Trevor Flowers 🌸🌸 @trevorfsmith@xoxo.zone

I split my time between three accounts:
- Morning thoughts and dog pix: @trevorfsmith
- Maker/machinist/manufacturer chitchat: @trevorflowers@machines.social
- Web-ish XR for Transmutable News: @trevorflowers@widerweb.org

Business Insider has a display mode in which they list a headline and three bullet points from each story. Especially for unfolding events where they feel obligated to write new stories every day, there's rarely much more to the story than the three bullet points.

Morning thought: Use a sloppy mini-lathe and mini-mill to make a precision micro-lathe and micro-mill.

Oh, nothing. Just rendering a GANN-generated painting of myself into the terminal.

And of course toot provides a TUI for Mastodon:
https://www.linuxlinks.com/toot-mastodon-cli-tui-client/

@trevorfsmith Also, viu is a tool that renders images into your terminal. Neat!
https://github.com/atanunq/viu/

The #termwave hits just keep landing in my lap! For a weather surprise: `curl wttr.in`

My neighborhood has a yearly garage sale day and I scored a $1 PC (hopefully for driving CNC) and a $2 satchel to replace my beloved Be Inc. messenger bag whose clasp broke after ~20 years of constant use.

Morning thought: Mildly automated luxury gay communist makerspace. (ideally within walking distance of my home)

Morning thought: I'm a text-centric person (a textusexual?) which explains why I don't go into VR that often. Current VR hardware is bad at text.

Whelp, another shooting in my neighborhood. It's almost as if we need a universal social safety net as well as universal health care (especially mental health care) in order for people to live in peace. Almost.

Friends, it is hard to avoid turning the Transmutable News Weekly into a constant stream of trainwreck fascination with web3 and instead cover folks who are doing good (often quiet and unpaid) work on the Wider Web and the Agreement Bedrock. There's so much low hanging fruit of the gotcha and schadenfreude varieties!

Morning thought: If artificial muscle tech progresses at some point our huge Earth movers could become absolute muscle-bois instead of goopy hydraulic friends.

One sickness of the app economy is their regular questioning of whether we love them. If we do, they pump us for stars. If we don't, they pump us for feedback. Once a month. For the rest of time.