If you would like additional framing: you have only 30 seconds to prepare and you can talk for 10-30 minutes.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    25·
    4 days ago

    A year ago my cat was living on the street. Today she has enough passive income to hire her own chef and masseuse. Follow her for more advice.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 days ago

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        While dogs were domesticated by humans, there’s a growing body of evidence that cats were actually domesticated…by cats. The lack of any archaeological evidence that they were ever subject to any intentional or large-scale selective breeding, the seeming change in feline vocalizations to more closely match those of human young, alongside cats’ current “partially-domesticated” status and the rapid reemergence of wild behaviors in feral populations, all point to a one-sided decision by ancient felines to settle down around humans.

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        • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 days ago

          Ok ok. Bonus fact:

          There is some speculation that, in addition to domesticating themselves, cats have also domesticated some humans.

          The parasite toxoplasma gondii, which is carried by cats and can be contracted from dealing with their waste, causes a disease called toxoplasmosis, even in immunocompetent individuals. While not confirmed in any study, some researchers have suggested that the disease causes mental and social effects which incline the sufferer toward mild antisocial behavior, increasing their likelihood of adopting more cats, which increases their likelihood of being reinfected with toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma gondii can also be passed from (human) mother to child at birth, meaning that the feline-domesticated human is likely to give birth to a likewise domesticated child.

          This speculation has led to some news outlets breathlessly reporting that toxoplasmosis “causes” people to get more cats (or even to like cats more), and led to the association of toxoplasma gondii with so-called “crazy cat lady syndrome.”

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    The career path of being an online guild leader to meat space manager.

    I used to manage player orgs in EvE Online… Its basicly a second job and the paralells are real. One of my former space nerds got a job and IIRC is actually a rental car lot manager, we taught him how to use spreadsheets well over 10 years ago so they could figure out how the games industry mechanics.

  • GarboDog@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    We wouldn’t need 30 seconds to think about and we would need more like 2+ hours for the talk

    Were hyperfixating and info dumping about One Piece, thank you

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    6·
    3 days ago

    I’ll talk about world wide wealth caps!

    I want that nobody can have a net worth of more than, say, 10 million dollars. After that, all income over that goes 100% to taxes until you’re under it.

    Imagine the same tax brackets that we now have, bit with much more brackets and the last one is 100%

    This simple limit has a huge list of implications. Nobody can be extremely wealthy anymore, governments get so much tax income that they can implement all the socialist rights like free healthcare, free education, universal basic income, etc.

    No more poverty

    No more wealth inequality, meaning that everybody can live a good life

    No more extremely large companies because upu need an incremental amount of shareholders to be able to increase its size…

    Corruption? It’s hard to buy someone when henl can’t really give you much power and the buyer won’t be able to offer that much and the risk of getting caught is still the same

    You can work harder and earn more, but why would you if your life is good and happy? For those that need to innovate, there is still richdoms to get, but with reasonable limits

    This of course needs to be implemented world wide to work well, and the exact limit is for others to function, but I believe this to be possible and extremely positive for humanity.

    Needs a lot more work but for the 30 seconds given…

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    4 days ago

    The title of my talk is “Innovation as Rebellion against Complexity.”

    I’ll start with my experience studying and teaching music history, and demonstrate how every major musical stylistic shift over the past 1500 years or so can be seen as a revolt against excessive complexity developing in the previous style. One example would be the shift from thick, complex polyphony that had become the norm in late Renaissance music, to the relatively simple and much-easier-on-the-ears style of early homophonic music. But I’d actually touch on all periods of music history.

    I’d then challenge my audience to ask themselves and each other if this trend can be seen in other fields as well. Do we see such innovative rebellions in, say, art? Or literature? Architecture? The sciences? And what about technology…

    …and are we on the cusp of a new rebellion against the massively complex technology that’s thrust upon us today? What does that look like? What innovations await us at the conclusion of that revolution?

    I mean I’d be winging the fuck out of it with only a few seconds to prep but wouldn’t that be great to talk about?

    You can see I’ve done a lot of thinking about this lol.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
      13·
      4 days ago

      Finally a worthy opponent!

      Do we see such innovative rebellions in, say, art? Or literature? Architecture? The sciences?

      I never thought that music went through a similar rebellion. At least not in the matters of complexity. But it makes sense. I’m very familiar with the art & architecture one. Modernism is one of the most revolutionary movements in human history.

    • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      So are Gregorian chants more musically complex than modern pop music? Or is it more of a pendulum?

      • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 days ago

        A pendulum is a good way of looking at it. What you see in the Medieval period is, as an example, musicians writing more and more challenging lines to sing. Wider leaps, rapid-fire phrases…and this is how they show off their skills. You see this more in the secular music of the day, as the church is constantly pushing for sacred music that doesn’t call attention to itself. But, the backlash happens because while those complex, jagged lines might be lots of fun for the singer, not so much for the listener. And so begins a movement toward vocal lines that are easier on the ears - smoother, more melodic, easier to sing, which also lines up nicely with developments in counterpoint and polyphony that allow major forms like the motet to come into being.

        And of course musicians, not being able to help themselves, start competing with each other to write more and more complex motets, which sparks another aesthetic backlash, and it all starts again.

        This is a gross simplification of course but just to give you an idea how this all works.

          • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            3 days ago

            Modern pop - which I define as what you typically hear on commercial radio, but you could also define as the trending artists on digital platforms - is very safe, very conservative, and very listener friendly.

            But…to use an example that’s relevant to your question, you can look at the rise of punk rock in the 70’s. Punk was a reaction to the growing popularity of Progressive Rock artists like King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Rush, and similar artists that dabbled in complex harmony, polyrhythm, mixed/odd meters, and so on. Punk artists felt that these were becoming too elitist and exclusive and said, hey, how about we just play three chords and say fuck a lot? Let’s make music anyone can pick up a cheap guitar and learn in five minutes!

            In 2026 I’d be hard pressed to identify a popular musical style that’s pushing the boundaries of listenability to the point of sparking a backlash. And we just had a couple of these not that long ago anyway: Minimalism in the 60’s and my aforementioned Punk movement. I’d say we’re in kind of a lull at the moment, though it’s not hard to look at all the styles and genres that sprang out of Punk and see where they’re going. But these patterns span decades, sometimes centuries. It may not happen again in our lifetime.

    • IronKrill@lemmy.ca
      3·
      4 days ago

      Well said and a great point. I do feel, personally, I have already begun a small technological revolt. You should actually make a TED talk video or blog post about this if you have more to say.

  • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I’ll start with a joke, “so this guy has been randomly teleported onto a TED talk stage in his underwear…” and then I’d probably talk about how the over prevalence of “easy” in our day to day life has allowed us to become complacent and encourages us to stop fighting the inevitable downfall of life as we see it. All so billionaires can keep existing and we can be doomscrolling without being worried about life outside around the world.

    I’d fill the full 30 min.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Climate change and migration. There really isn’t such a thing as “illegal” migrants to begin with, let alone that most people don’t want to leave their homes but for economic reasons. With climate change destroying the fertility and economic productivity of land, it prompts people to try their luck into more prosperous countries, and they are getting demonised for wanting to have better lives. Most people don’t realise this and are distracted by 1% propaganda to blame helpless migrants.