Open post Beeks @Beeks@home.social · 45mo ago Replying to @hankgreen@mas.to <p>It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.”</p><p>If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.</p> @hankgreen "Long term, you mean like Q4?" - everyone with even a smidgen of real power to make change
Open post Beeks @Beeks@home.social · 45mo ago Replying to @hankgreen@mas.to <p>How am I supposed to quit Twitter when an insufferable shitstain gets owned by a teenage climate activist so hard that he made a douchy reply video that led Romanian authorities to his location leading to his arrest on suspicion of human trafficking?</p> @hankgreen well I just looked and the site is stuffed with right wing nuts defending him and spewing the same nonsense talking points so... Yeah, I'm happy not being there.
Open post Beeks @Beeks@home.social · 44mo ago Replying to @maxkennerly@mstdn.social <p>NYTimes is laser focused on the important issues, such as "explaining why the terminally online asshole billionaire is the real victim"</p> @maxkennerly@mstdn.social #UnsubscribeNYT is probably my most used hashtag and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Open post Beeks @Beeks@home.social · 44mo ago Replying to @tb@tldr.nettime.org <p>Top-notch observation disguised as a meme. It's not new, but it's great.</p> @tb@tldr.nettime.org @maxkennerly@mstdn.social This is why I kill every butterfly I see.