“the cloud is just someone else’s computer” is incorrect. the cloud is someone else’s oncall rotation.
cheerleading my friend through setting up yunohost 📣🤩
i have a tab open on my phone. it’s for a font. the font costs thirty-five dollars. i could do that. it’s paired with another. that would make it seventy. that wouldn’t make sense, given the likelihood of my never using them for anything. so i shouldn’t get them. but i am still thinking about them somehow. so i can’t close the tab. what is the name of this paralysis and how to fix pls
satellite internet installed. now on hammock with my person, as my dog lies happy in the sun.
has anyone made a map of their own land for gardening/etc. purposes? are there nicer tools than screenshotting google maps and tracing/drawing on top
PSA: if you use Spotify and you’re asked to take a survey, please do it. they’re trying to test the waters for NFTs and stuff so some of the questions are about how you feel about that kind of thing. I told them my truth which is that I am happy to buy tickets and merch and would Not be happy to have paid artist interactions etc. on the platform.
http://listogram.glitch.me/ css columns wouldn’t work because avoid-break: column is really treated more as a suggestion … anyway you can see exactly where i gave up lol
I don’t even mind every use of security cameras, but covert use is Bad For Us All
i’m really excited to plant potatoes once i have real dirt. i had a teeny purple potato that sprouted so i put it in a little pot on the windowsill and i never realized how simple it was for it to grow >1 tuber all neatly and disconnected. i thought somehow it had to do with some magical characteristic of proper seed potatoes
“oh XYZ concern only applies if you’re using icloud” online defenders need to step the fuck off because apple seems pretty determined to make it extremely annoying for me to try to use the macbook I paid for with earned dollars without also agreeing to icloud bullshit
also in the market for a gender ambiguous “ma’am”/“sir”, not as in its southern US etiquette use, but as in “sir, this is an arby’s”
i want a gender neutral “my good man” / “my good fellow”
if it didn’t have to do with people trying to make money and could be done only with SSB-ish key-signing protocols, the DAO stuff would seem similar
occult stuff starting out with descriptions of degrees of initiation, initiation rites, etc. always makes me wonder how much of the value people saw in the content occluded, and how much was a system designer trying to figure out a system of rules that would guarantee an interesting society
I am not a fan, I think, of Aleister Crowley’s massive influence on occultism, so I’ve been reading up on the Golden Dawn stuff that predates him. Yeats isn’t a figure to idolize either, of course, but a poet’s occultism is where I need to start
an excellent christmas gift https://www.blackletter-press.com/product-page/w-b-yeats-on-magic-the-occult-2nd-impress
on the third day of christmas my true love gave to me a cup of coffee in bed bless that man
but if I stay up a hour and a half later maybe my dog will be able to explain to me why she likes to pee on the bath mat more than outside
fantasy novels featuring cholera when
genuinely most of the things people think were bad in the middle ages weren’t half as bad as they think, except for diseases, which were much worse
people need to quit it with the received wisdom of the 1700s’ crapping on the middle ages because A. the overcorrection to miasma theory literally screwed us over in early COVID and B. looking at illustrated manuscripts, shitposter recognizes shitposter
“Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak.” On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.” on Umberto Eco on fascism.
I wonder if you could make a nice little rotary dial to speed up, slow down, and skip back. It’s terribly amusing to see people objecting like “some material requires time to consider!” as if a speaker can have perfect control over when I need to spend that time consideration. or, you know, you could just give me written material and I’d already have perfect control over exactly this.. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/12/21/watching-a-lecture-twice-at-double-speed-can-benefit-learning-better-than-watching-it-once-at-normal-speed/
I am so excited to see where hypothesis-but-matrix could go. I love hypothesis but it seems like a really great thing to have decentralized