BodyBySisyphus

It's been a while since I've breadposted because I've been lazy and not baking anything particularly exciting. But this week I pulled out the grain mill and channeled my inner Poilane. The fresh milled component is a mix of wheat, spelt, and khorasan, and the balance is Sequoia AP. I converted my liquid starter to a stiff one, then did one feeding with the fresh milled flour. After the starter doubled, I mixed the loaf and gave it an overnight proof in the fridge.

The forums said cutting the traditional three-day starter build down to one day doesn't make much of a difference, but I can't say the end product tasted substantially different from a decent whole wheat flour. Sprouting makes a much bigger difference but that's also a process.

I think I'm going to have to just go the whole hog and try all the extra steps to see if it's worth it.

There's a beautiful 20-year-old citation that doesn't map to anything that he's saying and seems from the abstract to be critical of microfinance as an enterprise.

This post brought to you by the Grameen Bank guy apparently being put in charge in Bangladesh? His bank said they had to charge 15% interest on microloans to break even and people were struggling to see the benefits back in 1998.

Oil companies lobbied for - and received in the Inflation Reduction Act - better subsidies for carbon capture and storage while overstating its efficacy and selling captured CO2 for new oil extraction

My self-discipline has been crap lately. My therapist thinks I have ADHD. I spend all my time in front of a screen. I don't exercise as much as I used to, I bounce in and out of the gym, and I haven't been out dancing in years because - while I'm not the most covid conscious - that many people in a confined space together gives me the heebie jeebies nowadays.

I need something to right the ship. I did Korean martial arts when I was a kid but I never practiced on my own and was too much of a goofball to take it seriously.

I need do something that requires enough concentration to get me out of my head and ideally involves some speed. Any thoughts on what's good? Things that worked for you?

Vote Yellowstone Supervolcano for Erupting and Finally Putting a Stop to All This Nonsense 2024

Some obnoxious ghoul-to-ghoul communication on one of the porkrags. The article looks at a study showing how young people have been drained of their hope for the future by capitalism and concludes:

After reading all that, you might be feeling a bit sad yourself. But don‘t worry: Bernstein reckons this is, broadly, good for capitalism. Its analysts see positives across most categories, such as: greater restaurant spend (as young people give up on cooking), more luxury goods spending (as young people try to fill the empty voids inside their souls), and more vaping (ditto).

Hooray for the soul-vitiating nihilism at the bus of history's last stop!

The big AI models are running out of training data (and it turns out most of the training data was produced by fools and the intentionally obtuse), so this might mark the end of rapid model advancement

Oh no, our system that enables frauds and liars who engage in relentless self promotion over people with actual capability has generated another disrobed emperor

"He's one of the more intellectually dishonest guys in tech," another said at the time."I've had plenty of meetings with him where he says things where I'm like, 'That just cannot possibly be true,' but he can kinda get away with it."

The cherry on top:

Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, has a global deal to allow OpenAI to train its models on its media brands' reporting