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But sometimes, in spring, we'll get several cool rainy days in a row, then the sun will come out and start warming everything up.
So the humidity is, technical term here, "swimmable". And the solar mass is quite cool.
And the air gets cooled, can't hold its water any more, and the stone floor becomes wet and slick.
If it gets bad enough, we have to put down towels to make it safe to walk on. Usually, tho, as now, it just gives one clammy bare feet. :)
It's a great deal, tho, cold clammy feet for a few days in exchange for +-5-12c of free thermal power, I'll take it, and tho I'm unlikely to ever build again, I would certainly build around a passive solar plan. Our addition was *not* built that way, cuz of engineering constraints, and it is way less pleasant.
Ads everywhere. Usage limits. Frustrating guardrails. Less model choice. Users of the Character.AI chatbot app are revolting after a series of changes they say have made the app worse. This is what the future of AI actually looks like https://www.404media.co/lobotomized-character-ai-is-showing-what-ai-enshittification-looks-like/
@josephcox Users are revolting and so are the villagers
taught the phone survey man how to pronounce authoritarianism
@yaelwrites How many times did you have to spell it? GOOD JOB.
Today's rural-internet-sucks adventure is that I got a phone call telling me that my internet is out because of a train derailment somewhere in western Canada (which I cannot find in the news... super weird.)
Yes, this is why people are using foreign-owned Nazi billionaire companies for their internet (no, I will not use Starlink at my home, ever, for obvious reasons). And yes, I'm tethering off my phone to complain about my internet access. And Nazi billionaires.
4 hours after that phone call, my internet is back up! And I still can't find any news about a "train derailment in western Canada" like the phone call said. It's such a weirdly specific detail I'd really like to know where it happened that it caused my internet to go out for several hours...
I think I may have recovered from the #RustWeek trip.
No, didn't catch any viruses or anything, it's just that I'm not a people person, and there were a lot of people there.
I'm also someone who likes being at other places, but hates traveling, and RustWeek was the furthest I ever travelled since ~1995 when I visited the UK (London & Cambridge). And I traveled alone this time.
Being physically not in a great shape also took its toll.
So, lots of things conspired to make it very exhausting. Was worth it, though, might do it again, probably not in 2027, but the break between my conference-goings will not be as long as last time (~a decade), and RustWeek will be a top contender for conferences to attend.
The original part of our house was built for passive solar heating & cooling.
There's a ~1m ledge on the south, a bank of six double-glazed sliding-glass door windows, and a huge solar mass on the ground floor, soapstone over concrete over gravel.
It works fabulously well. In high summer/winter you're lookin' at a 5-12c differential between inside and outside.
But sometimes, in spring, we'll get several cool rainy days in a row, then the sun will come out and start warming everything up.
So the humidity is, technical term here, "swimmable". And the solar mass is quite cool.
And the air gets cooled, can't hold its water any more, and the stone floor becomes wet and slick.
If it gets bad enough, we have to put down towels to make it safe to walk on. Usually, tho, as now, it just gives one clammy bare feet. :)
SpaceX-Tesla Merger Is ‘Only a Matter of When,’ Early Investor Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/early-spacex-investor-says-tesla-tie-up-is-only-a-matter-of-when?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@alice You clearly play different games than I do... Suspect this might be the "inspiration" for the game?
https://www.romancing-japan.com/posts/japan-breeding-visa-debunking-hoax/
Rhubarb crumble. Food from the garden is a bit magical (not efficient or sustainable, but deffo magic)
@otfrom not stewing the rhubarb before crumbling? Intriguing. 🤔
@su_liam @Npars01 @shtrom @Azuaron @GossiTheDog too big to bail
@gabrielesvelto @Npars01 @shtrom @Azuaron @GossiTheDog Damn right!
U.S. employers are falling behind their own workforce on AI
Nexthink has issued new analysis showing that employer support for AI is lagging real-world U.S. workforce adoption. Drawing on data from Gallup, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, JFF, and Forrester – combined with Nexthink usage data from millions of endpoints – the findings show AI adoption has become a game of chance, with employees left to navigate tools without support or guidance.
https://itnerd.blog/2026/05/27/u-s-employers-are-falling-behind-their-own-workforce-on-ai/
Finally some good tech news? #LastFM is now independent again.
https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591/2
@Gargron Yeah, but ListenBrainz and LibreFM are #opensource
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@alice the horror scenario for every conservative: foreigners coming to their land to take their women!
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The new CEO of Wikipedia worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Wikimedia Foundation has now fired the a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. Sign the petition if you've edited Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
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@alice what the helly
The Trump regime’s occupation of the District of Columbia is as unacceptable and fascist as ever. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/may/27/donald-trump-republicans-texas-primary-midterms-iran-redistricting-latest-news-updates
Hegseth and Trump can’t win their war of choice in Iran, so they have to menace the residents of the District, who have zero sovereign protection from Republican Fascism.
Bc it's a cult and the people are the sheep.
When describing what a fruit tastes like, do you have a set of fruit primitives? Like a sort of fruit primary colors that are used to explain other fruit..
@ZachWeinersmith
"fruit primitives" is a peak weinersmith phrase 😂
