weekend reading

youtu.be/xEddsmnY228?... One finds lectures of folks reminiscencing about what intellectual life was like "before the great war" (number one, that is...) & starts to pick up on queer habits of speech otherwise lost to history before one's parents were even born

The Sane & Eccentric in Present Thought - Brand Blanshard (1963)

YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose

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how do you like decentralization now?

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Is the US a country where online communities are allowed to fairly enforce their terms of service on ALL users? Or is it a country where TOS CANNOT be fairly applied on violators with GOP-approved opinions-thus privileging them above others? That’s what the Jesse Singal controversy boils down to.

powerful perspective I have had this realization myself

Michael Nielsen@michaelnielsen.bsky.social · 2y ago

A new-to-me perspective on passive consumption of media (Also: I'm gifting you some psychological obliteration here!)

classical theory of computing is inadequate for true agents with autonomy LLMs — clearly crude instruments — indirectly reveal a new path and that’s the most interesting thing about them

AI has to seriously account for the distinction between prediction and explanation

turned 28 elder technology brother arc

it feels like first day back in school here

claude has gotten so good I have levered up in somethings even when I’m not using it

when Ellul said “I am somehow unable to believe in the revolutionary value of an act which makes the cash register jingle so merrily.” i felt that

i just had a “ha that’s a computer” moment surprising amount of things are computers

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

video games are very impressive software

slowly but surely i am trending towards writing a whole webrtc stack ( this evening I’m building an SFU )

i think i’m going to write a long form essay on all the things i love about technology ( mostly pulled from my tweets on software/technology )

don’t stop making music

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

some of y’all are very tedious

book i want to read: Identity and Agency in Virtual Spaces someone write it please

expert programmers have a comfort with latent spaces that goes hard

modern day mating call

dan@danabra.mov · 3y ago

our neighbor next flat has left these items outside their door for three entire days by now. any theories as to what this means?

i go back and forth between enjoying the artistic talk about computing/internet to screaming “build something mf”

everyday i thank Al Gore for inventing the internet

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

the idea of personal computers was a mistake computing is a social activity

i think the computer is primarily a way for people to depend on each other

whatever replaces the document model will have to allow for infinite fracturing

listening to music with your friends is a top tier experience