Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

There's long been one mantra in mainstream economics: Growth is good. But recently, an alternative term has begun taking root in popular culture and policy: "degrowth." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/10/05/economy/degrowth-kohei-saito/ #business #economy #globaleconomy #koheisaito #universityoftokyo

I have seen the future of the web and it is LLMs eternally writing recipe introductions for other LLMs to read

The war on the homeless continues in Lancashire;. removing the shelter(s) of rough sleepers is one more attack on the vulnerable.

Leaving homeless people (rough sleepers) without tents is just inhumane as we head into winter.

If you want to do something about rough sleeping, how about finding them shelter?

Using an attack on a councillor as the justification looks a lot like collective punishment.... as always, lashing out at the weak is easy politics.

#homelessness
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4d74ple74o

#MehdiHasan makes such perfect sense when it comes to Isnotreal defenders...

#FreePalestine #FreeAmerica

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8dwYEgq/

I’m convinced one aspect of RTO is re-enabling managers’ abuse of (some) lost power. When I worked in an office I had managers try and stop me going home, or follow me part way home because “work really needs to get done”. Much harder to pull shit like this on a zoom call.

The "AI will make programming obsolete" bullshit has a surprisingly long history.

Here's an ad from 30 years ago promising code-free software development.

You can see the ad here: https://archive.org/details/BYTE199301/page/n263/mode/2up?view=theater