#Physical Infrastructure Network

[intelisync]

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) Explained

DePINs are transforming the way we build and manage infrastructure by leveraging blockchain technology. These networks ensure resilience, transparency, and security by decentralizing control and integrating blockchain-based systems.

Key components of DePINs include off-chain networks, token incentives, blockchain architecture, and physical infrastructure networks. These elements work together to facilitate secure and transparent transactions and automate agreements through smart contracts. However, DePINs face challenges like scalability, regulatory uncertainty, and environmental concerns. The DePIN Flywheel concept demonstrates how tokenization fosters network growth, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of development and innovation.

This innovative model enables seamless collaboration among various devices without relying on a central authority, thereby democratizing access to essential infrastructure resources.

DePINs operate through several key components, including off-chain networks, token incentives, blockchain architecture, and physical infrastructure networks. These elements work together to facilitate secure transactions, automate processes with smart contracts, and tokenize physical assets. This integration not only optimizes resource management but also fosters a more inclusive and participatory infrastructure ecosystem, empowering communities and individuals alike.

The future of infrastructure lies in the convergence of digital and physical elements, with DePINs leading the way. Intelisync offers tailored blockchain development solutions to help startups and small businesses embrace decentralized infrastructure. Connect with Intelisync today to explore the Learn more....

[full2njoy]

DePIN: What are Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks?

Blockchain networks that employ tokens to encourage communities—rather than corporations—to construct physical infrastructure networks—think transportation, telecoms, electric vehicle charging, etc.—from the ground up are known as Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks, or DePINs. Although the industry has been there for a while, the agreement on a moniker has sparked a shared belief that…

[oliviadlima]

Physical Security Market : Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020-2030

The global physical security market size was valued at $104.6 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $192.9 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.5% from 2021 to 2030.

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[escapevelocityev3]

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks Tapping The Potential of DePIN to Create a Physical Infrastructure Network.

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePin) work in the blockchain networks incentivizing communities for creating physical infrastructure networks/dApps (charging, telecoms, etc. Though DePin has been around since last many years, the consensus has been around Web3 in the real world. Nonetheless, the sector is utilizing the power of digital decentralized infrastructure, and Escape Velocity is feeling its heat. As a venture capital firm, it is helping pre-seedling and seedling firms with funds, capital, and incentives for utilizing DePin to full capacity and growth.

Here we will understand the concept of a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network.

Understanding Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN?

As described DePin is the Frodo Baggins of Crypto, but along with it there is a high potential to unite Web3s' promising fields; IoT/EoT, telecoms, mobile, energy, and many more. We will understand it in simple terms. For some people, crypto is all about earning gains but for many, it is about expected returns and you expect that one bitcoin will go up against USD or another fiat currency. Now enter DePIN. It is a token as it can buy you something that is tangible like web access, telecom services, power, and much more.

It is chiefly utility goods in the real world, unlike other things in Web3. We can understand it in this way, DePin makes use of a blockchain and tokens to develop the physical infrastructure of value and depends on decentralization instead of centralized networking for any type of transaction and business. These are developed to provide real value.

Benefits of DePin

By crowdsourcing the physical infrastructure, DePin can instantly be hyper-scale than traditional projects and at a cheaper cost when distributed over the network.

DePin operates as collective ownership over the hardware that constitutes part of the network rather than dependent on one centralized corporation.

Traditional infrastructure projects also often landed up with centralized control laying down their own terms and conditions for who can join and who not. On other hand, DePin is open and readily accessible to all.

DePins also do not need censorship and have no centralized gatekeeper who could deny access to a particular party dependent on nothing but a whim.

DePins offers more competitive edges than the traditional setups.

DePins operate at a much reasonable cost and its operating expenditure is also less. In the blockchain, it offers its members peer-to-peer payments without depending on a payment processor or any intermediary. In fact, Decentralized networks promise early growth. So, for contrarians, herein lies the opportunity, and Escape Velocity feels it. It closely partners with founders and communities to help networking companies reach escape velocity. 

