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teledyn, to random

5 second rule for fridge doors:

If you still don't know what you wanted, what you wanted was water.

#fivesecondrule

teledyn, to Economics

Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology offers a stark choice for humanity | The Week

> Capital and Ideology is a work of political economy in the broadest sense — a staggeringly ambitious effort attempting to synthesize centuries of history, economics, and politics into one grand picture.

https://theweek.com/articles/906013/worlds-dominant-ideology-breaking-what-replace

teledyn, to random

“What would you be communicating if you had to become someone else to communicate it? I mean, what is that?”

— Anthony Braxton (1985)

teledyn, to random

Weekend reads: More retractions at Columbia; ‘an epidemic of scientific fraud’; when articles cite retracted papers – Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/03/23/weekend-reads-more-retractions-at-columbia-an-epidemic-of-scientific-fraud-when-articles-cite-retracted-papers/

teledyn, to random

#SunRa #MrRa #Mystery #MrMystery #ihavemanynames #namesofglory #namesofshame #ihavemanynames

https://www.tumblr.com/defjux/745352118208217088

teledyn, to random

teledyn, to emacs

I just noticed my #Emacs doesn't have 🝶; I can use C-x 8 RET to select LUNAR ECLIPSE (there's no SOLAR??) but I get a white box that says 01F776 inside and now I wonder how many other (potentially useful) unicode chars I don't have.

I'm mostly posting this just to see if anyone else has this character :)

teledyn, to random

It's a very big elephant. And it’s not just energy. Generative AI systems need enormous amounts of fresh water…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

#butitissomuchFUN #burningdownthehouse

teledyn, to random

It doesn't cost a million dollars to house a human, and if this was for soldiers in a war zone, there would be shelter built within the day.

https://www.tumblr.com/theehabitual/743330166054567936/danismm-dymaxion-house-by-buckminster?source=share

teledyn, to random

@JohanEmpa @teledyn @tml @Fabimaru @wikiyu @gerrymcgovern

Is it true still that just one data centre uses as much power as a town with 50,000 homes?

teledyn, to random

"In an AI generated statement from his party…" — BBC world news

First occurrence of the phrase in my experience. YMMV.

teledyn, to random

Let's see if I have this straight. Instead of deploying affordable housing, folks can stay in their broken tents, and 'someday' we will have more of the shelters they won't go to because they are awful places with no privacy or security, AND rather than reducing rents, we will hand the poor more taxpayer's money they can instantly hand to greedy landlords so the gov't isn't accused of just giving tax money to their rich land-hoarding friends directly, because that's icky?

teledyn, to random

Japan’s Moon lander publishes statement: "rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00260-z

teledyn, to television

I should explain, for those not into vintage tech electronics, 'television' was like, well, imagine a YouTube influencer livestream channel that shows whole episodes 24hrs a day, the tv was a device to play any of three such channels…

https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/741082506469801984/how-television-works-1977?source=share

teledyn, to random

Google Maps misuse potentially allows someone to monitor another person’s whereabouts even without access to their devices and without arousing suspicion.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/01/17/google-maps-tracking-business-locations/

teledyn, to Toronto

To absolutely no one's surprise, my local community parks and church yards are STILL a chaotic heap of broken tents and shattered dreams. This is and there has been no motion, nada, not a step towards doing anything, not really, only months of meetings and more words.

Meanwhile, Japan just had an earthquake. Japan, famous for government inaction and back-pedalling, has deployed inflatable houses, portable water filters and support for traditional arts.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/01/27/style-design/on-design-ishikawa-noto-earthquake/

teledyn, to Cosmology

don't ya just love it when a 2014 paper cites long gone URLs in the bibliography? More to the point (?) anyone know if this exists anywhere?

M. Hart, and G.S. Smoot, Rhythms of the Universe, a 360°
Production in association with the Berkeley Center for
Cosmological Physics at the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, 2013. www.ustream.tv/recorded/39395730E.

teledyn, to random

Dave Mills has left us, although it's odd no one recorded the exact time of departure…

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html

teledyn, to random

RIP Peter Schickele, a classmate and friend of Philip Glass, unsurprisingly

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NpL0J5l5qEE&si=cGnfNizXJvFRZZxf

teledyn, to Spotify

These reports bug me. Yes, steals 87% of the tracks it lists and pays US $0.003 per listen HOWEVER if you adjust the ~$20 in 1975 USD paid to stream to CHUM's two million (mostly involuntary and captive) listeners, that's $0.00057 per stream in today's money, and ONLY the chart toppers (and payola-backed) were played, the other 87% got stopped at the front desk.

As for downloads, in 1975 a 45 might net a band 10¢ (57¢ today) to split.

https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/a-pyramid-of-inequality

teledyn, to random

sans preditory trolls?

https://www.flickr.com/commons

teledyn, to gaming

A 13 year old boy nicknamed Blue Scuti is the first human being in history to crash Tetris in this way. He is the first person ever to see Tetris's real killscreen. This game is over twice his age, and he is the first to kill it dead.

https://www.tumblr.com/llatimeria/738662746210648064/so-basically-for-much-of-tetriss-history

teledyn, to emacs

Just realized, sometime this year marks my 40th anniversary using , and yes, I still use C-h k, frequently, and I wish more software also believed in self-revealing interfaces.

(C-h k will explain what the next key or button pressed would have done)

teledyn, to random

Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics as applied to society

The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures, "Designing Freedom" | @CBC

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819

teledyn, to emacs

It's always something, even when doing nothing! For reasons likely unknown until holiday chaos settles, #emacs #orgroam no longer saves, kicking up

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p nil)
org-roam-link-replace-at-point()

Messages shows:

Wrote ./daily/2023-12-24.org
org-roam-db-map-links: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil

tried org-roam-db-sync and there are now several dozen files kicking up that error (should I clear the db first?)

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