Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Today i learned that 40% of cargo shipping is fuel.. They're carting oil and petrol and coal and coke around the planet burning fossil fuels to deliver more fossil fuels to people.

So once we switch to local renewables we won't need those 40%. The problem gets smaller.

https://qz.com/2113243/forty-percent-of-all-shipping-cargo-consists-of-fossil-fuels

I had high hopes for Game 2 of our Near and Far campaign, but @peterdrake pulled off the victory.

Remarkable about Crimson Forest for me:
(1) My quest encounters with victims of the Red King had disappointing rewards. Seeking redemption does not pay well.
(2) I had a game-winning solo completed trade route within my grasp on my final two turns, but the 10-point Ancient Robot threat beat me both times. Because I rolled 1. TWICE. This is what I mean when I say dice hate me.

#BoardGames

reading Ford's "autonomous vehicles reposess themselves" patent and this is some grim, if completely expected stuff.

"Typically, the owner is uncooperative at this time and may attempt to impete the reposession operation. In some cases this can lead to confrontation. It is therefore desirable to provide a solution to address this issue."

They describe
- Escalating pressure, including disabling air conditioning/heating to "cause an additional level of discomfort to a driver and occupants of the vehicle"
- Emitting "an incessant and unpleasant sound every time the owner is present in the vehicle. The reposession system computer may also ensure that the owner is unable to turn off the sound without first making contact with the lending institution."
- Locking your car in a geofence so you can only use it to drive to work and get groceries, to not "adversely affecting a livelihood of the owner of the vehicle and hampering the owner's ability to make payments towards the vehicle."
- Yes, of course, the central component is that they want to be able to have your car drive itself to the tow lot and impound itself, but also "If the market value of the vehicle is below the pre-determined threashold price, the reposession computer may autonomously move the vehicle from the premises of the owner to a junkyard" - the logic of which is bog-typical **vile** for capitalism, they would rather it be scrapped than used by a poor person.

https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20230055958

#AIHell #SurveillanceHell #InternetOfShit #AutonomousVehicles #CrushAllRadiosInCarsWithNeedlenosePliers

Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.

Big Gus has a happy stuck in his thinker this morning and it's contagious.

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

It's actually bad luck to say MacBook inside an office. You have to call it 'the Scottish Laptop'