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@bolt451 @cstross Forget all the “Blue Marble” photos, nothing speaks to our common humanity like the fact that even astronauts struggle to get their devices to connect to each other.

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.

give you UP
and will never let you DOWN

@tux0r

“You cannot blow up the sun. It is incredibly difficult to disable a decentralized network of millions of rooftop solar panels. Distributed energy is inherently more resilient to sabotage than a handful of massive, vulnerable thermal plants.”

https://act.gp/46GFEnH

@dan
- "My dishwasher is on the internet!"
- "Why is on the internet?"
- "To download software updates!"
- "Why does it need software updates?"
- "To fix security vulnerabilities!"
- "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?"
- "Because it's on the internet!"
“It’s in that place where I put that thing that time.”

Maybe a more compact way of putting my ruminations on wealth from the other day, but I roughly think of wealth in four or so strata:

- Don't have enough to afford essentials
- Rents the essentials
- Owns the essentials
- Owns someone else's essentials

I think folks in that third category need, as a whole, to recognize that they have more shared political interest with the first two categories than with the fourth.