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BarrenPlanet, to random

So I've just set up an account on calckey.social, and will shortly be migrating my followers from Masto. Devs will soon be adding the functionality to import content archives, making the process of migrating from Masto - while still being able to use it from your Calckey account! - seamless. Thank you to @atomicpoet for being such an effective evangelist for Calckey. It's looking super-slick so far, even only using the web app on a phone.

BarrenPlanet,

@thoralf @atomicpoet Well, it's a little slow, but works remarkably well otherwise, and is intuitive as well (to me at least).

And a phone app is on the way! 😁

BarrenPlanet, to random

Hey there, just trying out Calckey. I'm @BarrenPlanet and @Barrenplanet , interests in bio.

BarrenPlanet,

@BarrenPlanet Hey, it works! 😆

seldo, to random

Sometimes biographies of historical women are just lists of things their husbands did and it's deeply disappointing how often that happens.

BarrenPlanet,

@seldo Sometimes biographies of historical men are just lists of things their wives did and it's deeply disappointing how often that happens, too.

DataDrivenMD, to random

Folks still on Twitter: But what if a Mastodon admin reads our DMs?!

Twitter: we can read your DMs right now and you'd never know, and we have no plans to effectively change that any time soon

Folks still on Twitter:

This Is Fine GIF

BarrenPlanet,

@DataDrivenMD ....and Twitter's actual business model is to mine your private data for keywords that can be use to market stuff to you.

This is your brain on capitalism... 🙄

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Some people have seemed confused about what my Low Quality Facts account is, so I made this graph to help you all understand it.

BarrenPlanet,

@lowqualityfacts Makes perfect sense.

Are0h, to random

I'm going to repeat this so it's clear.

If the fedi fractures around the ideological lines of safety vs. unsustainable growth, I'm okay with that.

I am very comfortable with being part of the fedi that actually gives a shit about people rather than treating them as product.

I have no interest in repeating the same mistakes and creating decentralized rage engines.

I believe this space can be better.

BarrenPlanet,

@Are0h I agree with every word of this, and applaud your efforts.

OutOnTheMoors, to random
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BarrenPlanet,

@OutOnTheMoors I laughed way too hard at this. 😆

The_BookishWolf, to books

Go on, give me your best!

When I wake up,the other side of the bed is cold and then the Dragons arrived.

@bookstodon

BarrenPlanet,

@The_BookishWolf @bookstodon On they went, singing "Eternal Memory," and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing. And then the dragons arrived.

  • Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
Richard_Littler, to random
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I think it's time we had a revised and updated reprinting of Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds to take into consideration all of this (gestures at everything).

BarrenPlanet,

@Richard_Littler Yeah that book changed me, particularly my understanding of how markets work. When I read it in my early 20s, I was heading along the road of getting into macroeconomics, and it was my inability to square the insights contained within it, with mainstream econ, that started me along a different path of largely rejecting the idea that markets or the individual actors that comprise them are - or even can be - "rational".

jeffjarvis, to random
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Quite a leap here from biased pulse oximeters to the annihilation of all mankind...
AI poses existential threat and risk to health of millions, experts warn https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/10/ai-poses-existential-threat-and-risk-to-health-of-millions-experts-warn?CMP=share_btn_tw

BarrenPlanet,

@jeffjarvis Ah damn it, I saw an expert tearing this article apart earlier but didn't bookmark it. I've bookmarked your toot though, so will throw a link your way if I see it again.

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

I think I have some idea for my game now, if you have better ideas please!

Okay so the idea is to get from the start point to the magic tree at the 'end of the map'.

But to get there you need to battle scary monsters that are super strong (like in Dark Souls and Elden Ring) and ofc you gotta complete some quests along the way!

There are 3 main ways to get to the end point so you can always chose what you want to do!

The total map is 83 x 83 square kilometers if im correct :blobcatgiggle:

BarrenPlanet,

@stux I've long had a concept for a game I lack the skills to create: you get to choose various deserted real-world cities, and your job is to creatively destroy them. The more damage you can cause in any single event, the more points you get. The devastation would be accurately modelled using realistic physics. And of course things like explosives, as well as excavators, planes and other vehicles would be littered around for you to steal, GTA-style.

Feel free to steal my idea!

BarrenPlanet,

@stux Yeah! But in my idea, the fun consists in finding all the little tricks hidden in the game, for causing maximum destruction for minimum effort - thus accumulating the largest amounts of points. So maybe there's a giant, majestic bridge, and taking out one vital, supporting strut, then waiting a few minutes for gravity to do its thing, will eventually bring the whole goddamn thing slowly and satisfyingly crashing down.

