Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 4

Hey @trisquel can anyone help @redstarfish with this above issue?

@rysiek the first Hot Shots is a classic, right up there with Airplane and The Naked Gun. Only Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs top it.
@Alexis

@AzureKingfisher this gratefulness thread is hands down the best social media rant I've ever had the privilege of reading :)

@rgggn hopefully future versions of the #Fairphone will be available with a mobile GNU/Linux as the default OS (FairOS?)
@Naughtylus

@jackyan most of the time that seems to be the primary criteria for getting airtime in Aotearoa. It's been a rare joy to hear the Director of Public Health on mainstream TV most days, saying things that are useful and important.

Bang on @Skeletor , never let the perfect be the enemy of the good :)

Wow, #NoamChomsky is looking his age, but still as articulate as ever:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4

"An ad-free, censorship-resistant video library for Extinction Rebellion, with an account for every national group, hosted on renewable energy-powered infrastructure."
https://tube.rebellion.global/about/instance

#ExtinctionRebellion

"You work in IT, so I don't have to!"
- #JonathanPie
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=AnZ_5cm5eXA

First time I've seen a website whose cookie warning gives up a straight-up option to say "I do not accept". Good on ya #DazedDigital.com!
https://www.dazeddigital.com/

#cookies

@vfrmedia instead of FB, I keep in touch with family and friends by visiting them as often as I can, and using phone calls, SMS, and email when I can't. I've felt bad for a long time that this isn't enough, especially when my friends are scattered around the country, and the world. But one friend told me recently that from her perspective, I make more effort to keep in touch than most people. Go figure ...
@cosullivan @gemlog

The key question remains, how do we fund fulltime jobs for *independent *journalists, from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives, without the dead man walking that is the advertising industry? Relying on crowdfunding seems insufficient in our hyperpartisan age, where too many people rate media sources based on how well they confirm our own biases. Also, I'm not convinced crowdfunding is sufficient to fund and organize the support infrastructure journalists need to do their jobs well.

I find it really intrigiuing that now the corporate media are starving for ad revenue, they've suddenly discovered the value of public funding for journalism. It's widely agreed across the political spectrum that #CorporateWelfare is obscene. But the knee-jerk Old Left response - "only state-controlled media should get public funding" - is obviously nonsense. Ask the Chinese how well that works to hold powerful institutions accountable.

@pluralistic
> But Zoom is really upset about this. They say it violates their terms of service and claim they've written a nudity-detecting AI that monitors all your video streams

Any time now, I'm expecting news that some of the porn tube sites are setting up a live video conferencing service to take this unwanted business from Zoom, and monetize it with either ads (for gratis sessions) or a cut of income (from professionals) ...

@incognitum
> plus it lifted a billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990

Corporate globalization achieved the appearance of that by moving some of the poverty from the third world to the first, and refusing to measure it where it's increasing. Overall there is more poverty now than there was in the 1970s, despite better technology and an overall increase in available resources.

@incognitum
> a half-century of unchecked global capitalist expansion,

... has led to every environmental indicator from air pollution to species extinction getting significantly worse. To the degree that anything has improved it's because of intergovernmental treaties working against the inherently ecocidal nature of capitalism, such as the example in the OP.

@incognitum
> If the worst ecological (and human) depredations ... occurred under an *anti-capitalist* regime

But they didn't. To compare apples with apples, the USSR's environmental record needs to be compared with the US from the 1920s-1980s. A period of environmental disasters from the mass deforestation that led to the dustbowl:

"Unsustainable farming practices worsened the drought’s effect, killing the crops that kept the soil in place."
https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-dust-bowl-causes-and-effects-3305689

... to Three Mile Island

@hirojin yup, definitely add that to the list, right before photographing the flying pig ;)