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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-10-01 00:41:27

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

@mot@chaos.social
2025-12-29 19:31:20

A few pictures from yesterday night at the #39C3
(License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

A dimly lit large room with some round and square tables. All sorts of light installations re cluttered on the table and in the room: LEDs on strings hanging from the ceiling that form a cylinder on one table, colorful LED stripes and theater lights in the background. The desks are filled with electronic equipment like 3D printers, laptops, power outlets and alike.

A large dimly lit hall with a big rocket ("Fairy Dust") in the front. A toroid-like shape with mirrors like a disco ball is hanging from the ceiling surrounded by several large rings. Powerful light beams shine through sparse fog and the reflections of the toroid mirrors are projected onto the walls. Stairways are decorated with several banners ("OpenWrt", "Trans right are human rights", "Amnesty International" etc.)

A hallway in a dimly lit large hall is surrounded by decorated walls. Posters from the 39C3 motto ("Power Cycles") are hung up on the walls, others are decorated with fluorescent tape that shines in neon colors in the blueish/violet UV light. More LED stripes and some spotlights create a colorful atmosphere.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-11-28 02:45:01

60 years ago tonight, the merry pranksters' first informal acid test, held at ken babbs's place outside santa cruz, where the grateful dead did not play (& all purported flyers are almost certainly fake). below text from dennis mcnally's bio & i wrote about it for the 50th.

the larger world. The first of those special parties was at Ken
Babbs’s place in Soquel, near Santa Cruz, on the coast south
of Palo Alto, on November 27, 1965. Such public notice as
there was of the event came through a posting at Lee Quarn-
strom and Peter Dema’s Hip Pocket Bookstore in Soquel. The
Pranksters were joined by Allen Ginsberg and his lover, Peter
Orlovsky, and Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Sue Swanson, and Connie
Bonner among others, and the night basically involved hang-
ing out and tripp…

Kesey didn’t want to give it up, but Phil was not dissuaded,
and learned one of his early lessons in the subtleties of trip-
ping. He proceeded to gluehiseyesonKesey, and in a while
Ken got up and shoved the guitar at him. “Here.” Weir, on
the other hand, had another sort of adventure. Although he
had read “Howl,” he did not recognize Allen Ginsberg, and
saw only that he “was pretty damned amazing, the stuff he
would say and do. So I figure, okay, I'm gonna sit next to this
guy. Which was okay …

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-31 20:25:55

Ragged White Echinacea flowers in front of the Cornell Vet Research Tower (one of my favorite gardens anywhere because it's all about native and sustainable flowers!)
#photo #photography #cornell

Roughly eight echinacea flowers with white petals and yellow cones are surrounded by random grass and reads with a scattering of defocused small yellow flowers in the background and past that a featureless grey surface

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-10-29 22:50:50

A YEAR of storming POKROVSK – Russians suffer FAILURES #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/a-year-of-storming-pokrovsk.html

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Support the OSINT Ukraine Archive the 🇷🇺 War against Ukraine 🇺🇦
Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-12-26 19:15:11

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Get it! [Before anyone can do so, an energy blast flares up around the bracelet.]
VILA: Who did that?
DORAN: [Staring at the bracelet] Um....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/542 B7B5

Claude Haiku 4.5 describes the image as: "# Scene from Blake's 7

This image captures a moment from the science fiction television series "Blake's 7," set in a spaceship interior with distinctive red-toned walls and futuristic design elements. The scene shows several crew members gathered in what appears to be a command or control area, with a console visible in the foreground.

The actors are dressed in the show's characteristic costume design, featuring form-fitting synthetic materials and me…

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-10-23 00:30:00

Moody Urbanity - Everyone 👹
情绪化城市 - 每个人 👹
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

ORWO P400 (FF)

English Alt Text:
A black-and-white photograph captures a multi-level highway structure. The upper roadway is supported by massive concrete pillars and lined with streetlights. Below, cars and buses move along the lower road, indicating active traffic. The image is grainy, emphasizing its documentary or vintage aesthetic. Strong lines from the highway and pillars guide the viewer’s eye into the distance, creating a sense of scale and urban infrastructure.

中文替代文本：
这是一张黑白照片，展示了一个…

ORWO P400 (FF)

English Alt Text:
A grainy black-and-white photo shows a person squatting on a paved sidewalk beside a low concrete wall topped with decorative metal railings. The area is shaded by leafy trees, casting dappled light and shadow patterns on the ground. In the background, a water fountain sprays upward, surrounded by greenery. Parked cars and buildings are partially visible through the trees. The scene feels quiet and contemplative, with a vintage film-like texture. A white markin…

ORWO P400 (FF)

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A black-and-white photo taken under an overpass shows a man sitting on a bicycle next to a street vendor’s table. The table is filled with lotus flowers and other goods, with a plastic bottle also visible. Two white vans are parked in the background, and trees line the far side of the road. The image captures a slice of urban life, highlighting informal commerce and daily routines in a gritty, textured style.

中文替代文本：
这张黑白照片拍摄于高架桥下，画面中一名男子坐在自行车上，旁边是一张街头小贩的桌子。桌上…

ORWO P400 (FF)

English Alt Text:
A grainy black-and-white image shows a person in the foreground wearing a cap with an emblem and glasses. They rest their head on their hand in a contemplative pose. The background is softly blurred, with several people visible, suggesting a social gathering. A bright light source above adds contrast and texture. The photo evokes a quiet moment of reflection amid a communal setting.

中文替代文本：
这是一张颗粒感强烈的黑白照片，前景中一人戴着有徽章的帽子和眼镜，用手托着头，姿态沉思。背景模糊，有几个人影，暗示这是一个社交场合。上方有强光…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-24 21:21:02

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-12-27 18:59:15

Underlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
5/

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-12-25 16:05:52

We are going to open all of these presents RIGHT NOW!

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