www.msnbc.com/mehdi-on-msnbc/watch/-that-was-a-mistake-mehdi-challenges-israeli-adviser-mark-regev-on-false-israeli-claims-198054981873

#israel #palestine #gaza #ethnicCleansing #genocide #markRegev #netanyahu #mehdiHasan #ceasefireNow

aral, 9 months ago to random

Closing libraries is how you burn books without lighting a match.

aral, 6 months ago to Facebook

We’re moving to a new city and the only community I can find for it is on #Facebook.

So, as much as I don’t want to, I decide to make a Facebook account again just to access this community…

(This is why communities must not be locked behind the walled gardens of surveillance capitalists. But even if we create fedi/Small Web alternatives, we still need to let the existing ones know they exist somehow.)

…Anyway, long story short, I can’t – they’ve #blacklisted my name :)

O hai, Mark! :Wiseau:

aral, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Folks: the fediverse is so quiet, no one replies here

Meanwhile, on the fediverse: …

aral, 6 months ago to github

1. Read this:

“Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.”

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

2. Go here:

https://codeberg.org/

#git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev

aral, 10 months ago to random

Late-stage capitalism? That was last week. Welcome to extinction-stage capitalism.

aral, 7 months ago to Israel

Israel calls on UN chief to resign over comments to Security Council

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1024/1412756-israel-calls-on-un-chief-to-resign-over-comments/

Yeah, fuck that.

#israel #palestine #genocide #apartheid

aral, 1 year ago to SmallWeb

Anyone here know anyone from Paddle that you can put me in touch with? (Or share your experience with them?)

I’m reconsidering whether Stripe is the right solution for the initial payments option in Domain (https://codeberg.org/domain/app) or whether it makes more sense (and would be easier for folks who want to run their own Domain instances and become Small Web hosts) if I integrated a Merchant of Record (MoR) solution instead.

#SmallWeb #commerce #Domain #merchantOfRecord #MoR #stripe #paddle #tax

aral, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to linux

Be careful ordering the new #StarLite #Linux #tablet from #StarLabs Systems.

If their system declines your credit card, it still places a pre-authorisation for the full amount into your bank account – thereby reducing the balance of your account for the full amount. The authorisation is for a whole month and so you cannot touch that money for a month.

I called and spoke with them and they told me there’s nothing they can do on their end and my bank won’t investigate unless they take the money.

aral, 9 months ago to ai

“How ChatGPT might be able to help the world’s poorest and the organisations that work with them”

– United Nations University

https://www.inkl.com/a/kxjXGaijBoj

I see the United Nations continues to be the favoured PR agency for Silicon Valley.

#UN #UnitedNations #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PR #neoliberalism #corporatocracy #AI #ChatGPT #academiaWashing

aral, 8 months ago to climate

“Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged for a second time on Friday for not leaving a protest near an oil terminal after police ordered her to do so… If convicted again … she could face up to six months in prison.”

If Greta is thrown in prison while oil executives continue to walk free, I sure hope people start burning things down. I mean, burn it all down for all I care at this point. We’re being led by absolute fucking muppets.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/greta-thunberg-could-face-jail

#greta #climateCrisis

aral, 10 months ago to random

Fake allies are the worst.

aral, 11 months ago to random

That’s funny, the words “Elon Musk” are considered a slur on this platform.

aral, 4 months ago to random

The mental gymnastics skills of folks attempting to justify Mozilla paying their CEO $7 million while asking for donations.

#mozilla

aral, 10 months ago to random

I swear some of you would sign an NDA with Satan if he asked nicely.

aral, 7 months ago to random

Folks, when somebody blocks you on the fediverse, it’s not an invitation to email them instead.

Don’t be a creep.

aral, 1 month ago to SmallWeb

Coming soon: it’s going to be trivial to deploy a different app on your Small Web server. Useful if you’re a dev and you’re playing around with different apps.

https://vimeo.com/932120624

(Also, notice the speed at which deployment happens. I’m one step away from implementing this in Domain using pre-warmed Kitten instances – called toasty kittens – thereby bringing the time it takes to deploy your own Small Web place down to a handful of seconds.)

:kitten: 💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #deployment

aral, 4 days ago to random

“In one of those moments that you can’t believe is not satire, Antony Blinken met with Arab-American leaders and warned them that if Palestine got statehood, the US would defund the United Nations and potentially the World Food Program, plunging the developing world into starvation. It wasn’t enough for these fascists to starve innocents in Palestine, they’re now threatening to do it across the world. They would really rather kill millions more than stop doing genocide.”

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/blinken-suggests-the-world-food-program