No doubt setting up the infrastructure is not easy especially when we talk about Decentralized Infrastructure but for those who are ready to take on this challenge, Escape Velocity provides the fuel.

[psychotrenny]

I think one of Imperialism's most evil strategies is the national scale torture you'll see inflicted on countries that dare to dream of freedom. Like it's not just about overthrowing the anti-imperialist regime itself, but utterly breaking the very social, economic and in turn psychological foundations it's built upon. Prolonged periods of destruction that are as systematic as they are sadistic with the aim of making life unlivable until the government either collapses or gives in, accepting whatever concessions are forced upon them as the nation is remoulded into an dependent and obedient little neocolony.

Sometimes an imperialist power will act directly to achieve this (just take the gratuitous and deliberate destruction of civil infrastructure during the bombings of Yugoslavia and Iraq), but the preferred strategy is to employ local proxies. Groups like RENAMO in Mozambique or the Contras of Nicaragua. Bands of reactionaries, traitors and general desperadoes are gathered up, trained, armed and transported over the border at the expense of the Imperialists and their local collaborators. These armed groups have no interest in build mass support, of representing an alternative way of life. Their only purpose is destruction; killing, torturing, looting, burning whatever they can in order to bring their country to its knees. Frequently targeting important nodes in the networks that sustain the nation and the people's faith in it (bridges, rail depots, factories, hospitals and schools) but ultimately happy to attack whatever they can; every house burned or person tortured contributes to the climate of terror and corrosion of government credibility. Because when they kill these groups don't like to do it cleanly; their attacks generate countless reports immolation, disembowelment, victims hacked to pieces and left to bleed. But when possible they prefer to leave their victims alive and capable of further spreading their terror, inflicting the most vicious sorts of rape and mutilation on a mass scale

It's not just just evil for the sake of evil mind you. The cruelty has a point; human destruction to accompany the physical. Every person killed is someone who can no longer contribute to the development of the nation, while even living yet physically and psychologically broken victim places further strain on their country's increasingly fragile support systems. Meanwhile the terror of these actions spreads the impact beyond their immediate victims. The murder and torture of peasants makes the survivors too scared to go back into their fields, slowly starving the nation as the rural economy grind to a halt. The gruesome deaths of traders and travelers leaves the survivors too terrified to continue their business, shutting down the distributive networks that make national development and often life itself possible. The terror unleashed on foreign professionals can prompt the survivors to flee and discourage newcomers from arriving, depriving the underdeveloped economic and education systems of the skilled workers they need to improve or even function. And every broken body, ever broken mind, is proof of the government's weakness and ineptitude; a humiliating failure to protect their own people that demoralises supporters and empowers dissenters. The motivated sadism of these terrorist attacks is a microcosm of the motivated sadism displayed by their Imperialist backers

But why go to all this trouble? Why not just send in the paratroopers or organise a coup to end those troublesome regimes quickly? Sometimes it's a matter of possibility. As great as they are, the powers of Imperialist nations are not unlimited. All manner of constraints (domestic unrest, international condemnation which advantages dangerous rivals, the simple financial and human costs of such operations) limit what actions are viable or desirable. This is especially significant when the targets are motivated and disciplined anti-imperialists with a base of deep-rooted popular support, the sort of regime that won't go down to a simple commando raid or bribe to the right general. But sometimes, it's not enough to merely cut down a dissenting government; you have to salt the earth and make sure nothing similar ever grows back. I'll finish with the words of an anonymous Jesuit priest, talking about Nicaragua yet in terms widely relevant enough to be published in John Saul's conclusion to A Difficult Road: The Transition to Socialism in Mozambique (1985):

In Chile the Americans made a mistake. They cut off the revolution too abruptly. They killed the revolution but, as we can see from recent developments there, they didn't kill the dream. In Nicaragua, they're trying to kill the dream

[sayruq]

The cost of damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza is estimated at around $18.5 billion according to a new report released today by the World Bank and the United Nations, with financial support of the European Union. That is equivalent to 97% of the combined GDP of the West Bank and Gaza in 2022.

