Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
The Light is Sweet, a 1687 engraving by the Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver Jan Luyken.
One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-light-is-sweet/
A statue depicting a mother cat and her kitten sits atop the roof of Château de Pierrefonds in France. The castle was constructed between 1393 and 1407.
Bravery and cowardice are two ends of a spectrum, and fear is part of both. The brave are not fearless. The brave overcome their fears. Cowards never do.
From now on, companies across the EU must be clear about their use of AI.
Providers and deployers of AI must now
✔️ Label AI-generated content as such.
✔️ Flag use of deepfakes
✔️ Inform users when they interact with AI or when it is used to analyse their behaviour.
️We have published guidance to help companies comply.
Transparency helps build trust 👇
The only thing I can cross off of my July to-do list is July
I'm supposed to finish disassembling and cleaning this.
#caturday
This year's harvest looks promising!
#NotMyCat #HeidiTheCat #caturday
PM Trampedach presenting himself on #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #verdenssødestekat
Wondering why countries have “AI” secretaries and ministers now but not ones for fixing climate change and making people not die in heatwaves
It’s easy to forget, but back in January, the US invaded Venezuela, murdered some people, kidnapped the Venezuelan president, and declared that it was now “running” the country.
Although the US has never clarified what that means, it apparently includes collecting all the revenues from the sale of Venezuelan oil. For a while, that money was being directed to an account in Qatar, of all shady places, but is now collected in an account at the US Treasury.
Some of this money has allegedly been dispersed to the Venezuelan government, but no one will publicly say how much. It doesn’t seem like anyone except Donald Trump and his Secretary of State / consiglieri, Marco Rubio, has any oversight of this money.
https://www.cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-took-over-venezuelas-oil-industry-where-has-all-the-money-gone
This needs to be said in a loop until it sticks.
"What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
- Stefan Rahmstorf, Climatologist.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer
In case you missed the email, we're informing you here too that the Terms of Service for #MastodonSocial and #MastodonOnline are changing.
To learn more about the changes, read our blog post: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/07/announcing-new-terms-of-service-for-our-servers/
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-> https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service
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