TriplePlaid

@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Extraordinary, climate change-linked heat wave envelops the West with mounting consequences⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I shudder to think of the impact this could have on plants and animals. We have already seen horrifying mass environmental death in the oceans (see: coral bleaching) and other crazy biological imbalances like red tides. Soon we are going to be experiencing similar insanity everywhere. Not just the ocean, not just that other part of the world that you yourself don’t live in - everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GTX 760 🫡

  It’s “super clocked” so you know it’s good!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Moral Limits of Gambling [Or: what do Polymarket and the history of life insurance have in common?]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great article. The rise of sports betting and other gambling has been hard to watch as someone on the outside who doesn’t have an interest in gambling.

  I think one side of the story that this article didn’t touch on that separates modern gambling such as Polymarket from the life insurance gambling of old is the participation of youth gamblers in today’s market. I think for me and many others it is especially alarming to imagine that children are the ones gambling on whether people will die. And I think that the normalization of children in betting sits in its own context of rising “loot crate” schemes in video games (not that it is completely normalized for children to gamble yet, but it is gradually becoming so).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What problem do you mean?

  The blastophaga psenes wasps in Turkey die during pollination just like the blastophaga psenes wasps in California do.

  Here is more information about how figs (and fig wasps) came to be cultivated in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty soon you’ll be hearing folks say things like “why are you worried if you don’t have anything to hide” as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It’s a slippery slope!!!