When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel
Oh, what a massive surprise. NOT.
LBRY was shut down "after a federal judge in New Hampshire fined the firm more than $111,000 for securities fraud".
I'm glad I decided to stay well clear of those people.
I'm sad to spread the news, for those who haven't heard, that @zenhack passed away a few days ago in an accident at an event (it was at the Firefly burner event, I don't want to focus on the details here, and I don't fully know them).
Speaking from my own experiences: Ian was a FOSS advocate, fellow ocap enthusiast, a very kind human being. I'd see them all over the place, they were one of those people who really *cared* about the work they were doing, and believed in it. They were working hard on reviving the Cap'N Proto and Sandstorm communities and normally came to the OCapN pre-standards meetings and did a wonderful job on consensus-building, even prioritizing active communication over their own interests. They and their surviving partner Story also came to our online crafting circles Hack & Craft that we ran. (We'll be announcing a little community memorial event at Hack & Craft happening tomorrow in a followup post. For now I'd rather focus on the message about Ian in this one.) Ian was one of those people you get used to always being there, and... well it was a shock to hear they had died. I'm very sad about it. And I know Ian touched the lives of many people with their kindness, their enthusiasm, their knowledge, their excitement for life and for a better world.
It is up to those who live to carry on the memories of those who pass on. Rest in peace, friend. I, for one, am spending my evenings picking up OCaml and Haskell books, as Ian was always encouraging me to do, and thinking about the things they cared about, and remembering them for the wonderful person they were.
Twitter is now paying people to spread hate
Reminder: if you’re still on Twitter—your presence and your interactions generate revenue. You’re literally funding the alt right.
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Me: I'm 40 now, I guess I need to be mature
Also me:
OMG. This is the cutest thing I have seen in quite some time. 😍
(Credit: u/FootLoosePickleJuice on Reddit)