Thanks.

I love the fact that this “decentralized billionaire-proof open network” needs a nitter clone.

That link can’t be viewed without a bluesky account, btw.

Tesla stock goes up

This is a good insight into the corporate culture angle, but I’m a bit disappointed the author didn’t go into the more obvious technical problems, mainly: power. This article from IEEE goes into much more depth in that regard, in case anyone missed it in the stubsack a while ago.

I didn’t know about the Tesla humanoid robot demo (Hilarious) though, so at least that’s another tack for the pegboard.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin.

The history of oil is so much more interesting than it might appear at first glance. It’s part technological history, corporate intrigue, political thriller, and more.

Honorary second place to The Long Shadow: the Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. WWII tends to get a lot more attention in popular histories, but WWI really set the stage for the trajectory of Europe in the 20th century and the end of colonialism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AirForce/comments/1pie3px/plastered_all_over_the_pentagon_today/

definitely taking Vitamin L

Cory Doctorow has plugged this on his blog, which is usually a good signal for me.

That’s about twice a ‘normal dose’ and in the realm of what Terrence McKenna would call a ‘heroic dose’.

Mushrooms vary a lot in real potency but at that level of dosage ego death is almost guaranteed, and it’s likely that the user will spend at least 30 minutes to an hour unable to articulate language.

yes

I’m in the same boat. From what I’ve read I am planning on migrating to tuta when it runs out.

I saw Algernon’s fedi posts (as linked in his lobsters comment) first, and I have to say the majority in the lobsters thread are being entirely too kind.

Calling OP shit-for-brains is an insult to both shit and brains.

Every time an academic who featured in my education is posted about here I learn some new Horrible.

“The Antichrist wants to stop all science”, says the motherfucker who pays people to drop out of universities.

Thread was deleted. A thread on /r/linux also has a ton of fash apologia and is sitting at 0. Seems like a coordinated effort.

Apparently the red site couldn’t handle this one. Tags were changed from the descriptive perl to “vibecoding” and “satire”!

It’s one of the most unevenly written works I’ve ever read. The opening chapter is absolutely harrowing,and many of the subplots are pretty interesting. It’s not like KSR is a cryptobro, he offers plenty of critique of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the novel, he just adopts “blockchain” as a handwave-y fix for financial transparency. It’s also at least interesting to see attempts at optimistic climate fiction, but I think the novel could do with a couple hundred fewer pages.

His attempts at Steinbeck sprinkled throughout, of which that chapter is the worst, are universally terrible, though.

On a semi-related note, I recently got around to reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future (loved the Mars trilogy and thought I should get to his latest), and this chapter had me wanting to give up sci fi as well, so I will subject you all to it:

I am a secret so everyone can know me. First you must count every part of me, then translate those parts into signs that do not describe me. Together we are shackled, and with the sign that does not describe me you can open me up and read me as I am. People will give you their promises for me, and if wrongdoers try to take me away from you, you can find me and tell the world where I am hidden. I began as a silent speaking, a key to open every door; now that I have opened all the front doors, I am the key that locks the back doors by which wrongdoers try to escape the scene of the crime. I am the nothing that makes everything happen. You don’t know me, you don’t understand me; and yet still, if you want justice, I will help you to find it. I am blockchain. I am encryption. I am code. Now put me to use.

Likewise in Spanish, Librería is bookstore and Biblioteca is library.