Mar 02, 2023 from nutcroft Responding to: Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers This is in response to this blog post: https://prog21.dadgum.com/80.html In 2010, James Hague, a recovering programmer, gave some advice to new programmers. He said, if you are someone who would wr...
Feb 28, 2023 from nutcroft On AI taking over jobs: The world is based on gifts, not transactions What are we going to do now that AI will take all our jobs? I. In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted1 that, in 2030, society would be so productive that we would barely need to work. Presumably, t...
Feb 19, 2023 from Joybuke Biological Superiority, Software Freedom, and Mastery of Ones Own Domain I’m sure many are aware of cyborgs, cybernetic organisms, and the general idea behind them. It’s the concept of biological life merging with artifical life. In its most classic conception, it bring...
Feb 12, 2023 from nutcroft One thought at a time There is a graffiti piece in Finsbury Park that reads “Poor is cool”. “Poor is definitely not cool”, Charlie responded when she saw this. “Rich and privileged people say that because they’ve never ...
Feb 02, 2023 from nutcroft How to: Run your own nostr relay This is how to setup a nostr relay, fast! First, get an Ubuntu 22.04 VPS somewhere. Second, add its IP to a domain name. Then: ssh root@yourdomain.com apt update apt upgrade apt install -y curl bui...
Jan 24, 2023 from nutcroft Analysing The White Lotus — Season 1 This contains spoilers about season 1 of The White Lotus. I. The White Lotus Season 1 (2021) is about freedom: Black masseuse is exploring an opportunity to become free of her job enslavement. Trop...
Jan 13, 2023 from Joybuke Ideology obscufation and abstractions Most ideologues are rolling in their grave due to their follower's abstraction obsessions. This article is a more refined version of a draft of a previous article I had. The previous article attack...
Jan 03, 2023 from Joybuke The Law Is the Internets Biggest Enemy None of this is legal advice, I am not a lawyer, and this notice is legally required for me to say People like to shit on libertarians a lot, and sometimes for good reason, however, if there is any...
Jan 02, 2023 from Hammy Havoc Setting Up My Blog within the Fediverse via ActivityPub tl;dr: I now have a self-hosted presence within the fediverse via ActivityPub, which distributes content from my hammyhavoc.com blog. You can follow this from all good ActivityPub-supporting projec...
Dec 21, 2022 from Joybuke Markets, Darwinism, and Trade Unions People are always shocked to hear that I support trade unions (conceptually that is). If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I’m right-wing, in fact, incredibly right-wing and since right wingers, ...
Dec 19, 2022 from Joybuke We Cant Save the Old Internet (But Lets Try Anyway) Anyone chronically online knows about the “old internet”, both the literal old internet and the nostalgia bait, nouveau “old internet” that is populated by contrarian hipsters (such as myself) who ...
Dec 15, 2022 from Joybuke The Dissident's Masochistic, Schizo-allegiance Dissidents to our current regime find themselves in an unfortunate type of war: a war against themselves. A good portion of those dissidents roaming around today, rather they be trumpsters, communi...
Dec 12, 2022 from Joybuke The Political War isn't actually political This may come as a shock, but our current political situation isn’t all that political. It’s a situation, it’s a problematic situation, and it is as it seems when it comes to the parties involved, ...
Dec 06, 2022 from Joybuke Delete Your Account, They Wont Miss You One very common misconception that I see online is that your social media accounts are important because “that’s where your friends are”. This line of thinking is more common among the chronically ...
Oct 04, 2022 from Hammy Havoc Audio Post-production for Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022) REEL Guyana recently released their latest documentary, Imbotero Research Center: Merging Coastal Communities & Science (2022). Split An Atom was proud to be asked to provide audio post-production ...
Sep 01, 2022 from Real Life Life’s a Glitch The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present
Aug 29, 2022 from Real Life Who Can It Be Now On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it
Aug 25, 2022 from Real Life Colony Collapse God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hills to rule over. But they are also premised on the idea that we too are ants an...
Aug 18, 2022 from Real Life Dreaming in Color Satoshi Kon's movies, which paralleled the rise of social media, explore the surreal meeting of interiority and public life
Aug 15, 2022 from Real Life Hold the Line Media technology is not a modern antidote to older, vernacular modes of information transmission. Folklore instead thrives through these new channels, helping explain and assimilate new technologie...
