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zdl

@zdl@mastodon.online

Half-German, Half-Chinese, Half-Canadian, all-bad at math, currently living to her consternation in the People's Republic of China.

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session, to random
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DePIN or ✨decentralized physical infrastructure networks✨ takes power away from Big Tech executives and returns it to the communities that create value in the first place.

But what actually… is it? And how might it revolutionise the digital spaces we connect in?

Watch this and find out 👇

https://odysee.com/@Oxen:0/our-depin-model-for-session:6

https://youtube.com/watch?v=x8a3Q6rRaXA

video/mp4

zdl,
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@session Wasn't this the promise made about the Internet at first? (Hint: yes, it absolutely was.)

What is going to be made differently this time to stop the same increased centralization from happening again?

zdl,
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@session Oh, just hit "blockchain".

It's a grift.

zdl, to random
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OK, this is quite possibly the weirdest sound recording and reproduction device I've ever heard of. It beats even wire recorders for weirdness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg

zdl,
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What I found intriguing about this is that this is technology, available in the 1950s, that was superior to its competition (78 RPM records): more durable, better-sounding, more convenient storage ... and yet it was incredibly short-lived while the lameness of flat disks with small amounts of music taking up more space and wearing faster dominated the music world for so long.

This is the power of marketing over technology, sadly.

jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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Professional Brit Farage shows his commitment to the UK by shunning the election there so he can help out Donald Trump in the US.

Nigel Farage says he will not stand in UK general election | Nigel Farage | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/23/nigel-farage-says-he-will-not-stand-in-uk-general-election-reform

zdl,
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@jemmesedi Isn't he just sparing himself some humiliation by not standing?

zdl,
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@jemmesedi Farage and his ilk are my reminder of why I feel so comfortable so far away from the nation of my citizenship.

We've got a Farage in Canada. His name is Pierre Poilievre and there's a very good chance he will be our next prime minister (for very much the same reason that I'm pretty sure Trump is going to win 2024 in the USA).

zdl,
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@jemmesedi 🤷‍♀️ I'm a realist. I called Trump when most conventional wisdom said he was a clown who was going to make the Republicans lose in 2016. (Specifically when he survived the first round of "debates" in Republican circles I predicted with 90% certainty that he'd get the Republican candidacy and with about 80% certainty that if that happened he'd have the presidency.)

I was about 75% certain that Biden would win in 2020.

And now I'm about 90% certain that it's Trump 2024.

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zdl,
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@jemmesedi For Poilievre I'm about 80% certain he's our next Prime Minister (and I'm looking forward to having my vote removed from me yet again by a Canadian prime minister).

So what's my secret to these predictions? It's easy. I assume the worst of my fellow human beings and am rarely left disappointed. It doesn't help that in the USA the Democrats are going out of their way to alienate the youth vote while in Canada Trudeau seems incapable of making even his fans excited.

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jemmesedi, to UKpolitics
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The joy of Brexit.

Why travelling on Eurostar from the UK is about to become much trickier | Rail industry | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/why-travelling-on-eurostar-from-the-uk-is-about-to-become-much-trickier

zdl,
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@jemmesedi You'd think the "Euro" in "Eurostar" would be the clue that post-Brexit Britain isn't properly a part of it any longer?

judisohn, to random
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Since late February, at urging of neurologist to figure out source of idiopathic neuropathy (MS and most auto immune diseases ruled out) I’ve been on anti-inflammation diet avoiding dairy, eggs, gluten, grains, corn, sugar, artificial sweeteners, white potatoes. Heavy on berries, omega 3 fish, colorful root vegetables, nuts, and leafy greens.

Still have numbness more often than I’d like but feel good otherwise. And I’ve lost 15 lbs. Anyway…

Need some community advice in next post…

zdl,
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@judisohn Green tea, to avoid the acrid bitterness, has to be "washed". By which I mean you pour hot water over the leaves, swirl it around a few seconds and then pour the liquor off.

Washing tea improves, in fact, most teas, green or black. but it is essential with greens for most people.

cstross, to random
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Enshittification intensifies, reaches the Internet of Sex Toys. https://wandering.shop/@zip/112503471246126866

zdl,
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@cstross Literally the last thing I would want "connected" is a sex toy. With the almost daily tedium of reading about Yet Another Data Breach in some online service or another, why would I want something as intimate as a sex toy up for grabs?! 🤯

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@klausfiend @cstross Nope. I can do without that knowledge. 🤣

zdl,
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@cstross Maybe it's my age talking, but as soon as I hear "Internet-connected" for any device that's not a computer or phone I say "no thanks" and don't buy it. I don't have a "smart" TV. A "smart" fridge. A "smart" kettle. A "smart" stove. A "smart" voice assistant. A "smart" ... well ... anything. Except a computer (from which I'm typing this) and a phone.

