Notices by Craig Brozefsky (craigbro@infosec.exchange)

@bkuhn I think this is also an artifact of getting older, you collect a raft of dire predictions that don’t occur because complex systems are often remarkably resilient when they have actors embedded in them with massive resources.

Do others identify epicycles in their thoughts and emotions around computer use?

I find myself mostly drawn to the comfort and aesthetics of simplicity and minimalism. From this. after some time. a drive for the novel arises, a need for learning material, and something to test assumptions against. This exploration and the pulling of the new into my environement eventually results in a aggregation of chaff and dependencies and breakage. As a response, a radical simplification is desired, a purging, a starting over. There is despair, dissatisfaction, and withdraw. Eventually, I re-enage with the simple foundations, #emacs, #lisp, and text, with a few changes from the start of the cycle.

I am sure a psychological model exists to describe this, or a diagnosis. Maybe it's just what self-guided learning at my phase oflife looks like?

@screwtape damn straight, relationships and community means meeting humans as they are, not self sorting into K-means clusterfucks of memetic dopamine milkers

@ksaj I'm a lifelong lisper, and I approve of this message.