SquirrelOnFire

It's not really a question of living, it's a question of prosperity (through a strictly capitalist lens).

Currently reading

Katabasis by RF Kuang - magicians from Oxford go to hell on purpose

And, meatier

The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

Just hire a dang artist or (gasp) take a few hours to learn to make something.

There's no ethical way to use AI art, it's all based on theft.

KEXP is a local (and beloved) station for me. WIll have to give some of these others a listen if they're doing similar things.

You've got to find the rare radio stations with public support and human djs. kexp.org is a great one based out of Seattle with a wild variety of shows and decades of history. Are all the shows to my taste? No. Have I ever heard something being played that was total crap? Honestly, maybe? Because there's genres I don't know enough to gaugue quality, but I haven't twigged to it.

"Hey, the whole team is getting together for an all hands next week and I'd like you to join..."

Giant miscanthus can grow on land that's not viable for farming food (other than grazing grasses), has a lot of properties that ready it for becoming charcoal (high tonnage per acre, self drying, minimal inputs needed). Without a price for carbon, it's hard to make it work, though.

Why's that, given that files are encrypted?

Speed of development of something important isn't necessarily good. Humans are bad at absorbing a lot of change at once and it takes time to recognize and mitigate second-order effects. There's plenty of benefit to the systems that disruptors operate within (society) to not moving as fast as possible... of course since our economic systems don't factor in externalities, we've instead turned all of society into a commons.

30 million people in the US are affected by "rare" genetic conditions.

"Locked doors only stop honest people" -Abe Lincoln

Up to 1/2 inch thickness... Great. Just need to 4x that to replace 2x4s, the construction material that the entire US home building process is built around.

But looks like it's ready to go for some applications (plywood). Hopefully they can get it thicker and replace more dimensional lumber. Or maybe I'm reading their site wrong?

While it felt awkward at first, I've been intentionally trying to befriend my neighbors. I've managed it with one couple and am working on a second. Tech helps reduce the barriers between distant friends, but we're wired to value eye contact and physical contact.