davoloid

@davoloid@qoto.org

Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, moving towards Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)

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robb, (edited ) to random
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⭐ Heat Death of the Internet https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

"The photos on the page look weird. The hands are disfigured. There is no image credit."

I love this and hate this in equal measure.

📌 https://rknight.me/links/heat-death-of-the-internet/

davoloid,

@robb Even the URL is getting in on the act!

OrbitalGardens, to random
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Sometimes historical research is annoying. I found a reference to experiments on tomato seeds that had been stored on the Mir space station for 6 years.

I have found the results of those experiments. I have found out which spacecraft took them to Mir, and which one brought them home.

I have found out that of the "agricultural seeds" involved, only the wheat and tomato survived the experience.

But can I find out which other seeds they sent? No, I cannot. 🤯

davoloid,

@OrbitalGardens More importantly, was that research published?

danfuzz, to random

Different conservative groups "all disagree about who should be in charge, but they all agree that some people are ordained to rule, and that any 'artificial' attempt to overturn the 'natural' order throws society into chaos." — @pluralistic

(FWIW, I got my go-to definition of conservatism from an essay by Phil Agre: "Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.")

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/

davoloid,

@danfuzz @pluralistic The reason we have these "unnatural" mechanisms to define who is in power (which we loosely call "Democracy" is because of millennia of these types of people imposing that "natural order" and getting others to kill each other when they couldn't decide who was right.

LouisIngenthron, to random
@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org avatar

Why is it that kids so often like bread with the crust cut off while adults so often love the crust to the point where we buy shit like french bread?

davoloid,

@LouisIngenthron Show me the child who enjoys a ciabbata and I'll show you a future hipster artisan baker.

pluralistic, to random
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Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it

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davoloid,

@pluralistic I've been seeing many responses to this in my feed and must admit I was like "Wait, what?" with your opening statement. That's definitely had its day as a useful maxim.

PatrickoftheG, to random
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The double standard on this.

Imagine the screams of bloody murder if America were held accountable for its war crimes because "democracy"?

Do you have any idea how many people Kissinger killed? Remember 9/11. No, not the NYC one but the one America did to Chile? Is the world allowed to carpet bomb NYC?

Ditto imagine if every time the IDF killed the innocent, if that justified vengeance against Israeli citizens because democracy? Evil.

Madness.

Credit to @DrALJONES

https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/innocent-civilians-palestinians.html

davoloid,

@Benaresh @DrALJONES Aah, I know that term via MalcomX but have never heard of Fanon, will have to read more, he seems to have been hugely influential in such a short space of time.

davoloid, to random

@lowqualityfacts Before Netflix and fast broadband, the only way you could watch movies online was via Terminal. Someone has recreated that experience for posterity.
https://ascii.theater/

Sample from Ascii Theatre showing several scenes from movies rendered in ASCII, in a 69x420 (heh) mac SSH terminal. We can see scenes from The Shining, Pulp Fiction, Shrek and the 20th Century Fox ident.

davoloid, to random

Real story here is that a passenger got paranoid and caused himself and all his fellow passengers unnecessary delay. With knock on effects, no doubt.
Good work fella!
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/virgin-atlantic-flight-canceled-missing-bolts-wing-777642-20240123

Daojoan, to random
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The next time, the so-called tech leaders throw up their hands, asking, "What more could we have done?" I'll point to bullshit like this - where inclusion takes a backseat, and even the fucking girls' club is run by the boys' club.

To Blackbird let me just say this: the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

When you read this investor memo, were you proud of where your money is going?

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/dear-blackbird-women-in-tech-are-not-corporate-girlies

davoloid,

@Daojoan I think the heartwarming story of how they started was a giveaway. Though I think we can all identify with the trauma of having to throw your $20k life savings away at age 20.

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davoloid, to ChatGPT

Just threw a fairly simple query at #ChatGPT and it came up with straight out lies, and then doubled down on the lies.

There's a few cast members in For All Mankind who were also in The Americans. It got me wondering if the visual style, production design and the timeline continuity was due to crew, writers or production team in common. 1/n

pluralistic, to random
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In A City On Mars, biologist and cartoonist @ZachWeinersmith set out to investigate the governance challenges of the impending space settlements they were told were just over the horizon. Instead, they discovered that humans aren't going to be settling space for a very long time, and so they wrote a book about that instead:

https://www.acityonmars.com/

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davoloid,

@pluralistic @ZachWeinersmith Lots of space anthropologists, architects and scientists also fully cognizant of this fact, despite the spacebros insistance that it's round the corner.

