Notices by Local Agency (laprice@beige.party)

The AI of Sauron.

@zens I was trying to put you in touch with a community of practice that has spent a lot of time and effort dealing with the problem of portable formats.

But OK, see ya.

@zens all UI programs will be acting from an in-memory representation of the sqlite file you point them at.
Using a standard format gives you access to quite a few tools that work with that paradigm.

I seek merely to expand your horizon of the possible.

@zens csv is a serialization of a list.

You can write the _contents_ of an arrow memory file into a csv, and you can load a csv into an Arrow data structure.

And it ties into an existing ecosystem of tools to visualize and manipulate data.

@zens

What would it take to make every SQLite table a valid Arrow format serialization of itself?

https://arrow.apache.org/

Because that's an 80/20 solution.

I keep seeing people saying things like "we're stuck with this monster for the next 4 years."

And I gotta say; this crew has absolute and utter contempt for the rules of fair play and the norms of good government.

If there is an election in 2028 the opposition candidate will be chosen specifically to lose.

More likely is a constitutional convention which rewrites our laws to limit the franchise to white male landowners.

@AnarchoNinaWrites or the fix was in. His symps control the voting machinery and all that bleating about how rigged the vote was was just bragging.

A good frame to explain the weird racist stories that the right wing is constantly trying to turn into campaign issues.

You know the ones; Haitians eating pets, Venezuelan gangs in the Denver suburbs, North Koreans taking over cities in California. All of that bullshit.

They are ghost stories.

Some 3Per sees a brown person in a place they are "not supposed to be" and they have to make up a story to explain why they are afraid.

And because those stories have emotional resonance with that crowd they get spread far and wide.

The Overstock.com CEO choosing to go full McAfee and flee the country is absolutely and objectively hilarious.

If other Trump world figures start doing the same, it could be the start of a very good thing.

@catsalad far too many people looking at this and thinking "Trying to hold your life together with crap from Harbor Freight? Been there, done that."

@interfluidity for whom, and by what definition of effective.

Making the candidate feel good about themselves in front of a large audience may be effective in making the candidate feel like they are having an effect...

It is hard for me to express the shame, rage and fear that I feel about the fact that in my country a major political parties candidates are openly pushing for ethnic cleansing on a scale greater than the holocaust.

I may not be in the targeted group; but I am in the group that has a responsibility to put a stop to it.

It bothers me that so many of us are becoming comfortable with the idea that collapse is inevitable.

Asked individually we want the forecast collapse to be a self-preventing prophecy rather than a self-fulfilling one. But the systems we are embedded in have imperatives for growth and preservation that put them in conflict with the long term survival of the society they constitute.

Resistance to collapse requires a willingness to reform institutions that is broadly speaking; not available until collapse is already in process.