Fall of Civilizations

History with Cy

Historia Civilis

History Time (check out this one on the Amazon)

The Entire History of the Earth (super interesting and atmospheric broad geological history playlist)

The heavy weed smokers I know are all capable of taking breaks for things more trivial than the threat of serious jail time (ie taking a break to lower tolerance, taking a break while looking for a new job, etc).

My pebble watch only listens to me if I ask it to:)

It’s like if they wrote gta VI in notepad and Microsoft released it saying they made it… so not really different except they didn’t even let the author publish it first

ohno

(you should get a squatty potty)

They should use a vertical mouse at least!

Just to highlight the good actors too:

For one thing, Arctic announced a price rollback after securing its refund, saying this will continue until “every single dollar Arctic received […] has been paid back to our customers.”

Panic, maker of the Playdate handheld, has taken a bolder stance, offering refunds to those who bought its console and were charged extra for its tariffs. Company co-founder Cabel Sasser said last month, “It’s just not our money to keep.”

Ever watched The Platform?

If someone came up to me and said they were going to shoot one cat or two and if I didn’t choose one they would shoot three I still wouldn’t play their game. Don’t negotiate with terrorists or whatever.

I agree it’s impolite to photograph or take video of people without permission regardless of the rules where you live. It’s additionally impolite to post it online without getting permission first.

What expertise did they rely on to come to this particular set of limits?

I would have hoped the list would look more like

-Meta must divest entirely from the social media arm of their business

-Prosecutions for each decisionmaker who ignored internal evidence that their products were causing harms

When you find out are you allowed to care in retrospect?

You’re welcome! It stands out against its citation chasing peers by having no sign in necessary or freemium functions. This blog is a bit dated but it’s a librarian who’s been keeping a list of the citation chasing options incl. their database coverage and such.

Zotero is great! I love how many tools and integrations people have built for it. Inciteful (citation chaser) is a favorite. It lets you graph paper associations from a folder of related papers and then suggests related papers based on that. It’s designed to help people build bibliographies, but it also functions as an interesting way to visualize a paper’s impact and genealogy.

impressive indeed

And semi-trucks

I dream of a Bottom Up Logistics software that would enable us to thoughtfully connect and eventually scale grassroots resource sharing efforts. If Farmer Bertha had unsold crops she could list them. Communities in need of certain resources would indicate this. People could commit the use of their time, equipment, etc. The software would do the work of calculating efficient routes and assignments to get everything where it was needed.

My inspiration is the various pet rescue consortiums I’ve found in every city I’ve lived in. People crossing the country to pick up a single dog from rural alabama to bring it to a shelter in california. People pooling money to buy trucks specifically so volunteers can cart needy dogs around. They don’t use fancy logistics but they make it clear to me there’s a lot of uncaptured goodwill out there, and I think that given an organized way to engage, people would jump at the chance to participate in scaling a sharing economy based on empathy for our fellow creatures.

I do think individual (not species) inclination played a bigger role than people usually imagine. We frame evolution as kind of a mechanical inevitability when we teach it in schools (at least when I was taught) and this misses some important complexity.

It also misses an opportunity teach the species problem in biology which I find super intriguing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AHqvA4Is0Aw&t=2m14s