Internet Kevin @InternetKevin@mastodon.cloud

Has anyone bumped in to any concrete numbers over the environment impact of our usage of suboptimal software, eg js+web tech instead of native desktop apps, the power usage of crypto currencies, the cost of constantly brute forcing problems instead of elegant solutions?

Any data is much appreciated - it trying to write something intelligent about this.

D.A. Is Investigating Trump and His Company Over Fraud, Filing Suggests written by William K. Rashbaum and Benjamin Weiser in New York on https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/nyregion/donald-trump-taxes-cyrus-vance.html?partner=IFTTT #NYTimes #news #popular #rss

Reminder: elections aren’t marriages, they’re mass transit. You take the bus that’s heading in the direction you want to go even if it doesn’t get you all the way there.

“America First was America oblivious.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

A monumental work of art called the Desert Breath, it's so immense that you can even see it from space. After three years of construction, it opened in 1997 and now sits on a 100,000 m2 area on the Egyptian Sahara.

When reading source code comments...

Design vs. Users.

@mermaidchaser Psychology Today has an interesting blog about this issue. Evidently shaming doesn't really work. The anti-mask people have many motivations, but one of the main ones is abject fear of the virus. To wear a mask puts them too close to that repressed fear.

Say his name.

🇺🇸 Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman.

Respect.

"I made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation by President Trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career...

At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation’s values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/01/alexander-vindman-retiring-oped/?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-a-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Blog post! Mastodon 3.2:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2020/08/mastodon-3.2/

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@InternetKevin This is ... if I read correctly, a key message of William Ophuls's work, notably Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity and Plato's Revenge.

The first looks principally at the ecological factors, though it looks at politics. The second largely the psychology and sociology of addressing global catastrophic risk.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-scarcity-prologue-to-a-political-theory-of-the-steady-state/oclc/468380010

https://www.worldcat.org/title/platos-revenge-politics-in-the-age-of-ecology/oclc/8162554740

Highly recommended.

Invidio.us will be shutting down on September 1st, 2020

https://omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-from-open-source

https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president
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Heck, you got the Lighthouse right there to coordinate GOTV!☕😎

Good morning #Resisters here's a little Sunday thought to go along with your coffee or tea. Stay safe and well.

I got a set of postcards and a poster from the Centre for Computing History. They’re doing awesome work and are hit hard by the pandemic. Please, if you can, help secure the preservation of computing history.

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/22149/Gifts/

#invidious the instance closes down, long live invidious the software!

The lead developer is stepping down, but the project lives on. If you don't host your own, other public instances are listed at instances.invidio.us/ .

> Starting September 1st, I'm shutting down the user-facing portion of invidio.us and stepping away from development. [ . . . ]‌

> [ . . . ]‌ If you're a patron on Liberapay, I would urge you to switch your donation to iv-org, as that will ensure it goes to the stewards of the project going forward.

omar.yt/posts/stepping-away-fr…

"I will not, vote for Donald Trump, in 2020, and I implore you, PLEASE do not give this man a chance to finish destroying, in his words, this once great country.

I believe this country can be great again, just not with Donald Trump at the wheel."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0a1jlVqAQ