Notices by nasser (nasser@friend.camp), page 4

you're not allowed to make fun of astrology if you believe in corporate personhood

"a corporation is a person and when it spends money that's it talking" how is it possible to take this society seriously

@technomancy yeah... I agree in principle, but in practice it's been nothing but downsides. my takeaway is that a language has to be designed carefully from scratch for self-hosting and clojure just... isn't. there's all kinds of annoying circularities to resolve just to get the damn thing to boot at all, not even getting into the carnage that spec left in it's wake... it also puts you in a situation where when anything breaks *everything* breaks ☠️

rewriting it in F# mind you. i think the codebase i have in clojure is kind of a dead end. its architecture is... not great to begin with (i was young when i started it) and its further gunked up by a pile of optimizations that turn out to not matter for the primary current use case. its having issues with a particular target that are hard to even diagnose at this point, let alone resolve...

remarkable how much calmer my mind is when i make lists and cross things off the lists as i complete them. its like a fog being lifted. the most valuable thing i got our of years of therapy was the afternoon when my therapist said "what if you made a list?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_stands

every story is like "every supreme court justice has been receiving envelopes full of cash labeled 'FOR BRIBES AND CORRUPTION' for 200 years. no one knows what to do about this"

hey buddy when I heard there was a system of "checks and balances" I didn't realize it was blank cheques and bank account balances 🥁 eyyyooo the system is crumbling I'm here all week

politics is about imagination as much as (maybe even more than) anything and you really tell on yourself when you reveal what you can and can't (or won't) imagine being possible

people who are prepared to believe we can colonize mars and that we can make an ai that is basically sentient but cannot imagine a world where everyone is fed and housed and lives a full life with dignity are making a fucking choice

"signal to noise" but not as a ratio, as a deliberate transformation

this is something I think about a lot, that beyond the moral and ethical issues with capitalism it makes the concentration of wealth an *arithmetic inevitability* and that if you value anything resembling an egalitarian democratic society capitalism makes it impossible at the level of *arithmetic*

https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/

I had never heard the term yard sale model and I want to make more about it at its criticisms, but this is more or less what I've been thinking for a while

the kid in omelas was a content moderator

today i invented a game called "open source project or tertiary star wars character" lets begin

* dokku
* greedo
* yaml
* logray
* fluo
* kaminari
* dalvik
* dianoga
* nokogiri
* batik
* toml
* labria
* hadoop
* avro
* teedo
* deno
* lobot
* bahir
* lodash
* exogorth
* celix
* dubbo