@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-22 14:42:02
from my link log —
Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation.
https://argdown.org/
saved 2020-06-30 https://dotat.at/:/TFC5Q.html
@a@paperbay.org2026-07-21 20:26:00
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-21 06:31:54
A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (Tech Xplore)
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-22 22:58:29
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Daymé Arocena:
🎵 La Rumba Me Llamó Yo
#DayméArocena
https://open.spotify.com/track/76uEz0IAwbfB1v41bXp86Z
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-07-21 05:41:06
Auch wenn Watson hier um den heissen Brei redet: Mehr Teams -> mehr Spiele -> mehr Einnahmen für die #FIFA.
Es gibt Argumente für eine WM mit 64 Teams – aber auch Nachteile und mögliche Probleme https://www.watson.ch/!490595962
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 15:37:32
In the Senate today, lawmakers plan to question US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee’s top Democrat, said that
Donald Trump’s “tariff spree” has “hammered” farmers and small business owners in his home state of Oregon
– particularly in communities which voted for the president in 2024.
“Like so many other promises, Donald Trump has made to working people, The second he set foot in the White House, he did nothing to put Americ…
@joe@toot.works2026-05-22 14:56:19
Putting it on just two cars seems limiting. I could see a "big brother" argument, though.
"Funded by the Daniel Hoan Foundation, the “Route Reports” system will use high-definition dash cameras mounted to two Department of Public Works supervisor cars that are among the highest-mileage vehicles in the city fleet after police squads. That video feed is processed by an artificial intelligence program in real-time to detect and assess potholes."
#Milwaukee #Potholes
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-22 04:44:36
The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-21 02:50:09
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Major Arcana:
🎵 Western Wind
#MajorArcana
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aQPQEFhSuYHnlgO8kkd08
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-22 15:45:31
Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states (Hansi Lo Wang/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/22/nx-s1-5863532/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-private-right-arkansas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p47#a260622p47