Posts by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
(DIR) Post #ATH7D7U9MewLy64WAK by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2023-03-04T14:44:33Z
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@post @pluralistic not to say that problems don’t exist in the #Fediverse but nostr strikes me mostly as another desperate attempt by crypto bros to find a valid use case for blockchain
(DIR) Post #ATN5yYW9o0TzaWSgWu by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2023-03-07T11:58:57Z
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@Teri_Kanefield “The Fediverse” is, of course, more than Mastodon. The protocols underlying it are called ActivityPub and they are used in many systems. Those systems may share content - I.e. federate- whether or not they are microblogging services. For example there is a photo-sharing app called PixelFed (which is most like Instagram) and a video publishing system called PeerTube (like YouTube). There are also other applications using ActivityPub in the microblogging space - Pleroma and Misskey for example.The key takeaway is that any of these otherwise completely distinct and very different software services can all share content and anyone with an account on one of them is able to see, subscribe to, and interact with, anyone else on any of them, as long as they can connect to each other via those ActivityPub protocols.
(DIR) Post #ATRyYWoLnfOisSPg8m by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2023-03-09T20:28:23Z
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@lauren 😢
(DIR) Post #AXlMAtb1CO0gD7R5EG by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2023-07-15T17:51:24Z
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I knew that RFK Jr was a total nutbar - but I hadn't realized he was also a racist and anti-Semitehttps://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/
(DIR) Post #AZIzwhDwoPAQPgc4bg by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2023-08-31T23:44:59Z
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@rms The head of the Federal Reserve is a Trump appointee who WANTS there to be a recession, so it can be blamed on Joe Biden.
(DIR) Post #AiKFO8qVu4LMnWUeEC by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-05-27T19:01:22Z
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@aral You do know of course (or do you?) that this war (independent of however despicably Israel's government, under Netanyahu's leadership, is conducting it) was initiated AGAINST Israel by the government of Gaza/ Palestine, beginning on October 7th and continuing since. The government of this nation of Palestine/Gaza - Hamas - in both its foundational documents and in every pronouncement of its aims since then, seeks not just to wipe out the nation of Israel but also to rid the world of all Jews. Hamas exists, by its own declarations, as an organization dedicated to genocide.Please do NOT take my word for it - seek out and read through Hamas' publications.One might also ask why the Muslim world has turned its collective backs on Palestine for the last 75 years and why Egypt's border with Gaza is now and has always been closed up tighter than Gaza's Israeli border has ever been.
(DIR) Post #Aif4aRGwtGXhruwEpU by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-06T20:09:40Z
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@futurebird lol
(DIR) Post #Aj3ge0MCqByrWsrIBM by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-17T19:28:00Z
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@gerrymcgovern does that really matter, though? If the prices charged to consumers are the same regardless of where/how the power is sourced, it’s irrelevant which source is powering which consumers.
(DIR) Post #Aj3ge2EpqZGzMbQQyG by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-18T11:53:31Z
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@gerrymcgovern I feel like I'm missing something here, because the sum of generated power is the same, regardless of where the power is used. Whether it powers schools, hospitals, or AI data centers, it's the same amount of power being generated. It doesn't seem realistic to expect that there's going to be a one-to-one replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, with usage being static - energy use continues to grow. If most of that growth is from renewable sources that's a desirable outcome
(DIR) Post #Aj3ge3EW9Ec4RuHh7A by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-18T12:44:52Z
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@gerrymcgovern I promise I'm not being deliberately obtuse, but I still don't see the distinction. Yes, there's new demand, and if it's being met by renewable sources, that's a good thing. Is the suggestion instead that, absent the creation of new renewable capacity, the demand wouldn't exist at all?
(DIR) Post #Aj3ge40jFzB4rQqCGG by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-18T13:21:41Z
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@gerrymcgovern This should be a problem only if growth is happening BECAUSE of the additional capacity. If the usage is increasing anyway (making no judgements about whether those uses are desirable or not - it's irrelevant to the question) it should be a net plus. Obviously we want renewables to supplant fossil fuels, but (given that overall demand is increasing) we can do that only by increasing capacity of renewable sources much faster than demand is growing
(DIR) Post #Aj3ge58D5ekwKvLgYq by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-18T16:38:51Z
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@gerrymcgovern with all that considered, I still can’t see that it makes a bit of difference whether the power being used by a school, for example, comes from a windmill or from a coal-fired steam turbine.
(DIR) Post #Aj5d9l4VCFGht8NpAW by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-06-18T18:11:17Z
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@cy @gerrymcgovern believe me, I totally get that. My original question, though, was why it mattered if the renewable- vs coal- sourced energy went to public goods or to industrial uses - it’s all via the same grid so the destination of any particular kwH should be irrelevant.
(DIR) Post #Am8GHdyWsNWxmqLxJY by jeffmarkel@mastochist.social
2024-09-18T15:43:43Z
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@ErikUden odd? Quirky? Yes. But not queer☺️