Explore the vital role of #IndigenousPerspectives in climate/environmental protection. RAVEN’s Leslie Anne St. Amour hosts a panel featuring environmental experts, artists, lawyers & Indigenous knowledge keepers.
RAVEN provides discounted tickets for community members with financial barriers: Leslie Anne, leslieanne@raventrust.com
#Iran wants #oil prices to go as high as possible to help it financially recover. #Saudi-Arabia wants to play the long game and keep oil as low as possible to get developing nations homes for as long as they can. For the climate we should be supporting Iran. Sadly gas prices can directly impact US elections and we have few plans other than evs to stop using carbon fuels ourselves
You might have seen viral videos of Wendy’s drive-thru customers in the United States ordering their fast food from the firm’s generative AI bot Wendy’s FreshAI. Most show a very human-like transaction punctuated with cries of amazement at how fast, accurate and polite the system is.
While the system and others like it are in their infancy, and some still rely heavily on human assistance, retailers are investing huge sums in AI to replace human workers.
Why the rush to automate? It might seem like it’s all about slashing the wage bill, and straight AI-for-human swaps are indeed happening in many roles.
But there is another force driving the tsunami of restructuring in retail. At stake is the hidden lifeblood of the 21st-century business: data.
Tennant said his sentiment comes from simply “wanting people to be allowed to exist” and accepting that “ways of expressing gender identity [and] sexuality are more nuanced than they once were”, adding: “If that helps people to know who they are, say who they are, and communicate to the world who they are, it’s just common sense.”
@Deb Zaccaro-Rojas Content warning. Its huge all over mastodon. You will get chastised for not putting one in on all sorts of things, from food to eye contact, it gets obnoxious at some point because that MIGHT be someone's trigger.
#Alt4You for the record, if you have never watched Farscape: it is a show about an American astronaut who gets stranded in space with a bunch of aliens. this description is technically accurate but tells you nothing about the actual experience of watching the show. 1/
"wow i wonder how she got so calm and centered, she seems very wise" "oh yeah i used to be an EXTREMELY violent anarchist and I'm holding onto my chill by my fingernails at all times*
like, what if Yoda had 0 wisdom to impart and was just a horrible little bastard man who only wanted to do crimes
alien girl on Space Rumspringa except she's never going back because on her home planet feelings are illegal 3/
Whenever I'd see those weird data points with my wrist-based heart rate while running I'd think to myself that it was either a sensor sampling issue or maybe some weird thing with acceleration. I never really studied it though. Turns out it's something called cadence lock. Maybe I'll go back to using a chest strap again for runs. #running https://runningwritings.com/2021/05/cadence-lock-why-gps-watches-have-hard.html
great article- confirms what suspect is happening to my Garmin, which thinks my heart rate is in zone one, when I’m at zone 4/5 trying to haul myself up a peak on my mountain runs. I’ll try it with a chest strap in future 👍
Is this the new Fine Product of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation similar to synthetic tea? FIE! The question that should be asked is whether or not this "coffee" has caffein in it.
The synthetic coffee revolution: are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing? | Coffee https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/06/the-synthetic-coffee-revolution-are-ground-date-seeds-really-as-delicious-as-the-real-thing…
Buying a physical device that relies on any kind of Google APIs is like standing on the roof of the house during a thunderstorm, screaming at the gods.
If I was in a solid Blue state, I would be voting for a third party candidate that was pro-Gaza. I do not, I live in a swing state. Therefore I sadly must vote Biden to save the planet.
I agree it's the only reasonable option. But to play devil's advocate, imagine being abandoned in an empty underground prison cell, with one button on the wall that will certainly lead to the cell being flooded, but there's a 1% chance it will also unlock the door. So, do nothing (vote Biden) and you eventually starve. Press the button and you probably die immediately, but may escape. I say this because I think this is how some of the despairing feel about the chaos option
@Greenseer every extra moment of not dying gives a chance that the situation can change. Voting other than Biden can mathematically really do nothing other than make Trump more likely to win and that is a certain disaster for climate and much else.
@PaulKidd As I said, I agree. However, I also think repeating that mantra endlessly and not addressing the valid feelings of futility held by those tempted to the conclusion I described does nothing to persuade anyone
@Greenseer I agree that it’s not a sustainable thing for ever. I think Americans need to change their electoral system, to push changes in opinion, to get involved in every level. It’s just that while bigger change is happening you have to deal with the next election. We’re relying on you because it affects all of us but we don’t get a vote.
In the past, people used to organize vote trades for this kinda thing! Someone from a decided state would vote third party and the person in the swing state would vote Dems so people could feel like they voted their conscience but tried to keep the nation together.
I wish this would become more popular and known about again. It's a BS thing that we have to game the system like this, but it's good we can still work together!
Anytime that you click on your browser reader mode you are implicitly admitting, and confirming, that #smolweb and #Gemini are the right way to read internet pages... 🤭
One of the things I liked when envisioning a Gemini pervasive world was setting a “theme” for everything you read that would match the whatever you liked. The content, text, graphics, and images would just change by what is published. It’s a concept we use regularly today with ebook readers. I think it would be awesome.
> Dear #fedifriends ... > > Anytime that you click on your browser reader mode you are implicitly admitting, and confirming, that #smolweb and #Gemini is the right way to read internet pages...
That's why I tried to mimic "reader mode" in my client. 😄
Anyone else notice that #opera on #linux just sucks? I can open any page on #firefox just fine but opera can't even load some #youtube videos and play them. Going to delete it.
Vivaldi is a bit better than Opera, if it helps. Still, I think Chromium-based browsers are not as good as they used to be years ago. Firefox will have tab groups soon, that's the only thing missing.
Yeaaahhhh...no, because of Donesk, Transnistria, etc. This is exactly why Putin's Russia runs election interference ops. I could call it The Donesk Gambit or I could call it the Vampire Gambit because it runs like this:
1) Meddle with elections to get in a pro-Russian government 2) The pro-Russian government declares itself a new nation-state 3) Invite Russia military in to protect the "nation's" Russians.
Just like Dracula, the objective is to not go in unless you're invited, and the objective is to install a government that will invite you.
Democratic strategist Jim Kessler predicted to Fox News that former President Donald Trump would commit perjury if he testifies in his hush money trial.
We plead with everybody do not be silent. You should not regret this in the future that you were silent at this genocide. When my grandparents were murdered in Auschwitz, when my whole family in Poland for my mother's side and in Hungary for my father's side were massacred the world was silent. Let us not make that same mistake again.
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