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Tòfol@cristofol· 1d

Village eclipse-watching.

Tòfol@cristofol· 7d

Looks like it's only just going to miss us.

Tòfol@cristofol· 9d

harness (n.)

c. 1300, "personal fighting equipment, body armor," also "armor or trappings of a war-horse," from Old French harnois, a noun of broad meaning: "arms, equipment; harness; male genitalia; tackle; household equipment" (12c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse *hernest "provisions for an army," from herr "army" (see harry (v.)) + nest "provisions" (see nostalgia). Non-military sense of "fittings for a beast of burden" is from early 14c. German Harnisch "harness, armor" is the French word, borrowed into Middle High German. The Celtic words are believed to be also from French, as are Spanish arnes, Portuguese arnez, Italian arnese. Prive harness (late 14c.) was a Middle English term for "sex organs."

Tòfol@cristofol· 20d

Floating (indistinctly).

Tòfol@cristofol· 21d

Also Marxist point!

For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.
Karl Marx, The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

Tòfol@cristofol· 26d

Of course they would.

If you truly claim to represent the people of the future, Frank asks — people who have the exact same right to a livable planet that we do — doesn’t that mean you should be willing to kill in their defense? Not as a first choice, not as the only choice — but can you really take it off the table? “If your organization represents the people who will be born after us, well, that’s a heavy burden! It’s a real responsibility! You have to think like them! You have to do what they would do if they were here,” Frank argues. “I don’t think they would countenance murder,” retorts Mary, to which Frank replies, “Of course they would!”

Tòfol@cristofol· 26d

Good morning.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 12

We used to call this 'ratioed'.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 12

Tots busquem les 'moltes veus' que 'assenyalen' el 'bloqueig intern'.

Final de cicle
La crisi cubana no té una única causa. L'embargament dels Estats Units ha condicionat durant dècades el desenvolupament de l'illa i amb la nova presidència de Donald Trump, el reforçament de les sancions agreugen l'asfíxia econòmica. Però moltes veus assenyalen també el bloqueig intern: l'immobilisme polític, la falta de reformes, la corrupció i la incapacitat del sistema per respondre a les necessitats de la població.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 11

I see. 'Spellbooks' is it.

The RPG Analogy (since we're on a roll)

If we extend our earlier mapping:
RPG Concept RAG Equivalent
Consulting a lore book or bestiary Querying the vector database
Making a Knowledge check before acting Retrieval step before generation
Casting Augury / divination Getting real-time external data before deciding

The agent doesn't just rely on its "backstory" (training data) — it actively researches the current situation before acting, like a wizard flipping through their spellbook or a ranger consulting their map.

RAG pairs naturally with the agent/skills architecture: the agent's identity says when to retrieve, and the retrieval system becomes a kind of "Research" skill in the agent's skill tree.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 8

This is what Catalonia looks like as far as wildfires go. Today a maximum of 40.6°C (105°F), and these temperatures expected to last a week more. And this one of the coolest summers of the coming decade.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 5

'Stabilized' are the latest reports on the wildfire, which isn't the same as 'controlled' or 'extinguished'. ~3,348 hectares (~8,273 acres) of mostly woodland burnt.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 5

Already making excuses.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 4

A note to self, really: the photo I quote is the last one known of Marx, the photo of him 'shaved' is a fake.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 4

Guy gives the game away by associating all these scams together.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 4

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Karl Marx," I holler ...

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 3

No, that's not a cloud, it's a wildfire I can see from where I live.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jul 2

Ex-comm-u-ni-cate!

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 30

That's enough of H, back to M it is.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 29

I never knew.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 29

If this is idealism then yes, I subscribe to it. #Pinkard

We can put the first provisional formulation of Hegel’s idealism in this way: It is a view that the way the world shows up for living creatures depends on the nature of the creature and that the world “shows up” for creatures with a capacity for self-consciousness in a way that it cannot for non-self-conscious creatures. Put in this way, it is not the thesis that the mind creates the world or that what is really fundamental or more basically real are mental things, nor is it the idea the world is inherently spiritual and not material, nor is it the idea that subjects “construct” (either socially or individually) these kinds of things, nor finally that subjects impose conceptual meaning on some kind of distinct and neutral sensible information. The world is not dependent on us for its existence or its structure, but what “shows up” as salient in our world is a function of our species interests as the beings we are.