I'll try to live with the disappointment of not being humiliated, threatened, attacked, or manipulated on a daily basis.

zdl,
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@cstross I don't think of it as an attack surface thing, though. I just say "why would I want <some device> connected to the Internet?" and can't find a good reason. 😆

The safety issue is something that came up years after I'd decided I'd not buy any "smart" device.

jemmesedi, to music
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I'm definitely a music person, if only because much of the music to which I listen has lyrics in a language I do not understand.

What about you?

Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: Music Versus Lyrics | Dirt

https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/05/music-versus-lyrics

#Music #Songs #Lyrics #WordsOrMusic #MusicVersusLyrics

zdl,
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@jemmesedi If the music doesn't grab me, the lyrics never reach my ear, so music.

jemmesedi, to Philippines
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What do you think?

‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice | GM | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/greenpeace-blocks-planting-of-lifesaving-golden-rice-philippines

zdl,
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@jemmesedi I think Greenpeace should disband. They succeeded in their original goal; they should stop trying to remain relevant by killing people.

zdl,
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@jemmesedi GM crops are like any technology: can be used for good and for evil.

The approach of using GM to make crops resistant to poisons so you can pour a thousand times more toxic chemicals on them, thus guaranteeing they show up in resulting foods, is flat-out evil. (The "Round-Up" approach.)

In this case, it's an unequivocal good. Greenpeace needs to shut the fuck up and step the fuck back over this or they'll have literally tens of thousands of deaths on their hands.

Alice, to random
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I did a complete 360 and nobody noticed.

zdl,
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@Alice I have met so many people who use "complete 360" as if it were TWICE as "complete 180" that I appreciate your clarification that you're not in that group.

angiebaby, to USpolitics
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Joe Biden has expressed a willingness to work alongside the PARTY OF DONALD TRUMP to intimidate a legitimate court of law which is trying to defend one of the most persecuted and marginalized groups of people in modern history against a bloodthirsty genocidal war criminal and his ongoing campaign of butchery.

A campaign of butchery for which Biden has chosen to aid and abet for months.

What do you even stand for anymore, Democrats?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_14JX0sA6o

zdl,
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@angiebaby They stand for what political parties, no exception, have always stood for in purported democracies: subverting democracy to get the reins of power.

kyonshi, to photography

the storm moves on, łódź, may 2024

zdl,
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@kyonshi Wow!

kassiamelnik, to random
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Whoa, such a warm welcome, so many nice people! Thank you everyone! Please keep recommending other artists to connect with :)

You asked me to share more about ceramics, so here it goes

I am trying new bowls, I call them nuts. This texture is obtained by applying slip (liquid porcelain) with a brush to the surface of the product. Very meditative process.

I took all this out of the kiln yesterday. Now sanding and glazing.
Maybe I'll have time to fire everything next week.




Same bowl, but turned a bit
Multiple unglazed cups and bowls on the table. Forms are really hard to explain, but there are some which are part spheres, others are wavy

zdl,
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@kassiamelnik Well it's good to know I'm not the only obsessive at least. 🤪

juergen_hubert, to random
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Thought of the day:

The primary problem with late-stage is not that it is a market economy, but that it incentivizes eating the seed corn.

"Why should I care about next year's harvest when using the seed corn will improve the profits in this quarter?"

zdl,
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@juergen_hubert Look up Sudbury, Ontario, Canada in the 1950s where nickel mining caused such a disaster that the verdant forests of Ontario were reduced to the point that it looked like a bloody moonscape.

It's been 70+ years since they tried to reverse that and it still looks pretty scraggly and weird.

zdl,
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@juergen_hubert https://www.americangeosciences.org/geoscience-currents/mining-remediation-sudbury-region-ontario

SecularJeffrey, to random
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My balls are so full of microplastics I can barely store any pee in them.

zdl,
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@mxtthxw Wait, you mean boomers didn't absorb all the lead?

I'm going to have to come up with a new explanation for Trump and his ilk.

ElleGray, to random
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Classic case of how extenuating circumstances should include "sure but it was fucking hilarious, your honor"

zdl,
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@ElleGray "He's coming to get you, Barbara!"

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