How can it be that no one has referred to this as "treemail"?
When you give a tree an email address
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Re: When you give a tree an email address
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm starting to think one of the trees was equipped with a Markov chain sentence generator that scanned a lot of philosophy papers and just spit out a lot of pretentious gibberish. To philosophers though, I'm not sure it would matter because nobody could tell the difference anyway.
Many modern laws were influenced by philosophers. While the language of computer scientists and philosophers may appear to be gibberish, they often influence laws with side effects on humans who may not understand the source jargon. When the laws for Internet of Things (including but not limited to huggable trees) are written, hopefully there will be diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty,…
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy.
'Speech' is hardly a philosophy, 'liberty' is deeply contested down to its core, and 'privacy' is, again, something you have or you don't, like speech.
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#23You may also have twitter of a rock lying in some forest: https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu It's "Today nothing happened" if you're curious.
Perhaps it is a warrant canary / dead man's switch. If it posts something other than 'today nothing happened' you know the account has been compromised. if it doesn't post 'today nothing happened' you know the silent switch has been flipped and any further signals cannot be trusted.
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#24How can it be that no one has referred to this as "treemail"?
Must be barking up the wrong tree! But don't worry, I will get to the root of it. Leaving no leaf unturned!
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#25You may also have twitter of a rock lying in some forest: https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu It's "Today nothing happened" if you're curious.
Perhaps it is a warrant canary / dead man's switch. If it posts something other than 'today nothing happened' you know the account has been compromised. if it doesn't post 'today nothing happened' you know the silent switch has been flipped and any further signals cannot be trusted.
It could be, but it's not. It's an example of twitter art.
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#26I wonder if people would have been this kind and thoughtful if the trees were on Twitter, or Reddit (topical!). How would we interact with trees here on HN?
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#27We should do this in Seattle. There are lots of great trees here that I wish I could write to.
There's an elm on the UW campus that at least is on Facebook.
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#28I wonder if people would have been this kind and thoughtful if the trees were on Twitter, or Reddit (topical!) . How would we interact with trees here on HN?
Oxygen considered harmful, remove all leaves from your current projects if you want to avoid the oncoming tidal wave of hyperventilation problems.
Re: When you give a tree an email address
#29You may also have twitter of a rock lying in some forest: https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu It's "Today nothing happened" if you're curious.
Perhaps it is a warrant canary / dead man's switch. If it posts something other than 'today nothing happened' you know the account has been compromised. if it doesn't post 'today nothing happened' you know the silent switch has been flipped and any further signals cannot be trusted.
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Re: When you give a tree an email address
#30What happens if you give them bitcoin addresses?