@Techmeme@techhub.socialReid Hoffman calls Anthropic "one of the good guys" after David Sacks accused the company of running a "regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/openai-inv
@cdarwin@c.imSanta Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The Art of a Good #Poster" by @… https://errantscience.com/blog/2…
@pre@boing.worldPanel asking what nostr doesnt fix?
Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.
Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.
Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.
No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.
#nostr #nostrshire
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHas anyone making this feature actually asked any accessibility experts and any disabled people if this is a good idea?
Because in practice this will give you terrible results, because AI can’t know what you intent do communicate with the image.
Even if it would give good results (it doesn’t and never will) and you’re too lazy to write alt text yourself, it would be better to do this on the receiving end where the disabled person could fine-tune generative alt text to their specific needs.
https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp/115406286404369048
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRavens QB Lamar Jackson (ankle) good to go Sunday vs. Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-qb-lamar-jackson-ankle-good-to-go-sunday-vs-jets
@tarah@infosec.exchangeFolks, I have a friend's internal hard drive here that is likely still good, but will not mount. There are family photos on it. What are good solutions for this, especially in the Seattle area? I'd like to hand-deliver if possible.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzChicago Bears 31, Dallas Cowboys 14: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly https://www.si.com/nfl/bears/chicago-bears-31-dallas-cowboys-14-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeIt's good to drink water, but don't drink too much (or you'll have to pee a lot) :ablobcatnod:
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWorked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsBlack climate humor
Good news is we're probably going to be spending less on heating the coming years.
Bad news is we're probably all going to die.
Good news is once we die, we won't need heating.
#ClimateCrisis
@whitequark@mastodon.socialme: it's good code!
them: *look inside*
them: it's incomprehensible regular expressions!
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Suttons:
🎵 So Good
#TheSuttons
https://hitthebbutton.bandcamp.com/track/so-bad-its-good-ft-dick-valentine-of-electric-six
@zachleat@zachleat.comsome good insight here into how (I try) to navigate conflicts on social media (which can be very confusing to folks that are very accustomed to shouting and being shouted at): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgA small change of plan since I wrote this, we're off this afternoon with a good weather window
Settling in..
It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data ...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/20/settling-in/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis really is a good video clip. https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115590146989319254
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Good news... we've hit the low point of dark winter days and things will be much brighter going forward. I am referring to the Winter Solstice, which officially begins around 10am in these parts. This will be the longest night and shortest day of the winter and daylight will begin increasing tomorrow. So put away the snow shovels and slather on the tanning butter.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CelestialDays
https://www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario-canada-winter-solstice-2025/article_5adc2a0c-9ac6-50fd-9ef4-ca851ee6d6ce.html
@yaya@jorts.horse
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I should add that I think Talon is very good for commands, but not very good for dictation and editing.
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukSuper Smash Bros Ultimate: nintendogs in the way
I am not good at Smash Bros. I can beat many people, but that is because they are less good, not because I am in any way competent. At Edward's birthday party some of his friends were asking to play Smash Bros, and we put on a seven-player game, with everyone else on one team and me on the other. I lost, but only just.
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialGood growth?
'Greater Manchester unveils £1bn "good growth" plan' -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyn8y6q957o
We considered this concept long ago:
@nerdsitu@datasci.socialRE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/115742007064577684
Very good. All public institutions, like universities, should follow suit! Especially those at the forefront of IT.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood analysis, my initial personal take was too pessimistic I think.
The EU's decision to secure the funding of Ukraine's war for the next two years is one of the most important developments of the entire year. It is a disaster for Russia, and it shows what Europe exerting itself as a strategic actor looks like in practice.
https://
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLike... really. Whoa. What the actual...?! This is so bizarre, and ... good?! Maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgqYdPPhN0 So turns out Trump succumbs to Mamdani's charm.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
🔐
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne important thing I need to keep in mind with LibreWolf is that when something does not work I need to check if it works in Firefox.
For instance the TrueNAS shell was not working, and I realized that TrueNAS wasn't broken, LibreWolf was just "protecting" me...
Which again, is a good thing, but it's sometime a bit too much protection for those of us who know what we are doing.
@aardrian@toot.cafeI, too, think some of the efforts of the CSSWG have gotten ahead of the use cases and I, too, think catching our breath would be good.
