Notices by Graydon (graydon@canada.masto.host)

People post pointers to massively comprehensive studies finding no connection between vaccines and autism. This is not so much missing the point as a failure of comprehension.

What the right wants is social approval—incessant, slathering approval—for torturing their children into normalcy. (Or, failing normalcy, for murdering them.) The objection to autism is not an objection to the brain chemistry; it's an objection to the idea that you don't have to make people normal by any and all means.

@notclacke https://thorium.rocks/ may or may not be sufficiently degoogled for your purposes.

It might be worth trying https://floorp.app/en-US which is a Firefox fork. It doesn't have tab groups but it does have workspaces, containers, and tab trees.

@clacke Well, bother. (I hadn't noticed!)

degoogled-chromium seems to be very up to date?

@clacke Frequency = wavelength = energy; low frequency stuff is inherently low energy, and ionizing is functionally "enough energy to rip the electrons off".

If there were enough leakage to rip the electrons off, you could see it at night as charges balanced. (Plus it would be a source of transmission loss and lots of effort would go into preventing it.)

@futurebird @funnymonkey Protest works at all because it's a combination of warning and proof; "We're mad, and there are an awful lot of us". The implication is one of bad consequences for the persons whose conduct provoked the protest, with the deal since WWII being "treat this seriously and no one needs to die artistically".

The deal has broken down, so there's this massive public focus on non-violence (from the protesting side; protestors are regularly murdered) so protest can be ignored.

@eliterrell @cstross @arstechnica People tend to forget that solar PV the semiconductor tech is not the only way to do it; the organic polymer "cooling film" approach, where you cut your aircon costs by letting less sunlight in windows, is single-digit efficient or so in the lab, but it's headed at (in the cooling scenario) negative costs and in the non-cooling scenario at "you were going to paint that anyway".

For energy, "sufficiently concentrated" is a new way to think. It's not done yet.

@daz @aral fascism isn't the natural end result of democracy. It's the natural end result of capitalism.

@WarnerCrocker @glook I'm not sure why matters at all, compared to what.

I'd agree that the degree and type of faith varies, including a bunch of people who want the primate band status and don't care about the means. I'd also point out that the folks on the supreme court are notionally reasoning from divine kingship rationalizations, so there's going to be feedback that rewards the theological justifications.

(The universe doesn't have a moral arc. Its contents are subject to selection.)

@glook @WarnerCrocker There's been a two generation effort to replace the basis of legitimacy. (Out with constitutionality, in with theocracy.)

What we're seeing is most of the state aparat (at least the armed parts) moving to being open about constructing legitimacy based on theocracy.

Since it's a white-supremacist theology that (necessarily) does community by exclusion (no civil anything!), it's a divine imperative to remove non-white people from the United States by any means.

@clacke Used to be it was pretty reliable about keeping a track with the major caveat that there's a thicket of Android battery saving overrides that really really really want to turn anything that isn't Google Maps off. One can avoid those but it will probably take a few tries to find them all.

@clacke I would be a titch cautious that people who are not understood to be you by OSMAnd+ can access the URL, but yeah.

@clacke When you click download, your default option is "Save as new track"; that's the shareable thing.

From this I can deduce that this is not a primary use case and there's an expectation you generally don't want to remember your route, but it's there.

@clacke I am pretty sure you can save a named route whether or not you've walked it.

So... Pick your start points and end points and set up the route.

In the top row of icons about profiles, the leftmost thing is a caret; it's pointing up. tap it, and it points down and you get the route with more information including an elevation graphic.

Under that graphic is "Details"; click that.

You now have all the details; in the top right there's print-download-share icons.

@clacke If you have tracks turned on (which it is NOT by default), you should have a tracks bucket under My Places and you can export those. (It's been some while since I've done this, but it was there a decade or so ago, so I'd suppose it may still be there.)

@cstross I think that's certainly an LLM hazard.

The core hazard as I see it is not a single specific "this is a bad idea" but that the LLM push is a continuation of the American imperial value extractor built around IP controls. No amount of negative consequences to other people will cause or permit not using LLMs. They're going to get made compulsory unless or until there's a collapse of the empire or they somehow start having intolerable costs to Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

@bsdphk @cstross No feedback involving a tax is useful until the general problem of making corporates pay taxes has been solved.

My general take on this is that the limited liability corporation is a tool of conquest and should be abolished as part of the alterations to the social machinery acknowledging we live on a finite planet and need to close all the loops to keep the "live" part functional and factual.

(It's also the case that it's not clear ANY 3ʳᵈ party data retention is legitimate.)

Having a reserve currency is younger than the Great War.

(reserve currency = the ratio of ~gold to economic activity is unworkable for a metallic currency, but we have to use something as a reference.)

Lots of the current value of USD arises from its position as the global reserve currency. Losing the position involves losing that value, and it's unrecoverable, arising as it does from a history of conduct.

A disorderly loss of reserve currency status shall be a new thing in the world.

@cstross A sound plan, especially as the implied wind speed is nigh-guaranteed to put precipitation right up one's nasal passages.

(Just out of a couple-three days of extreme cold warnings hereabouts; the text included the observation that it hasn't been the cold in several years, please take this seriously, and I kept wanting to go "yeah, yeah, I remember what cold is like" at the hypothetical meteorologist who wrote the warning. I imagine it hits very different when you DON'T remember.)

@cstross @alessandro one consequence of "natural scale is global" is that no one has even the theory of a control mechanism.

The folks with the billions, just like they are intensely aware of what climate change is doing (if they want to get the real data they can), are intensely aware that they don't know what's going on. It frightens them for materially well-supported reasons.

@alessandro @cstross Today the very rich are determined to exalt themselves free of any need for their fellows to rule without constraint.

It won't work; it is not able to work. But they are determined to have their selfish god and be told that all their sins are virtues.

"All my sins are virtues" is relatively cheap in blood when it starts; you could have changed history, and thus our present, with 20 deaths in the 70s. Restoring a policy of facts will be more expensive than that today.