The report finds that damage to structures affects every sector of the economy. Housing accounts for 72% of the costs. Public service infrastructure such as water, health and education account for 19%, and damages to commercial and industrial buildings account for 9%. For several sectors, the rate of damage appears to be leveling off as few assets remain intact. An estimated 26 million tons of debris and rubble have been left in the wake of the destruction, an amount that is estimated to take years to remove. The report also looks at the impact on the people of Gaza. More than half the population of Gaza is on the brink of famine and the entire population is experiencing acute food insecurity and malnutrition. Over a million people are without homes and 75% of the population is displaced. Catastrophic cumulative impacts on physical and mental health have hit women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities the hardest, with the youngest children anticipated to be facing life-long consequences to their development. With 84% of health facilities damaged or destroyed, and a lack of electricity and water to operate remaining facilities, the population has minimal access to health care, medicine, or life-saving treatments. The water and sanitation system has nearly collapsed, delivering less than 5% of its previous output, with people dependent on limited water rations for survival. The education system has collapsed, with 100% of children out of school. The report also points to the impact on power networks as well as solar generated systems and the almost total power blackout since the first week of the conflict. With 92% of primary roads destroyed or damaged and the communications infrastructure seriously impaired, the delivery of basic humanitarian aid to people has become very difficult.

[niqhtlord01]

Humans are weird: Prank Gone Wrong

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“Filnar Go F%$@ Yourself!” was possibly the most disruptive software virus the universe had ever seen.

The program was designed to download itself to a computer, copy the functions of existing software before deleting said software and imitating it, then running its original programming all the while avoiding the various attempts to locate and remove it by security software.

What was strange about such a highly advanced virus was that it did not steal government secrets, nor siphon funds from banking institutions, it ignore critical infrastructure processes, and even bypassed trade markets that if altered could cause chaos on an unprecedented scale. The only thing the software seemed focused on was in locating any information regarding the “Hen’va” species, and deleting it.

First signs of the virus outbreak were recorded on the planet Yul’o IV, but once the virus began to migrate at an increasing rate and latched on to several subroutines for traveling merchant ships things rapidly spiraled out of control. Within a week the virus had infected every core world and consumed all information regarding the Hen’va. It still thankfully had not resulted in any deaths, but the sudden loss of information was beginning to cause other problems.

Hen’va citizens suddenly found that they were not listed as galactic citizens and were detained by security forces on numerous worlds. Trade routes became disrupted as Hen’va systems were now listed as uninhabited and barren leading to merchants seeking to trade elsewhere. Birth records and hospital information for millions of patients were wiped clean as they now pertained to individuals who did not exist.

Numerous software updates and purges were commenced in attempting to remove the virus. Even the galactic council’s cyber security bureau was mobilized for the effort, but if even a single strand of the virus’s code survived it was enough to rebuild itself and become even craftier with hiding itself while carrying out its programming. This was made worse by the high level of integration the various cyber systems of the galaxy had made it so the chance of systems being re-infected was always high.

After ten years every digital record of the Hen’va was erased from the wider universe. All attempts to upload copies were likewise deleted almost immediately leaving only physical records to remain untouched.

To combat this, the Hen’va for all official purposes adopted a new name; then “Ven’dari”. In the Hen’va tongue in means “The Forgotten”, which is rather ironic as the Hen’va have had to abandon everything about their previous culture to continue their existence. The virus had become a defacto component of every computer system in the galaxy and continued to erase all information related to the Hen’va. Even the translator units refused identify the Hen’va tongue and so the Ven’dari needed to create a brand new language.

It wasn’t until another fifty years had passed before the original creator of the virus stepped forward and admitted to their crime. A one “Penelope Wick”.

