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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
— Anatole France
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@jalcine I enjoyed your lasted article a lot, I hope you find a way to reconcile your interests, even if it's outside of tech. ✊ Excellent piece by Jacky Alciné reflecting on technology and labor. @neauoire this was really good. without a critical eye everything done in tech is going to be in service of yt supremacism and basically building a better fascist panopticon. not to mention the work itself gnawing at you even if it's ostensibly "innocent". to make tech do something that is genuinely meaningful let alone progressive i think is way harder than people give it credit for and requires a very critical lens.
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I was taught object oriented programming in the classical Kingdom of nouns Java sense. you still see that style everywhere, typescript trumpets it loudly. it's irredeemably bad because it encourages, fetishizes complexity and makes simplicity impossible. it makes systems optimized for busy work and fussiness, also likely for software labor interchangeability inappropriate setting, but the software produced is deficient inescapably. Across the water from Sitka, there's a mountain that looks like a volcano, it's the first one we see with that look since we've entered Alaskan waters.
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Sitka is the largest city by total area in the U.S. TIL.    Two nights ago, @rek read aloud a chapter from Baryl Markham's West With The Night, the chapter was about the unfortunate undoing of the parrot named Bombafu. The writing is so good, I nearly pissed myself, I couldn't stop laughing, and I've made a copy of that small excerpt here, the whole book is fantastic, but this chapter was just the best thing I heard this week. https://wiki.xxiivv.com/docs/bombafu.txt 🦜 "Nevermore!" Someone requested a step-by-step evaluation button in the #uxn playground so they can use it to see the stack transformations one at a time. :uxn: We have sailed as far north as we are willing to go this year. As the summer weather settles, heading further would mean crossing longer distances with decreasing chances of favorable winds, less sailing and more motoring, which does not appeal to us one bit. We'll head to Sitka before making our way back down to warmer waters and enjoy what remains of the summer free of foul-weather jackets. if fedi had a smell, what do you think it would smell like? would different instances have different odors? I admit i can kinda smell the salty sea air, and sunbaked bread and salad on Merveilles  @zens@merveilles.town happens to me a lot.  @calutron wow. Once I have better connectivity I'll go find the rest of their works. Thanks for the discovery. We're on our way toward Sitka, the wind came back, but it's freezing cold out here on the water. Rek made mugs of miso soup. 🍵 @neauoire I have a sister who lives in Sitka, and I lived there for a few summers. It's a beautiful town! Thanks for sharing. I miss that part of the world :) There were hundreds of beautiful lion's mane jellyfish swimming all around the ship yesterday. They're hard to take a good picture of tho. @neauoire I had that same issue recently. I was not however motivated to jump in to get a better shot.   The hardest part about making a drawing program is not getting constantly distracted by doodling in it when doing any change to it.. Rek is reading Markham's West With The Night, out loud, through the companionway, as we enter a thick fog bank. |
@neauoire yesss banger quote