Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

I believe that if we want SI units to happen in the US, we need to use them (with conversions as necessary), but also, this is true. https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110733195680813087

Avoiding thinking by mapping: an easy, sustainable mental health strategy.

Drafting and then deleting a talk page argument for why Wikipedia’s eucalypt articles are slightly mis-organized.

@migurski 💰💼🤠💨

@grantimatter Truly you seem like a blogger out of time, in the best way: neither old-fashioned nor futuristic, but a disciple of some slightly different creed of which “blogging” is only the best translation in this dimension.

@llimllib Ooo! How did I miss this? Do you do RSS/anything?

Toying with the idea of a linkblog – just web links with 0–3 paragraphs of commentary. Unsure what form this would take. Also not sure I would have the time to keep it going if I got a regular job again. Open to takes.

@kgjenkins oh buddy

@sgillies We’re at something like 150% the mean water year here. Really hoping it doesn’t mean what it seems like it might mean for the fire season.

@mwichary I’m sure you know this classic: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxhp0000532

@mendel “Something people don’t talk about enough is that the planet’s dry surface is basically flat. Most business there is happening on one level, effectively in a single plane. But the ocean is 3D. McKinsey predicts massive growth in immersive technology in the coming decade, and there are more than 1e18 m² of volume – that’s 3D volume – in the ocean, all of it potentially immersive. So the amount of room for business in the ocean is literally off this chart I made.”

@mendel “Oh, you want to know what the total addressable market for my business is? Great question. Let me answer it with a question of my own: Got a map handy? And the number of a good crime scene cleanup service? Because I’m about to blow. Your. Mind.” And then we cut to a reverse shot of a VC making lovey eyes.

@mwichary In about November 1999, I was in the V&A looking at the cast of the inscription of Trajan’s Column when a lot of students appeared around me and started discussing it. I introduced myself, and it turned out It was a typography class from the University of Reading. One of the professors was very excited that they had just been assigned an e-mail address that they could give me. Then for five minutes everyone tried to remember how to write an @. I think of this every time I see a good @.

It’s such a classic MBA-and-no-sense thing for an exec to say. It’s beautiful. It’s ten thousand times more damning than “One former employee said he seemed to ‘drink a lot of his own Kool-Aid’” or whatever. It’s the perfect quote. Sometimes doing things experts disagree with works, but the guy who’s like “Did you know Einstein failed math?” is going to cause more harm than a supervillain could.

The bit where the guy in charge repeats a factoid this thin as if it’s persuasive and illuminating, because he thinks it’s his vision that matters more than his money, is something that I think most reasonably experienced tech workers would recognize as an even bigger red flag than the parts where he’s like “And now I will use unrated equipment in a safety-of-life application against the strong objections of experts!”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

@merrysky Yo, I’m seeing big discontinuities in my forecast (in this case, late on Sunday), presumably from models not matching up. Is this expected?

Trying to replace it and finding only two options:

1. Dr Nourishment’s health gel with SkinCling paste-forming technology, glycerol, wood glue, palm oil, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B7, vitamin B9, vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, textured vegetable protein, plaster, hagfish slime, extra vitamin B2, and The Deserving Pore® skin-clogging microplastics.

2. Killshot Man Violence, the Body Thrashing Exit Wound Sterilizer.