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Tidbits and notions. Stuff and blither. News and snooze. This little gmiphloglet be short and more mirth than matter.
http://byzantinemilitary.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-roman-suppression-of-paganism.html
One of the most notoriously successful totalitarian social engineering projects ever achieved was the conquest of the Roman Empire by the Christian ideologues. Their subsequent eradication and genocide of non-compliant religiophilosophical traditions impoverished the West for centuries. And it took centuries to destroy the native religions. But they did, with nothing but barbaric fervour. This sketch is thus prophetic, and a warning to any regime who might try to save humanity from the boundless insanity of empireās aeternal trajectory into apocalypse. Totalitarianism when successful must vivisect the human heart.
The solid truth few want to ponder is: there are too darn many of us eating too many things. If humanity wants the Earth to survive, either we put a cap on it yesterday or Earth will subtract us from Her embrace by force.
Iām not supposed to laugh, but I am. City slicker hipster idiots should be prohibited by law from entering the desert. Burning Man should be permanently cancelled.
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/protecting-old-growth-juniper-and-pinyon-forests
BLM is removing forests. How in hell do these colonizing morons reach their Peter principle thrones? We need 1 trillion more trees, not less!
https://web.archive.org/web/20230901192119/https://gill1109.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230827120415/https://rexvlucyletby2023.com/
Iām not much into criminal proceedings, usually salacious and without a real impact on society. But the Lucy Letby brouhaha is a grand demonstration of the insanity of UK criminal law, not to mention the mob mentality of the populace. I canāt say Iām convinced she is innocent or guilty, not that it matters. But I *am* convinced the UK criminal ājusticeā system and its descendant systems are deeply broken. I hope I never need to back to Britain (until Scotland is free at least). The sham histrionics yonder are on par with the PRC for equanimitous intelligence.
Furthermore, the brouhaha is a demonstration of the prurient bloodlust barely concealed beneath pearl clutching mob mentality. Beneath every horror lurks desire. How many tightly laced bourgeois mothers, in the unlit depths of their hearts, harbour some idās wish to off their squalling brats as Letby is said to have done? Why else do women (mostly it is women) revel in authoritarian criminal procedurals and shoddy crime ādocumentariesā, except to feed the beast of schadenfreude, no matter how usually unrealized? How many exhausted nurses chide themselves for a fleeting mad impulse to inflate a filthy and violent patient with air? I willing to wager much that it happens all the time. If Letby did do it all, her mind was merely the one which slipped through the bonds of artificial social conformity, rather than a lack of compassion. This is an impolite truth to utter, natch. But the human race is precisely this insane.
https://www.eater.com/2015/9/16/9334659/automat-eatsa-history-future
Of automats and men.
2024 is going to be an E ticket.
USA / UK corporate hospitals are using algorithms to sluice patients into a hospice pipeline, effectively condemning them to death for the sake of profits. This especially effects the elderly, disabled, and patients with chronic ailments. Palliative and hospice care should now be regarded as murderous eugenics by capitalist regimes to medically cull the populace.
https://indo-european.eu/2018/06/pre-germanic-born-out-of-a-proto-finnic-substrate-in-scandinavia/
The case for a Finnic substrate to Germanic, mainly resolves to phonological arguments for a long term bilingual North Sea environment in which Corded Ware Finns adopted NW-PIE. That is, the similarity of Vernerās Law shift to Finnic consonantal changes around stress. One issue with this initial stress business is that it also notoriously follows strongly for Celtic, for which there is argued a Vasconic substrate, even to the Common Germanic - Celtic habits of lenition. And if many non-IE Germanic roots are indeed from a substrate, they are not likely from Finnic. Many years of interdisciplinary work by a new prehistorical discipline are needed to bridge philology, archaeology, and paleogenetics into a clearer picture.
