Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 13

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@paulfree14

Yeah, and their (to paraphrase) "surveillance capitalism is the only way to serve the unfortunate" take is, to use their word, "daft".

They refer to a value exchange, ignoring huge power and pricing informational asymmetries that undermine the fairness in the exchange.

@kaniini @maiyannah

Safe space folk are the facile target, especially given my own sympathies, but I wonder to what extent the nominally free are commited to exchange, versus having their own mutually antagonistic outgroup about which can be said 'we're not like *them*'.

@maiyannah @kaniini

Looks to me like a lot of people along either side of the safe-vs-free axis are pretty invested in perpetuating that axis, or where one stands along it, as a distinguishing feature of their participation, very invested in an othering process and then defining oneself in opposition to that other.

@clacke @natecull

most language complexity arises out of what you might call folkways.

to the extent unicode represents existing natural language, I'm down.

to the extent it grows in disparate directions to sell phones, not so much.

this is where we get to the gripe about having :poo: before Bengali was adequately included

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect

Ah, finally someone has realised that it's not 'consumers' who are the problem because we don't really get to tell the supermarkets what to do.

"Roger Gordon, who founded the Food Cowboy startup to rescue and re-route rejected produce, believes that the waste is built into the economics of food production. Fresh produce accounts for 15% of supermarket profits, he argued.

“If you and I reduced fresh produce waste by 50% like [the US agriculture secretary] Vilsack wants us to do, then supermarkets would go from [a] 1.5% profit margin to 0.7%,” he said."

"Some supermarket chains and industry groups in the US are pioneering ugly produce sections and actively campaigning to reduce such losses. But a number of producers and distributors claimed that some retailing giants were still using their power to reject produce on the basis of some ideal of perfection, and sometimes because of market conditions.

The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture’s dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants. They also asked that their names not be used."

That last sentence is terrifying, but I have anecdotal accounts from some market gardeners here that it's not unusual for a supermarket to cut off suppliers who complain too much, especially to the media.

I've also heard anecdotally that the expense of 1st-grade produce and the lack of suppliers providing 2nd-grade ('ugly') produce is why most restaurants and cafes make heavy use of farmer's markets or direct supply agreements with farms. 1st-grade is expensive, and they only need it for dishes where the appearance of the produce is important. For stocks, soups, mashes, etc. nobody cares what the potatoes or carrots look like as long as they're edible.

What would you consider the first "proper" modern source code package management system? @ me for "other"

After a long search for a decent #FLOSS solution for web-presentation, I found #GitPitch!

Write a presentation in #markdown in a PITCHME.md file in a public GitLab/GitHub/BitBucket repo → go to https://gitpitch.com/user/repo → DONE!

https://gitpitch.com

But anyway yeah, most creative works aren't 100 % shit or genius, and we should be used to thinking they inhabit this middle ground

Help is out there. Ask for it if you need it.

#bmw imagine les routes de demain, pensées pour les vélos et les scooters électriques #numerama http://www.numerama.com/tech/308696-bmw-imagine-les-routes-de-demain-pensees-pour-les-velos-et-les-scooters-electriques.html

"If he's been the sort of boy who acquired a nickname, he no doubt would be known as Professor, but he wasn't that sort of boy. He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either. " -- from The Book of Dust, by Philip Pullman, page 3

#smallquotes

In my work we're making a butterfly made of butterflies.
That's the tradicional Yoshizawa's origami butterfly and one the easiest origamis to teach anyone

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Good morning.

Currently digesting the outcome of an interesting meeting with a few colleagues after work yesterday, during which we discussed how we might introduce various #selfcare practices to other workmates.

Tijdens het pendelen mis ik nog een korte Nederlandstalige podcast met het nieuws van vandaag. Iemand een tip? #NL #podcast #dutch