Jun 04, 2023 from Joybuke Lefties Always Come to Meetings Armed Imagine that two kingdoms are at war, let’s call one the Kingdom of Letoid (The Letoids), and the other kingdom is the Kingdom of Righcuk (The Righcuks). These two kingdoms have been at war for 30 ...
May 31, 2023 from nutcroft The misery of applications Our world is now one full of applications. Not the computerised ones, although it’s full of those too. The form-that-you-need-to-fill ones. Applications for jobs, for universities, for conferences,...
May 18, 2023 from nutcroft Negations and characteristics of democracy Let’s attempt to paint what democracy is through its various characteristics and facets. Let’s also talk about the negative space. Understanding what democracy isn’t will help us see the limits of ...
May 03, 2023 from Joybuke The Anatomy of the Rot Concisely, precisely, this article will explain the anatomy of the rot that afflicts society as a whole. The source of this rot, how the rot manifests itself, and the conclusions of what the rot wi...
Apr 11, 2023 from Joybuke Virtue's Accessibility Problem “Vice is easy, virtue is hard” is a common mantra that I don’t believe to be true. The default perception of virtue is that it’s a thing to struggle towards, while vice is very easy to pick up and ...
Apr 08, 2023 from nutcroft A new startup lifecycle I. The philosophy of Posthaven II. The reason startups get acquired III. Sympathy for Posthaven’s founders IV. Suggesting alternative futures for startups V. Conclusion I. The philosophy of Posthav...
Mar 28, 2023 from Joybuke How to Make a Successful Cyber-Ethos A cyber-ethos is, effectively, what most people would refer to as a community on the internet. It is a collective of people on the internet who are contributing to one, centralized internet culture...
Mar 27, 2023 from Joybuke Machine Learning, the UBI System, and Media Incest If any article I write is going to be worth skipping, this will be the one. Reason why: this will about a contemporary, developing topic. Most people who talk about anything of value should know th...
Mar 27, 2023 from Joybuke The Danger of Labels and Why the Restoration Wont Come From the Bottom Up It’s common to hear people state that “labeling” and categorizing people based on politics is a bad idea. In normie politics, it’s often said that it creates “bias” or tribal mentalities, and those...
Mar 04, 2023 from Joybuke Localism Is Extinct Localism, at least localism in the material world, is an extinct concept. There no longer is a culture of people bound together by material necessity in industrialized nations. What little there is...
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...
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 ...
