Justinas Dūdėnas @dudenas@tilde.zone

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Bending light with a camera.

"The descendants of Atlas another nine years from now may plausibly have the kind of coordination typically associated with an ice skater, gymnast or sculptor. ... until 2015 Atlas had to be permanently plugged into a wall socket. Now, with its 3.7-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, it can walk around for about an hour."

-- "Fully Automated Luxury Communism"

I used to associate the struggle of global industries for better batteries mainly with automotive needs. EVs and persinally EUCs. But it actually will have major impact to generic manual labor and military service. Atlas already does parkour gymnastics: youtu.be/tF4DML7FIWk

An artist, fed up by a poorly-signed exit near LA, secretly painted and installed an improvement which went unnoticed by the DOT for months
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1444335433362677760

@bright_helpings Audiobooks might be a great format for illiterate people to read books. 🤔

I've never seen anybody from the west discuss illiteracy as an accessibility problem.

A lot of people from my grandparents' generation born right after independence, especially women, never learnt to read and write because the new government didn't construct the schools yet. Still they were well informed of the news through radio broadcasts.

#accessibility #illiteracy #audiobooks

“Apple and Google agreed to demands from the Russian government to remove a strategic voting app developed by opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the iOS and Android app stores.

Apple then disabled its Private Relay feature (which enhances web browsing privacy) for users in Russia. Google also removed YouTube videos giving advice on how to vote strategically in the elections.”

https://inkl.com/a/pRyJXPhrAQr

Big Tech will choose profit over democracy and human rights every time.

#BigTech

TIL that iphones regularly transmit the Mac addresses of devices attached to the same WiFi network to Apple. In addition to their geographical location of course.

So essentially you can be tracked across all locations where an iPhone is near you (and you haven't disabled your WiFi).

Wow.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection

#solarpunk
https://farm.bot/#

If NFTs have any value it's in making a mockery of the concept of ownership.