It could be multiplayer too, to add a competitive element.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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    BarrenPlanet,

    @Adam_Cadmon1 I would love someone to write horror in which everyone makes the best decisions, given what they know at each plot juncture, and things still unravel for them. It would after all be more unsettling to feel that even solid decisions might be useless. I barely watch horror movies, especially American ones, because they're all mostly punitive morality tales in which naivete, rather than optimally smart behaviour, has terrible consequences.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @moliver @Adam_Cadmon1 I enjoyed Aliens because they systematically killed off all the heroes, other than Ripley, who herself only triumphed because she went for the (very literal!) nuclear option, and destroyed absolutely everything, all other consequences be damned so long as the threat was eliminated. Watching it for the first time was an exhilarating ride! Whew! 😆

    BarrenPlanet,

    @moliver @Adam_Cadmon1 🤣

    davidslifka, to spreadmastodon

    I'm very concerned about this seven-month graph of Mastodon's MAU, for the sake of both Mastodon and the fediverse.

    To be honest, I don't love any of my current ideas for changing this picture.

    I'd be grateful for anyone sharing their own ideas that could move the needle on growing the fediverse (i.e. Mastodon and/or other platforms). @spreadmastodon

    Data from https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/8TmIxgfFMBQ9h4maRV79wdiEwlu-37v3gRfTKUFDwEM/

    BarrenPlanet,

    @supernovae @maegul @ShekinahCanCook @alessandro @davidslifka @spreadmastodon Tusky removed the federated feed last December and I only noticed last week that it's been replaced with DMs. Federated is an absolute bin fire of stuff I don't want or need to see, and local isn't much better on a large instance such as this one.

    unclepj, to random
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    Us: Make better products!
    Phone Companies: Sure.
    Computer Companies: Ok.
    Printer Companies: Hey, I have an idea. How about you go fuck yourself?

    BarrenPlanet,

    @JackDeeth @unclepj Lovely answer, thanks. But precision engineering exists elsewhere outside of office spaces, so what excuse do printer companies have - other than market monopolies (see: Xerox) and lack of competition - for not making equipment that consistently does the job it's designed to do?

    futurebird, to random
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    A lot of people don't know the difference between capitalism and ... having markets and shopping and little coops and companies in non-super-essential economic sectors that operate independently.

    Markets existed before capitalism and will exist after.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @mnemonicoverload @comebackkid44723 @futurebird The answer to your final question is a firm "no", of course. But that only leads me to despair, and the suspicion that there may be no solution to this problem, because this is a relatively tiny island nation. Short of converting all our land for agriculture - which itself will cause untold destruction to natural ecology, with unpredictable consequences - I don't really understand how we can become fully self-sufficient.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jrconlin @futurebird @comebackkid44723 I respectfully disagree with your analysis, for several reasons, but am bored of trying to have every debate simultaneously, so I'll just raise one objection: we're not small, relatively isolated communities these days. It's not about exchanging a cow for a crop of wheat with a neighbouring group, anymore. There are 66 - 68 million people here in the UK, with globalized interdependency. Barter just ain't going to cut it.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jebba @futurebird @comebackkid44723 There's a stark difference between how I wish society would work, and what I can understand to be "scalable", given that we're talking about nations of millions, tens or even hundreds of millions, in which nothing much more complicated than a spanner relies on multinational supply chains. Nations that can't compete on the global stage get invaded and whatever resources they may have, stolen from them. Simply taken by force. Brutally.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jebba @futurebird @comebackkid44723 Yeah, the former head of the World Bank, Joe Stiglitz, went rogue and wrote a brilliant book about it called Globalization and Its Discontents. If only those countries knew they didn't have to peg their currencies to a real resource. Both America and Britain figured this out, which is why Nixon abolished the Bretton-Woods (Gold Standard) in '71.

    Now we can further tyrannise over developing nations with debt slavery. See also: Graeber.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jrconlin @comebackkid44723 @futurebird My original point is being lost here. Most of England outside the metropolitan centres is farmland, plant or animal agriculture. Yet we still have to import most of our food and haven't been able to feed our own population since the 19th century. How would accounting reliably be done for importing our food without a unit of account - a national currency? No anarchist has ever explained this to me, they dodge the question.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jrconlin @comebackkid44723 @futurebird When any anarchist can explain to me how international trade - and complex international supply chains in all manufacturing - can work for a tiny island nation, low in natural resources and heavily dependent on imports, without there being a standard unit of account across all sectors, i.e, a national currency - and therefore also a state and central bank - then I'll become an anarchist.

    BarrenPlanet,

    @jrconlin @comebackkid44723 @futurebird Meantime, while everyone's squabbling over their various assemblies and federations of assemblies and federations of federations of assemblies, millions in my country starve because there's not enough food to go around, and no-one can reach a unilateral decision on what to buy imported goods with. What's 100kg of rice worth? What does China want for these tech components? We've got...sheep? No, sterling.

    They want sterling

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