szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

somedays i wonder why i dont just write simple software, free of weird issues like "perforating the user"

Close to releasing the biggest update to @buttplugio Device Control APIs in the 6 year history of the library.

All I have to do is write documentation for the code I've written.

Join me this weekend as I skeet my descent into the hell of trying to explain generalized buttplug control in English.

Heather setting up the logging system on the mast from which turbulent fluxes are measured.

#ARTofMELT2023 #ArcticOcean #PolarScience

You might have heard that the company that owns Instant Pot has filed for bankruptcy. The makers of Instant Pot did something horribly wrong: they made a really good product that works very well and does not need to be replaced frequently. This means that owners of Instant Pots might only need to buy one and rarely replace it, if at all.

This is a great success from the perspective of *industry,* in Veblen’s sense, but terrible for *business.* The makers of Instant Pot failed to sufficiently sabotage their product by, say, building in intentional obsolescence. Maybe they should have used cheaper parts that wear out faster, or installed software that requires regular updates, or deliberately inserted components designed to make it fail.

But they didn’t, and so sales were stagnant. The firm that owns Instant Pot borrowed lots of money in an attempt to make a new version of Instant Pot they somehow hoped to sell to consumers of Instant Pot. It was too much; the firm did not earn enough differential profits—profits at a faster rate than its competitors—and so the firm is failing, despite the success of the product.

https://thetakeout.com/instant-pot-maker-parent-brand-file-for-bankruptcy-2023-1850534708

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There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”

A Veblen good is something for which demand *increases* as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.

Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.

The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.

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#OnThisDay in 1983, Sally Ride is the first woman to be a US astronaut, on board the Challenger shuttle.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory

what a great excuse to stop pulling up the weeds in the cracks; random acts of art!

#art #gardening

Dekadę po Snowdenie nadal musimy walczyć o naszą prywatność w Internecie:
https://oko.press/dlaczego-wszystkie-tajne-sluzby-nienawidza-edwarda-snowdena-i-za-co-my-mozemy-byc-mu-wdzieczni

> Chat Control i podobne próby odarcia nas z prawa do prywatnej komunikacji są opakowywane w narrację o „ukrywaniu się w ciemnościach” (ang. „going dark”) w odniesieniu do faktu, że coraz więcej naszej cyfrowej korespondencji odbywa się szyfrowanymi kanałami, do których służby nie mają już tak łatwego dostępu.

> Jak gdyby zupełnie naturalna potrzeba prywatności była z gruntu podejrzana. 👀

#Polska

reinventing the wheel so I can have a wheel that doesn't sell my data

More genius from xkcd! #heatpump https://xkcd.com/2790/ HT @Protons4b

Happy Caturday, Fediverse!
Storytime about how Jonesy’s adoption happened:

#Cats #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago

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@futurebird one way to look at how similarly brains work when compared to our computer simulations is by power use; for an average person on a 2,000 calorie diet, their brain is using 20 watts. that's a pretty low power desktop-capable computer.

it takes hundreds to thousands of watts for computers to just parrot single aspects of our brains. training them takes orders of magnitude more.

our brains are so much more vastly efficient than computers it beggars belief. at least, it would if you thought brains worked like computers. and that alone is reason enough for me to disagree with the notion that they are.

Ciut spartaczyliśmy, ale do naprawienia, a generalnie wyszło całkiem spoko.
Co wyszło? Pierwszy kawałek ula w wersji DIY praktycznie skończony.
Idzie wolno ale to także dlatego, że wszystko jest ciut na czuja, a narzędzia do budowy tworzą się w trakcie pracy.
No i ile zabawy… dobry dzień! :)

#beeKeeping #BeeHive #DIY

Ok, a jakby tak założyć artystyczny kolektyw z czterema osobami uczniowskimi, które właśnie skończyło się uczyć muzyki w liceum, ale od dwóch lat budowaliście swoje zaufanie, dotarliście się, one mają niesamowitą energię i dojrzałość oraz zetkową perspektywę, czyli coś nieobecnego w dyskursie, a ja mam zasoby, żeby pomóc im realizować wspólne przedsięwzięcia? Na beszczela, manifestowo i performatywnie? A jakby tak ten kolektyw już był zainicjowany, jakby były jakieś pomysły na działania i pełne wzajemne zaufanie, żeby robić taki performans, korzystając z dwóch lat wspólnych rozkmin i przemyśleń? Czy w ogóle artystki będące w/tuż po liceum mają jakikolwiek głos na forum? Czy nie powinny mieć? Czy to nie jest patologiczna sytuacja?

Made a first pass at our black raspberries this morning. Didn't expect much, so it was a pleasant surprise to glean more than two cups from just the bushes around the house. The drought has put a dent in the amount and size. Anything we get is a blessing. And the "more than" was just enough to share with our friendly yard turtle. As you can see, he totally hates them. 😆

#today #NaturePhotography #nature #turtles #foraging #BlackRaspberries #photography