“Chris’ Corner: Stage 2”
https://blog.codepen.io/2025/10/20/chris-corner-stage-2/
@mia@hcommons.socialGlad to be in one now! It's a good week to put work into hope
From: @…
https://mastodon.me.uk/@rachelcoldicutt/1154…
@scott@carfree.cityGood start, but we said no turn on red citywide, ya goofs.
https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/115409291498072236
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialMrs qurly says she just saw and ad on tv for Jim Beam Pineapple. Omg. As a recovering alcoholic, I weep for humanity. And I wonder how many flavors did they try before picking pineapple? I never drank whiskey, it made me sick.🤷🏽 So I don’t remember what it tasted like, and what about 🍍 makes it a good match? They must be losing a shit ton of money from the Canadian boycott. Go after the youngs, they’ll drink anything if we flavor it, said some booze exec somewhere.
@adulau@infosec.exchange
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialNow this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
@Jyoti@mas.to
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://fosstodon.org/@jankatins/115759310659594427
There are actually GOOD kinds of hoarding...
@brian_gettler@mas.toThere have been few regularly recurring disappointments in my teaching career quite like realizing yet again that an otherwise good student can't figure out how to make it all the way through the process of finding a book in the university library catalogue, locating a physical copy on the shelf, and, finally, checking it out.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOn top of everything else, it turned out that Seal was a clairvoyant:
🎵 Don't you know that racism among future kings can only lead to no good.
#TOTP
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialGood move by Volvo to make smart charging the standard.
Volvo's smart charging service works directly via the car (retrieving information, controlling charging) and is therefore compatible with any home charging point.
#SmartCharging #EV
@crell@phpc.socialI just updated 8 libraries I maintain to run on PHP 8.5.
None of them required any changes for 8.5. One had two deprecation nitpicks left over from 8.4 that I'd not previously caught, trivially fixed.
It took me a little over an hour to do all 8, including some other maintenance at the same time.
PHP upgrades rock if your code is good. 🙂 :elephpant:
#PHP
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaThe Seeing Center (2005.5)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (183,746 reviews)
"This Best Picture-winning Tour de Force follows Moses Jackson, a good-hearted African-American PhD from Brooklyn, as he moves to a rural southern school to introduce some rowdy, expressive, redneck kids to the joys of learning, overcoming racial and economic divides in the process."
@bogo@hapyyr.comGood morning, world!
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… :-(
Good to see that NetShield works, but yeah, it sucks.
I can send you a PDF if it helps…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… :-(
Good to see that NetShield works, but yeah, it sucks.
I can send you a PDF if it helps…
@joe@toot.works"Dead baby shark" would make a good Cannibal Corpse song.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialCool - I wonder how long before ICE tries to shut this down?
I see that the domain name is under the country code for Iceland - which is good and reasonably beyond the reach of the US.
"ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network"
https://migrantinsider.com/p/news-ice-
@usul@piaille.frNot good at all
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
#aibubble
@jae@mastodon.me.ukGood riddance to bad rubbish.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUFC fighter bucks Trump White House event over Epstein controversy: 'I'm good, dude' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658459-sean-strictland-ufc-fighter-white-house-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p47#a251220p47
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo I'm listening to the most recent episode of Executive Disorder and they're talking about how Trump is going to make a big announcement that could be to actually declare war on Venezuela. I know they record on like Wednesday or Thursday so I ask my partner if I missed Trump declaring war on Venezuela. My partner's like, "no, he just interrupted TV to ramble incoherently."
Now, I feel like it should never be a good thing to hear that the guy who has the power to launch the world's largest nuclear weapon arsenal is just going on a senile rant, but sometimes your assumptions can be upended in the most unexpected ways.
@cheryanne@aus.socialGood!
"NSW police officer who allegedly assaulted former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas charged with grievous bodily harm" | New South Wales | The Guardian
https://www.theguard…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialMembers of Israeli government have ‘genocidal intent’, says UK minister
Good.
But at this rate the UK government will say it's a genocide just as the last Palestinian is expelled.
https://nation.cymru/news/members-of-israeli-gover…
@steve@s.yelvington.comShawn Harris is highly qualified to replace MTG ... in every way except one. See if you can guess what that is
https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialIt's ginger shot time again. This one is one banana, one lemon and a good piece of ginger.
@haayman@todon.nlHaha, terug naar good old coax netwerk
Slow Wi-Fi? How to get wired internet at home without running an Ethernet cable | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/slow-wi-fi-how-to-get-wired-i…
@sean@scoat.esReal Parenting™ in 2025:
Who's got a good (working) strategy for banning any mention of “6-7" within earshot?
Starting to feel like a safety issue over here…
(I had a working "no bro talk" rule where I would just over-exaggerate calling everyone "bro" until it was embarrassing for the main bro-sayer, but trying that same method here would only accentuate/encourage the brainrot.)
