Posts by clew@ecoevo.social
(DIR) Post #AzBVVVK2oFM5FAF11s by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-14T01:35:41Z
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You will probably like this as background (with math!):https://youtu.be/TgwaiEKnMTQ@futurebird @catsalad
(DIR) Post #AzFDzWQCGXgOnW7f72 by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-15T20:38:16Z
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Irving Finkel is the film star for this (actual scholar, just ... incredibly charming)https://youtu.be/XVmsfL5LG90There are a couple of sub-questions because cuneiform was a working language for THOUSANDS OF YEARSAre you writing a poem? In your language or in a classical language? A whiny letter about copper or fancy duds? A recipe? A spreadsheet? A curse? These aren't the same when I write them in my native language, don't know why they would be in any other. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzFEG8BFe9jgXR3Goi by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-15T20:41:17Z
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found a better video! shows the palm-sized tablets moving to make the subtle angles of the strokes easy. https://youtu.be/zjDFBb4IDqkAlso, a vid from Iraq, which seems more than fair!@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzVVjZARCEL4NteSW0 by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-23T17:12:24Z
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Same as programming generally, mathematics, videogames, a particular kind of worldbuilding SF&F… the perfectible understandable artificial world is sooooo seductive. @futurebird @rk
(DIR) Post #AzZXrDXsRm78BNEO6C by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-25T15:55:05Z
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I was taken aback by how irrelevant Pinterest’s ads were to me, given that almost everything I pinned was DIY. I read ads from Wawak and Mood and Ace Hardware with interest (they don’t sneak them, which helps). Pinterest mostly showed me Shein.Probably it would be worse to be advertised to accurately? It doesn’t seem to have ruined the Taunton magazines though, eg.@futurebird @sinituulia
(DIR) Post #Azf9J1IuJoQzY7IrHk by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-28T01:07:04Z
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who’s the “we” brought up on totally law abiding cyberpunk?I can’t even think what it would be!@bastardsheep
(DIR) Post #AziKZjrs53MxMhiBlY by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-10-29T21:38:39Z
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Neither condone math crime nor delude yourself that computers can represent a continuum!@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzseXZCCjGRMLq3z28 by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-11-03T21:09:30Z
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aw, I want the paintball version@grickle
(DIR) Post #B05PMrxzz3TisKurey by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-11-10T00:20:05Z
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Wedding party table assignments @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B05PMu3kCfGLMjcTtQ by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-11-10T00:25:12Z
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They aren’t using wax for it, right? They’re using an image of a technology, for it’s class connotations, divorced from its original purpose.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B0M42Br4Cv4tMqGcZk by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-11-18T01:41:47Z
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A good looking rock. and you can't fake something weathering in place like that. Erratics are all very well, but not the same....and it's so petty... a house designed to set off the rock would have been wonderful, and there are examples in lots of vernacular styles. @futurebird @wikkit
(DIR) Post #B19I4FV06eHa7EuxDk by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-11T19:39:52Z
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I don't think of those as quite the same thing, except that everthing is becoming one awful thing.I like "platform trap" for the economic capture Doctorow describes, since (a) it describes *how* it works so you can check if youre at risk pre-shit, BEFORE you're trapped; and (b) it is very bitey and snappy to say.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1Wrzvx9AXBFn39pg0 by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-23T04:40:47Z
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Do two ants ever try to pick each other up? @futurebird @Wyatt_H_Knott
(DIR) Post #B1Y6SRBIFYGlGdDiIi by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-23T18:57:36Z
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I remember it was the census, everyone was supposed to go back to their official town — lots of parallels in history — and I kind of assumed that meant everyone was traveling and all the inns were full.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1YhXmktA5nzvjHbQu by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-24T01:53:08Z
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Fossil trilobite; a bit large but there’s enough detailConsidered some handmade craft-fair earrings but I think they’d get stuck in the wax and also bend with heavier use. Trilobite it is. Let’s hope they differ from each other@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1Yi8uOTizggKqVD6G by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-24T01:59:51Z
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I know it’s how our world worked, but how odd that it’s the fancy rich people who have handily stealable signets. You’d think *they’d* use their noble thumbprints and I, Frida Protagonist, would use persona-specific and deniable doodads. @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1iNqVNJwwJq1gVVxo by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-28T17:59:24Z
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I just read _Shroud_ and it had nail biting adventure and vivid characters and sharp social commentary and a *great* alien ecology. Fine as a standalone. @futurebird @mycotropic @WhiteCatTamer @RanaldClouston @rk @bookstodon
(DIR) Post #B1iufBX0gWBxmfFW4m by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-12-29T00:07:12Z
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I have watched a well driller do it. Reasonably successfully. I think locals have sometimes developed heuristics that work locally. WOuld like to see dowsing competitions in vadose regimes that are new for everyone involved. (Throw in whatever formal hydrologists would like to try! Underground is hard.) @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B2MVv8THmYZnRrjHxg by clew@ecoevo.social
2026-01-17T02:38:27Z
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Past to now, or now to past? How long since they traveled?Pre-atom-bomb metal is distinguishable now. Maybe there’s enough to test in tisdue? post-ubiquitous-metals bones might be distinguishable in the past.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B2OkcWxQPGDPW8KiNU by clew@ecoevo.social
2026-01-18T04:32:35Z
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How do they make it dense enough to not wash away at the base? Surely ants aren’t heavy enough for effective particle compaction ? !! Do they drywall-fit the grains together? @futurebird @goaty