wsinks

I'm totally with you on this. Who doesn't want to control global influence marketing? Prioritize certain content in certain locations, boost their economies...

Obviously, I'm speculating, which doesn't necessarily help anything nor is true, but... my gut is with you.

Totally agree. Not sure I care about Starlink.

Chatted once on a Webex with Chris Hadfield about 6-12 months ago, who said that the service was somewhat better and more reliable than his current satellite connection, but also that it wasn't necessarily good enough for a change in mindset. He knew that sometimes he wouldn't have good enough connection for video calls out there, and that was ok by him.

I don't think he was thinking about the space dust / negative externalities

I find no Google results that are appropriate for "Starlink satellite retrieval"

The Starlink website notes "95% of "all components of this design will quickly burn in Earth's atmosphere at the end of each satellite's lifecycle".

It's amazing that it's already looking like this: https://satellitemap.space/

And of course, it's not black and white. Took me a bit longer... had to remember that Corporate Social Responsibility departments exist, but in February 2022 SpaceX put out a statement at least: https://www.spacex.com/updates/

Funny - so they've done a reasonable amount of work to minimize space junk, which is great! Absolutely no mention of helping out astronomers with the line of sight problem.

I know this doesn't really advance the discussion that much, but... if you haven't seen this Krazam video, it's a sketch about that exact sentence there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

I'm completely with you that name choice is not necessarily where something needs to be fun, and most people don't realize that once you name something, it's probably around for 5-10 years whether you like it or not. Or if it succeeds or fails.

Maybe one day I'll re-read Daemon. A book not so far ahead of its time.

Might feel a little too close to home to re-read.

I'll never forget the gig worker assembly scene.

I don't know Elan! I'm disappointed, the link I edited into my parent comment doesn't fully replicate the original.

EDIT: I updated the link to one that I found that works. I love and hate that comic.

Ohhh man this just reminded me of my favorite horror story... You probably know it.

It's a web comic. I don't think I can say anything more but those that know already know. It's a pretty long comic but man does it move quickly.

EDIT: I found it. Click and read at your own risk: https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/chiller/bongcheon-dong-...

Just changed that link too. This one works and it's just perfectly scary.

Ha - how about "Bloody Mary"? I was 8 and that story scared the shit out of me. I love reading creepypastas, and when I was younger, I never knew if they were real or not. It was part of learning how to trust information. They always had enough of a disturbance in the story that made me feel odd.

I JUST saw The Backrooms (the one where she puts the tape measure down the portal) and... holy shit. This is the same level of odd feeling. I can only imagine what sort of VR stuff is out there... That Black Mirror episode has me wondering if I'll actually do something like that.

I think it's also the same sort of thing as the innocuous conspiracy theories I've seen like "Did you know that Spongebob characters are based on the seven deadly sins?" Could be true, you'll never be able to fully verify it unless you know the person who made the content, and ... sounds good and seems to hold up. Why would you want to dispel the theory even if it is untrue? It's kinda fun.

I'm with the other throwaway account - I'm logged in and my first result is a cancer genetic conference https://www.cityofhope.org/academics/health-professional-edu...

So BART fails, and you decide to leave through the same station. If you just walked through the gates, you get charged ~$7.

But BART failed, so wouldn't there be some instruction? Would you not see the many other people leaving via the emergency gate, which doesn't charge you?

I'm confused on how the same station fare is a tax on people that have other transportation options. I would agree if you said it's a tax on people that accept systems unilaterally.

That is definitely the problem. And I've dealt with it by being resilient and having more than one way to use the system. A bit of a pain, but there's only one BART and thankfully most others don't operate this way.

No - any time you have a problem you talk with a BART agent at the gate and they sort it out for you.

Are they not present sometimes? Yes. Are they slow / overrun by people? Sometimes. But that has little to do with the fare.

It's OKR season

I've found recently that even in SF, google maps's small business data is out of date and untrustworthy. I can trust it to give me a phone number and sometimes the website, but the actual omnibox info is only useful for businesses that I know are really well trafficked by the younger demographic.

Thank you

Or we could not install anything that needs to go through a security check and use existing public internet infra

As someone who just started mountain biking for health two days ago (mid-30s now, always been athletic but decided to take the pandemic off...)

I agree with all this! Great list. I'm considering taking today off from doing hills on the mountain bike, but maybe I'll still go out and ride some flats, not sure it's more healthy to take a day off from it right now. I felt great for hours after both rides.

Would this be a better framing?

- Every single place on the earth up to the year 2000 had an average temperature as well as a max and min temperature, along with a variance of predictability along those days. What do we need for our communities to stay stable if the max goes up, the min goes down, the variance of predictability goes up (and continues to go up every year)?

Interesting game, but ... there's just not enough instruction. Is the game supposed to be for real words or made up words?

The objective is stated "make the letters green", but you're not sure why they might be green.

Interesting idea! I lol'd at the name... Peerdiem sounds like crowdsourcing sharing company 'per diem' expenses... which I just don't see working.

This is more like "Artdiem".

But that's just my gut, I'd get used to it if I used it once per diem.

Thank you for your second post (kind of answered my other reply to you already)

I've seen how gnarly instagram bot comments already are, and wondered how many people are bots vs. people on there. It's not economical to turing test them all, so I've had to assume that they're all propaganda... and even then I've noticed the influence on deciding what's social.

How would you measure the success of this, if you were making them?

I don't have much to add here except you've revitalized my fear of this situation.

Any other thoughts on what the phases are?

Ha! Clever reversal. I like the idea of 'drop in' lately, since that's akin to office hours - the time when stuff can really get done because it's not the performative lecture.

I've been thinking it, but I haven't seen someone else write it - see ya in 2025 Belter.

Serious question - how do you engage with new studies and find value? Or do you? I'm trying to rejigger what my info pipelines look like and I'm looking for ideas. I like hearing about new stuff, but you're right that I just can't trust a science headline.

As much as I want to like Heardle - I'm with you. The problem with the game is their database though. They only have up to 4 songs per artist and it looks like they acquired the songs before thinking about what songs would make up a good game.

Good on you as well though - most people don't know how to match singers with their voices still.

This game suffers from an odd difficult curve. It's not robust enough for the well versed music lover (who should be the target market) and is too difficult for the unversed music lover (who seems to be who they targeted)

EDIT: I just played today's Heardle, and it's maybe the worst one they've ever had. I totally get what you mean.

Just started! hopefully that's no-code enough for ya :)

Just started!

A fill light refers to what the light is doing - it’s making the shadows of your frame a bit brighter so the camera can pick them up.

(As an example, a hair light is an overhead light that’s typically used to give hair more depth and detail. The poster talks about a key light, which is the strongest light in a standard 3 light setup)

I imagine ihue is the brand of light. Or maybe just a misspelling of Hue’s brand.

If we were to build new institutions in the wake... what principles would we need? How often would they change?

I think their parenthetical about a maquiladora on the border was the hedge on Mexico as zero supply chain risk.

There is increased cartel risk. I follow a former White House geopolitical analyst after I met him at a conference. Here's his latest talk on Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yilSJg5CMd4