MAHB Stanford pamphlet on overpopulation. Itās alright. Needs a rewrite.
https://www.twincities.com/2023/08/09/brian-eldridge-st-paul-obituary-bullied-lonely
Brian Eldridge, probably autistic, died in his home, utterly failed by the fake moral trumpeting of a spiritually bankrupt society.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HI3-Lwpu2QM
A song about cities. By the Poppy Family. Says it all, really.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/america-new-civil-war
Wisconsin Death Trip part 2. An exploration of the hellscape on the eve of civil war.
https://www.snoopyshomeice.com/
The Charles Schultz museum in Santa Rosa takes off 90% of admission for a family, if the parent has an EBT card. Ye gods, what a mensch! Iāve never heard of a museum doing this. The prices at the Snoopy ice rink and Happiness is a Warm Puppy cafe nearby arenāt bad for California these days either.
https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1256&context=wlr
āThe New Lachesā. More two faced horseshit colonialist ājusticeā. Essentially, USA courts now argue that Amerind nations defrauded and burgled by settler regimes āwaited too long to sue for their land claims because mumble mumble laches mumble mumbleā. By this reasoning, a car thief could legally own your car he stole if you didnāt discover his guilt as the thief for āmumble mumbleā too long. Except, as this author notes, the ānew lachesā only appplies to Amerind tribal land claims. How conveeeeeenient. #LandBack
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=C4Kb20n8Dac&listen=false
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=zhQIOfDQdCo
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The continuing so-called semiconductor shortage is a totally artificial slowdown of production to boost profits. The supposed āglutā in chips earlier this year didnāt do jack at providing chips to projects in famine like kiwisdr and raspberry pi. This, too, was likely intended. Canāt have people DIYing too much! Thanks to Vidak and Karl Marx for a dose of perspective on this.
āSaskatchewan Firstā means First Nations last, evidently. Time for a total, federal moritorium on crown land sales. No inch of crown land should (can!) be sold without thorough consultation from tribes and ok from the crown. Land back all this, then the mining cartels can go cap in hand to the tribes.
https://mubi.com/en/lists/neoliberalism-on-film
The Neoliberal Era on Film. A list.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ocean-currents-system-possible-collapse_n_64c075eee4b08cd259dddeb4
The Gulf Stream is shutting down. Like, soon. We are screwed. Our own damn fault. Such a stupid species.
The new League of their Own series is capital. Itās everything which ought to have been in the film. It did well with viewers. And yet again the suits are cutting it down because it isnāt some stupid comic book meathead fest. Canāt we have just one thing? Just one little show for us?
Itās clear that the post-Jobs bloat at Apple means one hand doesnāt know what the other is washing. This Keystone Kops brouhaha should be a wake up call to anyone still tied to Big Tech gizmos.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021013203113/http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/resources/howtodie.html
Alt.Suicide.Holiday reminiscences.
The science is in: forager cultures mostly didnāt have strict economic gender divides. Women hunted in 79% of cultures studied. Yes, megafauna too, at rates sometimes 50% of hunting parties. This has beeen known from decades for those who read fine print on ethnography. But itās nice to see it sealed. I mean, come on high moderns: āOh, no, I canāt hunt that deer or I might chip a nailā and āNo, I shall not dig up that tuber because that is beneath my manlinessā are not winning survival strategies in traditional band level societies. Yet another datum supporting that humans have only gottten stupider over the centuries of āprogressā.
Endearing, heartful look back at the Mars explorers Spirit and Opportunity. NASA has had many faults over the years, but JPL and Goddard represent the best of what public science and discovery can be. I hope someday soon, a human will find Opportunity and clean off those old solar panels.
https://archive.org/details/FedFlix
FedFlix, a compendium of USA governmental propaganda films of various sorts, showing the evolution of the tenor of Americanism through the 20th century. One can gain a sense thereby as to the true scale of the cultural and sociopolitical reefs which the USA as a polity crashed into in Iraq and the Great Recession.
You should become familiar with the USA policy hawks of the IASC think tank, whose position is of such nosebleed altitude above the rabble that they donāt even have a website. But they are influential in pushing for USA militarism. Their influence is often peddled in newspapers on Taiwan, arguing for dramatic escalation of nuclear armament, including MacArthuresque tactical nuclear deployment across the East Asian perimeter of the American Empire. Their position is that the USA *and allies* should have generals who can use low yield nuclear weapons as regular armaments in case of an invasion of Taiwan. To say this is rash, even bloodthirsty, distracts from the folly of PRC liberalization as solution to long term the political instability of China. They diagnose well, but their prescription will kill the patient.
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/23857
Yuri anime which isnāt ābaitā. I suppose bait means anime in which feelings are never confessed. My preferences in ACG are for non-hentai josei yuri, adult womenās yuri, which is scarce as hensā teeth in Japan, and not even a rumour in English ACG mainstream. This mainstream being uniformly, wretchedly seinen oriented, it means on the blue moons I bother to read or watch a romance, it is an underground fan scanlation.
