December 01, 2024
Schedule Change!
Streaming schedule on the Twitch Channel is in a state of flux at the moment because of my IRL job schedule that is going to be a tad insane for the rest of this month. Tentatively, I'm going to experiment with later streams and then going DIRECTLY to work.
The first attempt at this will be tonight,
Join us at 10:00pm EST / 03:00am UTC for about two hours. as we explore the world of Teyvat in Genshin Impact. We're currently caught up on the main story quest and are exploring this wild and wacky world in a rather more in depth manner than we have been previously (when we were monomaniacally pursuing the plot). We're also trying to level up our newest gacha recruit, a cute nerd girl who is just.....uh....sweet.
Sucrose art is official Yo-Hoyo art
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As compensation for the self indulgent banality below the fold, here is a tomboy archer contemplating some pyrotechnic mischief.
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Genshin Impact's Amber drawn by Sayla Mars. Support them on FANBOX! (Links NSFW)
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Stanford Torus Overview
Issac Arthur takes a Deep Dive into the Stanford Torus, the winner of a NASA study from the 1970s on space habitats. The math on this design was worked out 40 years ago. It was viable then (given the then fantastic conceit of cheap access to space) Breakthroughs in space transportation like Musk's starship might well make it viable. The advances in most areas of tech over the last 40 year can only make it more refined.
I am much more on board with this sort of space settlement than I am with terraforming. (Though I'm not opposed to the latter in principle). There are really only two viable terraforming candidates in the Solar System. (Mars & Venus...the latter of which would require a truly VAST infrastructure, and, likely, starlifting technology. ) Whereas we can build rotating habitats with earthlike gravity in numbers that boggle the mind.
Quadrillions of people such a program would produce will produce a much larger number of Einsteins, Martin Luther Kings, Ada Lovelaces, Aristotles, Jeffersons, Margurite Harrisons & Issac Newtons, with a corresponding benefit to all civilization from their mental bounty.
Anyway, this is a VERY comprehensive overview of the concept.
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A Few Links Regarding Current Affairs
First off, Nick Freitas and his crew discuss the thorny issues that face the incoming administration.
Note that this was recorded in the heady days before Trump made his Education and Labor secretary picks when there was still hope that he would at least TRY to deal with these issues.
Still, there is stuff that Vivek & Elon can do, but as this very thoughtful discussion makes clear (@1:34:00), even if they are 100% effective (a thermodynamic impossibility) it will not be enough. Some actual options on how to deal with the situation are discussed though.
2hrs 15minutes
Meanwhile: on Joe Rogan, the post election future is also discussed. This is typical of Rogan's long form interviews, in that, love or hate what the guest is saying, it's an erudite and fairly interesting discussion. This one is particularly interesting because Marc Andreessen, one of the pivotal figures in the IT explosion of the last 30 years, leads off the interview with (I'm paraphrasing only slightly) 'yeah. we're living in an alternate timeline and it's CRAZY'. Andressen also makes the case (@ 0:27:30)that the mindset of a lot of Medieval folks, (and by possible extension, certain extant different cultures) are/were better equipped psychologically to deal with the craziness of the modern world. On a tangentially related note, is a discussion of the sad current state of Blue Sky that can be found at 30:28. There is also a terrifying discussion of de-banking (@ 1:34:25).
3hrs 9minutes
Rudyard, is also known for being extremely literate, conscientious, and studious (as well as occasionally having takes that are hotter than liquid tungsten). Here he looks at something I've been contemplating for a few years and actually been struggling make a post on. Specifically, he is analyzing the deleterious and to an extent actively parasitical effects of bureaucracy on a civilization.
52 minutes
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