British Columbians will no longer be given single-use plastic cutlery and bags. Finally. But there’s a LOT more plastic packaging to regulate or ban, and I hope Canada and BC get on with it sooner than… (checks notes) 2030 and beyond.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Hyperloop One is shutting down, of course. Did anybody actually believe this? Despite, you know, stupid or corrupt politicians? Remember it was Elon Musk’s scam to kill public transit projects.
Heh, this “mathematical fallacy” is a clever bit of misdirection. Fun!
Don’t be fooled by these cute little birds. They will steal your lunch in a heartbeat.
I keep hearing about “living dungeons” being great #TTRPG adventure locations, but I didn’t really see the point until I learned about the Japanese water scavenger beetle. This sounds absolutely great. Especially this kicker:
Speed is “imperative to success,” report the authors. If the beetles are in any way delayed, digestive juices will kill them.
The view up here is ridiculously pretty. A river of clouds is leisurely drifting by below us.
Hello! Are you having a good day? No fluffy boy today but a nice change of scenery!
The greatest trick the devil played in the 21st century was make tech bros believe that content moderation was censorship.
The Olde Internet
Joan Westenberg misses the internet:
The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much less – and somehow so much more – complicated.
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The one that existed before terms of service. The one that existed before social graphs. The one where being a User meant having a degree of respect, not being treated like a retention/churn statistic.
I Miss The Internet
The article goes into a lot more aspects of the internet that changed over the last two or three decades, but that part made me think about something else I read recently:
I’ve been thinking about online vs real-life communities, and how in the real-world, there are many aspects that separate individuals, but also groups apart from each other. And yet, I’d estimate that most people feel more connection to people in the real world than on any online community.
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We’ve gone from having small local communities, to what can feel like at times, having the entire world in your living room.
Small Communities
Sure, those who jumped onto the social media bandwagons, from MySpace onwards, did face all the problems created with algorithms and engagement metrics and millions of people online on the same website. But that “older” internet didn’t go away. Small communities didn’t go away.
The Canadian transition to EVs is going to be fun, given this emerging hot-potato game of “who will build the charging infrastructure?” I just hope the federal government cracks down on proprietary chargers, special apps, and other nonsense the car industry will be tempted to do.