2026-10-23T14:38:15Z https://nostr.now Daniel Lakeland https://nostr.now/npub1fnejmanw24sxweer9t5ncla5v5ekdf6mvtwnjmkm7em6vxjnxf6swp87ll https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/496/030/942/372/924/original/44989930328520d2.jpg https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/496/030/942/372/924/original/44989930328520d2.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr4e5m5dwsta7eum5udcrp2pc8p3fqajpst3ch90mwtt886k9q0pczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve826tng4x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2yl23cct44cyzm4s7p8zmwx9actpyqdss7qpjwwmeeleqplffehc8vs9j3'>nevent1q…s9j3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think when teaching statistics, the first place to start is with a set of experiments you are going to run. Literal physical experiments. For example you could drop little paper helicopters with a paperclip and measure their flight time. You could drop balls of crumpled paper and measure their drop time. You could roll balls down ramps and measure the rolling time. You could measure the time to drain a funnel with different types of cooking oil, at different temperatures. 2026-10-31T01:38:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2yl23cct44cyzm4s7p8zmwx9actpyqdss7qpjwwmeeleqplffehczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82g885v7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8m49q6lzrc2cgs9x972e5d2c3w2zs4qk0du7u4m3s7685rd44stq7tw63n'>nevent1q…w63n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also I am firmly of the belief noone should learn frequentist statistics first. this is critical because it will absolutely damage your ability to do statistics if you do. 2026-10-31T01:22:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8m49q6lzrc2cgs9x972e5d2c3w2zs4qk0du7u4m3s7685rd44stqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82x3l4az In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfmxaz7ve9625csz3r9hl6q0779l4l7lcrddc3w6zwedy0qp0ucrc2nw7et'>nevent1q…w7et</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s more about words you use to describe a scientific thing, and then converting those words to equations and incorporating uncertainty... and thats more words less theorems and equations. 2026-10-31T01:17:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfmxaz7ve9625csz3r9hl6q0779l4l7lcrddc3w6zwedy0qp0ucrczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8269a60l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvd3g8ct5slpynke5g7l48h0p6nc2r09qd4u7hs7ukgprdj0txxvcpx8qfk'>nevent1q…8qfk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>we should video chat probably because I have lots of thoughts on this... <br/><br/>At one level I want to say: perhaps Probability Theory The Logic of Science is really where everyone should start.<br/><br/>But from a practical perspective Statistical Rethinking by McElreath is what you get when McElreath reads PTTLOS and tries to teach that... so maybe start there...<br/><br/>Stats is not really a math course, and the most important components of statistics are really building models 2026-10-31T01:17:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgxq3e8a8kw2ds0ayg2uz8uw962l46nxu4hsschgk09rmjjgzrvqszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82z5gaz4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9sm58ehe68hvxa66s6qppyra5a6sctu9hyw7gpu9ckrxhz6urursnwtamv'>nevent1q…tamv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of my first jobs was working on a &#34;market impact&#34; model, where we would estimate a change in price caused by placing orders of various sizes. <br/><br/>Its much easier to just do deals bartering with the stock itself or use it to collateralize loans than actually try to raise money by selling stock, because as you say you can&#39;t sell any significant fraction of the market cap. <br/><br/>This whole rigamarole is destroying society and economists stand by<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub147syvgx5xehw74r6yllu44lf4v8z9nvv9e4c4u2yngr5ungqk88qduk9k3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Weltzeitgeist</span> (<span class="italic">npub147s…k9k3</span>)</a></span> [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) 2026-10-30T13:32:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs82mgye8val5yvskr7h6w8mk73088nzd6elnsn2ds2u5gsev3clcszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82z47gpv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfypslup703snhk6vs7fgk8jpe7dm8fm3ka7y4dpvtxdssams92vqsq859j'>nevent1q…859j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve got a kid who is starting to get his eyes opened to many things, and sees computer science as an interesting thing to study separately from the constant push to &#34;learn to code&#34;. A part of me wants to walk through some of SICP with him using the Hoot based IDE. 2026-10-28T19:47:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw5q6yln7yvf5frj98huqkrdz2clvav8dt6njdjayrzpfcwlfsh6szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve828nlyld Thanks to <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1urx3t48an3pv2vh37akfaks6ty5aujgslfccaa2g4egmam4c2czqg3v0z4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Christine Lemmer-Webber</span> (<span class="italic">npub1urx…v0z4</span>)</a></span> and the various people on the <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zcxkr6hwr84etfg8y98jgeewgzypsjf965cj4mntqendph4udluqsmp5f0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>The Spritely Institute</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zcx…p5f0</span>)</a></span> office hours call. I learned that there is a beautiful rebel alliance of ragtag groups of old school computer hackers who are trying to make the world a better place. 2026-10-28T19:38:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgzwm6lcrryst4a4gl0r5krq9msq0j3fx44kecsxqhvgwl08deu6czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82yfkhms In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx3f68vazvy076jylcl639735uux8jdne6tkywgz35vpaplaqptts3g7v6h'>nevent1q…7v6h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Even though I&#39;d like to see a statement banning LLM contributions more generally even if the copyright issue is resolved, I&#39;ll take this ban as sufficient for the moment. If this ban can hold for a year or so, we&#39;ll likely see the financial AIpocalypse and it will be easier to get a more principled policy. Meanwhile I can start working on switching my laptop. 2026-10-26T20:33:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2v0s990s8y7gw8y2n2c55mhwpfqkg9wp0wnvzrm3ej7xzhclek0szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82upt8lk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf6nep9d59zm3chp2pdzkecs6dvzas9kkyapkqq4h79znmdevzfrq6kzwpu'>nevent1q…zwpu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>😮‍💨 2026-10-24T21:07:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf6v2pstc73ql60y6dzc6f7y4tu0zfpknyazydsmn52vj3xy6y00qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82v50yj2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv6hnvvttvujf6n6lxmq8mcczgdvgdwv8j0fk9zv72xqrtw8zee7q3dveh4'>nevent1q…veh4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;<br/>When the faculty of arts and social sciences at Sydney University conducted an internal survey, zero percent of staff – yes, zero – in one school agreed with the statement: “I trust the University of Sydney to act in the best interests of staff, students and the broader community.”<br/>&#34; 2026-10-24T20:57:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv6hnvvttvujf6n6lxmq8mcczgdvgdwv8j0fk9zv72xqrtw8zee7qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82xrm3sr <a href="https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988">https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988</a><br/><br/>I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say &#34;surely it can&#39;t be that bad&#34; even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they&#39;d know more than I would I guess. Yikes! 