🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

i had to throw out some Walmart ground cumin today. spices are definitely not all created equal. I think it might have been the cumin that threw of the smell of my salmon earlier this week

Dating apps are so unlike how people have naturally met each other for millennia. Leaving aside matchmakers and arranged marriages, and staying with the common people, we meet people in the places we go doing whatever we do in our lives. Dating apps are set up more like picking something out of a catalogue. There are ways of "hanging out" over the Internet: chat programs, forums; however, in the real world, you meet someone and you're past that first barrier of actually being physically present with them vs needing to meet up... That all makes me worry when I think of this "metaverse" nonsense. We should be moving in the direction of more person-to-person interaction, but a metaverse just sounds like either adding things to our experience that we didn't need or want or else we're sinking further into virtual worlds constructed with varying degrees of attachment to reality. The only justification for something like a "metaverse" to exist or grow is to have a place to escape from reality...it's preferable to make reality better for more people.

#metaverse

someone really hates Leo Laporte: there are several websites whose sole purpose seems to be impugning Laporte's character.
https://leolaportesucks.com/
https://www.leolaporte.org/
https://spitefulcripple.com/
https://hanklaporte.com/
http://leolaportedickpic.com/
https://totaldrama.net/
https://www.boycott-twit.com/
https://leolaporteliar.com/

I'd like to know the story behind who made all of these. Sounds like a really trashy story 🍿

I quite like this song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyuIHyOBFsU
I had heard that song, Sober Up, by AJR and did not like it because the vocals had this weird, slightly gravely sound that annoyed the heck out of me: I don't detect that here. about the song itself, I think it was the lyrics and... IDK how you say it, but the sort of repetitive, chant of the opening lines that caught me

"a time when immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we live our lives and spend our time". even as someone who frequently posts and reads web content, that sounds hellish.

programs are, fundamentally, tools for control. if we're meditating our interactions with the real world primarily through digital systems, it begs the question of who holds the reigns of that system. with the real world, you have the saving grace that no one can fully architect what can and can't be done, but in a constructed space, there is substantially less freedom.

That's not to say that the systems we have can definitely be fully architected: there are limits to what we can express in code, and formal verification is really hard. (Let's not even start on things like covert channels.) Still, even Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, etc, shape the kinds of interactions we can have: we have character limits, limits on the number of images per post, but also the clients privilege some actions over others by putting their buttons in more prominent, easily accessible places.

So, Aphex Twin has a lot more range as an artist than I had realized. Just heard, "Petiatil Cx Htdui"

I baked some salmon but I think I'll need to throw it out. it smelled a little funny, but I thought it may be my imagination. it only got worse with cooking. big bummer 😔

Lex interviewed Zuck. This should be interesting. https://lexfridman.com/mark-zuckerberg/

well, apparently 375°F isn't the right "low-crunch" temperature. still smells good though

I took the rest of the dough (the loaf above was between a third and a quarter of what I had made) and added a teaspoon of kosher salt and an indeterminate amount of maple syrup before shaping. I pulled off the top of my baking loaf in an accident, that I'm sure I'll appreciate later as a lesson, and the flavor is better. the smell is heavenly. I'm baking this at a lower temperature though since I and my gums can't take too much of the hard crust. we'll see how it goes...

> "If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss on how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand.

It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress." - Paul Dirac, in The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, by Graham Farmelo.

https://herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2022/02/quote-of-the-day-2.html

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-all-its-light-is-in-one-place/
#jwst moving along nicely

interesting loaf this time. I put crushed dried rosemary and (frankly, past date) crushed dried Valencia orange peel in the dough early on as well as some oats like I did the last time I posted about bread. it has added a subtle flavor and not-so-subtle aroma to the bread. I can detect the subtle flavor because the loaf is otherwise pretty bland tasting. Texturally, I somehow, got a thicker but also more crumbly crust than that last time. maybe it has to do with how I put the oats through the food processor before adding to the dough this time? I'll have to try again next time with fewer changes from my base recipe to isolate the effect.
#breadposting #bread #baking

I like the discussion about the value and practice of journalism in this podcast.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html