@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So 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.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-10-19 06:35:06
»Kann der Arbeitgeber Microsoft-Teams-Chats überwachen?
Die kurze Antwort lautet: Ja, IT-Administratoren können die Chats der Mitarbeitenden in Microsoft Teams überwachen. Dafür sind entsprechende Lizenzpläne und Richtlinien notwendig.«
Ich weiss nicht wie dies rechtlich einzuordnen ist aber dass Microsoft einiges mehr ist als nur Windows und MS Office sollte allgemein bekannt sein.
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@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-11 00:21:02
Read every embarrassing thing about felon trump into the congressional record.
Make it a weekly night event on the floor for cspan and advertise it.
Make a bingo game out of it.
Read off the court transcripts trump and his ilk.
Enjoy yourselves while you do this.
Bullies hate being mocked.
If the GNP (Grand Nazi Party) wants to stop you, make them own the chamber 24/7.
Tell them you will stop making them own the space when they start to push bac…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-06 16:02:41
A reference to this GitHub blog post has come at me a few different ways, eg:
https://bsky.app/profile/longtail.news/post/3m2cfqbihhq2c
But that URL is 404:
@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-29 09:08:48
Weakly model-independent determination of total expansion during inflation
Dayeong Choi, Subin Jeon, Jinn-Ouk Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21850 https://
@dassascha@norden.social2025-11-24 16:07:57
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-10-31 11:12:24
Good Morning #Canada
Happy #Halloween to all those Canadians who enjoy dressing up, and today it's totally normal. But remember, don't go into the old shed with all the sharp farm tools.
Today, I am sharing one of my favourite radio episodes narrated by the late Stuart McLean. For 20 years, #TheVinylCafe radio show aired weekly on CBC Radio and was written and hosted by the late McLean. The radio show featured stories are about Dave, owner of a secondhand record store called "The Vinyl Cafe", and also starred Dave's wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie, and assorted other characters. If you fondly remember The Vinyl Cafe, then this episode may spark a memory. If this is your first exposure, I warn you that you may crave more.
I first heard this episode in the lead up to Halloween over a decade ago. It's about a man who is terrorized by his sister's doll, in his youth, and into manhood.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CBCRadio
https://youtu.be/vi6KKSWO5oU?si=7Tw3a7sfKuyP-M3u