2026-10-24T20:51:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw38dr38wdfnjykw24rqkachhscg7tzzqh9zr65eqqsr4z203dskgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8255rpk5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2mnjc5q6jztnrmqtu9fwrnn209m6p4ue7nmzvq743s3lzw7qcdcxdnmsx'>nevent1q…nmsx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, you probably already activated it... but I dont think its a great idea to publicly post those numbers? just a thought. 2026-10-23T13:43:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfh2wh288mg7d05em972qende7dpk0kczdmzzfa0qx8cyrwwa8c7gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve824ercca In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrq3fphfs96xeuxyrj3g8vkygttcv74xhdrn0lkrnpzyrepn78a9q2ljsc0'>nevent1q…jsc0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It sounds particularly dire. unconditional remote code execution. Basically a shell for whoever asks for it? <br/><br/>I&#39;m wondering how this patch is gonna roll out. Ive got a Debian stable server. i assume the security patch repo will have it, but how long from release to Debian package, and how are the mirror sites gonna hold up for the .deb download? Tens of millions of servers are gonna try to update at once I assume. 2026-10-21T13:10:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfwa4yy92xwpkmzv3z929u7wc8zp9rm6g3zddzen4vj8gae52uy3qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve823t05au shut down apache on my home Nextcloud until PHP can be updated. yuck. <br/><br/>The internet is just warfare now. 2026-10-21T12:50:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0z46calmv9alls9sgmkz6c5qfstxk02qz5jkemxkgygspgfjg3vgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82fjaufg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv5h5yj6alfjnfjruh7vv5jgga9xma7n5x72x6y2qqxa3phqt8racaff3vd'>nevent1q…f3vd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My son is in a HS govt class and the teacher has a summary of the chapters of a text book the district doesn&#39;t even have... he&#39;s supposed to read the summaries and summarize the summaries... My jaw was like on the floor man... what fucking bullshit is this? 2026-10-20T20:22:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyhsysaalkryl2thlqfry7fxy8g6egda9ktwljf0h9j79m9l7am8szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82mtjeaa Dear mastodon leftists. Do you know of a one or two book recommendation which my kid could read to provide an overview of american government and its discontents which might conceivably qualify as an american government class for high school?<br/><br/>in other words he has to learn the usual govt class contents... how the branches work, what the process is to make a law, what the govt Depts are etc... while maybe not accepting the high school propaganda version of the story? and not a masters thesis 2026-10-20T19:11:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8382vw4cf70ajfvhjhe9pjlqmeyj2xhj50ts44vd3c8x6ultwfsqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82cj4vf8 So, #grapheneOS updated this afternoon and now the home screen is a 4x6 grid of icons and before it was not so crowded... 4x5 I guess? is there a way to adjust this? 2026-10-19T02:13:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszyu4ezvufthy8cwe093gzpn3qsxephqet7vxyas6rdnl94x6nc6gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82540k6h I&#39;m still looking for a way to have my #guix server host Yunohost without spending a half year debugging and enabling this.<br/><br/>virsh and virt-install are looking to be a plausible mechanism that could work now to get things off the ground. anyone used virsh and virt-manager successfully on #Guix ? how do you get the virtual machine to run by default at boot? 2026-10-18T20:05:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0g2ycser95q6hz9qprs0z5e40pq4yse9yptumlcc26lm2ucfaaqqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82h2ykng In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqwlzhgwr9agnxn9hwurp4v374jqj5pr8trr67xck0g8gpjtxaq0gvj3d8f'>nevent1q…3d8f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Elon Musk can &#34;own&#34; some gigafactory in Arizona or a launch pad in SoCal *only* because a state exists to enforce his title on his behalf. That is, because the violence of the state is *a service provided to him* as an owner of a title to land and machines. The state&#39;s purpose is to provide violence to rich people to maintain their control. That&#39;s what it does. 2026-10-18T16:22:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqwlzhgwr9agnxn9hwurp4v374jqj5pr8trr67xck0g8gpjtxaq0gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82544jqj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz7x4vqczc2nx2xvxska8p04umdu2h00h0yk6lypl6vuurmw95x6gyumr29'>nevent1q…mr29</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We can SEE the real losses now in real time. The financial losses come when the game finally acknowledges that we&#39;ve been fucking up. There can be YEARS between these two events. Also, the people who suffer the real losses are *us* the general people who pay more for food and electricity and personal computing equipment and such. Financial losses of the scale of what&#39;s coming will *always* be bailed out by transferring losses to the people, because *that&#39;s what states are for* they protect rich 2026-10-18T16:17:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz7x4vqczc2nx2xvxska8p04umdu2h00h0yk6lypl6vuurmw95x6gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82dvqw0l It&#39;s important to keep very clear in your mind the difference between financial losses, and real losses.<br/><br/>Real losses occur when for example you run an AI datacenter and burn fuel and evaporate precious water and dedicate scarce chips and things to generating wrong answers to important questions and unmaintainable code.<br/><br/>Financial losses occur when at some point some third party holding a bond has the bond price drop to the floor when everyone acknowledges it&#39;s never getting paid off. 2026-10-18T16:12:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2jw6wlralp3glk82fchr7f48zxarm0790zax6ex80t4erwcu8wjczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82wcnftn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs80mhc8l4u8f84wpd6aqrf0478942lfm0f3gz2ygyr6gdjd59gqmcfp4x3d'>nevent1q…4x3d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Depends on how much I have to pay? 2026-10-13T18:20:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx6cx234rsxqj5dlaf36k7tvvzuv47pw2g76qh0jq3qsj9tsfzzpgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve828d0k9s My younger kid has realized that school is at least in part, a prison where kids are kept so parents can be farmed by capitalists, and that the grading, testing, major, and degree system serves to normalize and perpetuate hierarchies of importance among people. Also that many people have no interest in the knowledge and only care about the signifiers of status.<br/><br/>Send help. 2026-10-13T13:53:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy9jynwpfaq86e9v5malrznya67s605v5xmu4tmlq9s2quwj2jpmczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82nn6hj3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst79wd8s72ktzux5lmzzflrh3tpphcgjy9eyc68j8sjczy8vdmg7q3nedmm'>nevent1q…edmm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What does this guy do? The buttons are intriguing... <br/><br/>Question<br/>A Yes/True<br/>B More Info<br/>C No/False<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ppewzys45ygvxrmaxs9hwwrtt706u2pgcwrllex9dpqyt7wpnthqjaqv2g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>myrmepropagandist</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ppe…qv2g</span>)</a></span> 2026-10-11T03:47:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0fjw7zcrrypvhvd8ajjvy3ql9674w9udcxl2gy6cfj8wqs0t5u7czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82p0x0wr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtcxtja8eaff2gmy8ag8kprmfps9wjlup5lvkj2psswx8ly835yq5kyjhp'>nevent1q…yjhp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I dont even see any of the red hot chili peppers, or even any bass players. 