You can read long-form thoughts at notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place. This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.

We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in. However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.

We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters. There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of redphones.

We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together. The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things.

After around 4 years, I wrote down a manifesto for a project a handful of us participate in called "The Promised LAN".

A neuronal growth cone from a bag cell neuron isolated from a giant sea slug (Aplysia californica), photographed through a microscope. Microtubules (cyan) and actin filaments (magenta) are shown. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #Microscopy

Crisis Engineering talk by Mikey Dickerson and @weaver.bsky.social at Layer Aleph us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/qux... layeraleph.com

THE THIN GREY LINE: RETWEET TO SUPPORT INSURANCE COMPANY CEOS SHOT IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND THE SACRIFICES THESE GREY HAIRED MEN MAKE EVERY DAY FOR THEIR COUNTRY

ABSOLUTION (2024), @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

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corn palace, mitchell, south dakota, 1987

my friend paul wrote about complexity in software and it is a good write up notes.pault.ag/complex-for-...

Guys, has anyone posted the YES, MADAM (Corey Yuen, 1985) final fight scene on here yet? Extremely important for the website to run properly.

my friend paul wrote about complexity in software and it is a good write up notes.pault.ag/complex-for-...

simpleflying.com/delta-air-li... the “engine issue” was a percussive failure that generated a very loud, explosive “bang” followed by airframe vibration that lasted almost until the aircraft was back on the ground

pouring one out for the pool diarrhea cop

aurora 💫✨ #pixelart

Guild Navigator Moo Deng

This was a pretty powerful photo series my postdoc advisor @bwjones.bsky.social photographed and Stephen Dark wrote up back in early 2021 utah-health.shorthandstories.com/keep-breathi...

very excited waiting for the first time I read an article about utility battery energy storage systems outside of trade publications where the author talks about capacity in terms of both kW and kWh today’s not that day, but surely I’ll arrive at the better future soon!

Solnit's Paradise Built in Hell drove this home for me. It's always local people in small ephemeral networks who are the real first responders.

gothamist.com/news/mta-wor... new sensemaking teaching story: you must taste the filth water to make progress on your complex problem

I’ve got a jam-packed schedule this weekend at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! Come hear me read, discuss writing, or just say hello. The conference is free and 100% virtual. flights-of-foundry.org

pretty sure american health care’s detractors underestimate the huge number of insurers and providers providing free credit monitoring

is this the stupidest attempt at pr ever lmfao

maybe what will be left of the ai bubble once it bursts is baseline generation capacity that isn’t coal or gas behold my techno-optimism

1991

They imprisoned him. They tortured him. They tried to forget about him. They didn't plan on him getting out. This Summer, Jason Statham is turning a paradise into hell. OMELAS No one's walking away from this.

can almost forget holmes just casually ran for like two first downs in OT alone

Deep state be deep statin’

gimme that taylor shot come on

Taylor Swift casually introducing Paul McCartney to her boyfriend’s dad.

taylor now wearing kelce’s varsity jacket

The Wine Glass, by Johannes Vermeer, 1658-1660

now I've heard there was a secret beastie boys: CHORD that david played and it pleased the beastie boys: LORD but you don't really care for music beastie boys: DO YA

coming early next year

Popémon

ok hear me out: a “what’s not” tab just give me the dregs the avsolute garbage

I am not finished with it yet but so far nick harkaway’s new book TITANIUM NOIR is fucking fantastic

NATOh 🥴💦

“what’s on your shirt?” “it’s an operating system. for computers!” “then why’s it so pretty?” 🥲 midwest is the best

@darthbluesky.bsky.social please enjoy this photo of the dandelion queen

we’ll see about this