Arturo

Maybe you can call him Mr. Van-Damme?

The world is in water bankruptcy, UN scientists report – here’s what that means Like living beyond your financial means, using more water than nature can replenish can have catastrophic results.

Water bankruptcy is a “chronic condition that develops when a place uses more water than nature can reliably replace, and when the damage to the natural assets that store and filter that water, such as aquifers and wetlands, becomes hard to reverse”. [theconversation.com]

Looks like all my mutuals have abandoned Bluesky. Haha. Maybe I’ll have to start shouting into the void.

Hello 👋🏽

Tweet from @dril with an edit. Original says: “Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying” The edit is that the candles line is crossed out and replaced with “Tariffs: $6 trillion”

Why is there no shipping to Mexico? :(

Welp, the PSN has been down for 14 hours. Right when I wanted to buy Civ VII for my time off work :(

If you're in an evacuation zone in SoCal, please check in with any disabled/aging neighbors you have to see if they need help evacuating.

I hope that the hill on which you die is a peaceful one, with tall grass swaying in the wind and a few birds calling.

The Buddha’s guidelines for deciding what should be said have been really helpful to me for keeping the peace during the holidays:

Is it true? Is it beneficial? Is it the right time to say this?

Just in case it’s helpful to someone.

Of course! Harm is harm.

a festivus for the rest of us.

happy festivus! to celebrate the holiday season, a charitable donation in your name has been made to: the human fund. money for people.

HAPPY FESTIVUS

I have discovered a planet. It is a land without fear -- but with fish. A limited moon drifts alone under its friendly sun. We could grow there, perhaps.

Loneliness is real, but not through the fault of women or whatever. Rather, men are also victims of the stories we believe about masculinity, which do nothing but isolate us and harm ourselves and others.

As it stands, a big chunk of masculine identity is not serving anybody.

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

They have discovered a planet. It is towards the edge of the Milky Way. It is paltry and harmless. If there are monkeys there, I could have coffee.

A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

A group of scientists warns against creating mirror cells. This sentence is somehow not sci-fi: “Drug developers might be able to create mirror antibiotics, but the treatments might not be ready to use until a mirror pandemic was out of control.” [nytimes.com]

Any wars between programming language fanatics are, ultimately, about whether one thinks that the shortcomings of a program written in each language are the fault of the language designers or of the users.

I.e. whether one believes user error indicates a flawed design or not.

Have one of those. Been using it since about 2016(?). Great for photography but also for all other tech, etc.

The most important thing.

I'm so happy they're here, lol.

In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

All Meta does is hyperoptimize for engagement and then panic and copy other products when they realize they're having more growth than them.

Today on Bluesky, the hot topic of the day is data scraping. Are your posts being scraped to train machine learning algorithms? Should you be concerned? And what can you do about it? I'm here to break it all down on today's episode of the Bluesky Tech Minute:

Aaah, got it. Thanks for explaining!

Haha same!! I don't think a lot of people notice it, by default. Our bodies definitely pick up on it, unconsciously, but I do know that people can train themselves to notice it consciously.

I also hate AI, but I'm glad it's working, very nice. Did you give it any information about yourself and your specific anxiety? Or did it give you like a general journaling prompt? Asking mainly because I am curious to try, lol.

I've always been able to do this, since I was little, but I didn't know it was a thing, with actual relevance, until I started doing photography.

Yes. I can also tell the difference when I travel to other latitudes.