So! Many! Kittens!
(Going to record a demo of the new interactive shell โ REPL to some โ and multi-page Settings this afternoon, just planning it out now.)
Oh and is that me creating and calling web routes interactively in the REPL on a live server? Why yes, yes it is.
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#Kitten #SmallWeb
I've been reading "On Greenโ (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, โOn Attunementโ with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on โAGIโ, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmedโ, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purposeโ but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.
My #LastFourWatched in this new #LetterboxdFriday
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๐นLove, Divided (2โ
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๐นeXistenZ (3โ
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immersive sonic magick with a flowing 1-hour #improv set by setting on last night's frow show, like an appalachian version of the necks (as someone else put it), plus many other strains of wonderment, via the @… archive.
I don't know if this article is delusional or just internal propaganda, to be honest. How can they be surprised when it has been in the news for quite some time in advance?
"In Israel they were surprised: this is how they will try to stop the arrest warrants, also through the USA"
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Filing: Swiggy, which has a ~45.8% share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential $1.25B IPO, slated for later this year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/india-swiggโฆ
Over on the trading forums I ply daily, I get tweaked over smartasses who pooh-pooh Edwin Lefรจvre's 101-year-old masterpiece, "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" because the real protagonist, Jesse Livermore, ultimately failed. So, I wrote this to one such party pooper now:
#trading
Hi friends!
The last two #photos from my photowalk in January! I rarely do macros but that day I wasn't out for hiking but really for #photography. So I thought, I could also step down into the frozen stream, take some time and look for tiny structures.
Needless to say that I wasโฆ
CSS-Tricks might be back?
This first post in nearly a year is authored by a Digital Ocean dev advocate:
โAccessible Forms with Pseudo Classesโ
https://css-tricks.com/accessible-forms-with-pseudo-classes/#comment-1808192
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I have a feeling it starts with Silicon and ends with Valley. Or maybe it starts with Venture and ends with Capital? Or perhaps simply starts with capital and ends with ism.
https://draw-together.small-web.org