Notices by Bastian Allgeier (bastianallgeier@mastodon.social)

Most important: this does not invalidate the Fediverse. There’s no such thing as winning and I feel bad for my own past thoughts. The only thing that matters is that we finally get away from algo based social media that collectively fries our brains. Bluesky feels pretty healthy right now despite the questionable background. Be happy that lots of people find a healthier place in really dark times.

Maybe I’ve turned too soft and pragmatic, but I think that millions of people finally leave Twitter and don’t end up on Threads is a good thing. I wanted the Fediverse “to win” for a long time. I think the crypto VC money behind Bluesky is a huge red flag and will very like backfire. But I also think that it’s not in my control what people prefer and there are valid reasons why they prefer Bluesky, no matter if we like it or not.

For the last two days, a helicopter is flying around, throwing lime on the forest to improve the soil. I don't know, maybe this is totally normal in modern forestry and I simply have no clue, but it feels like some pretty dystopian shit that this is needed.

Since I'm following the climate science field, the reactions to climate science went from full denial to denial of human influence to greenwashing to adaption and recently back to "drill baby drill" and geoengineering. It's going great.

This is remarkable. The local energy provider in Mannheim – my former home town as a student – is giving their customers a clear roadmap for the future:

- district heating will be fully renewable by 2030
- gas network is being deprecated by 2035
- heatpumps are the No.1 replacement
- gas is going to get expensive because of CO2 prices and shrinking demand for the network
- biogas and hydrogene are no alternative to heat private homes

https://www.mvv.de/journalisten/pressemitteilungen/detail/gemeinsam-die-waermewende-in-mannheim-umsetzen

/via @mkreutzfeldt

I had a lot of points on my "This is how dictatorships start" bingo cart. But I completely missed the "I'm a left-wing voter and I'd rather enable the right-wing dictator than accept someone I don't agree with 100%" one.

I have a feeling that this is the time, our descendants later would wish to travel to with a time machine to kill a few people.

Manuel @matuzo gave a really good overview of fancy new color features in CSS at @btconf

This is powerful https://youtu.be/2iPqZVONltU?si=5jxMa_8MJBlmvs7L

I shared a very personal post a few month ago and then unlisted it from my site. It's a tough one and I was very worried about attracting the wrong folks with it or getting into painful discussions. But a lot of really wonderful conversations followed. Especially with people from the US.

I think it's the right time to post it once more. Maybe it can help you in some way or another: "My Grandpa was a Nazi" https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa

Sometimes I need such simple visualizations to really grasp what we are doing.

A liter of gasoline produces 2,37 kg of CO2. If you fill up a VW Golf 12 times (50 liter tank), you’ve put its own weight (~1,4 t) in CO2 into the atmosphere.

I’ve put a lot of cars into the atmosphere in my life :(

I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.

Zen Browser looks interesting. Gecko engine but with an Arc vibe https://www.zen-browser.app/

With every new hype and crash in the tech industry, it just feels more and more like there's basically nothing meaningful left in big tech to contribute to a positive future for the planet, but we all need to keep pretending to not make it look completely pointless and embarrassing.

Need to put Sticker Mule on my "never buy from those guys" list: https://x.com/stickermule/status/1812280776362168539 🤯

@manu I haven’t seen him here yet

It's just a gut feeling, but it seems to me that the AI hype has already started to fade. There are still some of those hype moments, but most of it has hit mainstream already and is either categorized into "useful", "gimmick" or "total crap" The "OMG, this is magic" or "OMG, AI is going to kill us tomorrow" period on social media seems to be over already.

Or I just don't see that stuff anymore because the algo already found out that I'm not super impressed.

@StefanMuenz Ich hatte exakt die selbe Erfahrung schon auf Youtube mit nem neuen Account. Es ist so unfassbar gruselig.

Yesterday, Selenskyj gave a speech at the Bundestag and the far-right AfD and the weird new far-left-right-pro-Russia-something BSW left the plenary. Their sponsor Wlady would probably not have been happy otherwise.

Today, the German Onion (Postillon) wrote that the democratic parties now decided to put up a Selenskyj stand-up display to get rid of the fascists for good: https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/06/pappaufsteller.html 🤣

How many 100-year floods does it take per year to no longer call them 100-year floods?