At the time of the programs creation Ms. Wick was a student studying on Yul’o IV to be a software designer. While attending the institution Ms. Wick stated that a fellow student, a Hen’va named “Filnar”, would hound her daily. He would denounce her presence within the school and repeatedly declared that “what are the scrapings of humans compared to the glory of the Hen’va?”

The virus was her creation as a way of getting back at the student for his constant spite. Ms. Wick was well aware of the dangers it could pose if released into the wild and so had emplaced the limitation that the virus would only infect computers on site with the campus. The schools network was setup that students could only work on their projects within the confines of the institution to ensure they did not cheat and have others make them instead. What she had not counted on was this rule only applied to students and not teachers. So when a teacher brought home several student projects to review and then sharing those infected files with their personal computer, the virus then gained free access to the wider planets networks.

When the Ven’dari learned of this there were several hundred calls for Ms. Wick to be held accountable for her actions, and nearly twice as many made to take her head by less patient individuals who had seen their entire culture erased. Much to their dismay Ms. Wick died shortly after her confession from a long term disease that had ravaged her body for several years.

Much to her delight, she had achieved her goals of removing the source of her mockery.

[probablyasocialecologist]

WHAT WE’RE WITNESSING IN GAZA, in other words, is not self-defense; it is an opportunistic offensive. It is not a “war,” the word used mendaciously and misleadingly by most of the mainstream Western press; it is a campaign of genocidal violence. Indeed, it’s a “textbook case of genocide,” as Craig Mokhiber put it in his letter resigning from his role as the Director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. His words have been echoed by many scholars of genocide and the Holocaust. Genocide is, after all, the term international law provides for a situation in which one group imposes on another “conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,” in addition to killing or “causing serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group.” Beyond the 11,000 civilians killed, the UN has estimated that 262,000 residential units have been damaged or destroyed—amounting to about half of Gaza’s entire stock of housing—and 1.7 million people displaced from their homes. The territory’s basic infrastructure of electricity, water, and sewage networks, repeatedly battered in previous Israeli assaults, has been damaged beyond repair. Newly installed solar panels have been deliberately targeted and smashed. Israel has targeted and destroyed eleven bakeries producing the staple on which the population depends for its very survival; it has bombed the fishermen’s boats which are, or were, another potential source of nourishment; it has bombed and churned up the fields that sustain Gaza’s surviving agriculture; it has bombed water conduits and reservoirs. People are forced to drink dirty, polluted, contaminated, or brackish water, with the inevitable results of diarrhea and disease. Hundreds of corpses are rotting under the rubble. Whoever survives the bombing today will be drinking seawater and eating unbaked wheat in the future, if not starving, or dying of the diseases already proliferating from the raw sewage running through streets. And there will be nowhere for them to live.

Saree Makdisi, Physical Destruction in Whole or in Part

[homunculus-argument]

People who try to pit arts and sciences against each other have no idea how either of them work. They're a networked ecosystem, where one supports the other to an extent where one could not survive without the other. Allow me to explain:

First, furries run the IT department of everything. They're in every STEM field imaginable, they're maintaining the computer infrastructure of the planet, contributing to scientific advancement, and making money.

Then, once the furries have made money, they turn around and spend it on art commissions, providing a livelihood to many artists who could not otherwise support themselves by making art.

Furries uphold both the physical and financial infrastructure that is required to keep artists alive, afloat and thriving, and in return the artists produce more furry art, which then exposes more people to the furry subculture, therefore producing more furries.

[void-star]

I'm thinking about that augmented human HubSystem, and Three's unnamed feelings towards the other SecUnits it was with, and its unique form of non-verbal communication a lot after the end of System Collapse.

Like, how this impacts its relationship to others, and to itself. My thoughts are this:

Three doesn't receive direction from a machine, it receives direction and command from a human. Obviously this is still a form of control and enslavement. These augmented humans essentially function as slave overseers.

The augmented human HubSystem is (according to MurderBot) easier to fool. They are human, after all, even with all the augmentations and what seem to be really questionable living conditions themselves.

