Wojciech Kwolek @wojciech@mastodon.r23s.eu

Youtube is going to start putting advertisements on more videos, including those that cannot be monetized by the uploader.

YT was never in our best interest, but even less so now.

I'm increasingly convinced that Disney is one of the companies that has done most harm in the world. Their harm is not economic or ecological, as in most cases, but cultural. Whenever Mickey Mouse would run out of copyright, they use their considerable power to make sure copyright terms are extended in the US – and because of US power, elsewhere in the world. This has robbed us a hundred years of culture that should be in public domain but instead is inaccessible and forgotten.

Dogs play the game where you don't let the balloon touch the ground. On a beach. I watched at least a dozen loops already and I'm not even close to done

Nobody:
Me: I'm sorry, I guess everything I've written is hot nonsense, sorry I've subjected you to all this, sorry sorry sorry

Gemini is really really good the biggest problem is that only like a few dozen people are active on it in the whole world. Idk how anyone finds out about it and doesn’t drop everything for a few months building software for it lol

"Deutsche Bank calls for a 5 percent 'privilege' tax on people choosing to work from home"
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/poverty/525480-deutsche-bank-calls-for-a-5-privilege-tax-on-people-choosing

> A new economic report issued by Deutsche Bank asserts that workers who work remotely are enjoying better economic gains than their commuting counterparts.

It's the same Deutche Bank that gladly helped launder billions of dirty money:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-bank-faces-action-over-20bn-russian-money-laundering-scheme

#FuckDeutcheBank

Cat delivery!

It's cats and vintage hardware time again. Here's Callie wanting attention while sitting on top of an Apple IIe.

due to personal reasons,

If you're still undecided which console to go with this generation, people have figured out that they can float ping-pong balls on the Series X vent... so I think we have a clear winner.

status report: cat in lap on bed

cat