2026-10-11T03:38:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd9evrunngu82j33q6cv06vte6wrfgdvmd7gkcf0pv5zh5he0me9qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82g80nh8 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w9S0etpcA2o">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w9S0etpcA2o</a><br/><br/>My wife sent me that video, finally someone who is teaching the secret about modern music (ie. music since the 1700&#39;s or so). It&#39;s a scale that&#39;s uniform distances on a logarithmic scale for frequency (that is, every note is 2^(1/12) ~ 1.05946 times the frequency of the previous one).<br/><br/>The piano keyboard absolutely shatters the symmetry... You can get that symmetry back by creating a uniform keyboard:<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/417/878/313/673/519/original/cf5d0cd19472aabc.jpg"> <br/> 2026-10-10T17:51:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2wzvvn02gp6dzp2dpanl0a77rpxr5mufptle8ulnhwyknltqmk6qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82dw4kv5 I get a call from what is probably my medical provider (the USC mafia) and the person says &#34;Hi this is soandso from scheduling with USC can you please give me your name and birth date so I can proceed?&#34;<br/><br/>HONEY NO<br/><br/>That is not how this shit works.<br/><br/>How about: this is USC calling with a notification that a secure message has been sent can you please log in to the patient portal to view it.<br/><br/>Because I&#39;d have to be a moron to give out personal info to whoever just called me out of the blue... wtf! 2026-10-09T21:52:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw432hg9nlr5v32a20tq50mykkdmf4248qa3w7vzv2enh5sc7k0kqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82lk7wsv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrwmyh2wn4794h36fkmj4qxxmc0w95v290wdr6wtj0l32mmmnhz0cj3cd3t'>nevent1q…cd3t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>am sorely disappointed in my fedi friends... 4 likes and no boosts for this joke? 2026-10-09T03:38:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqgl2lnvxj00z7rrm234uemacdvuaz5j7rsfy2jqds7zk20d2300qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8240w38q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9yv5ys9he9e2460xa0w94sc5jzn3euxyyed8n9ypq6qcva5my6sq37eh6t'>nevent1q…eh6t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Or just excessive caffeine? Is there a difference? 2026-10-08T21:20:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrwmyh2wn4794h36fkmj4qxxmc0w95v290wdr6wtj0l32mmmnhz0czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82eawexk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfy4ajx2v6m7xlekj40dvh67gpdrpk6dfwmzu0kgntjwjv8xfgf3c0cc7pw'>nevent1q…c7pw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So you&#39;re waiting. 2026-10-08T21:19:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrx0078fgvcwyh0wneepmghju8m6gvv3z2ucnhlpm24uwvtrf0l5gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve826876fs How do people with Corgis keep from getting a second dog and naming it Bess? 2026-10-08T20:00:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv2c9ptkahkhpd68nka27vr6h75qt6ajs3kpmr0l67jaaaf0zvrwgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82fdy3fx YAAAAAS!!!!<br/><br/>#guix peeps. My #anarchistuniversity server is ONLINE with its strange stack of LVM + Cache + LUKS + btrfs raid.<br/><br/>The workaround was to create a shepherd service which depends on user-processes which simply does vgchange and cryptsetup manually at a later time. Then make /mnt/home depend on that shepherd process and guix can mount this home directory volume. It&#39;s a bit hacky but it lets me move on to working on the next problem of getting a container set up to run Yunohost. 2026-10-06T21:47:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst7pwpazhc9pfzc4w8fc8pvj865p63hag67kqcvvl6k59cm9apl5szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve823lg9uq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkvqcuj2m8w4v9gpvhes400kqqcrvca094r9ww7rceq2qydzlamcl5ucx7'>nevent1q…ucx7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He advocated that the wise philosopher kings should run everything to the benefit of everyone else. He wasn&#39;t so much a Fascist as a neoliberal technocrat. which is just fascism plus bunnies or some shit<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1n7kt2deqy3xk93nzcvxyy0twcw3jmhvyjhec0pss4punpsyr884ql07g0f" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>abadidea</span> (<span class="italic">npub1n7k…7g0f</span>)</a></span> 2026-10-04T19:25:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrhs8x3far4h3pzlvaevsdsc7u8s9yma4dvw08dvcx0cvpejhwjuczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82sc3tv6 The dogs are melting down and its still 95F out. Send help. 2026-10-04T00:46:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvdg7pm620je2u34pgdg2vuj3hl8aca4q2r6e7a4auqd8ghqpx7fczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82734hry In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9jx54y5z7navunn2vms5ud8zs4xn6muxh2499xvc6jzadcqtnmwqhqmx7z'>nevent1q…mx7z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He said it was OK, not great, he might not get it again. But he drank the whole thing and then safely disposed of the empty cup outside so as to not set off any emergency gas leak response protocols in any of the buildings 🤣 2026-10-03T22:53:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9jx54y5z7navunn2vms5ud8zs4xn6muxh2499xvc6jzadcqtnmwqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82zzksdg We went into the very Asian boba restaurant north of PCC, and ordered a passion fruit boba smoothie and a durian boba smoothie.<br/><br/>The Asian lady behind the counter was like &#34;absolutely not&#34; she wasn&#39;t gonna let my son have a durian smoothie. So anyway he had to convince her to bring him a sample of the frozen fruit slurry so he could taste and smell it. He finally gave his approval and she reluctantly let him have it. 2026-10-03T22:53:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf7rqvas5x6q8ynppk74rsuumf6y0th254x0tzvwg0s0dc5fu8sagzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82v7mz4e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswh98sej0wqtsl99qyfs892425pc5yshpnxrx5r032hd0lhuahraqq2gfj7'>nevent1q…gfj7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In 11th grade I was in the honors English class, we read a number of books through the year... including for example<br/><br/>Huck Finn, The Scarlett Letter, A Faulkner Novel I can&#39;t remember which, Beloved, The Sun Also Rises, Native Son, and others I dont even remember. Maybe 4 or 5 other novels.<br/><br/>So, in 2 semesters let&#39;s call that 32 weeks we read say 10 books. So maybe a novel every 3 weeks. It was a fast pace, I think for an avg audience maybe a novel every 5 weeks. But Half a novel in 7 weeks? 2026-10-03T16:46:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswh98sej0wqtsl99qyfs892425pc5yshpnxrx5r032hd0lhuahraqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82lfu377 Its been like 7 weeks of school and Alex is still reading Catcher in the Rye at school. This is the first book for the class. They are about halfway through. The teacher reads the book to the kids in class. Alex believes this is because a significant fraction of 10th graders can&#39;t read at the required level to read the book themselves in a reasonable time period. <br/><br/>At this pace maybe 12 or 14 weeks to read the one book... I&#39;m pretty sure Alex finished it in about 2. What does this say about us? 2026-10-03T16:36:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9ceq6a7edr7jktjukw2arqgwpf9tned8czazar9wd0dgsfewyd2qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82hcvd2n I&#39;m in a parking lot and theres a political yard sign that has some guys face and the words &#34;Do you want $3.00 gas?