Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I’m not crying, you’re crying

RT @G_S_Bhogal@twitter.com

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.

I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1618928782588669952

@jonn

It evolved from this thread:

https://jebba.moe/@astromecanik@mastodon.online/109769299843361328

Except I did a post instead of a reply, but then just left the post up.

OpenAI's sole licensee is Microsoft, despite it once upon a time being "open". So when you interact with ChatGPT, you're giving data (money) to Microsoft.

A Mastodon app has ChatGPT built in. This seems like a really bad path for Mastodon (and society in general) to go.

So, lets keep proprietary apps and ChatGPT off Mastodon! :)

Billionaires lost $1.9 trillion in 2022.

Elon Musk lost $115 billion.

Jeff Bezos lost $80 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg lost $78 billion.

None of this has any real consequence on their daily lives.

Hoarding wealth like this is grotesque.

Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees

So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it

Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs

With the Formula 1 season about to kick off, I’m wondering how popular other “formulas” are across the Tootsphere.

What do you watch / follow?

#F1 #Formula1 #Motorsport

Why do #mastodon users retoot their toots?

I'm setting up a new M2 MacBook Pro, and it's been smooth sailing so far... until I tried to run "pip install lxml" and ran into some hairy error messages

The solution was to switch to a virtual environment created using a version of Python installed using Homebrew (I had accidentally been using the /usr/bin/python3 Python 3.9.6 that came with the system) - then everything worked fine

Wrote a quick TIL for the next person who gets stuck on this: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/lxml-m1-mac

Today: some nice goblins, and some foreshadowing of things to come later.

#Dungeon23

More newly identified Soviet #SpaceJunk, this time dating back even further, to 1978.

ID 10937, at bottom center. Perhaps it is "flaring".

Now up to 6,058 #satellites identified, freely avaliable at
https://spacecruft.fit/sats

Yandex developers used racist slurs in the source code and tailored search algorithms for propaganda purposes

https://ain.capital/2023/01/27/yandex-developers-used-racist-slurs/

#Russia #Yandex #Ukraine #war

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. … When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must … become the center of the universe."

- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

#HolocaustRemembranceDay

Citizens! *Puts on steel toed boots* I urge you to remain calm at this moment! *loads rubber bullets into launcher* violence is not the answer! *Hangs night stick from belt* We grieve with your community! *Pulls reflective visor down on helmet* Peace is what this moment calls for *climbs into tank* The great MLK Jr said and I quote: I love police, and they are our friends! *diesel engine roars* So obey, comply, and remember we are in this together! *Tear gas launcher slowly points towards crowd*

I enjoyed doing this, but it is mostly irrelevant for the rest of the dungeon.

#Dungeon23