Notices by Arcans (arcans@mastodon.at)

The Documentary Podcast: RoboLife

Mariko Oi has young children starting school in Singapore, where robots are increasingly being used in education, and ageing parents back in her home country Japan, where they are now assisting in elderly care. She has some understandable concerns about the future, and is setting off to find out just what these machines are being used for, why we need them, and what they’re really capable of.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0749wgh

The fediverse is vast and infinite.

*sees rms toots in the FTL*
Wait, what? What is he doing here? I thought he only knew emails.
*check profile*
Ooooohhhh ok, now I understand.

This is important:

The 10 inalienable Rights of the Reader:

1. The right to not read,
2. The right to skip pages,
3. The right to not finish a book,
4. The right to reread,
5. The right to read anything,
6. The right to "Bovary-ism," a textually-transmitted disease,
7. The right to read anywhere,
8. The right to glean,
9. The right to read out-loud, and,
10. The right to be silent.
— Daniel Pennac

#reading #books

Yesterday night, I was biking to a friend’s house on a small country road when I saw some blinking blue light over the hill. As I arrived at the top, I saw an ambulance, and between it and me, a large cow silhouette, a cow that had a "thou shall not pass" attitude. I faced her for a while, but the road was too tight to quickly run around with my bike, so I decided I would better retreat and take another road and let that one to the stroboscopic cow.

#smallstories #cow #countryroad #night