&#34;<br/><br/>and I can&#39;t help but think &#34;This Taco Bell viral marketing has got to stop&#34;. 2026-10-03T15:50:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsve7wgc3sltc35c8t7mcf0q7n348pmme59yg6pvn5jw0ms3j3upjczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82uflmdl Gonna be very hot today again (and every day next two weeks) so my son has cross country practice at 7am. I&#39;m gonna take pepper and walk her, hopefully that keeps us all sane the rest of the day. 2026-10-03T13:23:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq498wqwh5x0hl7h95aqf6nudrvp4427gzjzm2cvsx0lsfkzwy4tgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve824mtey7 Predicted overnight temps of 85F... yikes. 2026-10-03T04:20:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0ef50ah9nngzlq3q6tszvt5f3skz6u9ndrkqgrzxe2gkj3y63xkszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82dzwfzu Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. 2026-10-01T13:32:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstn654pyaduw2n7ncalcremj6n97uv5rzhak6k5tju9lf0chw029czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82f3uk29 My wife comes home and tells me the news is that a student at a Highland Park high school jumped off a balcony to try to escape another student who was attacking them, landed on concrete 20ft below and died... wtf is wrong with everyone? 2026-10-01T02:53:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszgv7qp8h734hlme2va9tjcv7xhguqyqk5tvsc94cqv6lrvnm7w9szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8254yg32 I been ballin&#39; a shiny black gigabit router, been chipping up packets for the info-superhighway...<br/><br/>*Grateful Dead Noises* 2026-09-30T21:05:52Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9j5rvdd553tahjvm5x89c429g0pufj23h0qg32266ghfc65q8wuszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82pv30j5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95l234yd22k0dn4pjagzppskt892fwt5j80swqjl6arjxa0cn0dc9c53ms'>nevent1q…53ms</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It takes official inflation numbers by govt entities for granted. I personally doubt they well model peoples experience of the economy, particularly near the median income. 2026-09-29T17:54:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyu059hzr6jwre8mh2sg57g475rs52lng6maur09lmncngnu6uu5szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve824f7v8s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ls4ptsq4mvrtufsx9tqgzpv89un2vkpyzedehwg447y4nca35ucqehy2a'>nevent1q…hy2a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Girls in general but esp smart ones were very poorly treated back then.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ucvqyws2udkt4kks7x50ghhrnfd0lyz7pfzzv0w9e5005sj77nmqwk5a8g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>AI6YR Ben</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ucv…5a8g</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zhvwku5mwsqulql0e3jpvv065d6trmt94x5x7c8wzullmr0upmpqqqzk5e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>FeloniousPunk</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zhv…zk5e</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-27T16:08:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8ewvwdxxvm37qkp8e278dul7eppjs5uy3y6se7ve4kru2k79vywszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82yx5q3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswsscelsyu7dyv0urkvmnw3gv0uhsusdv452j70x24nft7yd6ujxsyjv22l'>nevent1q…v22l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is a common story actually. Incredible torturous boredom has produced many many dropouts (and addicts and etc). My son knows one at Blair. Hes really smart but just plays games on his phone all day long. The older brother of one of my sons main friends.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zhvwku5mwsqulql0e3jpvv065d6trmt94x5x7c8wzullmr0upmpqqqzk5e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>FeloniousPunk</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zhv…zk5e</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3l…txvc</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-27T15:12:55Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs90wc4hs0prcjqcdfdky7vsqewkta77plhcl9a7wzx8hxk7ggraeszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve829wdjl3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8uvu8wjkfcc20upg49hkwkfq02jw3p3ls6a449wdpemhzj6tn6rs99d3r0'>nevent1q…d3r0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>😅<br/><br/>Still, we accept you, one of us, one of us, one of us!<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ucvqyws2udkt4kks7x50ghhrnfd0lyz7pfzzv0w9e5005sj77nmqwk5a8g" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>AI6YR Ben</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ucv…5a8g</span>)</a></span> <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3l…txvc</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-27T14:58:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfc6jczq0jygg7pfuyfj7hwp0ls3q9wqm2wpyjnmj9c0fjavdhtuqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve824kkmtg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdl4easusf9r6el0pjt2ssvedfxwu0a5plee9f3n23qn04ra037pc70dse0'>nevent1q…dse0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I sometimes think Mastodon is the social media system for people who did or should have skipped 1 or more years of high school 😅<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3l…txvc</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-27T14:35:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp9mdepky7whvwnq9wcr76w6nwrkyl0f0nsmrh3l9kcw436ks0vgqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82avevl3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfyffj8zar5t4gvhyddjf2d7p435nfadqa9ssql2ca7jp3q2m242gtd74mg'>nevent1q…74mg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yep, its a concern. Unfortunately, most of my kids friends have left the school. A few to go to Pasadena High, A few to go to Muir. One of the reasons is the board threatening to close schools. Anyway as a result my son mostly hangs out with his friends on weekends anyway. He has a few friends at school but 5-6 fewer than 2 yrs ago. 2026-09-27T14:20:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx7ashk63k7nhmnxdnvwmvptyww4nhjcgxgjtejutwf8zmtvhg55qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82vj9rn6 I was asking my sons guidance counselor about requirements for GED if he wanted to graduate early and start at city college etc. She was busy googling and reading the AI summary... If you want to know how the avg person views AI. This is it. 2026-09-26T19:46:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspl8dg0qrcsjwqc5e6kr0rtw89365zsu05sa3vzl5k3py39jlqd4gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82yceznj Just found some sort of concerning thing on Peppers left haunch. Kinda could be a scab, or a viral induced skin thing, or kinda could be a skin cancer. Will assess again in the morning and may be taking her to the Vet. Will be pretty upset if its a cancer. So let&#39;s try to hope thats not it. 2026-09-25T05:44:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqwe2fhxh0ygjhkfv945chtz0yd7xef8l7sv3q2mhs3an98kf0algzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82j2gwxx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyjcmtxppfdvpa6a4qjtvw7at2wf40hgqdevgznzvyjxltyynamxqfv4djm'>nevent1q…4djm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also the most important aspect of git is the &#34;detached head state&#34;<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/321/877/357/369/069/original/a35d2640263fa136.png"> <br/> 2026-09-23T18:57:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyjcmtxppfdvpa6a4qjtvw7at2wf40hgqdevgznzvyjxltyynamxqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82acuznk Ok, I&#39;m going to watch a video on how to use Magit in emacs, but the first thing I want to make very clear is that regardless of the fact that the authors of the package want it to be pronounced like &#34;Magic&#34; but with a t, it obviously must be pronounced Ma-git like Renee Magritte because git is clearly for surrealists. 