“Some cochlear implant users who can’t afford to keep up with compulsory technology upgrades are now losing their hearing.”
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/
Congratulations, capitalism, you’re doing amazing, sweetie.
Via @villares
We cannot rely on the US to protect or nurture the commons. Think of the US as a giant shopping mall with guns. That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy right there.
We want to safeguard the infrastructure of civilisation, we have to do it ourselves here in the EU before it’s too late. And we can start by acknowledging our own failures and redoubling our commitment to fundamental rights and democracy (and not limit our own potential by having every single decision framed by the fucking “Single Market”).
You want to end up like the US? Then let’s keep going as we are. You want something different? We must invest in the commons, embrace our diversity, embrace equity, and move to an inclusive, post-capitalist existence.
It’s up to us. The bacteria in places we haven’t even visited yet that will survive long after we’ve made ourselves extinct – should that be the route we decide to take (because yes, it is a decision) – don’t really give two shits either way.
@Volksverpetzer wow. #Trump #musk #vance are out of Control & ignor all #laws #justice #humanity #humanrights - if employers are to expensive then the one who is not elected but work for the #doge like #elonmusk should be fired because he is getting to many dollars everyday! #makejusticegreatagain #usa
You, the people, have the power!
#Dictators rise and fall. They rule with #fear, they divide, they suppress. But as #CharlieChaplin said in The Great Dictator:
"You, the people, have the power – the power to create machines, the power to create #happiness!"
This speech was true then, and it is true now. The world has changed, but human nature has not.
Stand against fear. Fight for #humanity. The power is in our hands!
Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.
When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.
Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit
“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o
Who needs a giant asteroid when we have these assholes?
What’s chilling is that life always finds a way. If an intelligence—even one that operates on nanoseconds and charge states rather than neurons—discovers a way to persist by feeding on the very hardware that enables its existence, then #AI won’t need #humanity to develop #weaponized #nanotech—it will have evolved its own.
Let's celebrate our differences! 
In my latest blog post, I explore the power of diversity and why it's essential for a better future.
This is perfect. We humans tend to center ourselves in everything. This is true with animals, land, and even other people.
Source: @anna_lillith (posted fresh to include full alt text).
New server, new introduction!
I'm Erik, warhammer.social refugee, Frisian midlifer, lover of #MiniatureHobby and #TabletopGaming of varied sorts since the early 90s. I currently run the school #WarhammerAlliance and have been responsible for successfully seeding #BloodBowl in the northern Netherlands. I like fostering game enthousiasm.
I will retoot things that take my interest, ranging from #gaming to #politics to #humanity to #nature. Always making efforts towards the positive.
"There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There's more than one would think."
It blows my mind every day that a handful of old white men (& at least one old woman) hold the fate of humankind in their hands.
And they refuse to change because they don’t want to lose their capacity to continue making obscene amounts of money.
#money #fossilfuels #politics
Wildlife populations declined by 73% in just 50 years. Cartoon for Trouw.
Democracy literally means rule of the common people. If your country is ruled by corporations and billionaires, then it is most certainly NOT a Democracy!
Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
“Let me get this straight,” John Mulaney said. “You’re hosting a ‘future of #AI’ event in a city that has failed #humanity so #miserably?”
https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/comedian-john-mulaney-brutally-roasts-sf-techies-and-ai-at-dreamforce/
Nayib Bukele and Elon Musk Discuss AI, Robotics, and Future of Humanity - El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele met with Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk at th... - https://news.bitcoin.com/nayib-bukele-and-elon-musk-discuss-ai-robotics-and-future-of-humanity/ #cryptocurrency #digitalassets #gigafactory #nayibbukele #elsalvador #innovation #leadership #technology #featured #elonmusk #humanity #robotics #bitcoin #crypto #spacex #tesla #ai
Seriously, it's just fucking #cowardly to not take side of #humanity when it's been more than clear to anyone who has paid attention that Israel won't respect any international laws, are arrogant as hell & due to too many years of committing multiple #WarCrimes & #CrimesAgainstHumanity, they won't stop mass murders unless physically forced to.
I don't want ANY #Israel gov't apologists or individual cowards who still can't choose #humanity over possibly being disliked by online #fascists & #bigots - following me, remove yourself if this description fits you. Cowards who think murdering POC folks in foreign lands in state sponsored #terrorist acts is something to stay neutral about. Grow some fucking courage & stand up for humanity! Stop being such fucking cowards.
I'm marking cowards like this as UNSAFE for BIPOC. Because cowards like this ARE unsafe for us. These folks are NOT genuine allies to any marginalized populations - especially BIPOC communities. We require BRAVERY in our comrades.
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