Also, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, conside…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaVery good overview of the effectiveness of Honeywell PTM7950 phase-change thermal compound compared to traditional thermal pastes https://www.igorslab.de/en/overhyped-honeywell-ptm7950-in-lab-test-and-as-game-changer-for-graphics-cards/4…
@cdarwin@c.imWEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP: 10/19/25
Here’s a recap of the good things that have happened over the past week
in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration,
and to turn this ship around!
These are the headlines -- you can read the digest of the full articles (for free, you don't have to be a member) here:
@NFL@darktundra.xyzColts' Shane Steichen says Daniel Jones' play is 'as good as it gets,' Indianapolis QB off to 3-0 start
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-s…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFinally some good news from the ACM for once https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/115752439306842650
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMe: Oh no, I forgot to eat my cheesecake. I hope it is still good!
The Ever So Humble Mold Spore:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHands-on with the Samsung Galaxy XR: micro-OLED displays are good, eye tracking works well, lighter than the Vision Pro, Android XR looks a lot like visionOS (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/samsung-galaxy-xr-vs-apple-vision-pro
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Gorillaz:
🎵 Feel Good Inc.
#Gorillaz
https://djibouti123.bandcamp.com/track/gorillaz-feel-good-inc-djibouti-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/37mKgJHxfdyt3B6JODoYuj
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… good afternoon to this post from my iPhone 11 🏆
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIf going along with the fascists stops seeming like the easiest path, then the fascists are done for.
What good does it do to just incessantly annoy the crap out of CBP and ICE and their ilk? My friends, it changes the whole landscape.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys’ Schottenheimer Announces ‘Good News’ on Injured Defenders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/demarvion-overshown-schottenheimer-announces-good-news-injured/?adt_ei=[email]
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzPuking in my mouth, hearing about the lionisation of Charlie Kirk. So entirely wrong. He's no hero. Just an unfortunate victim of US-style gun violence, loud-mouthed, largely ignorant, wrong-thinking agitator. Based on my exposure to him (more than I'd like) he did very little in 'good faith'. Nothing admirable to be seen.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialWell, a little success, a little failure.
The box with a NeoPixel matrix on the back and a USB battery inside (and a microcontroller) works great!
But I did not bungee it to the bike rack so it flew off, hit the road, the lid broke off, and the MIK adapter also broke.
I bungee corded it into place and it's good now... but the box is busted so I'll have to come up with another solution.
@scott@carfree.cityThis is a good start but the subway should curve south down 19th Ave, meet up with Daly City BART and continue on the BART tracks down to Millbrae. That part is essential; a branch to Outer Richmond could be added later as a nice-to-have.
https://musubi3.github.io/sfmta-geary-subway…
@pre@boing.worldAJ at nostrshire ding a good job explaining why security matters and why we have to get off the surveilled and privately owned media
#aj #nostr #nostershire
@joe@toot.worksI can’t tell if I like The Book of Traps and Lessons because it is a good album or if I like it because it sparks memories of what I was doing when I first heard it.
#KaeTempest #Music
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe company known for good design messing up so bad they have to introduce a toggle to turn off their new design.
Truly epic stuff.
Can Cook resign yet and let someone who knows what they're doing run the show?
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsOne screenshot, two memes.
Variant 1:
Polish people: going crazy about tickets for 1 PLN.
Me, raised in thriftiness characteristic of Poznań area: "I don't know, 1 PLN is still some money."
Variant 2:
Carbrains: "trains are expensive!"
Me: "are they now? This sounds like a pretty good deal to me."
#rail #InterCity
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc
@yaya@jorts.horsegot a notification that one of my good friends I haven't talked to in a while went live on twitch. i'm the only person in the stream so we're just hanging out and he's showing me random weird things he's acquired and it's just really nice
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/803349/apple-macbook-pro-14-m5-2025-review…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… can’t say no to a good twitter archive
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy fairly boring take on Trump fawning over Mamdani is:
(1) Trump has no principles — philosophical, moral, or otherwise — but understands what makes for good reality TV and always instinctively sucks up to the popular kids when he first meets them.
(2) My main take-away from the meeting is where are the Epstein files, and how is the Trump admin going to try to redact, delay, blunt, compromise, discredit, or erase them?
@cdarwin@c.imStatus quo politics is not good enough.
We need to elect candidates all over this country who have the guts not only to stand up to Trumpism,
but to take on the monied interests and fight for a working class that has been ignored for far too long.
One of those candidates is our friend State Rep. Donavan McKinney,
who is running for Congress in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District.
Donavan is a born-and-raised working class product of Detroit.
