OMG this is so good: Almost as if Teenage Engineering builds a color palette builder. 🥰
We've reached the first tipping point (99% probability even if we'd manage to keep the 1.5 degree target) This means coral reefs on any meaningful scale will be lost. Nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend on them. & To roughly quote Maja Göpel: People don't seem to grasp the irreversibility of such changes in ecological systems.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: "Change permissions to 0777"
The majority of the tech industry has no valid vision how to contribute to a liveable future for humanity on this planet. Their dystopian fantasies don’t match with human needs. That’s why we will keep sliding from one bubble to the next. Everything has to be artificially inflated to hide the massive abyss of meaninglessness behind it all.
Reading the shocked reactions that Apple and Google removed ICE warning apps from their stores, I think that more should probably read about the role of IBM during the holocaust. Can we please finally get rid of the fairytale of social corporate responsibility in big tech?
The absurdity of billionaires explained in a brillant post by @npub17yk4...u0mw "Jeff Bezos is supposed to be worth $237 billion. His wedding cost 50 million dollars. Applying this to someone with an average net worth of $200,000, their wedding would have cost $42. Well, the man didn't actually want to hit the shit out of the place, he was celebrating a small, humble wedding." (freely translated from German)
German politician Nico Semsrott has suggested that we give billionaires one year to solve the climate crisis. If they fail to do so, we should dispossess them. I think that’s a wonderful idea! It's never going to happen, but it's nice to dream.
I'm mostly hiding under a cosy rock at the moment, but this has to be shared to support Carole's bravery: "This is What a Digital Coupl Looks Like":
Note to myself: Focus on good news. Focus on good people. Focus on things that can be changed by us directly.