Notices by Token Sane Person (tokensane@mastodon.me.uk)

@glynmoody Be careful what you vote for, because you might get it!

@mattblaze Actually, "slightly inept stalker" is a good description of the whole surveillance-industrial complex.

@darnell They are at @TheEconomist and have been for some time.

@graydon @cstross @tuban_muzuru The term is "technology stack". And China is investing heavily in all those things.

Food starts to look a lot easier if you assume plenty of cheap energy. And in many parts of the world the population is actually decreasing as people get wealthy.

@glynmoody Save water: bath with a friend.

@michaelormsby @cstross @tuban_muzuru
The Economist had an extended essay on this a few months ago. I've found a non pay walled version here. Interesting read.
https://archive.is/ak34k

@cstross @tuban_muzuru
> The geopolitics of a solar-powered world will look rather different

That sounds like a very interesting question. Those desert dictatorships won't have the oil wealth, but they will still have lots of sunshine. So will big bits of the southern USA and Mexico. We may see energy-intensive industries relocating equatorwards. Or if better ways of shipping energy around get developed, maybe not.

#Georgia #gun #censorship #republicans

I wish I could retire this.

Please feel free to post it on any other social media, stick printed copies on lamp-posts etc.

@georgetakei This might be of interest.

BBC News - The Amache National Historic Site: How an abandoned confinement site became the newest US national park - BBC Travel
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240506-the-amache-national-historic-site-how-an-abandoned-prison-became-the-newest-us-national-park

@aral The fundamental problem here is that both these statements are true.

@archaeohistories At what point was a penis considered indecent, but a scrotum wasn't?

@cstross @JelliedHeals @ChrisMayLA6
There also seems to be a cultural thing going on. Senior doctors have repeatedly argued that junior doctors *have* to work those long hours to get enough experience. Seems like, because they had to do it to get qualified, they can't imagine that it wasn't necessary.

Inuit children invented their own system for writing numbers which makes arithmetic easier. Now its in Unicode.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/