The oceans are indeed starting to go Canfield (static stratified acid). If they go full Canfield, life on earth ends. So thatās cheery news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyodura
Black market dura mater in you, spread the kuru direct to your brain. Danke, Deutschland!
https://web.archive.org/web/20080430004356/http://www.osento.com/services/about.html
Just a dram of Old Gold Mountain history. Mourning cities who died tonight. Cities I used to know.
https://kentrollins.com/fried-rattlesnake/
Deep fried rattlesnake.
I read a bit about Little Rock, AR last night. Thereās a composer I kind of like, Florence Price, who was born there in the 1880ās. Sheās a very Americanist composer, more subtle than Copland and more traditional than Gershwin. Priceās 3rd symphony is very enjoyable, tells wordless stories. Her father was black, mother was white. They were successful middle class people in a mixed town at the time. āPepper and saltā town, they called it. She went away for college and got married. When Price returned to Little Rock circa 1900, Little Rock had been segregated. Itās still de facto segregated over 100 years later, when it used to be a town where races mixed more or less contentedly. Eventually Florence Price fled to Chicago and never returned. I wanted to know what that was like for her. Her home town got worse and just stayed that way.
To this day, itās said thereās no political will to change things in Little Rock. Itās even getting worse, with the schools more and more segregated and the black schools āsomehowā get no funding. The civil rights movement changed nothing for Little Rock. How sad Florence Price might be to see that. Things just got worse and stayed worse. Her world shrank until she had to leave her home, her family, everything. No room to breathe.
The bullies won.
https://www.collision-recon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EDR-Supported-Vehicles-List.pdf
EDRās often record every move a driver makes. Newer cars connect these to ātelematics transceiversā which report this data for surveillance by car companies and their āpartnersā. This has been deeply underreported. And the cattle chew their cudā¦
Iāll never get to see Gordon Lightfoot in concert now. So strange to see that whole generation start to end. The lessons they take with them, the memory of a time which in some ways was better than this era. Lightfoot gave voice to Canada in some way. Itās hard to fathom what it truly collectively means when such standards are cut down.
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
This was insanely terrifying, and it has nothing to do with platitudes about ākids these daysā or āchange happensā. Black box obfuscation has reached the point where children no longer know what a file nor folder is. That is, the cult of novelty plays handmaiden to power to the extent that the basic functions of computing and organization are alien to humans raised ensconced in the machine. These children have no ability to search, never mind research. Obtuseness has rendered them functionally illiterate. We are now beyond the point of human cultural continuity in the mainstream where children are fed preformed pap by the robotic teat. To prevent children from deep education afforded in a tradition of cultivation is child abuse. We are to that point now.
Courtesy of Solderpunk, a delightful reading of counterculture online tendencies in the GenZ era. It only entrenches my feeling that what smolnet/pubnix represent is less a counterculture than a demimonde: a lumpenspace standing apart, neither recuperated nor counter, from the mainstream hegemonies.
republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2019-01-18__Small_Internet_Manifesto.txt
I swear Iāve never read Spring before. But the resonance is undeniable; he says in a few sentences what it takes me pages not to quite say. Bravo. How weird that so many of us have drifted to this forum in similar interest, inquiry, and conviction.
I just stuffed my face with half again more than my daily ration of cornpone whilst watching a film on the Holodomor. In a winter like this, my ancestors would have eaten a handful of wild grains at best. If that isnāt progress, what is.
I pity kids now, on the whole, I really do. This shit is out of control. None of these parents knows how what they are doing is pure abuse and lacking in all sense for their family privacy. Morons skipping down the primrose path to totalitarianism.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cubesat
https://swarm.space/product/swarm-m138-modem/
Thereās no getting away from it now. Still, the price is amazing and that bit of spectrum is quite handyā¦
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325024155691
A harpsichord made by legendary Star Trek designer Wah Chang, for sale on eBay.
Iāve tried to enjoy Robert Frost, whose birthday it be, but I cannot somehow. I find him laden with a touch of the supercilious or sarcastic. The āgood fencesā and āroad less travelledā gimmick. Itās a very modern smirk of morose fatalism masquing as wit. The more I tune it in, the more it puts me off.
