@jonippolito@digipres.clubEvery post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…
@bourgwick@heads.sociala feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy favorite video game company is currently making news because they admitted to falling to AI hype and pushing it on employees even though they’ve (predictably) seen no actual benefits.
I am sad about it but, in good news, writing with a fountain pen continues to be an extreme delight.
I developed carpal tunnel nine years ago, and handwriting would always be a stolen joy in the brief moments before pain would start again. I have been feeling nearly 0 pain in the last two weeks despite filling 50 pages. I feel like I’ve been given a new lease on life in a small way.
@gray17@mastodon.socialI'm kind of fascinated by how quickly the tech world shifted to using "allowlist/denylist" instead of "whitelist/blacklist". I guess part of it is that "allowlist" is more clearly descriptive of its purpose. maybe I should start specifying my sexual orientation as "suck my cock and I'll step on yours, or the other way around is ok if I like you" (which is "3" in the ISO standard enum). after writing that out I'm not sure I should …
@salrandolph@zirk.usI write in haste—it was hard to stop reading and start writing. This week I found myself pursuing a writer who makes an art of pursuing others, and I got caught up in the chase.
On Sophie Calle’s The Address Book & other miniature novels.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/the…
@hex@kolektiva.socialEvery year, as I come up on my birthday, I start to think a lot more about the shooting. The intensity was a bit lower after Trump left office the first time, but October of 2024 was pretty intense.
As I've been processing through all this, I thought about the cards and letters folks sent to me in the hospital. I have a box of them in the US and sometimes I think about asking for them to be sent here. But things have a tenancy to get lost in the mail on the way here.
There's a little bit of a trapped and incomplete feeling, that Trump's chaos makes feel even more intense.
So I decided to write a bit about that box, and the hospital, and death.
CW: body horror, death
#Writing
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePCIe update: I'm now able to parse incoming InitFC1-* DLLPs and store away the credit counts in a register (which I don't actually use for anything yet), and emit a singular InitFC1-P DLLP of my own
Next step will be writing the rest of the setup logic so I can actually fully bring up VC0, then start sending UpdateFC idle DLLPs at regular intervals to keep the link alive when I'm not sending traffic.
@cdarwin@c.imRead every embarrassing thing about felon trump into the congressional record.
Make it a weekly night event on the floor for cspan and advertise it.
Make a bingo game out of it.
Read off the court transcripts trump and his ilk.
Enjoy yourselves while you do this.
Bullies hate being mocked.
If the GNP (Grand Nazi Party) wants to stop you, make them own the chamber 24/7.
Tell them you will stop making them own the space when they start to push bac…
@pre@boing.worldWhy is it finally ready now after ten years of being a barely functional input-only android app?
A few weeks ago I saw #vibeCoding #shakespeare
@salrandolph@zirk.usI write in haste—it was hard to stop reading and start writing. This week I found myself pursuing a writer who makes an art of pursuing others, and I got caught up in the chase.
On Sophie Calle’s The Address Book & other miniature novels.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/the…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialPicture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThings that were great this weekend: playing copious amounts of FF6. Put in about 24 hours into the game and I'm still not halfway in. Just an awesome game.
Things that weren't a great idea this weekend: Putting in 24 hours to the game. I swear that starting work this morning I could literally see CRT scanlines on my monitors while writing Terraform.
#retrogaming
@sean@scoat.es“Dear Customer,
We are writing to inform you of a recent cybersecurity incident at FCA Canada Inc. that may have involved your personal contact information. You may know us better through our brands, which include Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and Alfa Romeo.”
We, as a society, need to start making this stuff cost more than an awkward “Dear Customer” email. If you hold this kind data, you have a mandatory obligation to keep it safe, and if you do not, you should be liable for its e…
@csessh@social.linux.pizza"Writing your idea down is not starting the damn game. Writing a design document is not starting the damn game. Assembling a team is not starting the damn game. Even doing graphics or music is not starting the damn game. It’s easy to confuse “preparing to start the damn game” with “starting the damn game”. Just remember: a damn game can be played, and if you have not created something that can be played, it’s not a damn game!"
