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So much for the exceptionalism of the US Democracy & Constitution :
- hostage of one men : Trump & Co
- hostage of money in Politics like nowhere else (non-profits designed to subvert the US democratic system)
- Talibanized Supreme Court
⛔⚠️☣️
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Mark my word, this will be reversed this winter and business will have no choice but understand that WFH is here to stay, WFO makes no sense anyway.
Zoom asks staff to return to office
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Get ready, because this is not over : The Virus is Learning New Tricks and We Humans Keep Falling Behind : The new SARS-CoV-2 variant (EG.5.1), how we are about to FLip, and where are the new Covid boosters? Read the full article here
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Repeat after me : Climate Chaos or Climate Disruption not Climate Change.
It’s not just warmer or colder, it’s chaotic extremes & peeks that do not make sense and will impact the entire ecosystem.
I’ve never been so cold in August in 🇧🇪 in 20 years.
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Been eating #Python code for breakfast, lunch and dinner for a month… I’ve learned a lot but there are so much more to learn and sometimes I lose time on things that are so ridiculous.. Like I lost 2h on a XML tag that was URL in my code when it should have been “url” (small letters) 😜
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“They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate
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Currently reading this interesting take : The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem by @thisismissem@hachyderm.io
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I’m using OpenAI Whisper (locally, without access to cloud) to transcribe 3h of French audio recording into text.
I’m actually really impressed. It’s not fast but it’s doing the job.
I had to amplify the audio signal +3db to increase the amplitude but other than that it’s amazing.
Very precise.
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The #War Won’t End Until #Putin Loses Offering the #Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future #aggression.
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We have to stop it!
Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification
#googlebeingevil
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Chatter on Science Fiction and International Relations on the #Lawfare podcast, have a great weekend everyone!
#starwars #startrek #battlestargalactica #GOT #apocalypse
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Seriously? Damn it, we’re not out of the wood, I wouldn’t totally rule out the US becoming a religious theocracy.
Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do
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Another interesting #mastodon tool
Combine Remote And Local Timelines
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Interesting tool for devs
Explore the #ActivityPub protocol interactively
ActivityPub.Academy is a learning resource for ActivityPub. The protocol is brought to life by showing Activities sent between different instances in real time!
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Interesting…#activitypub
Vocata/vocata: Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent - #vocata
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New research suggests social media doesn’t fuel political polarization. Oh really?
This is interesting, but it doesn’t represent the reality for one simple reason : 3 months in social media is a snapshot in a much more complicated issue. Second, the elephant in the room is the fact most of the societal harm done by big tech platforms (and their ever changing algorithms) has been done progressively in the last 15 years. The drill has been done already. A lost of the most impacted people are not even using Facebook daily anymore. Continue reading →
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Amazing #drone view of the Litli-Hrútur #Volcano eruption youtu.be/LLHl6ZfYk…
Yeah that Drone suicide itself!