And then thereās the cult of Frost, which largely ignores all this in favour of a self conscious Americanism. Acritical provincial mediocrity as the eternal refuge of scoundrels.
https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=rTFr1BVyzFA&listen=false
Kikuchi Haruka plays flaming hot trombone in Tiger Rag.
āEvery other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if youāre so smart, why aināt you rich?'ā
ā Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse-Five"
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/
Intellectual āpropertyā is theft, and out of control.
āTiny human friendly protocols like Gopher, Gemini, Finger, Spartan;
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republic.circumlunar.space/0/~joneworlds/three-gophers.txt
Joneworldsā Three Gophers selects 3 random sentences from gopherholes at Republic.Circumlunar.Space, then mashes them together. A delight, and often quite silly.
https://www.dmarcly.com/blog/what-is-rua-in-dmarc-dmarc-rua-tag-explained
Primer on DMARC doohickey.
https://gist.github.com/howyay/57982e6ba9eedd3a5662c518f1b985c7
Setting up a postfix+dovecot dkim server combo. A lovely, clean tutorial.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/lasers-used-to-guide-lightning-strikes-to-a-safe-target/
Laser ion trail to help Lightning find somewhere nicer to strike.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47520122/bash-how-do-you-sort-within-the-lines-of-a-text-file
Sort.
https://www.howtogeek.com/775824/how-to-use-the-linux-cut-command/
Cut! Print() wrap.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/112194/identifying-and-moving-fields-in-a-line
https://www.howtogeek.com/812494/bash-string-manipulation/
Moving a string within a line. Perl and bash loops.
https://github.com/codenameyau/sed-awk-cheatsheet
The sed/awk cheat sheet. Lovely.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/525592/find-and-replace-inside-a-text-file-from-a-bash-command
Right Sed Fred. Options for find and replace strings in bash.
A smashing rundown on rsync.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
Donāt use ls in scripts because itās intentionally b0rked not to allow this properly even though itās probably the tool almost everyone at every level who uses *nix knows best. š¤¦š½āāļø
https://legasovtapetranslation.blogspot.com/
English translations of Valery Legasovās memoir samizdat tapes.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-nuclear-war-in-ukraine-may-not-be-the-one-we-expect/
We donāt deserve the power we have. Itās on our entire species, this responsibility, this wretched doom.
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Iāve lately taken to calling smolnet/pubnix a counterculture. I was wrong. Small online communities are only truly valuable when they are demimondes. Countercultures live locked in mimesis; this is a highfalootinā word for how 60ās hippies became 80ās corpo drones. Demimondes donāt even rise to the pretence of counterculture. Demimondes are obscure haunts for the lumpen, the untutored freaks. So too with we subterranean smolnet lumpendigirati. I think thatās QED. We here play with beloved, half-broken old toys while giants roar and the world burns. And thank the gods for that! Itās a last redoubt of simple, flawed humanity against its own monstrous posterity. Community scurrying in frightful shadow of the triumphant, insatiable hives. I am thankful. I am thankful.
A pox on all your houses, kiddies. Every two-bit ideology, every shuck and jive, every -ism. Rot them all to a dark, musty heat death. May all the gilded theories melt into thin air with all that is solid. May their true believers try to hold the centre and fail to even nudge the panhandle. May the clever tractates moulder into obscurity with the rest of all flesh, beyond even fableās remembrance. May all of you find your mouths mute beyond all words, your hearts quiet beyond desire to speak. May all highfalootinā ideas and goosestepping heroes find their inevitable, lonely end.
(NYT on European Hunter Gatherers (onion)
A new Nature study (behind a paywall to keep us proles uneducated) finds some finer grain in post-Neanderthal European hunter-gatherer populations, with a bottleneck around the Wurm, natch. Popular media are still representing WHGās as dark skinned, which is an offhand supposition not very well supportable. Likely all these groups in Northern Eurasia faced hard pressure to adapt to the high latitudes. Hopefully we will learn better the peculiar diversity of mutations in time.
The Asimov.net Apple ftp server. The golden age of Apple warez, ripe for the plucking.
gopher://gopher.visiblink.ca:70/0/LXer/https:__linuxiac.com_pinetab2-linux-tablet-comes-in-april_
Pinetab2! Good for the Pine folk! The more Linux tablets the better. But the main issue isnāt hardware, but the OS. A bit more attention needs paying ($$, probably) to touchscreen interfaces before Linux tablets can take off. I hope they get the io done soon for PineTab, for instance. The good thing about Pi tablets: this works off the bench.
