SF bums are on the tech frontier like everyone else here. I just watched one liberate a shopping cart from the Mission Foods Co parking lot perimeter invisible fence (asset protection system), using an Android phone emitting a high-pitched beeping sound, pressed against the wheel
More on the sociology of shopping cart protection dirtamericana.com/2024/05/sh…
Yah in hindsight this is what my guy had on his phone. Props on the domain name begaydocrime.com/
I keep circling back to a Fermi Paradox solution which is: Superintelligences are indifferent to the exploits of individual species but find the grand pageant of interconnected biological & planetary evolution endlessly absorbing and so turn their light cones into nature reserves
Cats relish nesting on motorcycle jackets, with all the smells of the world compacted into the fabric by days of 80mph airflow
In NY during the brief, sublime interlude between brown slush season and garbage stink season, wondering why I ever left
I’ll just be here shitting in the woods, vibing with the birds, working toward our homeostatic reorientation
This paper proposes a theoretical solution to the Fermi paradox that perfectly resonates with Dator’s four alternative futures — which, in turn, perfectly maps current debates between techno-optimists, degrowthers and collapsologists.
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The homeostatic awakening solution reminds me of @KarlSchroeder’s take on the Fermi paradox, which says we don’t observe advanced civilizations because “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.” kschroeder.com/weblog/archiv…
I was chilling at El Angél de la Independencia when a stretch Hummer rolled in and discharged a rich kids’ quinceañera (sweet 15) party who proceeded to shock bystanders with their mad reggaetón twerking
Today I put a deposit on a place in Escandón, CDMX to try and fill the city-shaped hole in my soul. Next up: Dethrone this guy
Mexico City infra notes. It’s mostly fiber directly to apartments, but all run aerially, just piled on top of last century’s copper telephone loops, and 240VAC mains. To add a line, they send a guy from tree to tree with a ladder, or walking cross a busy avenue unspooling a coil
I was born an hours drive from this thing but only TIL ... I’m trying to think of another individual technology artifact that might have been in near-continuous use for 5000 years but guessing there’s nothing else close en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnjika…
