@clacke I'd never heard of What If. Thanks for the tip! Also for the critical review, I'm much keener to see the new Dr Strange now. I was quite disappointed by both The Eternals and No Way Home, the former having most of the failings of Justice League, and the latter, ironically, the failings of the Maguire and Garfield era Spiderman films. Loved Black Widow and Shang-Chi though, so hadn't given up on the MCU.
Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 3
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 12:54:53 UTC Strypey -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 04:56:34 UTC Strypey @allison683etc Eschewing algorithmic timelines protects us from the inherent manipulation of the datafarms, which is great. But do we miss out on the one positive aspect of the algorithms; helping people find accounts and posts they're more likely to be interested in. The biggest challenge for the 'verse seems to be creating tools for that kind of discovery, without inadvertently creating new vectors for harassment or abuse.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 05:53:51 UTC Strypey I've noticed some otherwise very smart people have developed an almost cult-like antipathy to blockchains. The closed loop logic looks like;
Them: blockchains are evil and wrong because use huge energy
Me: point to peer-reviewed evidence that different blockchains have wildly different energy usage and that usage per user or transaction actually drops off after a certain scale is reached
Them: blockchains use huge energy for no legitimate uses
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 06-May-2022 05:53:50 UTC Strypey Me: points out a couple of arguably legitimate uses
Them: these projects are bad for using a blockchain because huge energy use
Me: points to earlier post about energy usage.
Them: but that's still huge energy use for no legitimate uses
Etc etc
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 04-May-2022 13:03:33 UTC Strypey @ferris Please never say this 3 times while looking in a mirror ;)
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:32:02 UTC Strypey According to Bruce Lipton, when you fold enough skin together over millions of years, you get a brain.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:32:00 UTC Strypey @bsmall2
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Monday, 25-Apr-2022 10:31:59 UTC Strypey @bsmall2
BTW I notice you too are a veteran of Quitter.se π -
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 07-Apr-2022 01:07:11 UTC Strypey @clacke True, but we met up in person and I was all the way up in Jiangsu. Thought you and @Marc might like to know of another fedizen based in HK π
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 07-Apr-2022 01:04:09 UTC Strypey Welcome to the 'verse @Marc , I believe we may have interacted a bit over email a couple of years back about #OpenWords? Are you aquainted with @clacke ?
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Apr-2022 17:43:32 UTC Strypey @vicorva
> They don't have to be bad people to be mutedThis is a key point. I would add that it's OK to unmute or unblock people, just like it is to unfollow people.
I make a practice of periodically clearing my mute and block lists. Repeat offenders stay in the list, in theory. But so far not feeding the trolls has worked for me. In fact, sometimes I end up having good interactions with people I once muted.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Apr-2022 13:38:08 UTC Strypey @ericireland Such rose-tinted predictions are easy to make. I imagine similar ones were made for fossil fuels and plastics. There have indeed been some benefits realized, but it's now very clear that they're heavily outweighed by the costs. What makes you think genetic engineering will be any different?
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Apr-2022 13:38:06 UTC Strypey > I don't see any intrinsic risk with genetic engineering
There's a substantial literature about these risks, a sample of which is cited here:
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Apr-2022 11:13:51 UTC Strypey @Sandra
> I hate the patents aspect of GMO so much that I'll even throw out the GMO baby with the patent bathwaterGMOs are a solution in search of a problem. Most GMOs created so far do something undesirable, entrench herbicide use as you mentioned, produce endogenous pesticides (BT corn) etc. The rest do something that can done in less risky ways, like vitamin A rice, which entrenches monocrop rice production instead of interplanting of vitamin A rich herbs.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 31-Mar-2022 13:14:08 UTC Strypey @selea There's nothing we can do with GM that we can't do with selective breeding, except call a plant an "invention". So GM and patents are to plants what proprietary licensing and copyright are to software. The only reason to do either is to turn public goods into private property.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 07:25:49 UTC Strypey @hypolite
In your example, the Chinese had to make major changes to the way they communicated about and with the "capitalist" world, before they could participate in the post-WW2 world trade system. Without those changes, we would not have seen the cross-border business integration that then fed into the changes you mention in US attitudes towards China. I note that this qualified acceptance reverted to suspicion and sabre rattling within a one term presidency, with no major systemic change. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Mar-2022 07:24:10 UTC Strypey @hypolite
It occurs to me we may have fallen into a classic materialism vs. idealism dichotomy. Let me be clear, I'm not arguing that changing communication changes material (ie systemic) reality all by itself. Rather that improved communication can open up new possibilities for organizing to effect systemic change. These changes then open up new possibilities for communicating. At the macro scale, the two feed into each other. But communication is easiest to change at a human scale. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 11-Mar-2022 12:11:15 UTC Strypey @hypolite
I suspect the disconnect is in the ways we are defining "communication". When I wrote my original post I had in mind a very broad definition including all forms of media, broadcast and network, institutions like newsrooms etc. All the ways in which humans pass signals to each other to co-create meanings. But perhaps I confused things by giving examples specific to one-to-one or small group discussion (whether in-person or online)? -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 11-Mar-2022 12:11:13 UTC Strypey @hypolite
I agree that attempts to reform that narrow area in isolation from the rest of the communication landscape is unlikely to work. But it seems logical to me that the situation we're in was caused - at least in part - by the ways we've been communicating (or failing to) up to now. So I'm not sure why any other intervention would work if we attempted it by communicating only in those ways, without trying some new approaches. Does that make sense?