Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing he’d like to bring back from the medieval.

Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you can’t hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.

Constant Comment

Why are you booing them? They’re right!

It’s not that hard.

Fuck the RIAA: The artists should hold the rights to their music, not the publishers.

Fuck AI: The rights-holders (which ought to be the artists) should be able to distribute their work without fear that a bot will be allowed to use it to compete against them.

I just don’t see a healthy creative culture where you don’t push both buttons.

Silly goose, you don’t own Windows — you license it.

Are we looking from the perspective of the user or the wall?

It is kinda brilliant though, the way they set it up.

If you don’t like the joke, you can always fall back to the meta level: this is a 40-something dad recalling how dumb and cringe-worthy he and his friends were in their 20s.

• Cinnamon swirl
• Bacon
• French fries
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Dude gave up his entire life to send a warning to as many people as possible. You think he’s gonna not post further warnings on Twitter?

“Stupid says ‘ban’?”

I tried to be accurate instead of specific.

If I didn’t have to work anymore, I’d have more time to explore potential things to work on, so whatever project I’d pick right now would probably not be my main focus after 3 months of settling into my new life.

From where I am right now, I think it would be something to do with language-level features for distributed computing (but not that web3 nonsense). There’s a lot of potential to weaken the monopoly power of cloud providers by working on something like that, which is why it’s an under-explored area.

But I’d need more people to work with, and some specific use cases to go after. So I would expect the effort to change a lot by the time I actually found the right group of people to work with.

Work on projects that I think are important instead of just profitable.

Shipbreaking

Sounds like someone’s developing a…

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C o m p l e x

1. Capitalism has alienated us from collective experience in shared public spaces. Blasting loud music is an act of protest. A violent rebellion that creates a shared experience by force. A momentary slap in the face to wake you up and remind you that we are all connected and these places inherently belong to all of us, for us to use together in loud, chaotic, contradictory ways — not to be parceled up, individualized, isolated, and reduced to sheer utility value.
2. Haha windows go brrr

Edit: I guess I needed a /s

As a developer, my default definition of “slow” is whether it’s slow on my machine. Not ideal, but chimp brain do chimp brain things. My eyes see my own screen all day, not yours.

Got blinded by reading a sign that told me to look away, got my fingertips melted by reading a sign that told me not to touch.

Went to an Ace of Base concert but stood too close to the speakers, and well… You can guess.

Edit: Ooh, or if you wanna lean into the “ironic warnings” part more than the “damaging signs” part, the concert could be The Police.

Current Setting: Breed Groot

Biblically accurate angel32.dll

I’m more concerned about the earlier spikes. You good, internet?