Notices by Julian Bond 🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)

"The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk".

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/27/18137571/what-is-hopepunk-noblebright-grimdark

@bobstechsite Down with this kind of thing.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your-2fa-phone-number-to-target-you-with-ads/

@frankiesaxx @ink_slinger Damn, motherfuckers. I swear Decorative Gourd Season comes earlier every year!

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-season-motherfuckers

@frankiesaxx That mug suggests you may have missed out the vital step of laying an unbroken circle of salt around your coffee making materials before you start.

Also remember the golden rule, I beseech you, "Never pick up what you cannot put down".

@Ninjatrappeur Atom (RSS) is not dying. Please don't try and reinvent it. Instead get back into promoting it. And if necessary writing conversion utilities to generate feeds. Even if it's only for your own use.

There is some argument for a translation of Atom into JSON and people do try to do this every so often. It's not a bad idea. But it needs a proper effort to build the standard, tools, libraries and readers to get it off the ground.

Some things that may still be growing exponentially with short doubling periods (<10 years).

- Bits and bytes being generated per month.
- Energy consumption of datacentres
- Energy consumption of computing devices
- Storage shipped and implemented (spinning disks and non-volatile memory)
- Phone shipments
- Total processing power in Mips, Flops or whatever.
- Solar & Wind power installations in name plate capacity
- Plastic production?

Others? Numbers?