Hey remind me. Is "doing a slander against users to protect ourselves" part of the terms of service? Asking for a friend

From bad to worse.

hope (v.)

Ah, but have you ever tried daisy-chaining your thoughts? There you go, a blog entry right there.

I'm not going back to blogging because my thoughts are barely long enough for micro-blogging platforms.

@thesixthcourier.bsky.social irony is dead. Undead, in fact.

Local lane, just up the road.

A cafè mocha for breakfast, therefore it must be a Sunday in autumn.

A new social media site called 'hyperbole'.

Just finished 'Inherent Vice' (2014). Wow, man.

Gigantesca manifestación en Barcelona hoy en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina. Más de 100.000 personas. Impresionante.

twelve (num.)

🔴 El centre de Barcelona està col·lapsat pels milers de persones que arriben en diferents columnes des dels barris de la ciutat, per exigir la fi del genocidi a Palestina Un vídeo d'@albertmartnez

Así está ahora mismo Barcelona en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina, en una de las mayores manifestaciones de la historia en esta ciudad catalana rebelde y combativa.

It's becoming increasingly embarrassing that I ever wrote a line of code, or even know what code is.

Bluesky's value is its code, I read, so maybe we are wasting each other's time by posting through it rather than downloading it and studying it.

cartel (n.)

Then again we have a P2P socmedia protocol solution in Secure ScuttleButt, and implementations of it such as ManyVerse: www.manyver.se I wonder what they do for moderation.

With respect to social media: who's going to pay for the hardware and running costs, and who's going to invest their time in moderation? In my opinion, there is no technical (i.e. software design) solutions to these political issues.

Gifted kids here are accelerated a year, which is a great way to spend less time in the prison, excuse me, at school. That's what we did with ours, anyhow.

This dev choosing farming over maintaining a FOSS project is kind of admirable, in a way.

Stop looking for interesting content and create your own, you lazy bum (note to self).

And this because of the push to EVs, which while being a relative good—EVs are better than combustion vehicles w.r.t. GHG emissions—is less good than the most obvious alternative: public transportation.

These are very good charts explaining GHG emissions: www.wri.org/insights/4-c... This one by sub-sector is particularly useful, in which I highlight GHG emissions caused by road transportation.

The Spectacle! (That's okay, I'll shut up now)

Good grief, this piece had even me feeling sorry for the land of my birth for a few seconds.

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans. Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

So this is what a 'vatnik' is. Still doesn't explain why I'm on a blocklist called 'vatniks'. Ho hum.

Please don't eulogise Norway. Its rapid EV take-up is in large part greenwashing, covering up (and SUBSIDIZED BY) massive ongoing oil and gas extraction -- with dozens of new exploration and production licences continuing to be issued.

It's funny how we take the modern calculation of time for granted. We know its limits as the Earth's rotation around its axis and its rotation around the Sun, but how does this pan out to global time coordination? Do we know what mean and apparent solar times are? Or understand the equation of time?

Tomorrow the beginning of week 40, the beginning of the last 13-week quarter of the year 2025.

My youngest progeny is sixteen today. Long live my youngest progeny!

'Every philosophy is essentially idealism or at least has idealism for its principle, and the question then is only how far this principle is carried out ... Consequently the opposition of idealistic and realistic philosophy has no significance.' ~ Hegel (footnote by Karen Ng)

In the context of capitalist enterprise, it is depressing quite how anti-intellectual the activity of producing software can be, and most often is.

Anybody fancy doing the GR11? Across the Pyrenees from one end to the other, this track has it as 850km (528mi) long with 39,962m (131,109ft) of positive elevation. This part of it, around the Monte Perdido, must be absolutely incredible.

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza

So many of my mutuals joined bsky in July 2023. Or June or August 2023. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Four reposts in a row. It's a sign (derogatory).

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

FULL TEXT: Unofficial transcript of remarks delivered by China's president Xi Jinping to the UN climate action summit, including the outlines of China's 2035 climate pledge docs.google.com/docu...

Historian David McNally (author of Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History) joins economist Clara Mattei on the @freefreeforum.bsky.social program

Nobody actually disagrees that Israel is an apartheid state at this point. The only argument is whether that's good or not.

I've been following Richard Murphy and his tax research for years, a niche interest as my brother is a tax-haven lawyer, but this post of his beats them all: Marx's communism as the project to 'civilise capitalism'. Civilise capitalism. Not exactly thunderous, is it?

That date is only two days before women got the vote in Victoria, Australia. Or two days after Leopold II of Belgium reliquished his personal control of the Congo Free State.

It's been a while since I counted backwards, in the sense of subtracting from my date of birth the number of days I've lived. Today takes me back to 1908-11-17, which was a Tuesday, the day Lidia Thompson died. There you are, back to 1838 already.

Progrowth's 'Everybody Gets Pie' implies that in degrowth 'Nobody Gets Pie', which folds in very neatly with Thatcher's 'the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money'. And that's the difference: degrowth is necessarily _socialist_, while abundance is not.

Such a strange reflection from Al Pacino at the end of a recent interview. It strikes me doubly strange as it is a concern my own mother has also expressed to me. My only explanation for it is as a belief in a Christian afterlife, and the worry whether their memories will travel with their soul.

“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws” https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html

The GenX complaint already obvious in its absence.