2026-09-23T18:23:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstkq84ekq9mwv4n5773v5dyuukfr3h98qvh0u5a7pgpvc63gfld6gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve820yw47x When my kids were little and I was trying to load them into the car in their car seats I used to sing song...<br/><br/>Get on up...<br/>I said a get on up...<br/>Get on the seat....<br/><br/>Now they are old enough to understand the reference... <br/><br/>The true master plants dad jokes that pay off over decades. 2026-09-23T14:55:16Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstsdffm7695a4rns55qrj7cv2xp2e4euj92drf02mdmhrxe4mc0tszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82t2a5ae 12000 steps today, walked the two dogs together twice today with no real difficulty. That is a huge difference from a couple weeks ago.<br/><br/>Pepper pups official royal title is now Robusta Caramel Macchiato III 2026-09-23T02:39:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8tzse3x6tkfrxhn47k9y9e0nt338ahyvy54m7cu5st7pvy0fnk6szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82k2mfec When I get older and my kids are living on their own, I want to buy an old ice cream truck, repaint it, and drive it around neighborhoods playing 80&#39;s hits... It&#39;s the music truck... *careless whisper intensifies* 2026-09-21T02:14:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsftxqqz6skj7yy9hs4cd665yaqh56tt0n9xzg0agek898nlg0xswgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82cdza82 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfg230g7f47uec25wx5s7c0qp5yttzmpg0vswvxv95t9c38pm3dfc7lumuz'>nevent1q…umuz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is international so its hegemony over global economic activity, business wise means in currency terms, and energy wise means in energy terms. <br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-21T00:03:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0cp6ffnxhqyzn0u7x633kdnu5hpx9x54kwj8vurcxgtchaqd6f6qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8253dkft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstz5n290wvf63fsm4z747ee5l2d04eeck4s5x60nk8mlsfut26ugshhlcnk'>nevent1q…lcnk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>build a 30 ft high A frame attach a winch and lower the box to the ground? 2026-09-20T03:32:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgcyyzaddnp4pd3fhhm5p9rhljhdh7c4yjmqgl9sk2aqs6veztv7czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82vv3hv3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdgm64ags6trr34zhfh467knyrce95g925s500w38agehsd50ja3shy4cu2'>nevent1q…4cu2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At least I have you weirdos to keep me from going sane. 2026-09-18T00:57:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdgm64ags6trr34zhfh467knyrce95g925s500w38agehsd50ja3szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8260kvvj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdphe0gp9d8z2rge3qw0jhgt3qsn9y9qj4eyemhjzatmlpqhjmznc6d04xe'>nevent1q…04xe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Its been 50 mins since I got the first notification, finally got the second one where he went to the train for real. This is kinda crappy. i should have driven to the grocery store and back. didnt really sort out the issue until it was too late to do that... soooo just burning an hour here. 2026-09-18T00:56:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdphe0gp9d8z2rge3qw0jhgt3qsn9y9qj4eyemhjzatmlpqhjmznczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve828j8wan I get a notification when my kids go to the metro station and that means if I leave a few mins later I will pick them up about as they arrive... so I got the notification and drove down to get my son, and it turns out his cross country team ran past the station... so false alarm. ive been waiting at the metro for 20 mins now... sigh 2026-09-18T00:38:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8umgp6gth4mjsed0vyng8mllsdx46z8dafmueasjtda4jqvj0pygzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8206jhft In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx055y5jalakz3sgsx5gtdmux6tn8xcuk76hydhlrdzck557kg6lgp8rk9l'>nevent1q…rk9l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/288/802/160/745/215/original/f4799909c6fd9d78.jpg"> <br/> 2026-09-17T22:44:56Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqxw54c5jt28w7ufhy64fxlas7a2waqsfd4fudfry2uufnvcyjfgczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82rulvyd Jazz is dead y&#39;all<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JUjFN9AuFU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JUjFN9AuFU</a> 2026-09-16T22:02:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqwuucpwr940nfvd9fx74alujy4ykdwnhcta5cr423tn3yvk29r3gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82ha604u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrmldsgyntgenhawng5t7z3u2uc8ja65hv0vpurpfrxxl5mwg65rsl96ykf'>nevent1q…6ykf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To follow up on my own question, here&#39;s one article I&#39;ll send him. What else you got?<br/><br/> <a href="https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/yes-your-mac-is-watching-you-6d1f25b6fa59">https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/yes-your-mac-is-watching-you-6d1f25b6fa59</a> 2026-09-16T19:58:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrmldsgyntgenhawng5t7z3u2uc8ja65hv0vpurpfrxxl5mwg65rszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82ak4st4 So, I think we&#39;re all aware that phones collect a lot of data and are basically surveillance devices at this point. What do we know about surveillance in Windows and especially Apple Macintosh OS?<br/><br/>I know already about Windows shoving OneDrive down your throat, and snapshotting your screen every 3 seconds, and having a GUID checking in all the time online.<br/><br/>What&#39;s Apple up to? My son wants to know because he&#39;s being asked to use Macs at school and is concerned.<br/><br/>#infosec 2026-09-16T19:56:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgjwgel5cqxh447szgl7ll5h0x2fg93emfsnfz3r5mu6gvknee5gczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82548krt RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117282018692478148">https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117282018692478148</a><br/><br/>Make my funk the g-funk I wants to get funked up. 2026-09-16T19:49:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz9e8l7hjynltjupgtswxuajg8ehezxctsfpemckufm3n9zpqrceczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82sma4j5 Amazing sky over the soccer training field.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/272/728/815/796/373/original/04b996a66d696d4a.jpg"> <br/> 2026-09-15T02:37:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstn5hdyz8enlj6lygwa8lygm30y6pj3x23epy72jk45dx7a8jm55czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve820nelgh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgyc9ckl4kjady74mjgyhgddcwy2yrvflhnar898v6ylrwmqdawwcw5kx03'>nevent1q…kx03</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, ive done calculations of GDP / (CPI components you mention) and they produce the same kinds of shapes... so PPP is truly gamed because if you look at CPI components like rent, food at home, healthcare, and childcare and education the GDP would look very similar to what we calculate with commodities... you can do this at Fred.stluisfed.org pretty easily.