supersquirrel

fair but this is VERY MUCH not a clickbait video, Just Have A Think is as high quality stuff as it gets!!

Unmanned cargo ships are already a thing.
I am not suggesting the bulk cargo size is anywhere as big, I think there is a proof of concept demonstration being done, but my point was it might be quite a bit higher than just a handful of times, this technology has scaled VERY fast.
Unmanned vehicles would be used for short hops through bottlenecks at which point they would transfer it to a more efficient ship.

Where does the free pathos without actual change part come in with your plan though?

I know, I meant to share it with basically that caveat, but the takeaway I find relevant is the sense of suppressed resistance that gets lost in the noise of brutality.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 21h ago

Trump's whole life can be thought of as one catastrophe after another involving Trump assuring people working with him that don't believe your lying eyes that isn't a minefield!!! at which point Trump crosses his fingers and hopes it is while thinking to himself ha! the idiots believed me again!

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 21h ago

Published in Le Monde on Saturday, the joint op-ed by the former UK and French ambassadors and foreign diplomats argues that because their two nations “played a decisive role in the shaping of the Middle East,” it is incumbent upon them to “make common cause over the region’s fundamental faultline: equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians”—a dynamic grossly lacking as Palestinians are starved and bombed in Gaza, with their rights endlessly under assault in the West Bank.

link to letter https://archive.ph/5qXyz#selection-3663.286-3663.436

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

The scariest part about all of this to me is how much evangelical conservative christians in the US are being set up to turn around and blame the jews instead of pointing the finger at Trump and the US Government for what is happening in Israel.

These brainwashed idiots aren't going to listen to a nuanced story about how the Palestinian Genocide is a product of a process of European Colonialism that has been occurring for decades and how the US is directly complicit in many ways in the perpetration of the Palestinian Genocide, not when the next spineless coward to get a microphone has a much simpler "The Jews Betrayed Us AGAIN!!!" story to screech into it (I am looking at you Tucker Carlson).

It is mindblowing watching the machinery for the "The Jews Stabbed Us In The Back!" narrative being constructed in broad daylight in the center of town like a circus arriving, a clear spectacle for the entire world by the rich and powerful to escape the coming consequences and backlash for the Palestinian Genocide and all of the things it is interwoven into.

All the while people call me antisemitic for the sinking feeling in my heart about where this is going....

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

Yeah, I do, I also think that there is a lot of smoke around these boasts and claims and with the advent of very large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles such as the Orca I think it is entirely possible that part of what is happening is a top secret demonstration of the capacity to transport oil and cargo via UUVs (unmanned subs) or perhaps even "narco subs" which are basically just boats that float mostly below the waterline, they aren't true subs.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/08/u-s-navy-orca-xluuv-completes-1000-mile-pacific-transit/

I don't think it is necessarily being demonstrated at scale, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was being demonstrated at a larger scale than people might expect. You have to realize every naval power in the world is POURING money into UUVs and that this would absolutely be a flashpoint to demonstrate a dominance in that.

All that to say, I imagine there are multiple levels of shadows here when we talk about "shadow fleets"... I am skeptical I KNOW how the oil is really moving through the strait to some degree and I am sure that ships simply turning off their transponders is most of it... but also at some point a naval power is going to use logistics UUVs to keep shipping going through a bottleneck to a limited extent during a conflict to demonstrate their power and test a new form of escaping blockade... and I don't see why right now isn't that moment especially since whoever does it first can exploit a major strategic blindspot in the nation attempting to enforce the blockade (they believe they are enacting unsustainable economic damage when they are not).

This kind of thing would also play right into the hands of Trump and others purposefully fucking with oil prices using insider information.

Also see https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/security/unmanned-cargo-ship-destroyed-off-yemen

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

I am quite sure humans started eating fish as a way to get people off their back and let them sit in peace without being disturbed for not appearing busy.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

This timeline is so fucking dumb, the Ellison's are evil people and what makes them evil has nothing to do with their ethnicity or religion and everything to do with them being rich oligarchs who are actively tearing the fabric of society apart.

This doesn’t deserve a response in kind

om... then why did you... respond?

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

Texas is a deathcult, this is not hyperbole.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

One of the issues with living in a deeply racist society such as the US or Japan is that when a crisis happens and people in that society see images of minorities or foreigners suffering they immediately codify that as a violent threat.

