Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CILMPTS Wordo: MAYOR

  • Ranks

    Given Lieutenants one might expect there also to be Rightenants; this suggests a missing officer particle, something like dark matter in other, less reputable, theories. There are obviously 'up' and 'down' spin states for all these particles, though some historical materials indicate a third 'neither up nor down' state for soldiers.

  • Food Forest Update #1

    "The most energy efficient thing you can do in your life is grow some of your own food. 40% of all the energy consumed by a city is the agriculturally consumed food. Growing your own food, that's an enormous action." - Geoff Lawton

    Plants are really incredible organisms but the unsung hero is the soil. The fascinatingly complex amalgamation of organisms that make up healthy soil are what really make it all possible. You feed the soil and the rest is easy. Even feeding the soil can be easy once you realize how many things can be diverted from the trash can to the ground. I find it so uplifting that all it takes to turn bad soil into good is throwing things generally considered garbage onto the ground and waiting.

    I've accomplished a lot in the food forest this week already and also acquired a couple new plants that have been on my list along with one new discovery. I found another nursery not too far away that sells a lot of interest edible plants and went to check it out. Lots of good stuff but I'm getting to the point that I'm pretty selective with bringing home new plants.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Zuck's anti-antitrust argument is that he ruined the Internet

    Tl;dr In Meta's antitrust trial, the defense - that is, Meta - is arguing that Meta hasn't violated antitrust laws in part because it is not a "social media" company as the FTC defines that term.