My Raspad is cooling his jets in sickbay, poor thing. I almost said ātime out cornerā, but his ailment is entirely due to mine own negligence. Meanwhile, I have been puffing up a new site for some new projects. I aim to be as organized as I can be, and thereby avoid too much drift and staleness. To that end, the projects will have clear, simple aims. If I wish to write a lot, I shall. But if that is not on, very well, I shall do the minimum, which isnāt much more than a ping and a pong. But I hope they do some decent good. So far Iām unduly pleased with myself, to see the new gophermap and index.gmi!
I messed up my Python3 install somehow. The massive CF which is the āprint()ā bug in Python 2>3 is not my fault. But accidentally remove-purging Python3 and apparently half of LXDE is my fault. I tapped enter, which apparently is as good as a y. So now I get to recline and reinstall from my old chip. Could be worse. But I donāt really have the bandwidth for such nonsense, personally or technically.
I got gophernicus working, in a āHail Maryā after attempts which involved heaps pithy maritime vernacular. Molly Brown is unhappy, but Iām keen to see it work. A new fingerd is working. I intend to concentrate my folderol therein. All in all, I detest computers to-day.
I was up way too late, determined to get a new smolnet site running a bit. It needed a dollop of chmod finagling and config file wrangling. And then the new finger daemon wanted directories made by hand, but would not tell me this. Muddling with shears at yaks. But Iām glad I managed to get it done, just my bumbling self.
Safe space is merely a rhetorical weapon to enforce cruel conformity and mimetic regimes of mutual suspicion. If you join an organization and they tell you they are ālike a big familyā, run away quickly. If a hand wheedles into your emotions to say, āitās ok, you can tell us, this is a safe spaceā, flee out of there. If a subculture trades in chest-thumping, grand ideas, call-out crusades, victimhood porn, status seeking, identity pimping, and neoVictorian rectitude, that society is ipso facto toxic. Donāt fall for their endlessly cajoling word games - the cash of the morally demented. These toys are only the red flags of cultish groupthink - a miasma peddled by narcissistic abusers and unctuous sociopaths - psychic parasites all. Run away.
The cosy living room is the best humans can do: A dose of intimate confidence moderated by quiet, caring prudence. A warm conversation sipped between flawed but empathetic friends. Anything more than convivial teatime or bedside care quickly becomes a wasteland of the heart. Find bosom friends; the bodyās rest is a litmus test. Together withdraw from the voyeuristic gaze of bad faith society. Itās enough for the human being. Paul Tillich warned, āall institutions are inherently demonicā; by great Thunder, it is true.
gemini://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.gmi
Ouch! Ploum justly takes us to task for GitHub addiction. Iāve been bad about this lately, drawn in unawares by the need to comment on projects there or track them. But itās true: Micro$oft is eternally accursĆ©d.
https://github.com/tobykurien/rpi_tablet_os
Toby Kurien has here a delightful write up on his fun DIY Raspi tablets. And even more, a script to install the more tablet-friendly gewgaws to a fresh Raspbian instance. Iām relieved to see I came upon similar solutions with my muddling, so I canāt be too far off course. Give his sites a looksee, Raspi pals.
https://github.com/robinsloan/spring-83
I just read about Spring83 and am quite interested. Web world gewgaws like css make my skin shiver a bit. But this seems on the right track for a smolnet weiphloging standard, if de facto. The trick for working with smolnet clients is to strip out the flashy css and such: put it on Gemini as a decent (optional, client styled) secondary layer. Like, I coo over GopherColour. But it should never be practically mandatory as a gate to text nets. Web has a way of bloating with such options. The terseness of gopher/Gemini/spartan/finger is a needful baseline. That said, the inspiration of Spring83 iin reducing weiblogging to a simple status broadcast is entirely, wonderfully smol.
I was outside after breakie, scrubbing the solar panels of snow, when a lanky posh bint in a horse drawn sled came by to offer me some Turkish Delight. Right nice of her, really.
Pound for pound, naught is as warm and cosy as a US Army woobie.
https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/teletext-europe
An entire book on the history of Teletext in Europe, by Moe and VandenBulck. The title alone makes my heart ache with delicious nostalgia.
