This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline
niemanlab.org · May 07
For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.
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For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
The global #economy is "a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and #nature. And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the #Titanic.”
#climateemergency #GrowthKills #planetaryboundaries #climatecrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now
The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time
I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale
Nope. Far more depressing and mundane
We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it
Evan Prodromou We have a big world to build. In this talk, I’ll discuss some of the cool stuff that’s been built, and cool stuff we still need. Questions & Answers available Q&A Session – The ActivityPub ecosystem ⬡ Hooray, the live Questions & Answers are available here
One of the most important things for me in the further development of the fediverse is that we don't have any obligation to mindlessly ape the commercial social networks. We can build social interactions that serve our own needs, enhance our relationships, and make our lives better.
I talked about this in 2020. I will bang on this drum forever.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/the-activitypub-ecosystem/933
I just came back to my hotel from the media event Apple held earlier today in London at their Battersea Power Station headquarters. I had high expectations for the new generation of iPad Pros that Apple unveiled today – some of which were exceeded by reality (hardware), and others that were, re...
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Can you run scanners over iSCSI?
It is done. My quest to get a scanner to working over iSCSI is complete.
I can now safely claim that Chris on SuperUser is wrong. There is nothing stopping you from having scanners running over a storage network.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
This has been one of my dumbest, expensive and time consuming projects.
Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you might expect.
The Walkley Foundation is forcing journalists to pick between industry recognition and self-respect.
Another damning indictment of the state of Australian journalism: fossil fuel company Ampol is the platinum sponsor of our pre-eminent journalism awards, the Walkeys.
And the foundation that administers these awards is refusing to answer questions on that sponsorship, despite a growing threat of boycotts of the awards.
Good work by Nick Feik in Crikey: https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/07/walkley-foundation-awards-fossil-fuels-ampol-boycott/
#journalism #ClimateChange #TheWalkleys
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