<br/><br/>it makes me super suspicious. <br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-11T23:24:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspnhlx339zjlhrrysceynnjguy44xklc89v53j96lkzdcgdwzmpcgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82rvm0v6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvu66ckwg3nhahr0twup5gf7zk2t450l5fx05kpm3xmvgmdh0zv4smljxg8'>nevent1q…jxg8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The fact that GDP PPP doesn&#39;t really correlate with consumer sentiment, and GDP/commodities does tells me their basket has to be cooked enough that it&#39;s decorrelated with &#34;real income&#34; because no-one says &#34;my real purchase power went up a bunch. I hate this&#34; 2026-09-11T22:39:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvu66ckwg3nhahr0twup5gf7zk2t450l5fx05kpm3xmvgmdh0zv4szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82a2z24q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5napku543m7jvv7tnk6q25thkq0qjy573qgta2evxd2g05kk93sz5rl54'>nevent1q…rl54</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Whereas broad baskets are full of things heavily influenced by power, asymmetry of information, marketing, legal barriers to entry, etc etc. Plus questions of quality change through time and soforth are open to interpretation that allows for fudging stuff until you can show a nice 2% / yr official growth except during &#34;recessions&#34; which you can manufacture as needed to keep the charade up. 2026-09-11T22:33:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg5napku543m7jvv7tnk6q25thkq0qjy573qgta2evxd2g05kk93szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82wh4czp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqmgkfecs6w3rd0aln7qvqmgrfc0vfd5vxrnlg0eh3x7eslp4584qetkf96'>nevent1q…kf96</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My theory is this, commodities are a super liquid and competitive international market, with no asymmetry of information, and the demand for these things is ubiquitous we chose things that you can throw a tennis ball and hit some of it no matter where you&#39;re standing basically. Stuff you interact with all day every day. 2026-09-11T22:30:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqmgkfecs6w3rd0aln7qvqmgrfc0vfd5vxrnlg0eh3x7eslp4584qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82cer7sf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs90gga9utn4nzd4n2y4v5fpccgmwx2wlec9kqp86p9fzxyhpkneqsevlue9'>nevent1q…lue9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d have to check the code to be 100% sure, but my student hasn&#39;t set up a public repo yet. But the design is basically this, 1/3 weight of the commodities are basic materials Wood, iron ore, aluminum, copper, rubber, 1/3 weight of the commodities are energy (crude oil, natl gas, propane), and 1/3 of the commodities are human fuel (wheat, corn, vegetables, poultry) 2026-09-11T22:28:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswz5lweu8taw03rl0vf4yxwgt4w8srev6dwghssxrzrkfcff0jcwszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82yglghp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2gfnc00f2lxfp38ftc9ksaneaa9n06rvge9v5a7ngyal7zeurzcsyrdt9u'>nevent1q…dt9u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The GDP/commodity data has a free scale parameter, so we made it so that US in 2000 has value = 1, which means log(1) = 0. <br/><br/>You can think of our measure as &#34;ability to buy commodities divided by the ability of US citizens in 2000 to buy the same commodities&#34;<br/><br/>whereas the GDP PPP is based on something like US &#34;constant dollars&#34; in 2015 or something. Take PPP and divide by the US value in 2000 and you&#39;d put it on same scale. It&#39;s just a constant vertical shift in the Log version though. 2026-09-11T21:20:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqlm2z3v7fz8cqkclnuyuxh0xe0wzm4g6kmjggtt7spx0fhzpaa4gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82plp5xs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2gfnc00f2lxfp38ftc9ksaneaa9n06rvge9v5a7ngyal7zeurzcsyrdt9u'>nevent1q…dt9u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The GDP PPP data always shows nice few percent growth every year for the developed countries. Is this basically lies told by govt employees who will lose their job if they don&#39;t fudge shit up to something kinda believable? I don&#39;t know. But what I know is that GDP_PPP has NEGATIVE relation with consumer sentiment. We&#39;ve got some linear models showing this, but haven&#39;t put together the tables yet. 2026-09-11T20:46:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2gfnc00f2lxfp38ftc9ksaneaa9n06rvge9v5a7ngyal7zeurzcszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82tkdjs0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2k5msnz065gnvfcwuvwchxc7lpxeckq0sxpvsrn25sru3ktv04aqehge7a'>nevent1q…ge7a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To get actually scaled sense of what&#39;s up, here&#39;s the log(gdp/commodity) data and also log(ppp) side by side, you can read growth rates off the graph here as the slope of a line fit through the data.<br/><br/>If you look at the major developed countries: GBR, DEU, USA you see there&#39;s been an overall trend of basically 0 growth for 25 years. Things dropped from 2000-2010, and then recovered a bit from 2010-2025 but not back to the level of yr 2000.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/341/590/166/060/original/7e6636080cf0eb65.png"> <br/> 2026-09-11T20:43:53Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2k5msnz065gnvfcwuvwchxc7lpxeckq0sxpvsrn25sru3ktv04aqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82c7awgd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw6q4zx4qr4spefvd2j5xt2zrrhq5sjf92nqj80yht2chmyjv6cdszrz6xc'>nevent1q…z6xc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>These graphs use z-transformed versions of each data series, so they&#39;re mean 0 and 1 standard deviation in vertical spread... so basically we&#39;re just comparing the shapes. In case you&#39;re confused why they all seem to have the same scale. 2026-09-11T20:39:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw6q4zx4qr4spefvd2j5xt2zrrhq5sjf92nqj80yht2chmyjv6cdszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8202vpta In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hw6wvfwnpnre4dyltwatwnxk6eh9lrfv9343smmnz07urrlvg2s46z6tj'>nevent1q…z6tj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Last image upload: USA<br/><br/>The PPP GDP basically is meaningless right? It&#39;s strongly negatively correlated with what people think is going on, while the commodity price normalization is basically sitting on top of the sentiment data like a cat in a box.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/328/149/707/458/original/60b1f479f1dca84b.png"> <br/> 2026-09-11T20:38:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9hw6wvfwnpnre4dyltwatwnxk6eh9lrfv9343smmnz07urrlvg2szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve823lwl6l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstex45haccl6cxp7cfpmhm2zmlxpv2y3haey9j3y4mpers37l572gcpkw40'>nevent1q…kw40</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>More graphs of the countries (limits per post are 4 graphs)<br/><br/>The pattern you see is that the red line (standard PPP GDP) is more or less poorly or even negatively correlated with consumer sentiment, while yellow (our GDP/commodity) moves strongly with consumer sentiment, so that our GDP strongly reflects people&#39;s &#34;experience&#34; of the economy at least in these big western type countries.