There's lots of interesting work towards that goal, and lots of immediate steps to be taken in various fields.

Daojoan, to random
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Let’s start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical and ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, and perception of humanity.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/how-to-quit-capitalism-5044a7290684?sk=3ed3d3172c52ea41b4506e875480c6fb

davoloid,

@Daojoan By sheer coincidence, I was listening to this radio show (available as a podcast) yesterday on Veblen's "Theory of the leisure class". One of the main things I took from that is that Economics positions itself as a universal scientific explanation of a system. A physical model like in Chemistry or Biology which justifies inequality.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1t5Mw9m9zHRdDMiu2lKdH5?si=157anBwtTTGV1-UateWCag

davoloid, to random

Here's @pluralistic explaining Word of the Year "enshittification" at UCL last year. With a panel chaired by @leotanczt.
Man this feels like a long time ago!
https://youtu.be/Yn47ptAtVH0?si=sCQpuvthAJ_6MtGL

DrALJONES, to Palestine
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    davoloid,

    @DrALJONES Forensic Architecture have a number of investigations and reconstructions about atrocities, extrajudicial killings and evictions over the decades. (As well as incidents in other parts of the world)
    Here's an example which describes a recent incident in Jerusalem, but stretches back to evictions from Haifa in 1948. whttps://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/sheikh-jarrah

    davoloid, to history

    Further to the last toot:
    The Bass Reeves series led me to the related , 1923 and 1883 shows. They're also interesting as they demonstrate the continued cultural divide, and deconstruct many myths of American identity and .

    This post from earlier in the year explains it better than I can.
    https://slate.com/culture/2023/02/yellowstone-1923-1883-politics-taylor-sheridan-trump.html

    (Bonus points to that writer for making the connection to Hannah Arendt)

    davoloid, to Argentina

    One thing I really miss about is Alfajores and Empanadas. In BA there would be shops with rows and rows of these, all different varieties, but here they're usually presented as greasy tiny dumplings. Found Chango just off Bond Street in , and these are really nice.
    Any Porteños need to pay attention - you would clear up.
    https://maps.app.goo.gl/YWkpAhomWYmpe56G9

    Typical shelf from an empanada shop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

    davoloid, to Argentina

    Vote counting is going really fast, 60% of votes counted so there could be an announcement sooner than 9pm.

    davoloid, to Futurology

    I'm sure some people will have filtered the [dolls name] for [reasons] including the current but here is another incredibly well threaded essay by @ryanhoulihan on why she's such an important figure and a touchstone or Rorsach test for many aspects of modern western and

    https://youtu.be/RXeFtsZP6Ec

    davoloid, to random

    @hoaxeye Did you see this? Russian "drone factory" video used mirrors to make the room seem bigger. Sad.
    https://bird.makeup/users/gerashchenko_en/statuses/1681564669239078914

    jon, to random German
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    Meta: we want Threads to be a global town square, but we don’t really want politics or news there

    No contradiction there, oh no 🤦‍♂️

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787334/instagram-threads-news-politics-adam-mosseri-meta-facebook

    davoloid,

    @Vittoria @jon And we know what's in the shop windows: customer data.

    davoloid, to twitter

    Now that has effectively destroyed itself as a platform for sharing news, are there any more rumblings about and similar institutions sorting out their own presence?

    davoloid, to random

    A few weeks back, Computer Science hosted @pluralistic who talked about - how big corporate tech use bait & switch techniques wrt our personal data and usage of their platforms. A panel discussion followed the talk, on regulation and combatting such trends.
    Now (unless you have adblocker) on YouTube:
    https://youtu.be/Yn47ptAtVH0

    davoloid,

    @agildehaus Would you be able to put some instructions for joining and contributing to the /c/spacex Lemmy using existing mastodon account?

    Only options I can see to comments are "authorization and registration" and there's no info on what these do.

    davoloid,

    @agildehaus I can reply to the thread via mastodon client (QED), but not on the main reddit style web version.

    davoloid, to random

    Sometimes you come across an article or documentary that you were not expecting to hook you in, that manages to combine a whole bunch of interesting issues in one amazing narrative.
    This, from @ryanhoulihan is one of those, and covers AI, deep fakes, the music industry, culture and Britney Spears.

    If you remember the Black Mirror / Miley Cyrus episode from a few years back, strap in, this is an even wilder ride.
    https://mastodon.social/@ryanhoulihan/110135460306229895

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