280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/280-million-e-bikes-are-slashing-oil-demand-far-more-than-electric-vehicles/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

It’s easy to say with hindsight that NFTs are a stupid scam, but it was also pretty easy to say at the beginning and through the middle too.

"You shouldn't try to please the demons haunting you."

#MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #digitalArt #deer

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Albert Camus: Caligula. Šílenství, tyranie a smrt v moderní tragédii francouzského existencialisty...

🌐 https://www.mujrozhlas.cz/sobotni-drama/albert-camus-caligula-silenstvi-tyranie-smrt-v-moderni-tragedii-francouzskeho

#mujRozhlas #cesky_rozhlas #radio #czeskie_radio #sluchowisko #Camus

Dobře se narodit. Nejen v místě, ale také v čase... #ihned
🔓https://vikend.hn.cz/c7-67253700-rcdsa-0cf4e37a0807174

Alright, sent an email to the head of my local library about setting up a seed library there.

Seeds libraries are places you can go and "check out" seeds. Grow the seeds. Let one of the grown plants go to seed. Harvest the seeds. Then "return" the seeds back to the seed library!

Free seeds!!!!

Check and see if you have a seed library near you: https://www.communityseednetwork.org/map/

Or connect and share seeds with folks online:
https://exchange.seedsavers.org

#solarPunk #seedLibrary #libraryEconomy #urbanGardening

"Minimalism is a scam invented by big small to sell more less"

— @typhlosion

Ten pokrok je úžasný!

Také Vám vadí reklama na YouTube?
https://invidious.cz nabízí alternativní cestu k YouTube obsahu bez reklam a sledování. Rychlé, soukromé a s otevřeným zdrojovým kódem, dostupné pro všechny. Připojte se k nám, objevte svobodu sledování a podpořte decentralizovaný web, který je méně závislý na velkých korporacích a který posiluje soukromí a kontrolu uživatelů nad jejich daty. #InvidiousCZ #OpenSource #Privacy #komunita_arch

Four years ago... There are more Billionaires now.
#TaxBillionaires #NoBillionaires

Every time your corporate boss cancels a meeting, spend the hour fixing bugs for an open source project.

It's been a while since I introduced this project!

Mutant Standard is an emoji set that aims to combine familiar, standardised symbols with completely new non-standard ones, aimed at helping particular groups of people (queers and furries in particular) communicate themselves more authentically.

In a similar way to a language, the standard set of symbols that we think of 'emoji' (the emoji keyboards on our devices) are not universal - it's a particular way of seeing the world. Unlike a language, the standards that set what emoji we see in most situations are made by a particular organisation called the Unicode Consortium.

In order to have an emoji in this system, you have to basically petition Unicode to include it in next year's slate of emoji updates. There are both understandable technical reasons why this system exists, but also cultural downsides, namely - you have to ask this consortium, comprised of billion dollar American tech companies, to consider including your thing.

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Rozečetl jsem novou knihu a už teď ve čtvrtině vím, že je to jedna z nejlepších knih, co jsem kdy četl. Annette Bjergfeldt: Kodaňská píseň písní. Překlad Robert Novotný.
Nedokážu se od knížky odtrhnout. Čtu v posteli do zemdlení, čtu před snídaní, během ní, čtu po návratu z práce, při vaření. Čtu na záchodě. Ani nepamatuji, kdy se mi to stalo naposledy.
#knihy

https://www.knihydobrovsky.cz/kniha/kodanska-pisen-pisni-361082090

"The key to our collective survival is our collective knowledge and our willingness to collaborate in good faith. To unlock and utilise the great and growing pool of knowledge, we need to reimagine higher education as an open commons. Scholars are not cogs in a capitalist knowledge factory. We need stewards of the public knowledge commons."

👏🏽 Jim Luke (@econproph) is on 🔥 here - go read his amazing chapter
"Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons", which has been published just earlier this week as an #OAbook with @OpenBookPublish

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

LibreOffice Poll:

Do you want LibreOffice videos available via PeerTube?

PeerTube is a video platform for the Fediverse and is an alternative to Google's YouTube.

TILvids will give LibreOffice video space on their decentralized platform that is powered by PeerTube.

LibreOffice has 20.2K subscribers on their Google YouTube channel...

Please BOOST for greater exposure.

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #Fediverse #PeerTube #Privacy #TILvids #FOSS #FLOSS #Video #LibreSoftware @peertube @tilvids

🧵 The #FreeSoftware/#OpenSource status of #Matrix, #Element and other related projects is in serious trouble. The main company running the ecosystem, @element, will fork the main projects from their previous steward, the @matrix@mastodon.matrix Foundation, make AGPL-3.0 the new default license, and put a #CLA in front of it.

This is a common scheme called Rights-Ratched-Model as coined by @webmink. I see a number of upcoming changes that are bad for user freedom, interoperability and communities:

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