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/297/544/130/249/original/59dde0c782861e6e.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/317/813/597/821/original/0a2b590c9eab1767.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/317/810/024/197/original/a4bb802aad2db917.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/317/814/200/474/original/3b186aa7f197cfb6.png"> <br/> 2026-09-11T20:37:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstex45haccl6cxp7cfpmhm2zmlxpv2y3haey9j3y4mpers37l572gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82vypqwm All right friends. My student and I finally put together something we&#39;re pretty confident about. Here&#39;s some plots... In Yellow is our dimensionless GDP measure. In Blue is OECD consumer confidence data. In Red is standard GDP PPP data.<br/><br/>I&#39;m cherry picking some of the best fits here, but they are OUTSTANDING and some major countries.<br/><br/>Belgium, Spain, France, UK, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Portugal, USA<br/><br/>(followups below and descriptions of the general results rather than alt-text)<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/283/259/682/823/original/082b943f7f468650.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/284/710/521/819/original/001f32783d2310f5.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/292/386/181/752/original/a755d41061c085ae.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/254/292/855/018/596/original/8d42c468a1981f60.png"> <br/> 2026-09-11T20:29:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8q7hl2jfvlnazy3320tu5kg9a5fpentjjpjju35zuruct2lzwttczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82pmffy4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw0l3ym8c4yzg746m6u9npdlxy3lmy4c08ga9xzsg4q8vk5vwllaqhrgurg'>nevent1q…gurg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah we topped out at about 104F in Pasadena area, but the feels like stat said 109.5F I guess due to humidity. 2026-09-10T04:53:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz7tny8n2tgzudjcv2ena8k6wkkrk4hwf7tjfyl32pje7xrlyrgwczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82n0c9mm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxme3h7cznq0ggfac07ewv0dt8q8geqc3vpw7gu2xj6annvq50v5q4wjmsr'>nevent1q…jmsr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>CELLULAR data? fucking NO are you serious? 2026-09-10T04:20:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgeytf6547uxapga9a6nhglnz8rp5q85whvls66yr5vdtweyhu5sszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82wh98t9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrvq898l0mxdhcr6un0ne9gmsmy50he8ufxsfcxwj4s6hc4k2tvvgfvxlrg'>nevent1q…xlrg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If growth is entirely a story about offshoring and exploitation of labor while materials have been getting more expensive for decades, then its just a story of colonialism all over again. except this time its called &#34;NAFTA&#34; or whatever.<br/><br/>we&#39;ve all seen the articles about click farms in Bangladesh right? how much &#34;GDP&#34; is just people creating lies online actively harming consumers globally?<br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-09T15:27:05Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0pylkxujxc8nnwhpqsljmnw6npu0604m7ure5twdfgs6q3p02j7szypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82t3yxav In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyxsxn8kphgxcl2r0jqm84f3hcalymmzvaux3satnnyl6h29d27rc9exd3v'>nevent1q…xd3v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you want to build a new roof or a new house, you quickly run up against serious material prices issues... If you want a new wordrobe, the prices are controlled by slave labor in Bangladesh and Vietnam. there are many more people buying fast fashion than building houses, so the fashion and other consumer goods are dominant in PPP calcs.<br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-09T15:22:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyxsxn8kphgxcl2r0jqm84f3hcalymmzvaux3satnnyl6h29d27rczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82v06vg6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdeyyfx5mvvue6pl5kc69ydayjufk8jshlyeln4nhhamrrjdlltkq4c2m5v'>nevent1q…2m5v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My guess is that the part where they say its based on final products (consumer goods and services) is the part that matters. Consumer goods and services have prices more dependent on power and asymmetry of information and labor costs and rent than do commodities. in other words, consumer prices are more bullshit than commodity prices.<br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-09T15:19:42Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdeyyfx5mvvue6pl5kc69ydayjufk8jshlyeln4nhhamrrjdlltkqzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82y7qluj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg6trrmgdmjnk6lay5ndqx8nu6jzaflgzw6utmazzv2rj260r4sngf2rln2'>nevent1q…rln2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Indeed, the PPP calculation is described here...<br/><br/><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/methodology-calculation">https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/methodology-calculation</a><br/><br/>Economists will do anything rather than ~~go to therapy~~ use dimensionless numbers<br/>[@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) 2026-09-09T15:17:17Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp0f6rpkt89gdpckwt0pmaj9rf5xz5urrq6axgelxm2cn79k7rlqgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82cpxxut In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20uz4a6sl86twnmprmkysgm2dpukga3t3v4czg2fcr8npqsntm8cwpt60u'>nevent1q…t60u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m being honest here, this COULD be a coding error, my student put it together and we are scheduled to walk through it Thursday together. But I dont think it will be. my general &#34;sense&#34; in the last 26 years is that everyone is on average poorer in terms of real *material* purchasing power, because GDP has gone more and more towards rent payments.<br/><br/>tagging [@blair_fix](<a href="https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix">https://mastodon.online/@blair_fix</a> ) and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3l…txvc</span>)</a></span> because they may find this interesting. 2026-09-09T14:25:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs20uz4a6sl86twnmprmkysgm2dpukga3t3v4czg2fcr8npqsntm8czypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82l6hh3m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg7d3ug8q3mkmlykd3yfyhdxp0p7f8uhe0c7d4pkenyph84h07vcgsl8huj'>nevent1q…8huj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>People need to eat, so wheat and rice and things are gonna be critical economic inputs for every country, and we need to do things, so energy/fuel is required. And if you look around you things are made of wood, steel, copper, aluminum... <br/><br/>According to this graph, if you need to buy a chunk of each of these commodities, a chunk that would have cost $1000 USD each in 2000, you have been poorer and less able to buy those chunks at every point in time since 2000 ish. 2026-09-09T14:25:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg7d3ug8q3mkmlykd3yfyhdxp0p7f8uhe0c7d4pkenyph84h07vcgzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82lc5qkg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxfwxr8yylsw50yaxwzt2a4tr96mjt3ld0v6kn3yxjaex8ue9fnfsvq6ysy'>nevent1q…6ysy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Traditional techniques say that &#34;real GDP&#34; in the US is at maybe 2x what it was in 2000, but my index says the US can only buy maybe 80% as much raw materials as it could in 2000.