We also see that they can be distracted, that their control of the SecUnits can be disrupted specifically because they are a physical human being existing in a physical space as a person with a body and a nervous system and all that.

Three's non-verbal communication is intentional and distinct, and the way Three defaults to interacting with MurderBot in System Collapse. It takes ART, MurderBot, and others to be able to figure out how to understand it.

Meaning that, to me, Three (and potentially other B-E SecUnits), are more accustomed to being able to have a system of relationships... between each other, and with their augmented human HubSystem.

I think Three had feelings for SecUnits 1 and 2 that were reciprocated (it's funny that MurderBot didn't bother to ask Three about it), and they were able to have some kind of relationship to each other through the development of their own specific and unique way to communicate with each other that wouldn't be caught by their augmented human HubSystem.

Maybe Three does have a problem with people pleasing and fawning. I'm actually inclined to believe that part of MurderBot's suspicion of Three's self-autonomy is founded, that it isn't so clear if Three understands it can say no, or that it doesn't have the skills to be able to (big mood).

But I also think MurderBot's opinions about Three are the unique combination of ways that MurderBot assumes its experience is universal, and its own feelings about Three it is not admitting to itself... as it is wont to do.

I do wish that System Collapse involved more of the two of them directly interacting, that they could have started to grow together as a unit. But I also think, given MurderBot's general everything, it would have to be a real slow build up into that.

From the bottom of my heart, though, I think Three was already fond of MurderBot since back in Network Effect, and I think MurderBot deciding they need to figure out what Three "actually wants" after it said it would like to go with Holism to learn about Infrastructure Proposals is because it's fond of Three, too.

But so far, Three has been trying to bond, and MurderBot has been rejecting it.

[intelisync]

Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) Explained

What if infrastructure could be managed without central control, ensuring security and transparency? Enter Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePINs).

DePINs are transforming the way we build and manage infrastructure by leveraging blockchain technology. These networks ensure resilience, transparency, and security by decentralizing control and integrating blockchain-based systems.

Key components of DePINs include off-chain networks, token incentives, blockchain architecture, and physical infrastructure networks. These elements work together to facilitate secure and transparent transactions and automate agreements through smart contracts. However, DePINs face challenges like scalability, regulatory uncertainty, and environmental concerns. The DePIN Flywheel concept demonstrates how tokenization fosters network growth, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of development and innovation.

This innovative model enables seamless collaboration among various devices without relying on a central authority, thereby democratizing access to essential infrastructure resources.

DePINs operate through several key components, including off-chain networks, token incentives, blockchain architecture, and physical infrastructure networks. These elements work together to facilitate secure transactions, automate processes with smart contracts, and tokenize physical assets. This integration not only optimizes resource management but also fosters a more inclusive and participatory infrastructure ecosystem, empowering communities and individuals alike.

However, the path to widespread DePIN adoption is not without its challenges. Issues such as scalability, regulatory uncertainties, technological hurdles, and environmental impacts need to be addressed. Despite these obstacles, the potential benefits of DePINs are immense, offering a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable infrastructure future.

To harness the power of decentralized solutions for your business, reach out to Intelisync and start your blockchain journey today.

The future of infrastructure lies in the convergence of digital and physical elements, with DePINs leading the way. Intelisync offers tailored blockchain development solutions to help startups and small businesses embrace decentralized infrastructure. Connect with Intelisync today to explore the potential of Learn more....

[themirokai]

now I wanna know- why isn't drinking water free in the US?

Hi there friend! Thanks very much for taking the bait from this post. Buckle up, this is a long one.

If you want to put out a cistern and collect rainwater and use that, congratulations! Your water is free! Plus the cost of maintaining your cistern and keeping it clean. If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a high enough water table to have a well, then your water is also free + the cost of the well and well maintenance.

But if you want water to come out of your tap on demand and you can’t or don’t want to maintain a cistern and you can’t or don’t want to have a well… you need public water!

