Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Voyage into Cheapness

    Well, I got the viral butter squishy - shipped halfway round the world by air freight from China in less than a week. The total cost was £0.00 for the squishy and £1.35 for a potato peeler. Free delivery.

  • dreaming

    I keep drifting
    into the realm of sleep
    and out again
    dreaming of safety
    by your side
    

• Politics and World Events

  • The Digital Struggle: Confronting Antisemitism and Establishing Online Defense Communities

    The core challenge that intensifies daily is the way digital antisemitism weaves itself into broader narratives concerning "culture wars" or the struggle for Jewish identity in a global context. Major social platforms, chatrooms, and online groups initially appear to be spaces of liberal or public discourse—but beneath this surface operates an industrial mechanism for distributing misinformation, designed to constantly position Jews and Israelis in states of perpetual defensiveness and perceived threat.

• Science

  • Physics Question: Heat and Pressure in a Contained Ideal Gas

    I have a physics questions which has been bothering me, but I'm having difficulty figuring out who to ask about it. I don't like JavaScript and Big Web technologies so I didn't want to go the modern route of asking on Physics stack exchange or some other Web forum, and I certainly wouldn't trust an AI bot. I thought about trying to ask some professor at the local university, but felt a bit intimidated after reading their public bios. Somebody working on ionospheric modeling or nano-technology probably doesn't have time to deal with my elementary questions. I did post to a Usenet physics group, but the two responses I got contradicted each other. So, I'm posting the question here, and then I think I will cross post the question to s/Physics on Bubble.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Tidepools

      I've been thinking a bit about Sandra's post about calling an X an X, and really, two points: first, the irritation that people still call it Twitter (I still do), and second, that it was a hellsite and the sooner it's gone the better.

      I get where Sandra's coming from on this, but -

      First, people can call a thing whatever they want (see: the RRS Sir David Attenborough, or as everyone else will forever call it, Boaty McBoatface). I mentioned this on my gemlog a few years ago, but as a Toronto Blue Jays fan, I'm just as likely to call their stadium Skydome, and indeed, a lot of fans still do, even though it's been Rogers Centre (a bland, corporate name) for ages. That was the original name, it resonated with me for a long period, and, most importantly, the new name is dumb, a corporate imposition. Skydome was, if I recall correctly, the winner of a nationwide contest - the stadium was built more than a decade after the team was established, and after it played its games at the open-air Exhibition Stadium.