For the record, I do agree. It’s worth occasionally thinking about the limits of communication, but it is the foundational technology of civilization.

All language is a fundamentally incomprehensible illusion of communication, and people have thought that for a while.

Makes for some banger songs though.

Zhuangzhi wrote about it well over 2000 years ago.

Keep protesting for the people of Iran. These brave people deserve justice!

Why do humans allow cats to ride in their arms?

Could we get some of that across the pond?

Installing violent juntas in South America is so 20th Century. Now we’re installing violent juntas in North America.

Bad bot.

Why does evey MEE article include the phrase “according to [insert terrorist organization],” and then presents the information completely uncritically?

People don’t read them but I think that’s not usually the point. The people I know who have written them usually end up with boxes in their garage that they eventually give at to friends and family.

It’s still a nice accomplishment and a good personal growth thing.

Keep protesting for the people of Iran. Keep pressure on Western governments to act and support the Persian people. The Iranian people never wanted to live under a fundamentalist terror state.

Economic isolation against every individual official and commander killing their own people is the most important tool we have.

Keep the information channels open at all costs.

London:

Berlin:

Paris:

Unpopular opinion: I have a second phone logged into my kid’s YT account. I train the algorithm while he’s sleeping.

It takes a significant time, and YouTube doesn’t have good options for blocking content, but it helps keep out the worst of the brainrot.

I can’t attest to any as I don’t use PDFs this way, but here are a few links:

Stirling PDF

PdfDing

BentoPDF

All of these are self-hostable and FOSS. I’m not sure about NextCloud integration.

I think you may be thinking of LibreOffice

Yeah, it’s better if you can have the computer on all the time, but it only needs to be running when you access it.

I’m not that familiar with FreshRSS, but in general apps will only update at opening (not in the background) for most syncing operations. You may have to do more manual syncing than you would like.

Water is weirdly one of the only materials that is lighter (less dense) in its solid form. That’s why ice cubes float.

When a mass expands, it ALWAYS becomes less dense.

Water does not “trap” air molecules as is freezes, although water may contain dissolved gasses.

I think it’s fair to say not all AI is AI slop.

Now that’s a shower thought! I love it.

True, I’m just looking at it linguistically. We’ve had a thing called “pizza” in continuous use since 997 according to Wikipedia (I was unable to locate the source cited, but I don’t think it’s a contentious issue, so Wikipedia is probably correct).

Weird thought - pizza dates to 997 CE, that’s over 500 years before tomatoes were introduced in Italy. Most of the existence of pizza has been without tomato.