Notices by Rusty Swarf (rustyswarf@refactorcamp.org), page 2

@Elmkast All politics is aesthetics.

@nindokag Great interview. I wonder what percent of today's "blue collar" work is retail or franchise staffing.

Actual production is pretty rare, partly due to mechanization. No more teams of miners, loggers, farmers, just a handful of heavy equipment operators.

Also interesting that he highlighted transient workers: wildland firefighters, the Dakota boom comes to mind.

@aRandomCat I've been wondering whether the concept of waste makes sense in nature.

Do waste and efficiency only exist when there is a conscious designer?

@riga I usually keep a block of wood behind the keyboard as a palm rest. makes a big difference, something a bit thicker than a 2x4.

Hilarious story on the college admissions scandal. Reading it I feel something like second-order schadenfreude: gleeful vicarious appreciation of another's enjoyment of a third party's suffering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/

"Not reforming capitalism would be an existential threat to the US."

This feels like the beginning of a sea change in thinking from the economic elites:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-reformed-ray-dalio/

After orchard pruning all day my bellybutton lint is mostly sawdust.

Bruce Sterling SXSW 2019 talk:

Who is the most cyberpunk person in the world?

https://youtu.be/OcQa6WmG3vk?t=22101

Puzzling that there's no climate optimism on either side.

Liberal Climate Chaos Optimism: Once there's no "normal," we have freedom to invent crazy microclimate ecosystem designs.

Conservative Climate Chaos Optimism: Same, but with no fear of using nukes and similar scale tech to influence weather.

Pondering ways to characterize environmental politics:

Liberal Ideal: We should freeze ecosystems as they are, prevent further contamination.

Conservative Ideal: We should freeze rate-of-industrialization at its recent state.

Both sides feel rooted in fear of change.

Does this make sense?

@bkam Cool, sounds like you found a sweet spot with the strictness of self-imposed constraints.

@aRandomCat Keep in mind OODA theory was developed to model aerial dogfighting, and then stretched to model more general warfare. It works for 1-on-1 adversarial situations that are fairly evenly matched.

Two opponents jockeying and reacting to each other is a closed system where each member's decisions depend on the other, so a slight timing or foresight advantage can be huge.

Perhaps the theory is being stretched too far when used in business context with endless competitors.

@nindokag Remembered a hackernews thread about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030423

http://essentialyoutube.com/about/index.html

Really appreciating woodstoves during this cold snap.

I feel like they're the closest thing we have to "Mr. Fusion" from back to the future: you just take trash lying around on the ground in the woods, chuck it in the box, and get energy out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlhgFaB89Y

@bkam When I was younger and not a daily coffee drinker, I would get much more powerful and interesting effects from coffee--borderline psychedelic.

I think limiting to maybe 2 days per week is a good threshold for not developing too much tolerance.

@vgr @zacharius Seems like search is fediverse-wide but only covers current activity. Any way to search history, or limit search to a specific instance?

I get the super blood part, but what does wolf mean?

#SuperBloodWolfMoon #Eclipse #Moon