Notices by Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us), page 4

this post could have been a meeting.

@lauren new logo will be a shiny 3D apple with a bit of surface cut out revealing cranial tissue beneath.

in my timeline the search engines are called “bong” and “giggle”.

even if you never use a microsoft product, people you interact with whom you trust, who may intend to respect your confidences, will unwittingly be running recall.

[new draft post] Even the losers https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/04/even-the-losers/index.html

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“How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds” https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds #RSS

when i am part of “undisclosed recipients” i feel like i’m a super spy.

"I sometimes think that 'anti-colonialism,' the sort that breeds leadership from Papa Doc to Yahya Sinwar, is the final poisonous fruit of the European colonial project." #RobertFarley https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/05/the-puzzle-of-hispaniola

q: what do you call an unauthorized road runner?

a: a meep fake.

@inthehands perhaps you should include a period before that last quote.

@trochee it’s weird how instantly we’ve transitioned from Google organizing the whole world’s information to a kind of premodern only word-of-mouth can be trusted.

For learning about products, Mastodon "word of mouth" seems very definitely superior to search and reviews in the usual (far from credible) places.

Asking about travel laptop backpacks, I learned about, got feedback on the following brands that did not appear prominently when Googling (or Kagi-ing or Amazon-ing) laptop backpacks generically:

Jandd
Nomatic
Osprey
Quechua
Rickshaw
Tom Bihn
Tatonka

Also Targus, which does show up more easily. Plus, I got a kind offer of an extra!

in stevelang blank files will be legal and defined to compile to a program that emits “Hello, world!” to the console.

the stevelang specification is this toot long, and already it has the shortest hello world.

@FlashMobOfOne I think quite the opposite. Peaceful political activity accomplishes pretty much everything actually virtuous and desirable. There is perhaps some role for the threat of disorder, but its actuality beyond a very limited degree provokes segregation into warring camps and fascist hierarchy. All that rioting discredited the post George Floyd movement. Once nothing happened in the immediate aftermath, there’s nothing politically viable to build from.

@FlashMobOfOne I guess I disagree. Armed protests would either be violently crushed, or if widely accommodated while violating the law, would so weaken state authority any hope of a decent society would be impossible. if you’re an anarchist, you’ll see that last as nonsequitur, but i think anarchists very badly mistaken. i do not support Waco / Bundy style resistance, and think “sovereign citizens” who occupy Federal land unlawfully should be held to account.

@FlashMobOfOne are Columbia students not largely rich people? do you see the Palestinian cause as somehow socialist/redistributionist? do you think armed challenge of state authority Waco / Ted Bundy style a path forward for your values and causes that you support?

a reality that socialist or progressive protestors must take into account is that disorder on the streets always works to the political advantage of fascists, who credibly promise order at all costs even while they cynically ensure protest becomes disorderly.

it’s not fair, but it is reality. in the ecstasy of genuine righteousness one may not give a fuck, but then a morning after comes.

"How Movements Win" by Samantha Hancox-Li https://www.liberalcurrents.com/how-movements-win/

the practice many browsers have adopted of truncating URLs in the address bar to the hostname is emblematic of the decline and commercially driven infantilization of the web.

understanding URLs — their roles and the ways and whys of how they are constructed — was an elementary skill of the original view-source web.

hiding complete URLs encourages people to become ignorant consumers of mysterious information services, rather than informed participants in a public forum.