Notices by Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud), page 3

#CatPeopleOfMastodon

@natecull
@craigmaloney
@mara_cav_ @KitRedgrave
@morganth
@thor
@docbadwrench
@sajith
@woland
@Ajz
@riga
@AwaTaeFreuchie
@cheesegrits
@vfrmedia
@RealityTC
@fusl
@amac

Honorary mention:
@woozle

(Additions welcomed.)

@natecull ... and for completeness:

https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html

@natecull Four weddings and a funeral per page.

It's been two of those days.

I need a gin and chthonic.

In England, Nicholas Wood, whose position was that of “railway expert”, declared Stephenson’s claim of a possible [railway] speed of 20 miles an hour absurd and added “Nobody could do more harm to the prospects of building or generally improving such coaches than by spreading abroad this kind of nonsense.”

-- Bernhard J. Stern

https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/page/41

On deep, constructive online discussions about technical topics

by @liw

#OnlineMedia #conversation

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/03/17/on_deep_constructive_online_discussions_about_technical_topics/

@syndikalista TYL: pip install mps-youtube

I've been occupying my time far more of late with philosophy, and far less with news.

It occurs that news is informational content with the shortest possible relevance, whilst philosophy has some of the longest. At least if you follow the good stuff.

And some of the best shows up in the History of Philosophy (without any gaps) podcast, by Peter Adamson of LMU in Munich, which I strongly recommend:

https://historyofphilosophy.net/

Wes Cecil is also excellent:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA

@velartrill If you want energy use to go down, energy /prices/ have to increase.

Efficiency /buys more power expenditure/, because it effectively /lowers prices/.

Wm. Stanley Jevons, 1860s. The Jevons paradox.

We've made computers millions of times more efficient over the past 40 -50 years. That hasn't /reduced/ the number of computers or amount of computation, it's /increased/ it. And ... for comparatively little upside.

... And apparently TIA are all-you-can-eat:

How much data can I upload to Internet Archive?

How much do you have? There is no real limit. However, if you have a very large amount of data you wish to upload, please contact the Archive and coordinate with them to be sure everything goes smoothly.

https://github.com/vmbrasseur/IAS3API/blob/master/summary.md

Goal for the day: Breath.

@rysiek This is not a shitpost.

In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. We just don't know what to pay attention to, and often spend our time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

#InformationOverload
#FilterFailure
#information

My goal is 100% sustainable living. I want to be able to feed myself entirely based on what I can grow in my own fridge.

Steven Pinker -- Certified Grief Counselor

Hey, Pinker, it's not so bad, everyone completely understands you now!

(More panels at source. This is a wonderous thing.)

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/08/comic-steven-pinker-certified-grief-counselor/

@wrenpile Gotta defend against them concealed-carry nudists.

Having two channels or filters for SocMed is something I've been kicking at for a while. A reading channal, that's highly selective, and a transmitting channel, that's much less blocked or filtered.

Most blocking tools are bidirectional: the blocker doesn't see the blocked user, and the blocked user cannot see the blocker. I understand the rationale (stalking, etc.), but the reality is that this is very thin coverage. Public content is public and can be accessed.

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@jankoekepan There's phenomenal public health chart for NYC showing 85% gains before modern medicine, directly attributable to policy decisions and infrastructure:

Pure freshwater supplies, sewerage, solid waste removal, quarantines, antisceptics, mateernal and early childhood nutrition, refrigeration.

Excluded are most vaccines, ALL antibiotics, major surgeries, xrays, etc.

And the subsequent gains are from harm reductions: coal, lead, asbestos, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, HC access.

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If your mantra is simply "I don't want to / can't deal with X right now", that's cool.

Ask to be unmentioned, or mute a conversatiion or user. Support time-out block features.

I'm Popperian on intolerance, though. Those openly advocating an inherent disenfranchisement or worse based on nonoperative signifiers (e.g., gender, ancestry, faith, social status, ...), have waived the privilege of noninterference through their own failure of noninterference.

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Screw Inbox Zero.

My goal is Tab Zero.