ThatShawGuy

ThatShawGuy

@thatshawguy.com

Software Dev living in Penn’s Woods. 🧑🏻‍💻🌳 Back online here in Nov 2024 after a long break and checking things out.

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When you optimize for short term goals, you can destroy the long term vision. Complex systems emerge to regulate lower level components in service of higher level goals.

Simplifying Complexity@bhcomplexity.bsky.social

A fascinating aspect of complex systems is that some forms of inefficiency or 'noise' are not regarded as flaws, but as features of the system. This noise plays a key role in allowing the system to adapt. Rory Sutherland on the topic... Apple: buff.ly/3VTjG9I Spotify: buff.ly/3WaR9MA

A productive conversation between Colin and Brianna and co. The trans issue must be de-politicized if practical solutions are to be found.

Brianna Wu@brianna.bsky.social

Four trans women sat down with @drcolinwright.bsky.social and did the unthinkable. Had a nuanced discussion with someone the trans community hates about Trans public policy. Both Kelly and Taf transitioned as minors and found a lot of agreement on his ethical concerns. youtu.be/IWuzkzuQapY

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I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware: - the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania - his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir - he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

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Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.

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I will not engage with clout farmers I will not engage with outrage farmers I will not engage with clout farmers I will not engage with outrage farmers I will not engage with clout farmers I will not engage with outrage farmers I will not engage with clout farmers

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1. Every user should own their own handle, so they're not living at the pleasure of their namespace overlord. 2. Domains are the only pragmatic solution, and they're already sufficiently decentralized and available now. HT @ansh.bsky.team

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is not the same as the Gulf Stream and there is absolutely no chance the Gulf Stream will "collapse". If the AMOC collapses, that's a big problem for Greenland and the Norwegian Sea. 🧪

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Being vertebrates biases us to thinking that organisms are more "unitary" than they are. The rest of the animal kingdom exploits the malleability of life way more than we're used to, and for us that induces body horror.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social

I don’t even have an emotional category for “retains and keeps alive the body parts of its victims, stitching them on skin like buttons on fabric, using said undead remains as weapons to murder would-be predators.” Seriously. Most fucked up Pokémon.

Our moral emotions don’t serve us very well when it comes to big picture issues. We should have been iterating on nuclear power generation for decades. Our assessment of risk was driven by emotion, we lost sight of the big picture, and now we are paying the price.