Starts-with-X programmer. Fantasy author. The human social function emulator may not function as expected. He/they. Born at 322 ppm
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Last Notes npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1qy5…qq3x You know "the Cossacks work for the Czar"? npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon For a long time now, it's been the case that you can do a lot of work to arrive at a nuanced, fact-based policy position, or you can look at the policies conservatives demand and do the exact opposite. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon Joe's running mate is a black woman. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 Same. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1aq2…4nfw When people who really, really want a world in which they never, ever have to take no for an answer start accumulating power, it's going to be better for all concerned if they don't succeed. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 On the plus side that is still a really promising code name. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 that seems like a good plan. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1lzz…jhl3 Power is power. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1lzz…jhl3 The entire point of being an elite is to not have to accept feedback. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1lc3…r3st @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1rkj…ufed Humility, the idea that you're not special, that there's lots of stuff you don't know, that you're easily wrong, is a virtue. It's also essential to having a relationship with facts. (Facts are external, knowable only through co-operation, not authority, and there's no approach to facts that doesn't involve readily admitting error.) npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1jvn…uj7g I can't read most of their materials, alas, but find the English ones disturbingly coy about how these things are to be powered. Do they explain how one gets tracks people can step over without electrocution risks? npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon The objections to putting down the fossil carbon, sobering up, and getting the work done arise uniformly from the people who get their de facto extrajudicial status and wealth from controlling fossil carbon extraction. They're having a big public bout of immense personal weakness, deficient character, and flabby analysis. They're not correct about any of this; they're just a long way down a fear-makes-you-stupid spiral, and trying to drag everybody along with them. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon Thing is, the Carbon Binge is not some inherent upper cap on personal prosperity, material security, or exercisable agency. If you do the back of the envelope math about cost per kilowatt, it's pretty obviously the case that there's a much better future right there. (Even if we're all subsisting on a diet with a major component made out of blue-green algae for a few hundred years.) npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon Had a thought. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub12ph…gt8y @npub1psd…9sr7 Large sample size "guaranteed brain damage" studies came out of the UK in the first half of 2020. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1j8j…s9kl The other thing, well, two things about the F-35 is that Ukraine is demonstrating that the USAF doctrine change to presume that anything not heavily stealthed as a matter of form and design is dead against a modern air defense network is substantially correct, for one, and for two, it's built to be part of the"volume contests you" armed sensor network. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 I've been drifting into "are we certain-sure they don't have a submarine?" territory for awhile. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1kmn…8cg8 We have a recent clear example that the House republicans will elect any speaker Trump commands them to elect. That's how the current speaker got the job. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub19fc…ay3c Don't get too focused on fungible goods. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 It's quite sensible but the general outrage at this being an undocumented feature seems well-taken. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 A long-distance rough terrain canoe-and-foot race where you start in Yellowknife and have to get to Winnipeg. Called that because you're not permitted any navigational devices whatsoever and have to either know the route or perform primitive celestial navigation. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 People looking for a norm to imprint on will imprint on ANYTHING. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1zdp…vqv8 Insecurity management by feelings cannot work. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1upk…tcwy @npub1uzg…ychd `git rebase branch` on main does result in a weird state. Would not recommend. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1uzg…ychd @npub1upk…tcwy I rebase main onto branch all the time; it applies other people's work so I can fix any conflicts in the branch before I create the PR that will move my commits to the shared remote. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 It's escaped from Bluesky. It started off as a quote from someone who likes to post peculiar moral quandaries involving Christian babies without entirely comprehending the conventions of the quandary genre. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1h7c…47kq @npub1psd…9sr7 It's exactly what a shill for the automotive industry would do, because they've been doing it for fifty years now. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1qy5…qq3x Which in turn becomes a problem of keeping the belief system from copying itself (into more people, into future generations, however one wants to put it.) npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1wjh…6adp In making it impossible to govern. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub16a3…9dah @npub1gmx…atcq Not being able to work is pretty reliably fatal, here in late capitalism. Not seeing any "this is what Long COVID does to your standard of living" articles, possibly because those might actually worry people. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1ntq…rg38 I'm not meaning to complain at you specifically, but the "vulnerable" narrative as though this particular disease isn't going to rip the lungs or the liver or the cardiac function out of anyone boggles me. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub12dp…rpxf @npub14fx…5p6y Which is agricultural practices, not eating meat. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1jc0…sldg Eggs have a maximum size set by the ratio of surface area to volume as a constraint on gas exchange. The approximately 13cm average diameter of ostrich eggs is into the size range for sauropod eggs, the very largest reconstructed diameters of which max out at about 20cm. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 Not at all, no. I seem to recall those have an actual internal texture. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 Macdonald's definition beef: at some point its long and storied history, the material has been in contact with the inside or the outside of a cow. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub14cq…k7mw And the gods of civil engineering are drainage, drainage, and drainage. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon Rostov-on-Don is the rail hub through which Russian logistics passes for the Ukraine war. If AFU had the strike reach, they'd've been pounding the depots and rail yards there as much as they could. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub12ld…d8ag There are various reports of genetic changes. I think it might take longer than with the flu. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub12ld…d8ag @npub1psd…9sr7 I agree that this stuff isn't in the domain of facts yet. Too much inescapable wait-and-find-out. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub12ld…d8ag @npub1psd…9sr7 That summary appears to suppose life expectancy will start increasing again. npub1gg0lmq7zl3n3cp3ay7jv7eat9lfqk3ljfx2wf3rnwzk8n462evsqc9w0xq Graydon @npub1psd…9sr7 if there's an actuarial estimate of the age where life expectancy might go into equilibrium again, I haven't seen it.
