Preaching to the choir here, but I think it's really valuable to see services/apps like Flipboard pivoting to open social, in a really visible way.
This is stuff I have been screaming about (and annoying the hell out of most people) for over 15 years. I am finally hopeful that the critical mass has just about been reached, and each pivot that occurs, especially with relatively well known brands that rose up before the monolith walled gardens, I'm a little bit more vindicated. I care so passionately about this, and I really hope to eventually be able to reconnect with many people I've lost from my life because I refused to connect with them on Facebook all those years ago.
Great interview and makes really good points, reminding us why it's so important to fight for this. Not as keen about the bit about advertising, which obviously is part of the revenue model for many apps these days, but they focus on the need to be respectful of users, instead of #enshittification that is so prevalent currently.
A more creative take on the sad repeated failures of #hydrogen, as I've said often I'm not against (green) hydrogen but so far it seems far too many oil industry shills, and only getting worse. The only potential use that looks promising is a proprietary solid hydrogen technology from Norway, and it's not going to be used in cars, it's sensible for home electricity / space heating because of the waste heat created.
@kudra They're just repeating what they've read on the internet. It's not an informed position.
Among people with scientific credentials, it really is just a few voices. It is no longer a credible position.
Also, Bernard has no credentials. He's just a propaganda artist, and almost certainly has significant conflicts of interest. He can be entirely ignored.
@trelord75 I don't have a problem paying a road user tax, but it should be levied on ALL road users, at a federal level, and based on WEIGHT, not fuel used. So those ridiculous utes that just keep getting heavier and heavier are appropriately taxed. Carbon price on petrol should be instigated as well, take the petrol excise out altogether and just make a user change for all vehicles, it was annoying having to submit my odo, but why shouldn't everyone, not just EVs??
The average ute in Australia is now 2 tonne. My Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV weighs about 1.2 tonne, around HALF that of the average ute!!
When ute owners stop getting tax breaks and start paying road user charges AND a carbon tax for filling the air with far more poisonous exhaust fumes than they need to get where they need to go, that will be a good day.
@Jakra@trelord75 shouldn't be too hard, each vehicle has an estimated weight, and don't they weigh freight vehicles as it is? Though I don't know much about road freight tbh.