Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
spoonie whining, health -
@wigglytuffitout mood
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@m1st 2. certain voices seemed to come in obvious pairs with shared qualities, but which tended to settle into the opposite sides of a dialogue. so for instance, I have a system of six, which can be construed to some degree as three pairs: Kara / Chara, Mona / Alyx, Kel / Orpiment
bleh this is really Kara doing all the explaining, not me. we all get sloppy about using each other's accounts sometimes
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@m1st I can't speak for other systems but I sorted out some of my system dynamics by noticing a number of clues, such as:
1. certain personae or "voices" seemed to come more readily when my eyes were looking all the left; some when my eyes were shifted to the right. closing one eye or the other (or wearing a patch) helped sort things out further
@evie *offers pets*
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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color on classical sculpture (fascist mention) (boost of old toot with CW)
from @wintgenstein in https://radical.town/@wintgenstein/101136025379824969 on Nov 26, 2018
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very very important article on how classical (especially greek and roman) sculptures were not white marble that we think of but were in fact vividly painted. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0mx5kxyY0Saz7LKEsr8BZ9OTXXa4831G8d09GnZ9WZ3B3z-EgmJdIhfKk fascists HATE the movement to repaint and reconstruct sculptures because it flies against their viewpoint that the classical world was what we now know as white people. they are targetting classicists with harassment.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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I popped my ace unicorn up on redbubble! You can get it on all the stuff! Fancy! I re-did it digitally to make for cleaner prints (and to adjust one or two things)
https://www.redbubble.com/people/kathuman/works/39544304-ace-unicorn?asc=u …
#ace #asexual #unicorn #firealpaca #creativetoots #ersonalart #redbubble
@Shadejackrabbit I've thought of buying one still
more chemical accident fun!
oh this is an _amazing_ one. a leak is noticed trickling out of the insulation surrounding a large pipe through which hot hydrocarbons are flowing. the idea of shutting the unit down to work on it is raised, and immediately dropped. can't shut the process down, that'll just get us into trouble with management!
instead they start poking at the pipe with the idea of locating and patching the leak without stopping the flow
guess what happens
re: solarpunk...?
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe bluh
anyway, I'd LOVE to know if the solarpunk people have actually accounted for shit like this in their plans. or are they assuming the ready availability of equipment that's only readily available because of the very same hypercapitalistic, exploitative industries that they're purporting to want to replace?
solarpunk...?
here's the wikipedia page for the largest American solar panel manufacturer, "First Solar" (at least, largest American manufacturer according to one hasty Google search.) they use cadmium telluride instead of silicon, probably because silicon manufacture and distribution is heavily dependent on trade policy bullshit
mm-mm, cadmium telluride. it's what's for breakfast!
anyone wanna try to work with _that_ shit in their "solarpunk" utopia?
solarpunk...?
the big problem I have with "let's do solar everything" as an approach is that commercial solar cells are the products of a very dirty business, namely, corporate semiconductor manufacture
like, maybe that can be streamlined somehow, but right now, we have solar cells at all because of fantastically long and complex supply chains leading eventually back to China, because China has (a) the cheapest raw materials and (b) the most heavily exploited labor
@wigglytuffitout that's one of the maybe six achievements of computer science that people can still be legit proud of
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solarpunk...?
like, I gotta admit. I've got only the sketchiest notions about what this "solarpunk" business is supposed to be all about
like, I kinda get the general idea that it's about building an alternate sort of social and industrial base that makes maximum use of renewable sources of energy etc.
but "solarpunk" itself seems more like...I dunno, a brand, or a style, so I've kinda ignored it
@wigglytuffitout wow! can I have a taco pie at the baseball gridiron
YouTube algorithm complaining
@kelerak how can they _possibly_ work. they're probably not even meant to work, at least not as promised. like, I wouldn't be surprised if that "feature" gets proposed simply because it's _meant_ to be a hook for exploitation, and you can get people bidding for influence basically
YouTube algorithm complaining
@kelerak well I was just using that as an example. but when I put "Last Jedi" in YouTube search, ALL the top links are about how the movie's the worst ever, and one of them is three months old (most are more like a year)
YouTube algorithm complaining
@kelerak really tired of how this stuff comes up in recommendations, all the time. watch a few vids commenting on media and you'll start getting all the "45 minutes of some nerd ripping into The Last Jedi" stuff popping up. guess it's what's getting all the clicks
in _mesitylene_ as the solvent. didn't they at least TRY to use something else? again, I complain that in older _Organic Syntheses_ entries, they'd talk about how they tried to use more commonplace solvents but failed