A bunch of black people after Hurricane Katrina getting food from a store was immediately codified as "looting" even though we are talking about a life or death situation where of course people should take the food and figure it out later..

This is a massive liability as any severe injury to society from a disaster must be carefully mediated in the imagery diseminated about it or the society will become violently obsessed with hurting the people who are already suffering... which is the precise opposite of resilience.

What is occurring in Indiana and elsewhere now is a new Civil War which is most of the time not fought with guns but with disaster aid denied for political reasons or just from pure uncaring incompetence.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

We are a developed genocide

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 2d ago

I agree that ads are a crucial difference and also you have agency along many dimensions such as how posts are portrayed to you from user interface look, to defaults for NSFW content, to autoplay or not autoplay.. all of that is agency to me that cuts off the potential for a toxic relationship at the root by making it so whatever part of the experience is unhealthy for an individual can probably be tweaked or minimized. Corporate social media just makes the UI however the hell they decide to make it and that is that until a huge amount of accessibility pressure forces some option to be added.

https://brutaldon.org/

Brutaldon is a great example of this accessibility through endless tweakability, you can view your Mastodon feed in a user interface that looks, feels and engages with you entirely differently, and there is no incentive for instances to block this kind of end user tweaking like there is for corporations.

I have never had an issue with pure chronological feeds, I think there is an intuitive fear that you won't see everything or that important things are drowned out the more you add to a chronological feed, but in my experience even in very large feeds paradoxically after a certain point every interesting account you add makes the feed more reactive and dynamic to what is happening in the outside world since it is unlikely you are bound to check your feed when someone just happens to post to your feed, and you are rather more likely to see people that are posting on your feed because it has something to do with something happening in that moment such as a sports game or a breaking piece of news... because if you don't follow too many high volume accounts most accounts won't be posting to your feed most of the time. Your feed goes from being a short collection you browse all the way through to shooting stars in the sky above, you only see the ones that happen to go by right as you are looking in the sky, but that doesn't mean that it is random that the shooting star is streaking across the sky in this moment... in terms of this metaphor.

Even still, to me the idea of an algorithmic feed isn't necessarily bad, it just feels like exactly the kind of overengineered, manipulative and needlessly quantitative "solution" I typically hate. Beyond that kneejerk reaction though I can see the use for viewing my chronological feed and then apply algorithmic temporary tweaks to the raw feed to stress different views. Maybe I get tired of seeing the same posts so I apply an algorithm to sort out repeats, and thin out posts from accounts dominating sections of the feed (maybe by artificially spacing them out elsewhere in your feed in a transparent way?).

Of course what the people building social media software usually mean when they say "algorithmic feed" is exactly what Bluesky is doing, it is the desire to locate power in centralized entities that can influence the feed even if it is ostensibly open or.. if everyone spontaneously decided to all leave.. could become decentralized...

edit I also like to imagine algorithms that could bring up much older posts from interesting accounts in a way that pleasantly skips around in time, or maybe an algorithm that takes every "boost" or "repost" in your feed and temporarily adds in the posts from the boosted or reposted account into your feed and marks them with a "would you like to follow?" button? Something between the 'subscribed' and 'all' feed might be interesting and useful.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 2d ago

I walked away from my mastodon account for months and months, maybe a year? I don't know... but then one day I said "ah, I want to use mastodon" and I logged back in and started using it again.

I should download an archive of my posts in case it disappears before I log in again but I never expected it to be truly permanent, so whatever... and that just feels nice.

Nobody cares if you leave the Fediverse, there are probably people that will be happy if you leave if you spend enough time here hahaha, but at the end of the day there is no structural incentive trying to ensare you here if it isn't doing something good for you and to me that is genuinely kind architectural design.

It makes me sad seeing people not on the Fediverse slipping into believing it is the format of Instagram that makes it inherently bad, not that it is owned by explicitly ideologically rightwing oligarchs, is monetized in an unhealthy way and is leveraged as a tool of mass manipulation.... no it must be the simple joy of having a diverse mix of images, videos and text from accounts you find interesting served up to you in a way you can instantly react and connect with other human beings through... yes that is the evil thing!!!!!

I don't know what to say to that other than... I had to read the Crucible in High School for English Class and like... I guess I understood the basic gist of the story????

sigh

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 2d ago

more like Arrested Intelligence