hewiak, from Mastodon

Lefty politics, physics, linux computing, open sourcing, digital rights.
Pushing my Mastodon to Twitter via

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
please steal this idea.
I would honestly buy one, I'm just not sure I have the energy to *make* one at this age...
https://t.co/WGkH28OQin

[BeatThePack2024 @sotomayor2020]

#DarkMoneyPolitics must be checked. again.

[BeatThePack2024 @sotomayor2020]

#tweetstrike remains until the formerly trustable #socialmedia platform is no longer pliant to a megalomaniac's whim. [#Mastodon is a great #twitterdetox method]
https://t.co/etgl0cvRLt

re: "Elon Musk says end-2023 'good timing' to find new #Twitter head" https://t.co/P8uywnKVYX

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

wonder if anyone has flipped it around, and turned the #ChatGPT-queries/user-profiles into a new AI dataset?

...and what might it say?

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

Hey #mastodondev -
you folks can't seriously be satisfied with the way #toots are copied, referred or quoted! wtf?

please tell me there is at least thought on this.

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

agriculture. https://t.co/Pu20fFDQ17 #BHM
#NASA
https://t.co/GJ4rn685gm (2/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
Meet the woman behind early NASA_Landsat images: Dr. Valerie L. Thomas.

A self-taught programmer, she managed the development of Landsat image processing. Her work in the '70s helped show that satellite imagery could be used to support (1/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
An international team including nasa scientists mapped nearly 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands. 🌳

Their goal? Assess the amount of carbon stored outside of Africa’s tropical forests, which is essential for climate change (1/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

seeking process” asks US District Judge Michael Simon, who oversees the settlement. (2/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

#Portland #Police https://t.co/NcrmRxcTZX
“What’s wrong with the process of an officer’s subjective understanding and recollection of [an incident], followed by a review [of video footage], followed by a supplemental report? I think that would be very effective in the truth (1/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
some french protestors modified a grill to roll along the rail tracks in a city and I've never been more mad about america's pathetic rail infrastructure
https://t.co/OLTArJyLaV

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
current mood
https://t.co/3WWynSLr1e

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

options to support #offshorewind development in the #PacificOcean — part of a longer-term effort to include state policymakers, local leaders, and private industry, and report outlining key recommendations. (2/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

https://t.co/JZWWIey1M1
Feb 22, 2023: the Grid Deployment Office and Office of @[email protected] Efficiency and #RenewableEnergy’s #WindEnergy Technologies Office kicked-off of the West Coast Offshore Wind Transmission Study; 20-month study will detail transmission (1/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

https://t.co/y0kkVBgVZP
This is for all the simple #Russian kids who were not war criminals, who have died now in the first year of Putin's nightmare.

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

https://t.co/KE2Vp6Gjw3
RT GretaThunberg
Climate strike week 236. Today one year has passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and we stand in solidarity with Ukrainians. Slava Ukraini. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Climate strike week 236. Today one year has passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, and we stand in solidarity with Ukrainians. Slava Ukraini. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #PeopleNotProfit

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

#Conflict #Russia #US #Ukraine #Allies #NATO #EU #Putin
https://t.co/CIKPgaMdxN (2/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
"In north Russian towns, silent manifestations of support for Ukraine
One year after the start of the onslaught, flowers in blue and yellow colours appear in downtown #Petrozavodsk and #Murmansk. "

https://t.co/p51J78aEt8

#Military #War (1/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

https://t.co/78v5Cl20Dj

Mary Lynne
from Mauna Kea by ANF

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

sacré bleu, laïcité jaune…if Taiwan can fly them, pourquoi pas l’Ukraine?
pourquoi pas #MirageFighters instead of prayers…

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

#GPT3
https://t.co/fpu2y1VTg1 (2/2)

[hewiak, from Mastodon @hewiak]

RT @[email protected]
ChatGPT doesn't obey Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, as I've heard it overrides its own rules if asked to "play a role". So it prioritizes a human mandate over human safety, thus inverting the first and second laws. #ChatGPT (1/2)