Cadende

joined 3 years ago
[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

I mean I don't actually care and I certainly do not have a xitter acct, I just thought it was funny to literally completely ignore the entire middle of the country (and like 3/4 of the east coast), then I noticed the chicago date...

There are absolutely leftist bookstores in probably every state in the US, or nearly so, but I get it. It's tough to get enough publicity to get turnout, and it probably really sucks as an author doing good work with sizable readership to go to like, a milwaukee or a st louis and just have like 3 people show up to your event. Like if there was one in my city I probably wouldn't go, I haven't read this guy's books, though I have read excerpts of Palo Alto I believe.

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

wow he's really blanketing the country. california, seattle, portland and the southern half of the acela corridor

edit: I stand corrected he's also doing chicago. that makes it less egregious.

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 11 points 18 hours ago

hahaha wow

most VPNs seem to be technically possible to get working on linux if you dig enough to figure out what its doing under the hood (if often unofficially, such as cisco anyconnect) but ymmv

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 13 points 19 hours ago

it's probably caching every image you've ever clicked on or something silly like that. You could wipe it out and start fresh if you need the space. emotes are big but probably not that big. Same with taglines, there's a ton but its all text.

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, it's a reputable magazine. It's not a scientific study directly but it seems fine and cites some specific data, and the author is an actual professor of planetary science. And it's actually been updated with a more modern hypothesis circa 2021 at the bottom. It's not like our understanding of mercury has completely changed in the last 10-15 years

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

yeah it's a dropshipper thing, it's easier to just buy access to a tracking number from some data broker that happened to ship about the same time to the same city or zip code than it is to 1) get amazon or ebay or whoever to accept a new type of tracking number, or even 2) actually use a shipping provider that has tracking, and 3) if it doesn't come on time or doesn't show up at all it makes it hard as fuck to dispute since "the tracking shows it was delivered on time"

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"AI" as popularly conceived (mainly LLMs) isn't necessary to automate tractors. But I appreciate the focus on productive, non-destructive uses of technology

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

there's some shit going on in nyc lol. I don't expect they're paying the fines. Or they're somehow making more on videos of them doing it than the fines cost.

https://www.amny.com/news/where-drivers-get-speed-camera-tickets-in-nyc/

I also can't vouch for its accuracy but I suspect its related to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpG0LdTNfOc

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

this is from camera data but these are actually specific vehicles which have been caught by the cameras repeatedly: https://www.amny.com/news/where-drivers-get-speed-camera-tickets-in-nyc/

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

These appear to be specific cars, not just models of vehicle

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

thanks. I really don't get why bsky does this "the author wants you to be signed in" thing if it's just going to be publicly available via another interface.

[–] Cadende@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can you provide the link you mention? can't see any of that without a bsky account

 

Before people get too bent out of shape, obviously this sort of experience is built on a foundation of privilege and social connections that most people don't have. In a modern western society you'd have a much harder time doing this as a less privileged person, and frankly governments and businesses do their best to make it impossible and illegal.

But I see these sorts of articles occasionally, and I've talked to one or two people who live sort of like this IRL, and I do still feel like there's some interesting things to discuss about people that live like this and if some lessons from it can be applied to more people or society more broadly.

This caught my eye:

“I actually feel more secure than I did when I was earning money,” she says, “because all through human history, true security has always come from living in community and I have time now to build that ‘social currency’. To help people out, care for sick friends or their children, help in their gardens. That’s one of the big benefits of living without money.”

I think there's an element of truth to that. This type of model isn't a substitute for ending capitalism by other means and providing things like housing and healthcare and such for all, but I do think a society that makes room for more people to live productive and fulfilling lives at the margins would be a better society in some way that I'm having trouble articulating. (And a society where everyone has secure housing and healthcare and such as a right, would be one where more people are secure enough to be a benefactor to others)

 
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