Notices by jstogdill 🙊 (jstogdill@mstdn.social)

My new daily wear arrived today

Nationalism according to Orwell.

As an ex junior officer it’s great to know that I’m as qualified to run the defense department as its current head. It’s nice to know I have a fallback.

@aral I agree! I apologize if I came across like a bucket of cold water. But, centralization comes arrives along unexpected vectors. BTC for example seems conceptually decentralized, but things like ownership of mining, the very restricted community with source commit rights etc.

@aral I’m not completely clear on what you are working on, but as soon as I saw “dns sub domains” in the description I saw 🚩’s

Who ever owns those top domains holds a position at the top of a hierarchy.

@aral I appreciate what you are doing. I really do. But thirty years of history have taught me to be skeptical of claims for decentralization. The math usually doesn’t work.

@aral Idealized free scaling systems are flat and decentralized. Free scaling systems in the real world almost always exhibit emergent hierarchy. 🤷🏻♂️

@benroyce Society is a fractal of the individuals who compose it. So much ugliness...

Stop calling fascism conservative.