L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town

Revamping my #introduction a little…

I'm primarily a writer, as well as an incorrigible reader. I've mostly stopped freelancing, so much of what I write on a day-to-day basis shows up at http://lrhodes.net, if you're curious. I also discuss more academic subjects (like history and philosophy) as well as current events over @lrhodes.

reduce > reuse > recycle

Picked up this brand of milk one day because it was the only 1 quart bottle in stock. Figured the old school heavy glass bottle was a gimmick, but no, you can actually return the bottle to the grocery store where you bought it, get a deposit, and the creamery will reuse the bottle. https://www.homesteadcreameryinc.com/our-products/milk/

Forgive the YT link, but I figured some of you would appreciate this house: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C7OPO334NDk

It's rentable, so file under #theCartographer maybe?

You know who's good about including a blog roll on their blogs? University presses.

"I think of Spinoza, perhaps the most rigorous (or at least the most rigor-loving) philosopher in history, who chose to turn down an appointment at Heidelberg University to continue grinding the lenses whose dust would kill him." https://robertminto.com/2019/10/02/on-rigor/

Fairphone, a Dutch company trying to manufacture and market a fair trade smartphone, faces hard-to-solve sourcing and human rights problems. https://mondediplo.com/2016/04/13fairphone

Now I'm daydreaming about how to optimize social media for e-ink, and wondering if that even makes sense. Maybe the underlying ideological assumptions of social media and low-impact technology are simply inimical to one another.

(tbh, I don't love ebooks, but I've picked up a small collection of them over the years, and I think I'd be more inclined to read them on a reader, rather than on my phone or laptop, and if I'm going to get a reader, I'd prefer it to be low-impact.)

Anyone have recommendations for an e-ink reader that's not produced by Amazon?

Sequoyah Murray's mutant soul. #theStudio https://sequoyahmurray.bandcamp.com/album/before-you-begin

I believe that we're on the verge of passing the window of opportunity where the sort of broad structural changes that could prepare us for fundamental changes in the environment can still be made voluntarily. Not everything in our technological culture is going to be feasible once we reach the other side, and the parts that can be saved are those that we have the foresight to reconfigure for the likeliest forms of scarcity.

I'm also wondering how you could make the receiving end as inert as possible.

In other words, you send a request, and get back the requested data. How could you device display that data with minimal energy use?

In other, other words, to display a web page, a monitor has to constantly consume energy. How could you rig a system that uses energy to write to a rewrite-able surface so that the data stays displayed without that constant energy use? Like an Etch-a-Sketch screen.

Thinking (somewhat abstractly) about the logistics of creating a printed server — an internet-connected set-up that writes to inert physical media (possibly paper), with a "reader" mechanism that only powers up when it receives a request and powers back down again once it's served the requested file.

The Japanese Woodblock Palette, a 12 color palette sampled from old Japanese woodblock prints:
https://lospec.com/palette-list/japanese-woodblock

As seen in @polyducks@twitter.com's Mushroom Hunt text exploration game: https://polyducks.itch.io/mushroom-hunt