How do we get public water? Well, a government entity (usually. there are some private utilities, but that’s a different post. I have strong feelings) has rights to take water out of a river or a lake, or they have a reservoir, or they have access to an aquifer. Then they have to transport the water out of the source. This generally requires aqueducts or massive pipes, which are expensive and need to be maintained, which is also expensive. The pipe leading out of one of my utility’s reservoirs is 12 feet in diameter.

Does the water go directly from the source to your home? Nope! It gets piped to a water filtration plant! The process of modern water filtration is complicated but it involves both physical and chemical treatment to make sure the water isn’t carrying any parasites, harmful bacteria, or pollutants and it has the right pH. Not only are these filtration plants extremely expensive to build and maintain but the process of operating them is extremely expensive, both in terms of hiring skilled staff and having appropriate materials for the filters and chemical treatment.

After the treated water (called “finished water” in the biz) is ready it does get piped to your house.

If you use public water, do you know where your local water filtration plant is? No? That probably means it’s not in your immediate neighborhood, which probably means it’s several miles or more away. To get to your house, the water needs to travel through an extensive pipe network. These pipes are smaller but they have to remain pressurized so that no contaminants can get into the water on its way to your house. But pipes break! Especially if you live somewhere with a freeze/thaw cycle. Maintaining this pipe network is, you guessed it, expensive! It requires materials and extremely skilled workers who perform in very very difficult conditions. Plus lots of engineering to keep the whole system pressurized even when one part of it breaks. Oh, and you know what lots of pipes were made out of in the early 20th century? Lead! So all around the country utilities need to make extensive and costly infrastructure upgrades because now we know lead pipes are really freaking bad.

Okay, so you get the basic picture. And I haven’t even gotten into Safe Drinking Water Act compliance, but most of that happens at the filtration plant. Oo! Or desalinization because some utilities pull their water from the sea and need to take the salt out. I know basically nothing about this except that it is likely complicated and expensive to do at scale.

This is essentially why I get frustrated by people who argue “why should we pay for something that falls out of the sky?” Because finished water doesn’t fall from the sky and it sure as hell doesn’t fall from the sky into your faucet. (Side note: as a public utility official I have been screamed at by the “it falls from the sky” people. A thing I like about the private sector is that people scream at me a lot less.)

Now, there is a very strong argument to be made that because water is necessary for human life, it should be provided by the government for free to everyone. And just like the costs of roads or public education, this should be part of the public budget and paid for by taxes and no one should have a water bill. I don’t disagree with this. I’m sure that’s how it’s done in some countries.

I don’t have a well-researched answer on the history of water utilities but I do have some facts and some (very) educated conjectures. Water rights in the US are complicated (another separate post!) but they’re based on private ownership. Ever since white people came to this country people have been claiming ownership over water and charging each other money for taking water out of rivers or lakes or the ground. You can measure how much of it someone uses and charge them for it. Water is treated like a commodity because unlike other public goods, it *can* be treated like a commodity and then, you know, capitalism. Again, I’m not saying that’s right.

But as a society, if we believe that no one should have a water bill, then we need to figure out how to pay for all the very expensive steps in the process I outlined at the top. Could that just be taxes? Sure, if you have a system that supports taxes at that level. Do I believe that public funding of water infrastructure would be a fuckton better than a lot of things we use taxes for now? Absolutely! But that requires massive institutional change and this isn’t generally an issue that people know enough about to demand change.

If you read this far, congratulations! You now know more stuff about drinking water!

[escapevelocityev3]

Escape Velocity is at the forefront of investment opportunities, offering thesis-driven investments in the implementation of Token Incentivized Physical Infrastructure Networks. With a focus on aligning the interests of all participants and driving infrastructure growth, Escape Velocity is your ticket to a brighter financial future.