There is a second way of stating Hegel’s idealism that augments the first one, which has to do with the way things show up to thinking creatures. It holds that not only are there items which can only be entertained in thought—although the infinitely large and the infinitely small are not perceptible they are thinkable—there is also nothing in the world that is in principle unavailable for conceptual thought. There is no reason to think, for example, that there are items which can be felt or grasped in some deep emotional state but not thought. A corollary to this is that for Hegel’s idealism, the world taken as a whole—the “totality” of such things—is only available to thought and not to intuition. We can think of the infinite, we can imagine it, but we cannot see it. Because of this capacity for comprehending the world that goes beyond the more direct deliverances of experience, things can show up for humans in a way that they cannot for non-self-conscious creatures. As such self-conscious creatures, we become capable of wondering whether the way things show up for us is the way things really are. This capacity for self-conscious thought—and, in Hegel’s language, for entertaining the “universal”—is the determining feature of our species life. That also means that our species life is also characterized by a profound unease with itself, another corollary of Hegel’s idealism but which requires a different argument. This is a feature of our type of self-relation, not an indication that we are made of different stuff than other natural things.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 29

“That caused one old stalwart Democrat to lament, ‘We didn’t have any damn Republicans until they invented air conditioning.’” www.phoenixmag.com/2018/06/01/t...

Still, only a quarter of Phoenix homes had AC by 1960. When a strike halted home construction in 1965, contractors focused on existing homes and many were converted from evaporative to refrigerated cooling.

Air conditioning transformed Phoenix life and fueled the city’s growth. Some opined that it even changed Arizona’s political landscape. “Historically, the Democrats were the dominant party until the 1950s, about the same time as air conditioning became available in homes and affordable,” Marshall Trimble, Arizona’s state historian, says. “That caused one old stalwart Democrat to lament, ‘We didn’t have any damn Republicans until they invented air conditioning.’”

A COOL TIMELINE
Improvements in air conditioning helped drive Phoenix’s population growth.

1920 – Population: 29,053

1928 – Phoenix’s first air-conditioned commercial buildings debut.

1930 – Population: 48,118

1932 – Local cottage industry starts building early versions of evaporative coolers.

1940 – More than 30 Phoenix companies are manufacturing evaporative coolers.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 29

This guy didn't dare read it.

I support peace. I do not support this. Our government supports this; so does most of our people. It is one of the greatest outrages of our century. Those people will never allow themselves to read this. Never. You “support Ukraine”? You are too cowardly to even read it. https://babel.ua/texts/127938-shturmoviy-polk-skelya-maye-boyovi-zaslugi-i-dobre-zabezpechennya-a-shche-kazhut-ochevidci-tam-katuyut-i-zabivayut-lyudey-na-smert-rozsliduvannya-babelya

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 28

Sunday morning walk.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 27

The paper in the post I'm quoting contains what I consider to be a very good paragraph-long definition of 'degrowth' - this one:

$3.5. Degrowth properly constructed In summary, by degrowth, we refer to a compass of classless, egalitarian societies of frugal abundance—of personal sobriety, socialized sufficiency (an organising principle of production as it is in the commons), and collective luxury. Sufficiency is a core principle for degrowth, not only in ecological terms, but also because it is necessary for reducing/minimizing cost-shifting. The more one wants and needs, the more they have to shift the costs of satisfying these ‘needs’ onto others. Degrowth-oriented societies will therefore satisfy human needs and wellbeing with a fraction of the current levels of energy and resource use characteristic of contemporary high-income economies. To move in this direction could mean upending capitalist relations of production and confronting the interests of capital at various moments of its production, reproduction, and realization, including consumption, the extraction of energy and resources, the appropriation of unpaid carework, and the international expropriation of cheap resources and labour. Such a transformation of provisioning systems does not only integrate different socio-metabolic profiles and political-economic features (Schaffartzik et al., 2021), but would require a coevolution of structure and superstructure, a corresponding culture, and a set of new common senses together with new forms of planning and economic organization.$

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 26

Whichever way you look at it, it's a '[0] Skip'.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 25

surplus (n.)

"that which remains above what is used or needed," late 14c., from Old French sorplus "remainder, extra" (12c., Modern French surplus), from Medieval Latin superplus "excess, surplus," from Latin super "over" (see super-) + plus "more" (see plus). As an adjective from late 14c.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 25

Why the two totally different moral assessments of starvation? Why does Malthus consider the starvation of indigenous peoples to be a moral tragedy while he considers the starvation of European poor to be a moral necessity? In the Coda the authors suggest that Malthus's revulsion at the plight of indigenous peoples makes him a man for the twenty-first century. But he is never likely to experience that recognition until his two very different moral stances are reconciled. It is possible that in his mind both stances flowed directly from the principle of population. In a world where numbers and resources are in balance, Malthus sees “possession,” especially “prior possession,” as offering a bulwark to protect all of human kind from being driven into poverty. The inequality found in a “world already possessed” is a virtue that allows at least some to live in prosperity and plenty. Is it possible that simple prior possession explains why Malthus thought that the indigenous peoples of the new worlds had an intrinsic right to their lands? Did his revulsion at their starvation derive from this source, and not from a simple natural reaction to the presence of great human suffering? There still remain some unanswered questions surrounding Malthus's population thinking—but many fewer than before the publication of this very insightful volume.

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 25

Plenty of references to Marx in Kallis' collection of essays, 'In defence of degrowth'. indefenseofdegrowth.com

Tòfol@cristofol· Jun 23

Saint John's Eve.