Let me introduce my first book.
Springs of Shame is a courageously raw and honest story of a boy growing up in a small old mining town in apartheid South Africa.
www.amazon.com/Springs-Sham...#author#shame#biography#raw#honest#springs#Johannesburg#SouthAfrica#gay#LGBT#mental#health
Launching these videos that cover various computer science topics. Thinking about new careers, danger, risks and opportunities.
In this installment, a short review of swarm intelligence
#Ai#swarm#intelligence
Fifty years from now, in 2075, the world will be considerably hotter, perhaps as much as 3-5° Celsius (4.5 to 9° Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average.
Experts say we need to focus on building greater resilience into ecosystems now to help species get through the next half century.
Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.
Why are so few people aware that we'll likely reach 2°C of global warming next decade?
A stable climate is only the prerequisite for global ecosystems, food production, and for some form of civilization.
Right?
And remember, the fairly rapid 9-12 year climb to 2C will be brutal.
It’s not like a light switch flicks at 2C.
Very possible civilization as we know doesn’t survive 1.7 or 1.8c
The silver lining to this pitch black cloud? Collapse of the industrial global economy will cut/end fossil fuels.
Right in the heart of the city what would be car parking in the UK is instead space for bike parking, greenery, and outdoor dining. When you make city centres safe and welcoming with cycle routes in every direction, you don't need endless car parks. Cities thrive when places are built for people.
Everywhere I’ve ever been, you could always just walk in whatever bathrooms there were. It’s not like they card at the door. The social stigma against being a creepy pest is all that ever stopped you, and that doesn’t change because trans people exist and need to use the bathroom sometimes.
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Its a new year but same old me with the same consistency as before. Let's go!
#gym#muscle#gay#gaymuscle#workout#gayworkout#hunk#gayhunk#twunk#tattoos#NewYear
“Finland’s success isn’t a matter of luck or the outcome of quick fixes. It’s the result of a sustained, well-resourced national strategy, driven by a ‘Housing First’ approach, providing people experiencing homelessness with immediate permanent housing.”
oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/f...
O what's this behind this door I didn't notice...
O wait why are there lots of control panels linked to different parts of my brain 🧠
Wait who's operating these panels with a mask on 👀🥸
Ooo Autism
Aaaaaa 🥲 this explains a lot...
Silently staring into that new 🚪
Here’s a Christmas miracle for you. Ireland’s digital regulator is bringing in EU rules to improve moderation, protect kids & generally deal with the cesspit of some sites. Natch Elmo is now suing them for the EU rules. He can’t win - this will go back to the EU & squash him.
"The man or woman who does work worth doing is the man or woman who lives, who breathes that work; with whom it is ever present in his or her soul; whose ambition is to do it well and to feel rewarded by the thought of having done it well." Theodore Roosevelt
When I was first learning how to code as a teenager (mostly by viewing the source of websites, pre-YouTube era), I thought that everyone using HEX codes memorized them, and so to this day, I know way too many HEX codes by heart because I thought I had to
Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving
Oh the good old days. I remember spending many hours working in Godot 3 coding a business simulation game. I learnt so much about game dynamics, mechanics as well as how to think through user interface issues and realizing why countless others before me had struggled with similar road blocks #godot
I'm reading about how to do procedural animations on 3d bones in Godot4. Gonna try to get my spider leg-stepper working. Probably should start with something easier, but nah. That's not how I roll.
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917
This was a point @adapalmer.bsky.social made on her podcast: that the untapped computing power currently in the world is overwhelmingly in the brains of poor people, who have to spend it surviving rather than being Mozart. (I’m simplifying, but that’s the essence)
My friends call me a loser cause I'm still hanging around. I thought you thought of me better, someone you couldn't lose. You said we're not together so now we kiss I have anger issues.
#Chappell#Roan#ChappelRoan
Dumb love, I love being stupid. I know babe, no attachments.
Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever
These billionaire kiss-asses are gonna spawn an army of Luigis, and then act surprised when the villagers with pitchforks come banging down their doors.
The people complaining that Wicked is political are the same ones who see a “hate has no home here” sign and ask if that means Republicans aren’t welcome. They’re *so* close to getting it.
Sometimes I wonder if I missed my calling. I become a CTO who doesn't feel he should get nude on social media. But then I look around and wonder if I would be so bad to post a VPL