<br/><br/>Raw materials are both a competitive international market, and fairly immune to bullshitting... if you buy a ton of wheat or aluminum or copper you get exactly the same product in 2026 as in 2000. And everything we need economically requires raw materials. if not wood, aluminum, or copper then at least energy / fuel 2026-09-09T14:25:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxfwxr8yylsw50yaxwzt2a4tr96mjt3ld0v6kn3yxjaex8ue9fnfszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8222st0j This is preliminary data, could have bugs and might be easily improved by pulling in better data etc. But the differences were so stark that I thought I&#39;d let you guys think about them as well... Here is side by side the traditional purchasing power parity GDP (on right) for some major countries, vs the purchasing power of several important raw materials in equal weighted basket version my student and I cooked up on left. (see alt text for more info, ignore data before 2000)<br/><br/>#economics<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/117/241/539/468/377/054/original/1d52a001db9e6ade.png"> <br/> 2026-09-09T14:25:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz004dt0jr93qtfuvltwjaftt3zdlhxj7dlntwt7z8xlhnapkhrugzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82tyc8yg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspucxfgqyc2e57l57w822cxv9dtnuun0nk4jsz3y5ep4vtg408l5c8rtt33'>nevent1q…tt33</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good luck finding one in the market. theyre all spyware enabled now. I think you can probably get some commercial signage device, but it&#39;ll be $6500 or something.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1zhvwku5mwsqulql0e3jpvv065d6trmt94x5x7c8wzullmr0upmpqqqzk5e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>FeloniousPunk</span> (<span class="italic">npub1zhv…zk5e</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-08T03:53:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9lscykwkra0dl4znrdlc3qf4ncss8j029k524fxx6ykdw4qetc8qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve822y6amy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx7exdut266cvqte2karsaslss92gzhx9yaqc8lc8glmw6readt9gxkrewy'>nevent1q…rewy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The linked message suggested it might be accessing things like xfinity access points etc, fortunately I dont see any like that around here. but its pretty obnoxious that I have to even think about that.<br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GhostOnTheHalfShell</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z3l…txvc</span>)</a></span> 2026-09-08T03:48:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx9a6gzzyudls8fq3p6d2cszc2ha07plmmc7pzdkaczs9m5522cyczypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve827furmv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqr97330msckglqlysemdzkgkh8yv0zzsp3hmy0wd5pj5nmcdfx7qrtfgxf'>nevent1q…fgxf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>enabled client history logging, and will see who is using my guest network over the next few days... hope the device stays disconnected. 2026-09-08T03:42:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqr97330msckglqlysemdzkgkh8yv0zzsp3hmy0wd5pj5nmcdfx7qzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve8243zz87 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstwqkgfwk8ltm0jd4w8kffe6fetrhrexx7nmtl4exukh43qkk3mfs43lf03'>nevent1q…lf03</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yuck. Mine is TCL so I guess I can hope? but i should probably check if its sneaking on my guest network, and block its MAC 2026-09-08T03:20:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst0ggzlgz826y7l7r5pvcn7nmu8l6fw0f5f5qwd3xzgpd654nw48gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82d3ecpa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf83g6eyjhkp3vnvrhddjkj0zxs8dughnry4k7p89cq62sgnw4r4gy3v5ly'>nevent1q…v5ly</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Family members try to be helpful by running laundry but then forget to shift it and it sits at 95F for a few hours and rots... ugh. Also running clean washer cycles with bleach every week or so to make sure the washer itself doesnt smell like a sewer. 2026-09-07T19:40:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsf83g6eyjhkp3vnvrhddjkj0zxs8dughnry4k7p89cq62sgnw4r4gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82nxyq23 Annoying things... i seem to have a low level cold, probably only a couple days of annoying nose and throat and ear itchy and congestion issues but still annoying. Also, I woke up with some kind of back spasm and I can&#39;t easily seem to stretch it out... Also I have a basket of clean folded laundry and a nontrivial fraction of it smells like sewage... 2026-09-07T19:37:29Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspfuazwqes47mc39trgmutqr7533evazd0akhpmt4gsz35glnuy3gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82h75etu What I need is help from my anarchist vermont librarian <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1prsjp48zup4rrp4xldg66x7zff2ykvusk47awlhsmaqhm3apl95s53eh8y" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Jessamyn</span> (<span class="italic">npub1prs…eh8y</span>)</a></span> (and any of you other peeps)<br/><br/>My son has a friend at school who is interested in the questions about the industrial revolution, the Luddites, and unfortunately has spent some time reading The Unabomber manifesto. So my son wants to move his friend away from the Unabomber ideas towards more sane leftist critiques and histories of industrial revolution etc. What&#39;s good books about Luddites, and history of the Ind. Rev. ? 2026-09-05T04:37:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxwlrcuyed2rc6fmuy7ugplhzdkx9asy0q7xa93rnrypj7vfqe0cszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82u9zv7h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszaywaj4rzvsqqhw3rzfhm2tzl0p66ye70h0sdz3l7y757qdc33ysm3sm4s'>nevent1q…sm4s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;come view the eclipse projected on a wall through my safe eclipse projection system with my refracting telescope&#34; type of anarchism... Anarcho-Dad more than Anarcho-Punk.<br/><br/>Let me know if you need to figure out your malfunctioning pond filtration system. 2026-09-04T23:28:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszaywaj4rzvsqqhw3rzfhm2tzl0p66ye70h0sdz3l7y757qdc33yszypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82q08meu With my generally anarchist attitudes even before identifying as an anarchist, people have generally expected me to be Burning Man friendly. And while I&#39;m generally OK with people going to BM and doing whatever, its just not for me just like piercings and tattoos and Mohawks aren&#39;t for me. Love my punk fellows, but like, not my thing. I&#39;m more of the &#34;do you need me to come help you with your failing well water system&#34; and &#34;would you like to learn how to safely arc weld&#34; and 2026-09-04T23:28:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvfng35v3m9rvgqxs5z7nc5esqd5v8crhrv7x0y9agfaakmtewq2gzypx0xt0kde2kqem8yv4wj0rlk3jnxe48td3d6wtwm0m80fs62ve82ps8tkr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfy4drs34eacuxwjmyh9xg8w6kw0c9w7f97u9nmalpdp2eew8fk0qnqk2gq'>nevent1q…k2gq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Definitely start with a backflow preventer valve on all the lines that go to outdoor places (hose bibs, sprinkler systems, the washing machine etc) this should be installed basically before the line exits the house area, so its easy to maintain, and so the backpressure is generally greater keeping the valve closed.<br/><br/><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backflow_prevention_device">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backflow_prevention_device</a><br/><br/>Another thing you could try is to place a pressure tank near your house, so the pressure in the lines stays relatively constant 2026-09-04T21:06:41Z