Seeing all this bad and negative things going on the internet let's change the pace, what is something that's good and you're excited for?
Seeing all this bad and negative things going on the internet let's change the pace, what is something that's good and you're excited for?
The fediverse is something I'm excited for and it's still in it's infancy so it'll be intersting to see how it plays out as it starts getting more polished and user friendly.
Despite the doom and gloom of AI I think it's been really cool, and one area I've seen it help is for my relatives where instead of me having to solve basic tech issues AI has helped. When it develops into a full on companion that will do things it asks them to I'll be bothered less and less.
John Green posted a video about a week ago calling out Johnson & Johnson for extending their patent for Bedaquiline, a medication that treats multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. The extension would prevent inexpensive generic versions from entering countries that are being ravaged by TB. After the video received critical reception and with John’s call to action, the public pounced on J&J. This led to J&J announcing they would allow the generic versions of Bedaquiline to be produced and shipped to the majority of low- and middle-income countries hit hard by TB, including countries where the patent is still in effect. We still don’t know which specific countries those are, but it’s still great news!
Plus, Hank Green is done with his chemo and seems to be mostly cancer-free for the time being.
Specifically, good things on the World Wide Web: research. The amount of good information available is incredible, compared with pre-Internet times. Weather forecasts, what the space telescope is looking at, what's happening in other parts of the world places in their own voice.
Sure, there is misinformation as well, and some people will cast doubt on anything they don't like or try to drown it out, but get past that, and this is a golden age of knowledge.
This is probably going to sound mundane, but I finally got my career back on track after the plague and have enough money to take my cats to the vet for proper medical care. Feel like I've been living at vets lately, but everyone's ears are clean, teeth have been checked, bloodwork done, and has the meds they need to thrive. I felt so bad that for two years the vet was life threating visits only.
What I'm looking forward to is many more years with my wonderful pets!
I went hiking on Saturday and I took a fuck ton of pictures, I'm really looking forward to editing the best shots from the trip. The hike was so beautiful it's probably going to be pretty hard to pick, and honestly that's the best kind of problem to have.
Also I have a bunch of miniatures that are at the point of needing a final pass of paint before being done, that I'm really excited to finish up.
The company I work for changed their policy on paid vacations. Starting in August I'm going to have a lot of vacation days and I'm going to use them.
I have a powerlifting meet on Sunday that I’m excited for. Going to set some PRs hopefully!
I'm beginning to plan hosting a monthly dinner for friends, maybe starting in the fall. I'm excited thinking about having people I love gather over food regularly
It’s adult night at the skating rink tonight and I’m going 🛼
My lunch
Going on leave soon with my family.
I've had a rough 2 years, I think I'm looking forward to going back to school this year. (Teacher)
Hard question for a pessimist. I have some pretty delicious lunch coming up so that's pretty great.
I’m excited for the rapid development of apps for Lemmy. I’m on iOS and have been checking out Voyager (Wefwef), Avelon, Memmy, Mlem and Thunder, and they are all smashing it!
Having an early morning swim in the sea every morning for the next few weeks.
About to move for just a few months for my wife's job. I think the kids will be cool with it they are still young but I know they'll miss their family here. Otherwise, super stoked
I’m going to try to keep the SpaceBaby’s name out of this, but I am genuinely excited for the step change the next generation of lift vehicles will bring to space exploration.
I’ve become thoroughly depressed with how we are mishandling our own planet, and I know there are huge risks in believing that finding new places to fuck up will solve anything (also, it’s a pipe dream - terraforming isn’t something we could really hope to achieve and anything outside our solar system is just too far away) … but, dammit, my 12-year old self dreamed of spaceships refuelling in orbit, resupplying permanent missions on other planets/moons, and now it might actually happen.
After over a decade, Baldurs Gate 3.
My mum is coming to visit soon. I live in the USA and she's back in Australia. It'll be the first time she's travelled overseas since the late '80s. She's very excited about it :)
SO is preparing the dough for pizza on Thursday. Also, this is my Friday. Less then an hour left.
I'm super hyped for Pikmin 4 coming out on Friday. Nintendo basically can't miss with Pikmin games so I have no doubt it'll be excellent, and I just replayed the first three.
I installed a new stereo in my car with my brother. I’m enjoying it. Might need to have a few quirks check though!
I have simple needs, so I'm going to say I'm really excited for news on the upcoming game Persona 5: Tactica.
I expect to be disappointed, but for now the dream is real.
I'm going to see spiderman a second time later this week. It's such a good movie.
Sinopec built the world's first commercial scale solar power to hydrogen plant last month. I thought we were decades away from this with a bunch of oil companies exploiting policies with "blue" hydrogen, but the legit green hydrogen economy is going to be a thing in my lifetime and that's amazing.