Chapter 39 of #Eliezer Yudkowsky’s recruitment tract “#Harry-Potter and the Methods of Rationality” ends with a quote that many of his followers have found especially inspirational, which is about #nihilism:
“There is no justice in the laws of Nature, Headmaster, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don’t care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don’t have to! We care! There is light in the world, and it is us!”
Consequently Lighthaven’s Wi-Fi currently has the password “wearethelight”, and one of Mox's blackboards currently bears a joking graffito saying, “Labubu is the darkness”. #tourism
on 02026-06-17#Berkeley musical of “The Lunchbox”, which sounds amazing. #tourism
on 02026-06-06“Google I/O Kickoff: Pre-World Cup Hack” this Saturday. #tourism
on 02026-05-19Dan Piponi on #Mastodon. #tourism
on 02026-05-05#MVNO #Cricket has a CSV file of the “broadband facts” for their service plans for #cellphones. #tourism
on 02026-05-01#MVNO #Cricket has a signup page for getting physical SIMs. They have a 3-month unlimited plan for US$40 a month plus US$45 up front, but I think that may be online-only. Unlimited data, no hotspot, unlimited calls and texts, no “Auto Pay”. #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-05-01#MVNO #Cricket Wireless supports physical SIMs (pSIMs) but someone got refused a pSIM because their phone supported an #eSIM. #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-05-01#USA #MVNO list for #tourism #cellphones.
on 02026-04-30Repair Café Silicon Valley has about five events a month. #tourism
on 02026-04-28Repair Café Pasadena, monthly or so events, “next” one six days ago. #tourism
on 02026-04-28The original Fixit Clinic in #Oakland has a blog covering the US. #tourism
on 02026-04-28#Berkeley Repair Café, the "Culture of Repair": “Working to transform our culture into one that repairs more readily than it purchases, that repairs because that’s just what you do.” #tourism
on 02026-04-28#Berkeley Repair Café, the #Culture-of-Repair #tourism
on 02026-04-28list of Fix-It Clinic and similar events in the #USA. #tourism
on 02026-04-28San Diego Fix-It Clinic, with a few get-togethers per month, including one in Carlsbad. “By creating what [Bay Area founder Peter Mui] likes to describe as do-it-together disassembly at local libraries and/or makerspaces, he brought together the community of tradespeople to share their skills with their fellow neighbors on how to troubleshoot and repair their appliances, clothes, electronics (the list can be endless) at these hands-on clinics. This program has been adopted nationwide and has received overwhelming support in every community.” #tourism
on 02026-04-28California DMV driver’s handbook #PDF. #tourism
on 02026-04-24#California sample driver’s license knowledge tests. #tourism
on 02026-04-22#DesignCon 2026 expo exhibitors at Santa Clara Convention Center; the expo is tomorrow and Thursday, 11 AM to 6 PM. #tourism #electronics
on 02026-02-24"Urban Ore" at 900 Murray in Berkeley sells all kinds of recycled junk. #hoarding #tourism
on 02026-02-24The Mobility Database lists #GTFS providers for live public #transportation data, including the #SFBA. #tourism
on 02026-02-16Berkeley Hillside Club #events include a Board Game Day at noon on Sunday. #tourism
on 02026-02-04Mountain View light rail schedule PDFs for #tourism #transportation
on 02026-02-04#PDF of #Caltrain’s schedules for #tourism #transportation
on 02026-02-04downloadable #BART schedules in PDF for #tourism #transportation
on 02026-02-04#SuperHappyDevHouse #tourism #events tomorrow at #HackerDojo in Mountain View
on 02026-02-04another complaint about #US-Mobile bait-and-switching their service’s usage for #cellphones in RVs in #USA #tourism.
on 02026-01-15a complaint about getting banned from #US-Mobile #cellphones #USA #tourism
on 02026-01-15Cricket Wireless is a prepaid brand of AT&T Wireless, while US Mobile is “a newer prepaid service that resells all three of the nationwide networks”, that is, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). #USA #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-01-15a prepaid #USA #cellphones comparison site; the three listed as “cost per month: 0” are Helium, Roamless, and TextNow. Cricket is apparently US$25/month. But there are a lot of carriers that are under US$10/monthly. #tourism
on 02026-01-15Phones for #tourism in #USA: Cricket Wireless, Verizon Prepaid, etc.
on 02026-01-15Generative #AI events in the #SFBA, a Google spreadsheet. #tourism
on 02026-01-15Brian #Norgard of Norgould and Tinder about “why products fail” #toread #tourism
on 02026-01-15Hey, #The-Crucible in #Oakland is up and running. #tourism
on 02026-01-12California #tourism map
on 02026-01-05list of #Native-American reservations in California. #tourism
on 02026-01-05A #Native-American California tribe of about a thousand in San Diego county, whose ancestral language is a Yuman language. Their original reservation is now entirely submerged by El Capitan Reservoir, and they’re headquartered in Lakeside. #tourism
on 02026-01-05#video #toread on #vanlife by #Al-Mundo-con-el-Mate doing #tourism in #Bolivia
on 02024-09-18#Argentina #tourism #video #toread #formina
on 02024-09-18