Jon Wood

@pikesley what hideous crime did you commit to be sentenced to 3.5 years of cryptic crosswords?

I have a minor dilemma, in that I work a 4 day week, and think everybody else probably should as well. It’s lovely having a quiet day tacked onto the weekend when I can just get some stuff done.

The dilemma is that reasonably I should say school kids should also get a 4 day week, but then that day would no longer be quiet. To be clear I love my son dearly, I just also like being able to go out for a long walk without having to hear about Minecraft the whole way.

@james a picture is worth a thousand characters.

I am once again reminded that no matter how foul my mood a two hour walk will probably fix it. If anyone knows a way for me to remember that less than a week into being in a foul mood that would be ideal.

Introducing Tildagon: the badge for EMF 2024 and beyond

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/03/18/tildagon/

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I attached what appear to be LEDs (photodiodes?) to a pair of headphones and now I can hear lights that blink in the hearing range of frequencies 🤔 No power source needed

I’m not claiming that it’s ear-safe, and the sound is headache-inducing albeit quiet, but it’s pretty interesting.

For example, dimmable LED lighting flickers at around 1000 Hz. All my lamps make a different sound. Moving the “light microphone” through sunlight makes a wind-like sound.

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Overheard between two ten year olds trying to get a game of Minecraft going earlier today: “What’s your number?”

I eventually worked out they meant version number.

@avdi strong agree. I’d go so far as to say I’ll take a trashy burger from McD’s or Burger King over most “good” burgers. If I want great food I’ll get that. If I want a burger I’m just here for something to fill a hole.

@james I’d rather not if it’s all the same to you

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.

I have finally completed a run in Balatro. That is all.

"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

@halcy @cato there’s a saying about stones and glass houses, Copilot.

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.

@weilawei "Life on benefits will not be an option under Labour, says Liz Kendall" is a very generous, and frankly weaselly & cowardly, way of saying "People who aren't able to support themselves financially ought not be allowed to live"

@james this is very true, I put it down to the book’s communication of those aspects being long passages in which characters introspect on themselves, or excerpts from the Princess Irulan’s many histories of what happened, both of which are not going to make a great film.

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).

@james my favourite nuance of these is that so many sites when toggling tracking off bundle ad conversion in under the “legitimate interest” category, which will remain on unless explicitly turned off, even if you decline everything.

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’?

@james @pikesley @SamLR ahh but we’re not. We’re talking “have a nap”, which is always solid advice.

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.

@q have you got to the bit where if you want to show the current time you have a Python script running in the background doing an API round trip once a second to update a variable yet?

@gsuberland Factorio 2.0 scares me. I’m not sure I’m ready to have my life consumed by factory building again just yet.

@q the worst thing to come out of this EMF is more people being afflicted with InfoBeamer.