Andrea

she/they; curious about the world and the people who run it

[moni @iycsts]

anything written by palestinian author mahmoud darwish always takes my breath away

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die

[kira-ann @charrlysa]

This is what I was tweeting about yesterday. We can no longer rely on the assumption ai will be visually distinct or bad looking. Yesterday I heard an ai song that was horrifyingly good to where I was shocked it was ai. You must be against ai on principle, not bc of aesthetic

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Let this sink in: a foundational, key idea that Hitler developed in Mein Kampf, that eventually led to the emergence of Nazism (that some people come from inferior cultures and so can’t become properly German no matter what the law says) is now mainstream Western right wing lingo

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This is straight out of Mein Kampf btw. Its paraphrased and adapted to the modern world of course, but the idea that the Aryan race invented culture/technology and so a Pole or a Slav could never be truly German is the core foundational idea that gave birth to Nazism

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

mind you we were already at risk of a global increase of 2°C pre pandemic, pre isr*el’s most recent slew of bombings, and pre ai. we have accelerated in the most extreme possible way and genuinely need to take drastic action and no one is treating this with the severity it needs

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

A woman is not a "what." A woman is a "who." That's why it's a bullshit question.

[Doug Farrar ✍ @NFL_DougFarrar]

He’s not wrong. The breaking of the Watergate story required diligence from Woodward and Bernstein, courage and faith from Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham, and nobody was saving the details for their upcoming books. Steve Bannon’s “Flood the zone with shit” strategy has worked wonders with a mostly compliant media.

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

they die. thousands of them. and more are dying every year. growing heat risk is increasing excess deaths. this is what the climate scientists were warning about for twenty years. we had two whole decades to intervene. instead Americans especially doubled down.

[Financial Times @FT]

Breaking news: Keir Starmer has announced that he will step down as prime minister amid a collapse in his popularity less than two years after he swept the Labour Party back to power with a promise to rebuild Britain. https://t.co/6vbtc8mbdQ

[Radhika Dagar @_Radhikadagar]

stark visual of gendered climate vulnerability

[Maia @maiamindel]

i have to say "a single person having a trillion dollars does nothing to hurt poor people or worsen global poverty" is a very stupid thing to say about *elon musk* a guy who quite famously has already used his billions to get the us government to end all international aid

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The best response I’ve seen to AI anything has been, “why should i bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write”

[Rohit @neorohit]

la hai.... to the people cheering for data centers in Nepal.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre has cautioned that even purified seawater may need to be distributed to meet drinking water demand if the forecasted El Niño strikes. The DMC warned of unprecedented severity, risks to major water sources, and limited bowsers for emergency supply. He stressed urgent preparedness, noting prolonged drought could leave no usable sources. The UN Meteorological Agency has already warned of the strongest El Niño in a decade, with Sri Lanka’s Met Department forecasting possible drought in July–August as rainfall declines.

D: https://t.co/Jt9dYmKut5

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

[Kyle Kondik @kkondik]

This is absolutely brilliant, perhaps in ways that the artist did not intend

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Shut them all down, we can live without AI data centers we can’t live without clean water.

[Andrea @updhy_]

Every new tech news update in Nepal (re: data centers, starlink, “digitizing” the economy) is making me feel like a Luddite. Never thought I’d be on the other side of the “Thomas Edison was a witch” meme but here we are 😓

[adrienne @barelytolerabIe]

Imagine blowing 30 years of search engine dominance—so much so that your website became a verb—only to kill your search engine in favor of a inferior product only tech bros and their sycophants like.