I finally remembered the perfect metaphor for modern western politics someone told me ages ago. The ‘work and shoot’ is what it was, or the cooler sounding; ‘worked shoot’, as in ‘fake fighting’, ‘friendly fighting’, or kayfabe (be fake).

My fun take on that trope is a tad more twisted; it’s a ’lesser worked shoot’, as in ‘photo and shoot’, or photo shoot, or just a photo, and maybe a shoot. I was told once before it’s more of a worked photo chute (ouch).

I don’t particularly write for an online audience, but netsurfers I speak a truth; short » long!

Yeah, obviously (duh), but the average estimated attention span online clocks in just under a goldfish (9 seconds) or maybe more! I’ve only fully realized this by happenstance in a sorta offline–ish short/long blog experiment, but it blows my mind because my ability to focus is typically 2~4 hours.

One of the best pizza making forums on the net is still;
https://www.pizzamaking.com

A lot of clothes dryers/tumblers have cheap threaded blower wheels that screw onto a motor shaft. Often, the wheel’s threads are stripped from constant thermal expansion. When hot enough (it’s delayed), there’ll be a loud noise of metal spinning inside metal. The motor could be dying too (running hotter than normal) since it has the stronger threads.

One temporary fix involves wrapping copper wire around the motor’s threads for friction… at least while trying to think of a more “permanent solution” that does not involve buying/hoarding perfectly shaped blower wheels indefinitely.

Tea is zen. Tea is life. Bidens alba.

Isn’t this a beautiful lithographic painting? (Don’t worry, I got permission from the relevant authorities to post this)

Maybe I’m dreaming.. but a stealthy trend of distorted words is afoot. Is that an ai defense/poisoning mechanism, innocuous misspellings/truncations or artifacts in generated content?

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So, I just realized that infinite scrolling is a two birds, one stone kinda thing. Basically; your servers do almost nothing, while the clients toil your complexity (and their time) on the server’s behalf.

It’s a bad all–you–can–eat buffet in computer algorithmic form. The rewards? Architectural flexibility + implicit user retention. I recently saw someone scrolling a YouTube channel all the way to the end just to find the first video. That’s the server’s job… and a lot of wasted user time.

Starlink has officially arrived in The Bahamas as Starlink Services Bahamas Limited. Finally there’s economic pressure for better Internet infrastructure! I do wonder though, how will they (the musketeers) approach the eventual over–subscription problem–on second thought–that’s wholly irrelevant because well… the bar is obscenely low.

Every satellite the techno–king (future emperor–suzerain?) launches is a fast moving death knell for our mostly unaware local ISPs. Isn’t the world rather boring in its predictability — I think so?

IPv6 > RSS. You know I’ve been thinking, there are some protocols/standards that are technically so simple and elegant that the simplicity itself becomes its achilles’ heel economically. Complexity/inefficiency/scarcity is economics after all or so the story goes.