RE: https://aus.social/@emmadavidson/116831002209712391

If we do not stop extracting fossil fuels, it will never be this cool again

An old friend who’s now working on a Master’s in Renewable Energy in New Zeland needs participants for a survey on perspectives of renewable energy:

Anyone over the age of 16 who can read English is invited to contribute to my research by completing the anonymous survey at this link: https://vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6DMyUTAVc1lv6Iu
I would also be grateful if you would share this with your networks, especially those in Aotearoa New Zealand. The survey will be available until 10 April 2026.
Thank you!

@IceCubesApp , your app now hangs forever if I tilt my phone too far while composing a post

I could swear I saw (and boosted) a post with a list of bad things the budget bill does, this time with page numbers so anybody can easily doublecheck. Just went to find it to re-share outside of mastodon, and I can’t find it - not in my boosts, not in my likes, and not scrolling as far back in my home feed as this app will let me. And searches using the search feature aren’t turning up anything with both a list and page numbers. I’m pretty sure I didn’t imagine it, but where is it?

I’ve been wondering how these AI companies expect to make money with a product that has no potential to do what they claim it can do; maybe this is it: provide a free cheating tool effective enough that people become dependent on it, then raise the price. If people never learn how to do things themselves, they’ll try to pay. It might even work well enough long enough to make some money, but at a tremendous cost to society.

From: @timnitGebru
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114509383380404840

Just learned that there's a place named Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch, which has a website at https://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/

Which makes me wonder, is there a limit on the length of a DNS name? Are there DNS implementations that will malfunction on a name that long?

“But an afterword to this sorry chapter won’t be adequate. A milquetoast “reconsideration” of a weeks-long campaign to drive out the only candidate to have beaten Trump electorally won’t undo the damage to the country done by a second Trump term. Even a series of resignations, at this point, wouldn’t undo what’s been done, but it would at least signal that what’s happened here will not happen again.”

From: @damemagazine
https://newsie.social/@damemagazine/112797619127423956

Nothing about this makes any sense. Biden’s been old the whole time, but with his staff he’s been very effective, despite a thoroughly obstructed Congress. The primaries are done, the delegates are locked, the candidates have been chosen. Elections are decisions about governance, at which Biden has excelled, but all the messaging is all about his own party replacing him. It’s appalling, especially in the face of project 2025.

From: @mekkaokereke
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112748086075865536

I think this is as close to an introduction thread as I'm going to write: https://mastodon.social/@ShadSterling/111535289917697756

(2/2) The very very short summary is that Fidelity Investments is the brokerage that offers the best user experience, and https://gosteward.com/ is the only non-brokerage that is both acceptable and accessible

After a windfall in 2021 I made a lot of small investments while trying to figure out a proper investment plan, and eventually made a spreadsheet to compare accounts. Here is a link for anyone else making similar decisions who might find my comparisons useful: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14tuJTcBN0zGd_tnGPGltQaKaxohJX8c7ItIlugd969s/edit?usp=sharing
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The metrics mentioned by @pluralistic in this research — time wasted by different social groups — seems like an excellent way to target and measure effectiveness of social policies. Would be great to see evolution of these metrics over successive governments, for instance.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/109842973167813054