Talk about your current fortress - trials, tribulations, successes, and failures. This would also be a great place to post your long fiction of your fortress....
I'm a compulsive fort starter. I usually retire them after 4 or 5 years. my latest fort, like all my others, would be well thought out and separated. Each pair of floors would be for an industry and it's associated stockpiles. It would be beautiful and symmetrical!
Then it turned into my regular style fort, sprawling but with healthy cloth and food industries. My dwarves just want to make sure no one in their world is cold and hungry. We're subterranean grandmas that worry you're getting so skinny! Have these roasts and put on a coat, dear.
Those pesky anarchists out here feeding the hungry and building dual power through community! If people can depend on each other for safety, security and human dignity how will the state continue to maintain its control!
Also, they use violence as a means of protest, only the police can use violence! No fair!
Tech bros big mad when they can't continue to exploit a workforce and have to play by the rules. "How can we disrupt if we can't cheat and steal from our workers and customers?"
Those shit acre silicon carpetbaggers can get infini-fucked.
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
Bluesky and Threads are perfect examples of "fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I've got no sympathy for folks who will be blindsided when those platforms start squeezing them almost immediately.
I feel like those were somewhat easy to find (but not explicitly stated).
Lemmy.world for Lemmy
Kbin.social for Kbin
Mastodon.social for Mastodon
Once people are in there then we start talking up moving to and instance that fits their style. Kind of like picking a fighter character then picking a specialization at level 2. That's still a hard sell on Lemmy and Kbin where we don't have the account export/import/redirect tools that Mastodon has. I could see them coming pretty soon though.
I agree completely. We really need to make onboarding to the fediverse as painless as possible. If there's a barrier to entry the general audience will gravitate towards tech savvy folks. That's cool and all but what made Twitter and Reddit so good was the diversity of voices.
There were tech folks but also senior citizens, people who don't usually use social networks and those with marginalized voices. Both platforms started with mostly tech folks, Twitter didn't really blow up until the color revolutions, reddit really came into its own after the digg exodus.
The fediverse is making big gains because of both platforms thoroughly shitting the bed but we're not the only game in town. Threads has an extremely low barrier to entry but it's an entry into a Max Headroom style blipvert hellscape. Making our barrier to entry as low as possible could really help us "rescue" those users.
There's always some people walking around dead malls, even if the mall died years ago. Reddit will be around for at least 5-10 more years but it's overall influence will start to decline. It will be slowly at first but I'd bet three years from now reddit will just be seen as a forum site for scammers, bots, incels and alt-right lunatics (more than it is now).
In the past, I have been watching many mysterious movies because they are exciting. But life sometimes is hard enough, why should I then at home watch movies or series which are realy brutal. I feel like movies/series always need more crazy shit to be still popular....
The idea of biological immortality terrifies me. Like other commenters have said, the risk of power being further entrenched in the rich is basically an inevitability. Biological immortality under capitalism is pretty much a guarantee of immortal god-oligarchs that will control a bigger portion of resources and power than they do now.
Also it removes death as an unbeatable end. What if there were still robber barons from the early 1900s alive today? We'd be worse off politically than we already are. Death is an integral part in the march of progress.
From a personal standpoint, I'm not super jazzed about living past my 80s even if I didn't age and was in perfect health. If biological immortality comes to be I'll still punch out around 90 at the latest and update my will to prevent my consciousness from being uploaded to San Junipero.
The sweet abyss of oblivion worked for me from the beginning of the universe until my birthday, it'll work fine again when I get back to it.
I was going to read the article to make a joke about how cat's noses function better than high tech equipment as well as being far more boopable, the the article was awesome.
It's exciting to think of how this can help lead to more compact designs for instruments. They went into the differences between mammalian and reptilian olfactory senses but didn't mention humans. I'd assume ours is similar but not as good as cats? Is the mechanism the same but evolutionarily we moved towards more cranial capacity than olfactory ability?
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
I love Neal Asher's books, found him a long time ago in one of those "year's best" collections of short stories from the library (though the ones with fantasy and horror were always the best, I think I read every single collection for every year and found so many good writers that way.)...
Children of Ruin feels like it's just going to be a rehash at the beginning. Stick with it, though. It takes a drastic departure into horror and asks some really interesting questions.
I would be for removing AA of they removed LA as well. Because they didn't, their motivation is clear. If we agree that both are wrong then removing only one shows that they're ok with the other.
You would rob yourself of the glory of living as interstellar bread? Being baked to a golden brown by cosmic radiation while aimlessly shooting across the void infinite?
Join me, our bodies no longer bounded by our form. We expand, yeast eating sugar, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. We intermingle, no longer you, no longer me. Just intimately bread, endlessly bread.
I agree, somewhat. I feel like AA was a smaller injustice invoked to help repair a larger ongoing injustice. It may not have been the right tool.
There's another comment somewhere in this section where someone said that AA has been benefiting mostly white women and minorities that went to elite schools so it wasn't even helping as many people from disadvantaged backgrounds as it was set out to do.
Hopefully we'll be able to come up with a different system that is more just. I think a good start for that would be to remove legacy admissions and take an overall look at different solutions. I don't have a lot of confidence in today's supreme court on that front though.
Thanks for sticking with me through this, sorry about the bread stuff, I got a little tilted.
I agree, somewhat. I feel like AA was a smaller injustice invoked to help repair a larger ongoing injustice. It may not have been the right tool.
There's another comment somewhere in this section where someone said that AA has been benefiting mostly white women and minorities that went to elite schools so it wasn't even helping as many people from disadvantaged backgrounds as it was set out to do.
Hopefully we'll be able to come up with a different system that is more just. I think a good start for that would be to remove legacy admissions and take an overall look at different solutions. I don't have a lot of confidence in today's supreme court on that front though.
Thanks for sticking with me through this, sorry about the bread stuff, I got a little tilted.
Fortress Friday!
Talk about your current fortress - trials, tribulations, successes, and failures. This would also be a great place to post your long fiction of your fortress....
Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized (www.neowin.net)
DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery drivers (www.businessinsider.com)
Can Twitter Alternatives Escape the Enshittification Trap? (www.wired.com)
People have flocked to Bluesky and Threads. But the new platforms risk repeating a pattern that has caused social media giants to turn against their own users.
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
What are the most funny and positive movies or series?
In the past, I have been watching many mysterious movies because they are exciting. But life sometimes is hard enough, why should I then at home watch movies or series which are realy brutal. I feel like movies/series always need more crazy shit to be still popular....
The beauty of the Fediverse (lemmy.world)
Macron Blames Video Games For Riots, Calls On Parents To Help (www.channelstv.com)
A very short survey on attitudes towards biological immortality (forms.office.com)
My friend's daughter is doing a project on biological immortality. It would be great if you could help her by answering a short survey....
What's your solution to end all wars?
What are your ideas, that if you could implement would likely stop our species from warring so much?...
Cat noses and nasal structure function better than high-tech chemical analysis equipment (www.earth.com)
YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
Space Opera?
I love Neal Asher's books, found him a long time ago in one of those "year's best" collections of short stories from the library (though the ones with fantasy and horror were always the best, I think I read every single collection for every year and found so many good writers that way.)...
US supreme court rules against affirmative action in Harvard and UNC cases
From The Guardian...