I hate having my worried intuition be proven right.

arriving on someone else’s website and declaring that you built it is a form of neocolonialism; in this essay i will

need to make some pattern stickers tbh

the american psycho greeting card scene but it's nrx dudes showing off photos of their trans girlfriends on their phones

@danabra.mov has been on a bit of a tear with a really good mantra: "we can just do things". It feels like there's something in the air as of late, too - tooling, community, and network effects feel like they're finally hitting an inflection point in ATProto. Can we get at it with data? 🧵

she's right btw. waffles

i love that the story of every nerdy alt right pipeline is someone who is clever enough to spot at least one real problem with some existing institution, and the story of why this sends them right is just that only nrx freaks would infinitely validate their feelings about that thing being the worst

Today, October 1st, would have been Sarah Hegazi's 36th birthday. Thinking of those from whom she was taken and those whose lives she impacted during her short time on this earth and the years since.

you can just fact check things now. chatgpt is fantastic at it. someone says something that sounds off to you? just ask the bot! beware tho bc you will find almost everyone drops misleading statements or outright falsehoods all the time. including yourself, if you have the guts to check.

lfg @teal.fm pdsls.dev/at://danabra...

I accidentally wrote an RTOS, and then wrote about the RTOS I accidentally wrote thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20...

training objective: "given a simple thesis, recursively expand each point until reaching minimum 15,000 words while maintaining righteous indignation coefficient above 0.8." would need massive compute budget just for the tangent generation module

Riding the FtM train to Chinatown

Imma be real with you guys the "TESCREAL" stuff is basically the libleft version of rightist paranoia over "Cultural Marxism", where you just smash together a half-dozen things that annoy you and go "these things are all connected and being pushed by a nefarious secret cabal of my political enemies"

where else will you find the CTO bragging about how fast it is to leave their app

good morning from upside-down portia

There is a reason the useful philosophical battles over ATProto vs ActivityPub focus on network topology and the dumb ones focus on instance size - the ultimate check on coercion is low cost switching of rules, not a million petty fiefdoms

some of the backlash against AI is bc it supports the idea that people are very complex physical systems operating basically mechanically, instead of magic every time a capability previously only expressed by humans is expressed by a merely very complex material mechanism, magic gets less plausible

PET-GF / PPA-BF

Russia tests your airspace with some drones.vuWu oopsies. nothing really happened. a decade later they have annexed parts of your country. people used to understand that while some stunts don't matter boundary testing can be a form of warfare even if nothing really happens *right away*

Too Like the Lightning (2016)

scritches

Catsteroid belt

Ezra Klein is doing his best to turn the Dems into UK Labour. It is so stupid to think about but becomes more and more apparent with each new public output

he died to teach us this lesson

to the older crowd: "oh yeah so btw he has a new linux distro and of course it uses the transphobic window manager" to the newer crowd: "oh yeah so btw he built a web framework and also has been moving further and further right for years"

upside of hosting your pds at your house? control. downside of hosting you pds at your house? when the power is out for 12 hours bc of pic related, no posting for you. amusingly, you *can* get notifications bc that's bsky infra, so I kept seeing replies in this one thread I couldn't respond to.

realizing that the internet not only decontextualizes what you say in social space, it also decontextualizes it in time, and so many years from now i may be called on to answer for anything i said or did not say now oh well dear future: i was trying

an OSS license that says “also if a i ever try and pull a ScyllaDB/Arbitrum on you and relicense this shit, you have my consent to punch me in the face”

don't do this. especially if your record doesn't actually back it up. it's embarrassing and a childish response to critique.

bed

oh, I've got another one, let's do the Norman Conquest but from the perspective that the anglo-saxons were Repulsive Colonizers who'd stolen land from and driven off the Britons over the course of the migration era, that seems like entertaining grist for the Online mill

looking out into the night

scraped all incoming bluesky posts the other day for a bit, it's somewhere north of 2m, might be interesting to compare against earlier samples for trend huggingface.co/segyges/blue...

absolutely this. we can ground ourselves in reality, we don’t need authorities, we don’t need permission. reality is available to us all, if we will grasp it.

retroconning plc as public ledger of credentials is still so funny to me, i can’t even be mad about it. love that energy

I don't know who needs to hear this, but "priors", by definition, are working empirical assumptions about the world that you update as you get experience. They do not refer to your *values*.

When the rapture was going around ca 2012 some friends and I were hanging outside and saw a weird contrail which turned into a chorus of “it’s bird, it’s a plane, it’s Jesus in an Iron Man suit”

me to, portia, me too

some days i get home and im like “omg u two kitties are so cute i missed u 🥺” other days i get home and im like “what the actual fuck were you two doing today are you kidding me wtf” today was a “what the actual fuck were you two doing today are you kidding me wtf” kind of day

thingy i backed on Kickstarter showed up today. cute little smd prototyping boards. def something one can easily replicate via your favourite board house and some fussing to get the castellated edges just so, but very nicely put together.

I've thought of doing a zero-to-doom book. like "from sand to Doom"

game idea: Factory of Doom a factorio/satisfactory style construction game where you start with redstone-esque logic, go up to constructing gates, then make gates into adders and memory and logic, and you beat the game when you combine all this to make a computer that runs Doom

"hey, can we use a more logical system for delegating tasks to staff here." "no, because that's not what we've been doing." it boggles me how this is how ppl in management think about issues and chooses to address them (by not).