C64 is to Varvara as gopher is to gemini. Smolness helps us muddleheaded types find lucidity. As such, smolness breeds agency.
https://qrpguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/afp_fsk_061921.pdf
Discussion on AFP-FSK, an optimal method for budget digital modes. Why did I never see this before? BravĆ, hams!
Iāve had my horns locked down on clearing out my Raspad todo list lately. Most of the obstackles have been āno armhf portā issues. Exec format errors can besar mi tukhas; when I say run, you run. My biggest coup in this regard is getting OpenJDK 19 running. I have little grokage as to what the actual differences are amongst the arm architectures. My system is 64 bit on Raspi 4B, and it seems to be able to handle aarch64 āsometimesā, if I respecify that as armhf. A deuce annoying ambiguity, but there it be. My mission is to have my Raspad happy as a field-serviceable, long term tablet. There is bally well no good reason that infotech canāt be like autos used to be: a 20 year upgrade option. In other words, time to pony up, Raspbian!
I remember a decade ago how devs were encouraged to support arm as the next thing. And yet still so much of posix land is in the Intel box. I spent all day trying to build a necessary client which had a cute appimage for every toy - except ARMHF.
Setting Linux brightness.
https://raspi.tv/2019/how-much-power-does-the-pi4b-use-power-measurements
Looking at ways to make a Raspad more power efficient, Iāve toyed with the idea of putting in a whole lower power motherboard. My preference is to keep the 4B inside. But the idling current draw on the 4B is insane. 0.575 amps is steep for presumably out of the box Raspbian idle. The above link doesnāt mention, never mind deal with, cpu frequency scaling. But my tooling about with that suggests a āsimpleā (if not for me) process daemon and GUI ought to make the 4B much more happy in portable use by dropping CPU Freq to 200mhz or so when the screen is off or after X seconds of no tty/mouse or whatever. I donāt mean a full blown dynamic scaler necessarily, so much as a āsnoozeā mode over the usual dynamic governors. Why this hasnāt been done before in posix for small computers is beyond me.
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šš½āāļø Hi, I need to flip my gewgaw 45Ā°. Please help?
šØš»āš¤ Why? I canāt imagine why anyone would ever do this.
šš½āāļø Because I need and want to. Can you help me?
šØš»āš¤ No, I just thought I should underscore my utter stupidity and lack of imagination.
Whenever I am sent down 7 levels of yaks to shave, I am remembered of the old Jerky Boys phone prank, wherein a harried florist keeps trying to find a person on the phone at their democile, but whichever voice she talks to always firmly insists that āFirst you must talk to Mr. Scottā. Is intentional dev trolling a commonplace?
šš½āāļøOh, time to do snow chores. Wow, it is so cold this morrow. Too bad my thermometer broke so I donāt know the exact danger level.
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(5 minutes later)
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š¤¶š¼Put your hands under the bed covers.
šš½āāļøWhatāsā¦ under the covers?
š¤¶š¼Pain.
šš½āāļøNnnghā¦
š¤¶š¼You feel your fleshā¦ crisping.
šš½āāļøThe pain!
Modern social media feels so hollow and sad. I seldom come away from it with the feeling of satisfaction in sharing one may from Smolnet/Pubnix. Strange, that. Fediverse often feels like the masked Hellfire Club in Eyes Wide Shut: perverse psychological fast food, empty communal calories. I may end up deleting it. I warrant we have all seen enough of the internet to know that one can have pseudonymity and intimacy both. But parasocial media is for the birds.
https://invidious.lidarshield.cloud/watch?v=A-DPC2uBi7c&listen=false
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http://blankego.github.io/LyricPatterns/
https://github.com/blankego/LyricPatterns
Web front end for a digitally searchable ćę¬½å®č©čćļ¼ for finding the perfect style of č©ć
https://blankego.github.io/ids/IdsRetriever/
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4 - Vexing
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https://invidious.lidarshield.cloud/watch?v=Q5M-5XFplo0&listen=false
Kilauea livestream. Bubbling lava!
https://invidious.lidarshield.cloud/watch?v=AiojgMBQPBM&listen=false
USGS monthly lecture (they provide a free public lecture each month!) on the Great Cascadia Earthquake of 1700.
