Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

@Anomalocaris42 You only need a euphemism for something if that something has become offensive to say. That's the treadmill. If the euphemism is for something people are going to want to denigrate, the new euphemism eventually becomes the new slur.

I guess the euphemism treadmill (new sense) hit the euphemism treadmill (old sense).

:nes_fire: OUT NOW :nes_fire: my new book "What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion", with Federico Antonini's melancholic design.

Get it here: https://setmargins.press/books/what-design-cant-do/

Thanks to all of you who pre-ordered it. Hang in there, your copy is on its way.

#design #disillusion

When I was growing up and heard Melodie MC on the radio, I had no idea he wasn't from the US. Even now, I can't really trace the accent until he goes "gimme a suggestion".

sø-jest-yøn

Melodie MC, Sundvall's proudest synth hip hopper, "Dum Da Dum":

youtube.com/watch?v=mqpl2NnWHn…

If you are sad that the term #enshittification has escaped the lab and is now used to mean everything and nothing, try the term #reintermediation and see if it captures it better and is more resilient to mutation.

It's boring and it's already a financial term that banks unashamedly think is a good thing, but I don't think #ReUnDisintermediation stands a chance, even if I'd like it to.

Maybe #CaptiveReintermediation retains more of that sinister tone.

There is a sign above the office pantry sink:

"Wash Your Own Utensils

Please wash your mugs and utensils after use.

The unwashed will be placed in a bucket."

I find "The unwashed will be placed in a bucket" hilarious, and it makes me think of the French Revolution, both the "Unwashed Masses" and the equally unwashed but perfumed, who actually ended up in buckets (baskets).

The more people who understand that mathematical notation is an agreed-upon convention that isn't set in stone and doesn't follow from the intrinsic nature of mathematics, rather it is agreed-upon differently across the world, sometimes within one university, the sooner we can calm down certain internet threads.

Implied multiplication by juxtaposition: Same priority as explicit multiplication, or higher? There is no old and new. There is no general consensus. TI-83 calculators follow the former, TI-82 calculators the latter, both with the rationale that that's how most users of their calculators would interpret it, presumably in the US.

"I have from time to time tried to find evidence as to what rule has been taught when, and to the best of my knowledge, it has always been somewhat mixed, to the extent it has been taught at all. [ . . . ] We have heard from parents who think that each approach is what they learned long ago.

I don’t think there is any “new math” vs “old math” on this topic. There is, instead, variation."

themathdoctors.org/implied-mul…

#ImpliedMultiplication

The idea of reshoring high-tech manufacturing isn't bad but it has to be done in a coherent and strategic way. Here is where Apple components are currently made. This is not coming back to the US overnight and probably not ever

@reiver @silverpill What is the social reason then? (I didn't follow the public announcements coming from BSKY) So just asking if you can share this info.

Finished Season 7 of Fear the Walking Dead. I did not love it.

Sesson 8 is interesting so far from a world perspective, but the character development is super weird, and the arc is like a cliché D&D campaign.

@desantis @tortie

> Happily there's a new remake coming that does understand Heinlein.

@mdhughes Yes, I heard! It was in the sensible comments of the thread I was complaining about. 🤣

Really looking forward to Blomkamp's take. If it's genuinely good, maybe it'll make me read the book. 😁