Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

for a while Ephrata, WA (tiny town in the middle of nowhere) had the fastest internet in the country measured as average speed available to individual households, because Grant County P.U.D. simply gave everyone a publicly owned fiber hookup because what else are they going to spend the money on

another important piece that they don’t mention is that the profit from all of this electricity usage goes to the Public Utility Districts, nonprofit cooperative entities which were set up because rich people didn’t want to sell farmers power

those utility districts have been spending that money on public infrastructure like fiber, without which none of this would be possible

for the record people were flocking there for the cheap electricity prior to A·I, including:

• silicon manufacturing
• carbon fiber plants
• unmanned aerial vehicle testing and manufacturing
• and yes, bitcoin miners

wild to see new york times doing a piece on central washington https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/technology/ai-data-centers-electricians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE4.ZTQZ.eXmmXjcNivCI&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

is it really dating if it’s been months and you haven’t kissed

plural of house

@Satsuma @gaditb strategywiki has started pitching in to help with hosting some of the other ones but that's a very single point of failure situation as well

@gaditb fanwikis definitely can not support essays in the genre of “here is what i personally think and why i believe that, with references and citations”, which is the big gap in the internet’s information resources right now

@gaditb i think many fanwikis do have sustainability issues and high administrative turnover, they’re just structured better than most to be able to tolerate that

the downside is that fanwikis can largely only ever be written from a neutral point of view, because subjective/innovative/interesting interpretations can’t tolerate constant contributor turnover as easily

the reason the internet is so shit right now is that the job expectations of your average hobbyist website maker have been steadily increasing for the past two decades and nobody has time to maintain an interesting resource on the web for free anymore

i also had a dream that @aescling had strongly held beliefs about tagging. i didn’t quite agree with them so i spent some time browsing the internet for an essay i remembered reading previously. this involved looking at a couple of personal homepages with great design and lots of interesting thoughts and content, the sort which don’t really exist anymore in reality. alas, we have lost our way

had a dream there was a fox and raccoon who travelled together to commit crimes on houses with large yards and quiet streets

@wallhackio Loner by Alison Wonderland?

@gaditb thankfully browsers do this one automatically