I sometimes think about woman who wrote a book about her 6 months alone in the desert. She made the rounds. I heard her on NPR or CBC, I think. Oh, ye sweet summer babe. Thereās a whole cottage industry of such Waldennabes: eat, pray, live in a tiny home, cash in. Iām not interested in joining that brigade of fame entrepreneurs. But when I do meet townies or make my necessary calls via tenuous radio links to the mainstream human world, the incredulity my casual explanations generate give me pause. Yes, I say, I am calling from a remote mountain and Iām quite snowed in. Many say they want to live in a cabin in the woods. But the thrust of society gallops in the opposite direction. I did not resolve to go Walden out of desire so much as by needfulness; it was finding a livable level. QED, the needful level of most humans today is an apartment complex. It makes me wonder for the seriousness of wistful primitivism, and just how much ecogenerative good such sentimental societal currents can do.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/device-translates-text-braille-real-time-180963171/
Good pure smol tech: a page scanner to braille display. Thunk it on a page of visual text and then read by finger. More of this, please.
Watching several videos by Case Western university on recent mitochondrialcentric theories, the camera operators flick back to show random audience members for no reason related to the talk. Why is this done? Itās more than a pet peeve: often the information on projection is needful to study, cut short by distracting cutaways to some schlump picking his nose. Is this some kind of allistic reassurance? Because when in audiences I donāt see people constantly checking to make sure other humans are still watching too. Itās difficult enough when videographers cut to focussing on the presenter. They really need to just set up a camera and knock it off. Put a small inset screen with the presenterās face if humans need that irrelevance. But the main screens should present the chatauqua diagrams, pics, and charts.
Reich - A Tale of Two Subcontinents (Invidious)
A fascinating look at recent hominid paleogenetics by comparison of two similar subcontinental populations: Europe and India. Both are formed from recent amalgams of 3 divergent populations - autochthonous foragers, Neolithic farmers, and the steppe nomads. But these were very different populations, save the ANE/IE. āWestern Anatolian farmers were as different from Ancient Iranian farmers as Europeans are from East Asians to-dayā. Recent millennia mostly enabled a breathtaking amalgamation of Mesolithic genetic diversity.
Notable is what Reich is too politically tactful to explicitly state: the confirmation of a correlation between male replacement & relative diversity decline (due to mass sex slavery of native women by elite invaders), wealth inequality, rigid caste formation, absolute warfare, and the spread of the Indo-Europeans. (I donāt blame him for wanting to avoid headlines.) Institutional mass rape / polygyny was a recent innovation, a tool of genocidal warfare which assured the IE supremacy. In Iberia, rates of Y chromosome replacement approach 100% in a population now 40% ANE ancestry by genetic totals. The NHG invented total war, but the ANE/IE steppe people perfected it - by literal rapine. In India, where the steppe invaders faced a larger subject population, there is a strong 4.5ky long maintenance of steppe genes with higher caste, with steppe peopleās genes between 30-70% depending on caste-population. The Laws of Manu represent the ideological justification for calcification of ethnic subjugation as a form of unequal armistice.
My major takeaway is strong support for the idea that after perhaps millions of years of sexually egalitarian hominid band cultures, technological development and population concentration in recent millennia has mostly enabled ruling gangsters to increasingly infest our gene pool with their demoniacal, psychopathic tendencies.
Snows are ablating and deflating slowly. Iām praying for a good blast of climate karma to melt the roads down. I ought to have gotten snowshoes this past year. I shall cut greenwood for some DIY variety to-morrow, likely. Iām alright holding out to spring per se, but meds begin a rationing countdown starting now, thanks to city slicker insurance bean counters. The lesson is: āself relianceā is only a state of slightly more organized dependence - on others, on conditions, on Heaven, on Earth.
I am in deep snow. I have food and water, but wood depends on being able to trek the snows. The snows are already a real grind to trek, up to my knees. Starting to think about evacuation and how to proceed from there. I am praying the snows do not continue to pile, and that
Mother Earth sends a dash of climate karma to melt what is on the ground. Itās already pushing winter on-the-dirt records here. My meds are on backup, 30 days starting now. I shall be rationing that down on next magazine fill up. Serious times. My mood is faltering under the Cascadian drear. Winter humbles when it doesnāt kill. Iām hoping to avoid the latter possibility another year or 30.
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