Notices by Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)

Offshore wind industry faces uncertainty under Trump https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5310007/offshore-wind-trump-new-england-effects

Me, "repairing" my son's Switch Lite. I replace one part; break another.

I have dreams of being a "repair guy" and the technical skills of an enthusiastic bull in a solder shop.

#repair #rightToRepair #solarpunk

Check out these wild #illustrations by Henry A Clarke for #EdgarAllenPoe

Source: https://50watts.com/Harry-Clarke-Illustrations-for-E-A-Poe

#art

@ShaulaEvans Good luck! All the gardening experts I know tell me to just keep on experimenting, eventually it'll work out.

@june good album

@ShaulaEvans 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I put the seeds in a starter container. The tray is suspended inside the container so that water can drain and the air is trapped to retain moisture. Spritzing daily, and an LED plant lamp. That's what I have...but who knows, maybe Jupiter was ascendant and that's why.

"The trust that was already there in society is maintained by asking consent for an action that would break (tacit) social norms. Consent therefore functions as a trust maintainer, rather than as the fundament of trust."

O'Neill: "Informed consent, just like a ‘contract’ in contractarian–individualist approaches to trust, may take informal forms in practice but also more formal ones that are like signed ‘contracts’. This informed consent or ‘contract’, in O’Neills perspective, does not have a primary role in establishing or founding trust relationships; it is only used in situations in which people who already trust each other consider doing something that could potentially harm the trust between them."

"However this presupposes that we always have a choice with regard to our social relationships and that this choice is rational and voluntary and that we can also always retreat from relationships. This however exaggerates the rational nature of our relationships, according to Coeckelbergh, and he writes that: ‘Sometimes we trust in spite of good reasons not to trust, or sometimes we mistrust in spite of good reasons to trust’"

"Both approaches to trust are hard to combine, according to Coeckelbergh, as they start from different presuppositions regarding the nature of relationships. It is imaginable, of course, to take the social perspective as a starting point and to consider trust to be the default situation from which one deviates only when there is a problem, which demands a rational trust assessment and a kind of ‘contract’."

I'm reading an article on trust and data sharing in farm systems; found something really interesting.

There are (at least) two competing ways to approach trust.

One is a "contractarian-individualist" approach, which assumes that trust is created through rational arguments. Give people sufficient reason to trust, and they will.

The "social-phenomenological" approach says that trust isn't constructed but emerges from social/individual experience.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-020-09543-1

@futtta I'm experiencing this too.

We want to read more, we just don't, NPR/Ipsos poll finds https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5333652/books-reading-poll

@zerodogg @lavaeolus my wife adores powerwash simulator. I just discovered Ropaku's Idle Island and that's the definition of cozy.

Hey, people who participated in #HandsOff protests - what do you get out of it?

For me, it felt good to build up that sense of community.

#uspol

The signs at the #HandsOff protest in #Hartford were fantastic.

@coreysnipes @berryman It's Jessica Woulfe's "The Future is Bright"! https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.nibFZtqArBos3U_T9yFrlQHaDL%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=9982748c9298008aa13522ca9dc0875b5cb0ecace4d27d49eb442bb90571be9d&ipo=images

Good read.

"Digital agriculture will perpetuate injustice unless led from the grassroots"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01137-8.epdf?sharing_token=KDSwTFJ7FGxZSskudPGnI9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OsITUNQj1XEtevxSm8Uh7uyHnQFp9Mg-bVVW2_Yd7jdJu3B_6AzgfXnQ6Bp5VYH6W1JEfTbDfEozsLakas3sW4up8Y6t1yRzUT1hePKR-8e7lIe5kGutIhTk_Da1oc6Rk%3D

Y'all I discovered an idle game called "Ropuka's Idle Island" and it basically sets a little frog to cut grass on your desktop while you're working.

He's my little buddy, working on his yard. Occasionally he'll take a nap. It's delightful.

You can't turn back time.

I know this, because I can't change the dumb Steam account name that I came up with 20 years ago.