Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place)

@so_treu many many years ago during one of the penny arcade blowups (!!!) it finally clicked for me that people who’ve had to put up with some kind of shit often internalize the idea that they are A Shit Receiver, fundamentally distinct from Shit Givers, and any suggestion that reality is somewhat more complicated is an assault on their lived experience…

“But I can’t be X, I went through Y” is a hell of a drug

@beep @Wilto @zachleat @scott @justsnook OH HO

@zachleat @scott @Wilto i feel like my first impulse is super unhelpful, since it mostly consists of, “hmmmmmm, i’ll bet we could make an 11ty to epub tool…”

@codinghorror “everything is structured content if you’rembrave enough”

i want BirdML

@trochee @_thegeoff When applied to real world problems, it’s also ridiculously susceptible to assumption-washing (as we’ve seen). What are the odds the starving mother’s hypothetical grandchild will invent the next great power-generation breakthrough? Slim, but not ZERO… are you willing to defund our FUTURE like that?

We’re used those kinds of what-if’s when they’re rhetoric-shaped, but not when they’re math-shaped. Assigning them a miniscule number and projecting it out becomes a way to short-circuit skepticism, not to make testable correctable predictions.

@pearofdoom NO

@jonny *stares at his network diagram and siiiiighs sadly*

@aud @fromjason @grajohnt “if you can’t pay for your meal, you do the dishes” as a talent pipeline, the bold reimagining of business we’ve been waiting for

@ianb the distinction between “punishing a bad actor”and “preventing monopoly distortions of a market in the future” seems to really confuse them, eh

@hober @skinnylatte i am here for “blumberjack.”

@zombiecide Yeah, at some point there’s no amount of defensive precision that can prevent a bad faith actor from co-option and making hash of a phrase.

@tillshadeisgone (I grew up in the religious right, where cultivated grievance is intense and pervasive, so I had to spend a lot of my life picking through those kinds of distinctions to make sense of anything; My assumption is that any statement of principle will be warped in bad faith, so it’s not just about this particular issue…)

@tillshadeisgone i think the answer is “yes,” but as a matter of ethics and rhetoric we have to carefully articulate what we consider “oppression,” or the frame becomes a license for dominant groups to preserve their place with violence. I suppose that’s a separate, parallel discussion about the need for the populace to get more than buzzwords

@futurebird i’m imagining the future where this goes viral and dozens of people get into deadly brawls woth chimps

@cliffle oh yeah, I’ve done the firmware dance with it before, just hadn’t revisited it with new firmware like you have for quite some time!

@cliffle Woah, that was my first printer! It’s over st the makerspace now, but I’ll bet it would benefit from the update…

@cferdinandi @zachleat intriguing! How straightforward is it to self-host outside of the vercel ecosystem? (i’ve got most of my stuff in docker containers on a coolify-managed server…)

@glyph @jalefkowit sooooo having been called in as a consultant to help fix some 11th hour web infrastructure issues around the Model X launch, I can say that it… goes beyond the car stuff. Teams discovering new deadlines because Elon decided the date sounded good during a press conference, etc

MILTON FRIEDMAN’S FREE MARKETS WERE BULLSHIT.

the Chicago Boys were never, ever about managing economic activity for all; just moving the goal posts of abundance for only one social class.

the coup against Allende and the subsequent unraveling of Latin American economies that ended with Clinton bailing out the same banks that 10 yrs later took hostage the world economy in 2008, prove neoliberalism, NOT economics is about engineering scarcity by all means necessary…🧵