Notices by stragu (stragu@mastodon.indie.host), page 40

World’s last male northern white #rhino dies.

"The #poaching crisis of the 1970s and 80s, fuelled by demand for rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Asia and dagger handles in Yemen, wiped out the northern white rhino populations in Uganda, Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad."

https://www.fauna-flora.org/news/worlds-last-male-northern-white-rhino-dies

#extinction #conservation #nature #environment #animals

"Using voice tone and pitch , after determining race and gender, we can detect more than just moods. It can tell why the user is feeling that way. The AI started detecting, and then aggressively targeting women during the last 2 days of the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle. It discovered [...] that women would buy more in those 48h".

🤖 🔥

https://www.techpowerup.com/240655/leaked-ai-powered-game-revenue-model-paper-foretells-a-dystopian-nightmare

🇫🇷 Vous êtes formidable. Nous avons ouvert, avec du retard, la fonctionnalité promise pour Noël, à savoir la soumission d’applications à la plateforme εxodus.
Pendant les premières 24 heures, ce fut la folie, plus de 700 nouvelles applications passées au crible.

Mais vous le savez, il faut du temps et de l’argent pour maintenir et faire évoluer la plateforme.
Si vous aimez nos travaux, vous pouvez nous aider, soit en participant, soit en donnant quelques sous : https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/#help

RT Déboulonneurs Lille

La 100e des #déboulonneurs #antipub, c'est déjà Dimanche !
On recherche encore quelques photographes/vidéastes pour suivre cette grande action 📷🎥
Et n'hésitez pas à partager l'évènement : https://www.facebook.com/events/408555939571169/

I'm pretty radicalized, but I think I have reason to be. We collectively need to rise up and *do* things about the way things are. This isn't just revolution in the conflicting sense, but *also* supporting community organization and culture that's better than the system.

We are all stronger together than not, and anything that helps us helps all of us. If you best want to resist, do what you can to provide support for others. Help each other. Help yourselves too. What helps you helps us, too.

"Look here Vita – throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads – They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come." - Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 1927.

hey everyone, @Penpen and I made a new Mastodon instance for discussing #automotive and #engineering related stuff! check it out if that sounds like your jam :)

https://fasterwhen.red/

#car #cars #mechanical #mechanicalengineering #literallywhichhashtagsshouldievenuse

“Kurdish Afrin is democratic and LGBT-friendly. Turkey is crushing it with Britain’s help. Northern Syria’s Kurds are establishing direct democracy and a gender revolution. Why are we arming jihadist-linked Turkey?”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/16/turkey-democracy-kurdish-afrin-britain-syria-arming

I have Turkish parents and I was a Turkish citizen. I strongly urge you to read this, take notice, and – if you can – take action to get our representatives in Europe and elsewhere to put an end to this gross injustice.

Proposing guidelines for an ethical and harmonious app ecosystem. (Thank you @aral for helping me understand how we can improve the current state of mobile experience !) https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-8/

Let's all have a good day

Maybe the best linux desktop environment was the friends we met along the way.

Bonjour le fediverse ! 👋 Codeurs en Liberté est une coopérative de salarié·e·s indépendant·e·s dans le domaine de l'informatique.

Nous avons envie de travailler ensemble plutôt que seuls, de partager nos connaissances, de proposer un modèle alternatif au statut des freelances, et de passer un peu de temps à contribuer à des communs (open-source / open-data).

Vaste programme. On vous en raconte plus ici ! https://www.codeursenliberté.fr

#introduction #introductionfr #coop

Image from page 503 of "American homes and gardens" (1905)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/18157758831/

‘Stephen Hawking’s final words to the internet: robots aren’t the problem, capitalism is’

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/03/14/brief-history-of-class-war.html

Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/stephen-hawkings-final-words-to-the-internet-robots-arent-the-problem-capitalism-is/2078

Today, I'm grateful for those brave souls who strive to make the world a better place. It takes courage and diligence to uplift others, especially while facing adversity.