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

2004 was a stellar year for banana enthusiasts.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Ohanami is an easy, quick, and beautiful card drafting game. It's in the same league as Floriferous, but a bit simpler still. On each turn, you may add the cards you draft to your gardens, but only if the card number is higher than the top card of a garden or lower than the bottom card of a garden.

In this particular game, my advantage in water features and cherry blossoms overwhelmed Peter's plants.

#BoardGamesAtoZ #BoardGames

@gavinisdie Gen X would like our X back 😁

* Isopods have 7 pairs of legs all pretty much the same length.

* 74** logic gates have ... 7 pairs of legs all the same length!

Coincidence? I think not!

Clearly, each isopod contains 4 logic gates. This Armadillidium vulgare has 4 AND gates. Don't forget to connect power & ground legs & use pull-down resistors on inputs.

(best practice is to simply ask the rollie to position itself in your circuit.)

Like most natural systems. they use micro-voltages, don't use standard 5V power sources.

Quoting Geoff Engelstein from another social media platform...

"Applications for the 2023 New Voices In Gaming Scholarship are now open!

Scholarship includes a badge for the Tabletop Network Conference, hotel accommodations, and a $500 travel stipend.
Deadline for submission is August 13th.
forms.gle/23WiQiR6utTojkhK8"

I've been a part of this in the past, and it's a really wonderful way to meet other designers and level up your game, so to speak!

Do it

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

It’s weird that microwaves are marketed as food heating devices when they’re so much better at heating bowls

In the U.S., recent estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange

Oh no!

China gonna get us!

Scary scary--

hold up. what is this "right axis" and "left axis" stuff?

(see next tweet)

Gonna give it all up and open a zombie-themed bakery called BREAD INSIDE

I'm thinking of tackling this drawing book next, committing to (as the book asks) 20 minutes a day for 30 days. Would anyone else want to join me?

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/117ee699-8201-49b9-af5b-ec39776478c9

#drawing #MastoArt #learning #30days #project #art

#Violet performs her wake-up stretch. #DogsOfMastodon