Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

@falxcerebri Funny you should mention – I saw links going around but I only read it yesterday. I agree with about 95% of it and the 5% isn’t interesting.

@kgjenkins You can’t kick me out! This is my property, I’m a taxpayer! And I use commas splices all the time!

@kgjenkins 50% + 50% = 100% tho

[Insufferable grocery store customer voice:] So with both of these, that’s 100% off, right?

It is once again the season of highest tension between my somatic preference for order and quietness and my intellectual commitment to disobedience and surprise: yes, it’s late June and people are setting off bottle rockets in the street.

[Looking at a society where decision-making power is strongly inversely correlated with exposure to the consequences of one’s decisions:] Now hang on, why are there so many bad decisions?

Giant malign forces of capital 20 years ago use a weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.

Giant malign forces of capital today use a more or less opposite weird interpretation of copyright as a tool to hurt normal people.

Reasonably well-informed commentators with mostly good takes: Ah, clearly the problem is that we don’t have a perfect interpretation of copyright. Consider the following thought experiment – an artist in a state of nature approaches a cave wall and…

I’ve said this before and I fear I’ll have to say it again, but watching the flip of politically connected, ridiculously wealthy, more or less unregulatable companies v. well-meaning knowledge workers on the issue of “copyright is absolute and inviolable” v. “copyright is just an idea, man” has been real unpleasant!

Running $(find ../../.. -type f -mmin -5) to learn where this code put its outputs because it’s easier than figuring it out.

I have written some bad python lately, but I spent the day reading other people’s code that accomplishes similar things and some of it would feel cruel to describe at all.

@kissane Not disagreeing, but (but) I think a factor in this is the sense that if a dev walks away the code is still there,¹ whereas moderation is “on call” work,² and this is in fact weird considering how we (we) usually value artifact work v. care work.

1. Just to be very clear, I think this is correct only at the most surface level and overlooks how much of good development is continuing community management.

2. JTBVC, I think this is also wrong-ish, but now I’m at my character limit.

I relish the opportunities that software offers to remember that not everyone has the same perspective on whether, for example, things identified by their times should be sortable according to their times. What a gift this is; I honor and celebrate and wallow in this wonderful moment.

@beep All I’m going to say is that if I tried to put something in the sky that literally burned your eyes to look at, and gave you a rash, and oh yeah also caused skin cancer, I would be rightly called to account. And yet when nature does it,

@nein09 Ah, this is useful even if uncertain. Thank you!