FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
@academicalnerd Hi there young d'Artagnan!
> Do you people read me? Are the texts clear? Or is it an indistinguishable mess of words?
Yes. Yes. No.
But given the question, I am starting to wonder whether you are not some ChatGPT, or something. Given your English lang skills, it's surprising you'd even ask that.
@piggo [AndrewPerpetua](https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua) has also a fun one on [his map](https://map.ukrdailyupdate.com/)
FailForward
boosted
@z428 I see. Your impressions radiate quite some "bleakness". Maybe you just need to turn around and read more "society" a "lifestyle" sections of the daily/weekly newspapers. For instance stuff like this https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/21/a-new-start-after-60-im-a-short-greying-woman-and-the-worlds-oldest-battle-rapper . See? World is not falling apart yet! 😄
@z428 Well, "interesting". Let's debate it a bit before we apply such a positively loaded label... Specifically this post of yours reminds me of stills like these below - I hope you recognise the movie. I wouldn't call that one "interesting" 😄 (I just committed a crime of stealing random images from the Internet... See what you made me do?! 😉 )
@z428 Very Americana '60s imagery. Your Germany is interesting and "different".
@simongerman600 For completeness, even though probably not as big as others, Spar franchise claims to be in 28 European countries - out of the total of 48 countries globally.
@piggo Yeah. Some people have lives full of eventually useful things. It's also called hoarding sometimes 🙂
FailForward
boosted
A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
@piggo The other day I read somewhere that laws of physics do not apply to some members of certain income brackets...
@z428 very cool pic. Thanks! Finally some bright light in your gloomy cityscapes :-)
FailForward
boosted
@m @hellquist Thought so, but still wanted to poke a bit :-)
@hellquist Is that your morning starter?
FailForward
boosted
#интересное
Арбузы прилетели!
Снимок был сделан в 1952 году в поселке Амдерма после доставки на Крайний Север фруктов и овощей из южных регионов СССР.
@piggo That is a cool project. Looking forward to see the complete setup :-) Best of luck there.
FailForward
boosted
A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployement from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.
Video credit: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. 'Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles.' DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620612114.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1620612114
FailForward
boosted
Umberto Eco uses 50% less fuel and 30% less packaging than regular Umberto
@piggo And what is it? Sorry for a stupid question, I am totally ignorant of electronics, I usually see it packed in a plastic boxes. This vaguely resembles a fuse box, or something 🤔 .
@peterdrake spaghetta perhaps?
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
***
This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