[familyabolisher]

hello ave ! i was wondering if you’ve watched the 2022 interview with the vampire series and if so what you thought of it

i really enjoyed iwtv! i haven’t read rice’s novel but as far as i understand it, the show was a pretty significant departure from the original text, at least where rice’s engagement with race is concerned—i think the show seems pretty determined to strike out on its own, and thus far seems to be doing a pretty good job of that. i think what i found most interesting was the show’s honing in on a relationship between the coercive enforcement of normative kinship structures and the social abjection of the slave relative to the white master (i’ve been reading vincent woodard’s the delectable negro which expounds on this idea of like, rape + abuse + consumption extant within models of kinship relations, ‘the ideological infrastructure of childhood in slavery’ as he puts it, which i think has a lot of explanatory power around lestat/louis/claudia…); there’s lestat’s ‘teaching’ vampirism to louis which of course then morphs into physical abuse & that the text makes clear can be read parallel to a relationship between a slavemaster and a slave, and there’s the way lestat functions as a patriarch relative to whom we can read louis as the ‘wife’ and claudia as the ‘child,’ and the networks of [physical, economic, emotional] dependency, violence holding them all together.

i’m also quite interested in this idea of a ‘disciplined’ vampirism, or indeed vampirism as ‘disciplining’ (which is of course to say class-enforcing), because of course the dominant cultural narrative of the vampire (& the one with which i have the most familiarity) is that of a kind of nondifferentiated alterity which can be moulded into any number of metaphors. lestat to louis, of course, but also eg. lestat killing the opera singer who performed badly, the opulence of the mardi gras ball at the end (and something about consumption as disciplining—again tapping the vincent woodard sign but the mardi gras attendees coveting a kind of consumption of louis as a Black man only to then themselves be consumed), louis in 2021 comparing vampires who eat humans rather than animals to slaves (‘slaves to their appetites’ or similar, i forget the exact wording used, but it’s the language of body fascism plus the obvious pertinence with which slavery in the show as a whole is imbued—which ofc then invokes ideas around [un]disciplined bodies and racialisation) … it’s interesting how the show kind of plays both positions at once. the alterity metaphor is there, but so is the hegemony of sorts—vampirism disrupts louis’ position within a traditional family structure where vampirism stands for queerness, obviously, but also the intrusion of lestat (which is to say both queerness and slavery!) as a force that destabilises a Black family. it’s an interesting little balancing act and i’m looking forward to seeing where it goes.

anyway i also just think it’s a well-written show lol! visually gorgeous, erotic, indulgent, well-paced. i had a good time. no idea what happens next (again, haven’t read the book) but my ears pricked up at the idea of travelling from louisiana to europe … a transatlantic crossing, a reverse colonisation of sorts … there’s a lot you can do with that!

[utopicwork]

Hello, would it be too much bother to ask exactly how PierMesh is a new Internet?

Is it a new Internet in the sense that it's an alternative to IP, but still relies on extant links between computers? I've heard of -punk projects for standalone internets before, but I never really got how they could be fully independent. At some point they still rely on the same physical infrastructure that the Internet uses, which the new indie internets might not have - like are cables going to be laid to each PierMesh node or something?

Sorry if this is obvious from any of the about sections, or in the code.

Thanks for reading this super rambly ask!

Oh that's easy: the people using PierMesh will run the hardware that forms the PierMesh internet, we use LoRa transceivers (and will use some other transceivers as I free up time to implement more) which are lightweight, cheap and transmit up to 254 km over the air. That way we're not dependent on the current internet in any way but I have interop set up so we can use it if we want.

Here's more about LoRa from Meshtastic who provides the current firmware we use:

So tldr: no we don't need to run cabling (though people might want to run some light cabling in their case for easier access to the antenna) it's all done over the air

Edit: oh also by necessity I'm having to redo a lot of the network stack so there's also some differences there

[metamatar]

im not quite sure why people assume esims will work when there's internet outages – esims piggyback on existing physical network infrastructure. the electronic part of it is that you don't need to buy a physical sim card and the supply chain that entails. if israel bombs out all the cell towers in range of gaza it will end internet connectivity in the region. like you should buy esims anyway because gazan telecom engineers are incredibly brave and have long prepared for this, but when network infrastructure is bombed it will lead to blackouts.