Wow, it's the middle of the night in Pakistan and India, and the "feels like" temperature in Hyderabad is 106F. Earlier it was "feels like" 120F including humidity. #heatwave
"Aside from dozens of reply to every post being pornbots, White Supremacists and Nazis marching in the aisles, crypto-spam-get-rich-bros in the hallways, rampant conspiracy theories getting top viral billing, and penis enlargement ads, Twitter is the same!"
Hmm, finding a vegetarian Indian dish to make for dinner from scratch (which doesn't require a lot of ingredients I don't have and time) is an interesting challenge 🤔
Thus, why Indian restaurants and grocery stores here with takeout counters are appealing, LOL.
@ai6yr I was actually at a stop sign just now, in my car, when a Tesla blasted through his stop sign and pulled a left in front of me .. because I was stopped?
I don't know what these people are thinking.
Is there some kind of self-driving aggressive mode that just does that?
5 minutes earlier I saw a Tesla make an extra right turn lane where there wasn't one, and just trust that the people making legal right turns would stay tight.
@ai6yr I know some nice people with Teslas but sometimes it seems like it's a car designed by sociopaths for sociopaths:
"A software update on certain Tesla vehicles in the US has added a new “Assertive” mode that tailgates other vehicles, zig-zags through traffic, and will roll through stop signs rather than come to a halt."
Remarkable how out-of-the-mainstream utilitarian cycling seems to be in my neighborhood. Strong car-centric culture in Southern California, for sure. (yes, I was, until recently, part of that). 🤔
@ai6yr we are a species where people will drive to the gym, push a button and wait for the rear hatch to open, take out a gym bag, go work out, come back push a button and wait for the rear hatch to open, put the gym bag in, and drive away.
I think if you understand that you understand everything.
@ai6yr I worked with a guy who only refilled his water bottle, and one day I'm like wait a minute what is that .. he had a nice colony of green moss on the bottom. He sat close to the window. That must have helped.
I feel like best practices would be to use stainless steel and then only ever put water in it. Certainly never anything sweetened or with fats.
It is kind of a minefield though. Stainless bottles may have plastic sip tubes and then what about those..
@ai6yr I guess my ancient preference for loose leaf tea is confirmed there.
Seriously there are a set of things we could do to reduce our "last mile" exposure to microplastics. We could prefer to buy anything in glass that is available in glass as opposed to plastic. We could drink from glass, and when that's impractical metal.
We might have to hand wash.
But it comes down to how much have we done to ourselves as a species, and can we even recover at this point?
@ai6yr In my experience they love a chain link fence, and all you have to do is prune them back to the fence. Remembering of course the year old cane rule. (Grapes only bear fruit on branches that are 1-year-old so you have to keep sufficient numbers of those.)
When Jack first started talking about Bluesky, in the very early phases it involved the blockchain. I remember suggesting that I thought the reason he liked the idea was that he could theoretically build a version of Twitter where no tweets could ever be deleted, and therefore there'd be no pressure on him to moderate or ban anyone. He wanted to not have the power.
People always thought I misunderstood Jack's motivations but it turns out I was right about him all along.
@rodhilton for sure, Jack was always very upfront about that. If people were pushing back to you it's probably because they weren't reading the original sources.
My read is that he has some weird, combination Buddhist and libertarian, idea about free speech.
The idea that everybody publishes and everybody else just filters seems to satisfy him.
It might of course be a lot of work for the filterers.
As I behold "Crush!", the new Apple ad for their Ipad Pro ...
... I fluctuate, with heisenbergian indeterminacy, between "they are clearly trolling us" and "they are totally earnest and have no idea how completely sociopathic they appear"
Crushing things seems like a different energy, from say ..
"For years, he [Steve Jobs] arranged for a Buddhist monk by the name of Kobun Chino Otogawa to meet with him once a week at his office to counsel him on how to balance his spiritual sense with his business goals."
Jack Dorsey referred to Twitter, the privately owned company that blocked links to competing social media platforms like Mastodon, as "freedom technology". What a clown.
He also deleted his account on Bluesky announced he's no longer on Bluesky's board of directors. Jack's involvement was one of the reasons I was never excited about #Bluesky, TBH.
@docpop it's possible he's referring to Twitter as a corporation with "you're on one," and freedom technology is an oblique reference to Nostr, his new thing.
I don't mind that Nostr exists, but it doesn't seem likely to become my thing.