It remains to be seen if South Korea will actually do anything in the way of making future incidents less likely and/or less deadly. Romania sure didn't do a thing in the (exactly) 7 years since the Colectiv disaster. Heck, our *hospitals* burn down with alarming regularity.
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Can't help but notice that the President of South Korea went to the disaster site right away, dressed in a paramedic(?) uniform, and never blamed the victims, or anyone else.
Yes, it can happen anywhere. What matters is how we handle it. Do we want to solve problems or not?
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Admit you’re old. Retweet if you know what this is…
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Crossposting to other platforms like Webtoon and Tapas is a good idea (get those extra eyes on your work), but you should always have some sort of hub site that's fully under your control so the platforms can't screw you over.
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I wrote about Twitter, the private equity model, my sense of Twitter's likely trajectory, what it does that other platforms are bad at... and also plugged my own shit v21.io/blog/notes-on-
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At this rate Elon Musk is going to single-handedly bring back RSS.
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I'm making plans to lock and anonymize my Twitter account. Not expecting to actually pull the trigger anytime soon, but things are changing.
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the only thing that's really cool is getting together with some friends, taking back the time stolen from you by work and anxiety, and maybe making some nice art out of it. the rest is pretense and affect.
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When people say "I don't really like talking about politics" what they really mean is "This subject doesn't infringe on MY rights, so I don't care."
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Google search is becoming one of those dying malls. You still go there out of habit, but once you get there, none of it is what you want. You can remember when it was a useful place to visit, but now it's weirdly hollow and you leave without getting what you came for
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USA vs EU Football Stadium (same capacity)
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"Un pays développé ça n'est pas un pays où même les plus pauvres roulent en voiture, c'est un pays où même les plus riches utilisent des transports accessibles aux plus modestes."
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“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
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You realize there are people on Twitter who actually grew up in a Communist regime, right?
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Communism is not "free time and nothing else" Communism means business. It means hard work. It means long hours. It means sacrifice. In a Communist society, the businessman embodies Socialist values. Under Communism, we will work harder, longer, and more productively than ever!Show this thread
And it’s not protected by a glass frame…
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Bon, j'en ai marre, ce bot qui te prend la tête avec des cryptos dès qu'il détecte "coin" (coin-coin ou le petit coin) m'a gavé, certaines choses doivent être dites. (thread)
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"I'll go when the cat gets up"
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sensitivity check: is the TV-Tropes-ism "Sci Fi Ghetto" to mean the cultural stigmatisation of SF problematic? Not asking whether or not it's accurate, just whether it's Bad to use the word. (Validest opinions will be from members of groups who've been literally ghettoised)
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Il se peut que j'aie trouvé un peu de temps sur ma pause déj.
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THREAD: A tale in two tweets and one FCC chairman
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⚠️Webcomic Trade Offer⚠️
You get: a free story with beautiful art, that doesn't update regularly
I get: the opportunity to create a story at my own pace, and internal satisfaction
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The saddest thing for me about modern tech’s long spiral into user manipulation and surveillance is how it has just slowly killed off the joy that people like me used to feel about new tech. Every product Meta or Amazon announces makes the future seem bleaker and grayer. 1/n
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“The King has asked me to become Prime Minister because this nonsense has gone on long enough.”
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"If you delve into the predator-prey literature, you find out that the top predators succeed at only about 25% of their attempts. But they make a pretty good living at a 75% failure rate. We underestimate the amount of failure that's acceptable."
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What does that even mean in practical terms, we're a christian nation? I'm not a christian, I live here, what am I second class?
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I've been asked if I've been saved by Jesus twice via phone after routine transactions and was tricked by handshake twice into some dude praying over me. Y'all Christians need to chill and keep that shit away from me.
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Are the neurotypicals OK
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"the law presumes that computers operate correctly" - a terrifying sentence
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The law in England and Wales presumes that computers operate correctly – a decision that directly contributed to the miscarriages of justice in the #PostOfficeScandal. Our briefing note on this presumption has been published by @IALS_law through @SASNews. journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article
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Video game writer and narrative designer Meghna Jayanth is switching the narrative with games like '80 Days' and 'Thirsty Suitors'. talks to NME about a career spent battling colonialism - and why this helps you get better games pulse.ly/sjxs7cqevl
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GOVERMENTS
AREN'T
BUSINESSES
GODDAMNIT
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"Copilot introduces what we might call a more selfish interface to open-source software... With Copilot, open-source users never have to know who made their software. They never have to interact with a community. They never have to contribute."
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My parents are currently visiting Peru, and I feel I must share this picture mom sent from Lima.
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Yesterday, I attended a conference at which an influential financier shared this unpublished map. Look at it. The estimated death toll is 2-3 *billion*; the timeframe is 20-30 years (previously: 50). Segments of the elite have simply 'written off' large parts of the Global South.
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Microsoft/Copilot, l’assistant à l’écriture de code, pompe du code libre sans respecter ni la licence ni citer l’auteur ⤵️
On pourrait le renommer Microsoft/Parasite ou ça serait un pléonasme ?
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@github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. For example, the simple prompt "sparse matrix transpose, cs_" produces my cs_transpose in CSparse. My code on left, github on right. Not OK.
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If someone is trying to sell you a get-rich-quick scheme...
Remember - it's *their* get-rich-quick scheme.
Not yours.
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"Un monde vide est un monde triste". Dans des documents internes, des salariés de Meta s'inquiètent du mauvais démarrage d'Horizon selon le WSJ (moins de 200 000 visiteurs) #Metaverse #Zuckerberg
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