Some Concordia University professors set up a Minecraft server, and powered it with solar panels and a battery ...
... then added GUI text that shows players data on the energy ecosystem: Battery level, solar panel output, and how much energy the server is requiring at any given instant
fascinating psychological effects ensue ...
... as the players begin to notice how different actions they take inside the game use different levels of energy
Item #8 in my Linkfest:
Since there’s been a resurgence lately of the “mastodon is mostly just for folks who use Linux” thing …
… i’m now curious about my community here
(i’m offering intentionally crude and ungranular options in this poll)
“I use Linux …”
(Please boost!)
Behold the wonderful animated gifs of the artist Alex Khabbazi
he individually knits each frame
The result: A gorgeous glitchy blend of the analog and digital
Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here:
Remember all the right wing folks were fulminating about collusion between social media and the government?
you know, the horrors of the "twitter files"?
how it's *incredibly dangerous* for social-media executives to be in close communication with the federal government?
the primrose path to censorship, and all that?
As @npub14j85...pjuf notes, these folks are all *quite* silent about Musk being *completely in bed with the incoming Trump administration*
In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...
... so they wrote one
and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this
So they explained how fascism would come to the US
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter:
"Imagine if you and your partner discovered that the same lawyer was representing *both* of you in the divorce, while also serving as the judge, *and* trying to match with both of you on Tinder. Now imagine that when the divorce terms were finalized, lawyer got your family home."
@Cory Doctorow on the loony and ruinous conflicts of interest that come from Google's monopoly position online
The one I’d never thought of is weakening legal protections for vaccine manufacturers. It’d require congressional approval, but lawsuits, even frivolous ones, could make vaccine makers say hey we don’t need to be in this business
(this highlights, of course, our big dilemma: the way huge for-profit pharma companies play such a crucial role in public health)
