as ever, my recommendation is socialism. automate as much labor as possible under common ownership or taxation, distribute the products to the masses; free everyone to live for themselves.

Alexandria ⛯@ash243x.bsky.social · 2w ago

the whole of society is enriched by more efficient results; the means are secondary. if someone loves something, they can always do it recreationally, but professionally we do need to reevaluate how expertise is used given more powerful tools and especially decouple work from survival, economically.

Perfect character select screen. Absolutely peerless vibes. There is no question I want a video game to ask me more than "which robot do you like?"

They also adopted a self-serving pseudoscientific theory that homesteading permanently changed the weather, "Rain Follows the Plow". Same thing happened in Australia and let to a smaller farm collapse there as well despite a surveyor warning in 1865 that wasn't true.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

turns out we can change the weather with rain and the plow but it’s the other way around. The massive farm fields in the American steppe transpirate so much that it causes it to rain further downrange in the Midwest so they are just exporting water to the east.

It's funny how much Final Fantasy 1 owes to this 1986 Japanese Cindy Crawford Pocari Sweat ad, art directed by Moebius

J'Dhannar has no trade. J'Dhannar once had a trade. Before the sugar. J'Dhannar remembers. Everything was different before the sugar.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Seriously, a HIGH BEE WARNING now???

weather 2040: light fire. heavy smoke. moderate chance of bees. rivers running baleful with the blood ot the damned later in the evening. the hosts wail their torment throughout. partly sunny.

the color of a television screen tuned to a dead channel

Color of Seattle@colorofseattle.bsky.social · 3w ago

The color of the sky in Seattle is outer space #464f54

Greek soldiers rampage out of large walled horse WHY IT MATTERS: the towers of Ilium have been toppled ZOOM IN: this is great news for MENELAUS, bad news for PRIAM SPLIT SCREEN: Cassandra vindicated but it’s Odysseus who gets the win

they call it the "odyssey" because you really "should" see it

temu 9/11

Kevin Snyder@guns.bsky.social · 3w ago

I need to launch something high into the sky at incredible speed

maybe it's not woke to say so but these bog people from the northern barbarian mists simply should not be depicting a civilized race like the greeks

Anne Thériault@annetheriault.bsky.social · 3w ago

15yo: people are saying that Lupita Nyong’o shouldn’t be in The Odyssey because she doesn’t have the right look. Like, for racist reasons. So now I tell people that I’m not going to watch the movie because Matt Damon and Tom Holland look too pasty and non-Greek. It can go both ways!!!

OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

karpad@karpad.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"If a bird is within 50 feet of a coop, it probably belongs to the owner of that coop, so don't fuck with it. birds further out are probably wild birds, and thus open to be collected." "what if a bird has one leg within range and one leg out?" "what if you shut the fuck up?" Bava Batra.23b7

vector embedding is such bullshit, once again the computer people made something relatively simple sound insanely complex

irn gru. is that anything

There are like only three design patterns you need to use 80% to make stuff good and fast and elegant Make it a lookup (hashmap) Split it up into smaller pieces (sharding) Combine it into one large piece (map reduce)

Great. No hard feelings!

lolll

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is my favorite reply of the day but you gotta click through for context

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it's been brought to my attention that some of you aren't familiar with the water slide that fixes your lower back posture

"i'm from the government and i'm here to help" are not the scariest 9 words in the english language. the scariest 9 words in the english language are "i am a ghost with a big machine gun"

my one-year-old loses it whenever i say this to him, so hopefully it’ll do numbers here too: poopy

emptying a clip into my lettuce

Rural living is a luxury lifestyle, its social cost is externalized, and the people who live it are almost constitutionally incapable of treating the people who pay for it with respect. People who whine like this should be talking to their neighbors instead.

i spent almost 2/3 of my life in rural wisconsin anybody who thinks cities have the most power, or want to hurt rurals specifically, especially in swing states, is blowing smoke up your ass