He is a for…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzFascinating - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/573694/from-new-jersey-to-aotearoa-american-teen-dedicates-year-to-te-reo-maori - good on Charlie, and Te Wānanga Takiura! I come from near where she does, w…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Silvana Estrada:
🎵 Good Luck, Good Night
#SilvanaEstrada
https://open.spotify.com/track/2AOawNs7D8TgKmlppSbGeb
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWhy are authoritarian regimes so obsessed with “efficiency” and “cutting bureaucracy”?
Because bureaucracy is good, actually.
@scott@carfree.cityIf you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCards' Harrison feels 'good enough' to face Falcons https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47360628/cardinals-harrison-says-heel-feeling-good-enough-return-vs-falcons
@pre@boing.worldMattress arrived in a ridiculously small box.
Apparently rolled up and vacuum sealed. Good packaging I guess if the mattress can stand being rolled up for months on end.
Instructions seem to imply it'll take up to 72 hours to reach it's full shape and possibly I ought to not be sleeping on it until then. 🤔
It'll get 13 hours or so at least till bedtime but do I really wanna sleep on the sofa for another two nights while it recovers from their abusive packaging? Hummm.
If I follow instructions it'll not be slept on until I get home after Xmas.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive (Adrienne So/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/review/oakley-meta-vanguard-smart-glasses/
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… ooh let me know if you find any good games for this
@hex@kolektiva.socialAny sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI have to say, I really feel for the folks at Apple who have to keep churning out large-scale look-and-feel changes to differentiate every new version of the OS. It’s hard to constantly generate visibly new stuff when you already did a good job many versions ago, hard not to succumb to the temptation to make your product look like one of those UIs from a sci-fi movie that UI experts use in class as a case study in things that are cool-looking but actually a bad idea.
@cdarwin@c.imTech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
@scott@carfree.city"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd
@pre@boing.worldWouter constant is talking about permissionlessness. Nostr is a protocol that doesn't need some central server to authenticate your requests. Which is good. But this means that, say, children can use it without parents permission.
Online safety act and others are closing down the internet to protect them kids. So can nostr have accounts that do need permission? Can it be made kid safe? Of only to satisfy crazy governments under parent pressure.
Weboftrustfoundation exists to try and build kidstr, some kind of nostr for children.
Mostly just asking questions so far. How can it work? How can it avoid labelling vulnerable people to exploit?
#nostr #permissionlessness #nostrshire
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat @… is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.
It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@cdarwin@c.imThe people who succeed in the new media environment
are the people who figure out how to work its mechanics,
which selects for skills that are only loosely correlated with genuine intellectual originality.
🔸You need to be good at social media,
🔸good at building a personal brand,
🔸good at identifying topics that will generate engagement.
These are real skills,
-- but they're not the same skills that lead to developing genuinely new ideas.
@pre@boing.worldA panel of people from a few different countries.
The UK, where the event is, and the US currently have money which perhaps is good enough that the people there don't see much need to replace the money. Running global reserve currency helps exploit other poorer countries. The problems are fairly invisible.
But in other countries, poorer countries with even worse money, countries more exploited by debasement of the global reserve currencies, the problems with government money are more evident. They see the need for an alternative more strongly.
Adoption is important though. Money is only money if it's widely accepted. So given the choice of more users or higher price, the panel would all pick more users.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@pre@boing.worldDespite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@cdarwin@c.imDecember 18, 1978
Iran: Not A Good Day To Be The Shah
– Peace Talks On Hold
– OPEC’s Big Price Boost
https://pastdaily.com/iran-not-a-good-day-to-be-the-shah-peace-talks-on-hold-opecs-big-price-boost-de…
@pre@boing.worldBritain is broken, in various ways. Could adopting bitcoin help it bounce back?
Renegade Investor thinks so.
Central banks printing money causes government debt and artificially low interest rates. Their monetary policy is political and done for bankers not for people.
Bitcoin monitory policy is fixed.
Lockdown during pandemic was funded by money printing, and caused a big inflation pump and government debt increase. It caused the current cost of living crisis.
Lockdown could have been impossible under a bitcoin standard.
In pounds the cost of living has gone up lots over the last decade. But in bitcoin it's gone down massively.
He thinks wealth redistribution is taking money from productive people and giving it to those who aren't increasing the country wealth. Here I disagree entirely. Wealth is reality being taken from the workers and given to the capital owners. We are redistributing wealth towards the rich currently. Taking the wealth created by workers to give to idle owners.
I also wonder, would limited government power be good? Did the lockdown save lives? Would it do do under a worse pandemic? Limited government power may be double edged.
Not sure why he thinks immigration is funded by government, rather than immigrants increasing the country wealth. Seems to think bitcoin could reduce immigration, which I find unbelievable and undesirable.
This talk I disagree with quite a lot.
#bitcoin #bitfest #britain
