Your thought for the day: buying a box of wine conjures a very different image to buying a crate of wine, and yet both are just ways to buy wine in bulk transported in a cuboid container.
"Achieving carbon neutrality is like solving one face of a Rubik’s cube – necessary but not sufficient."
Another zinger from @timparrique, in response to another load of anti-degrowth drivel from Jacobin.
https://timotheeparrique.com/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/ #degrowth #climate
Secret Panel HERE ☕ https://tapas.io/episode/2640963
Looking forward to our dystopian future where technology becomes a form of magic frozen at its current level when all the people who understood it have died and the junior people never got trained because they were replaced with an LLM.
One day I’ll learn that the world isn’t universally shit and I just need to eat something. Today was not that day, at least until I had some dinner (swearing profusely throughout cooking it).
From the Internet:
“Isn’t it weird how we as a society arrived at ‘monetize all your hobbies to support yourself’ before ‘rich people should pay their workers better’?
After some time wondering *why* the royals would go to great lengths to fake Kate being alive and well it has come to me. They’re frantically preparing Queue infrastructure before revealing the truth. Some investigative journalists could blow this wide open by trying to hire pedestrian fencing in London.
I feel like the abusive mode of software business models is so embedded at this point that we have a generation of designers who don't actually know how to prioritize user utility — which was already complicated for folks to understand even before the enshittification started.
This series of YouTube videos by someone who acquired a bunch of 2000 era Sun thin clients was an unexpected rabbit hole this evening, which has left me wanting a terminal server at home. https://youtu.be/9BW-mbC7Xag
Concluding the day in the best possible way, with a git branch stuck in an inscrutable state. I thought I’d seen all the ways a rebase can break, but apparently there’s another.
A deeply bizarre evening as we bump into the tail end of D&B on a Bike, and then Professor Elemantal continues giving my son a wildly unrealistic introduction to live music and following an artist with a personal welcome, followed by winning one of his hats in a raffle. A somewhat bittersweet party as our local queer art/live music/community support space has its last live music before going into hibernation due to obscene rent increases.
Gladiators is some wonderfully wholesome TV. Just a bunch of incredibly fit people having a good time hitting each other with giant q-tips.
Got to love how most websites now resemble yer da's popup ridden malware infected pc from 20 years ago
Just got back from Dune, and holy shit, they only went and pulled off a faithful adaptation of a book I thought was impossible to bring to film well. No idea whether it makes any sense to people who don’t already know the book, but as a lifelong fan it was awe inspiring to see.
Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car
If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.
Once every four years we get an extra day, and yet we willingly allow it to be stolen by The Man unless it falls on a weekend. It should be a bonus bank holiday, a quadrennial party day in which we all go outside and enjoy the early springtime.
getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
Just rewatched Dune in preparation for part 2 on Friday and once again I’m blown away by how good it is, after the trepidation of hearing a book I’ve read more or less annually since I was 14 was getting a modern film adaptation.
Apprentice is such a glorious shitshow. A laser focused exercise in how not to do business.
It has been 3 weeks since my son declared the toothpaste tube empty. Realistically I’d probably have chucked it by now but we’re so close to a full month I keep persisting and squeezing a little more out.
