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I know this isn't quite the same topic, so I'm not attempting to argue for or against the OP. It just reminded me of the artist Tom Jennings (among many other things), and I figured you might enjoy this project of his:
https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Objects/GTNG/index.html

2026-07-16 00:08:07 UTC

Today I added the section called Small Programs (currently 1.4), where I explain a bit about the idea I have, and how it is related to the array of standards and tools that already exist.

2026-07-15 23:08:14 UTC

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I'm enjoying this thread with you and mleku. I missed you @npub1fjq…leku . I will always remember your generous transcription of my prayer paper.

2026-07-15 23:05:29 UTC

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Jello is a boomer

2026-07-15 16:31:28 UTC

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Apologies to Dick Pick... I couldn't help myself. He is the absolute goat, microcoding directly on TTL *and fucking providing that as an option in the OS*. Sometimes my adolescent self/humor comes through... It was on a Corndalerian thread, though, so I get a pass, I figure.

2026-07-15 16:20:31 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/a595e16ebd12fc254ad1219803bd9ef00acff485d9eda15ac1e7cc4eb551e5cb.png

2026-07-15 15:30:27 UTC

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This happened... there were... ummm.... externalities. Jello was/is brilliant, but I can't see him doing complexity analysis. But... yeah... it is society in general. I always enjoyed Aldous Huxley's interview with Mike Wallace *in 1958*. We all kind of vary as we slot into blue/red, etc., it is human nature (Tomasello [2]). From my perspective, though, it is about scale, complexity, and machines with a mind of their own... not just AI, but the whole beast we are part of. We like to take the comfortable parts, but dismiss the difficult parts. Anyway... Love Jello. And that Ice T song with the Black Sabbath sample was a great Jello addition to my meat kit.
[1] https://youtu.be/alasBxZsb40
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070418142809/http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/tomasello_et_al2004.pdf
https://blossom.primal.net/0f425c8eec28c449c01e7d8837eee37e2623fb7322ec03c4fe216b88affce85f.png

2026-07-15 14:21:18 UTC

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Yes. Ouroboros concept writing that doesn't match their spoken language, as spoken language is serialized, is how I see it, which is why I asked. It is surprisingly good. I've seen it pop up for a decade and thought, "Oh... no way. That looks stupid." I was turned on to it by my Bluesky feed where they compared human to Fermilab.
https://blossom.primal.net/e29f1e52e2e4331911a4ee5068af0d58f2c8a1124b07d162eb5f5824016bf7b3.png

2026-07-15 13:56:21 UTC

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I saw this pic, and two things crossed my mind. HODL's strange "this is my politics" meme, and then, WTF is that large plastic heart replica doing? This is getting really weird. A bit like Schulz's picnic bench. ( https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong )

2026-07-14 22:36:06 UTC

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Dead Kennedys *and* Circle Jerks? You are connected. I remember way back you got my Dottie Danger reference. Well, if you ever feel like sharing, I'm interested in that. My all time favorite is Doc Dart of Crucifucks, but he is kind of insane and withdrawn, now.

2026-07-14 22:29:29 UTC

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Jerry Brown liked that song. Seriously.
My favorite Jello collaboration of all time, though, was with Mojo Nixon:
https://youtu.be/5acQqDx9ZFY

2026-07-14 22:21:07 UTC

My own World Cup games are Arctic Sea Ice Extent (Area of ocean with at least 15% sea ice) 2012 vs. 2026. Neck and neck. A couple months left before we know the winner.

2026-07-14 15:48:40 UTC

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GM
"Hey, street boy, want some style?
Your dead end dreams don't make you smile"

2026-07-14 14:21:30 UTC

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I'm curious if your browser will render https://newtribal.org . If so, I'll check out your repo, if you have it available. The green checkmark means the signed data in the floppy png is validated by the npub.
https://blossom.primal.net/9bc7b6f38cc954fba90f67d79ddfcbc900fb730babe1169f856dc92ff99659c1.png

2026-07-14 04:48:48 UTC

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Speaking of seven, I watched Denis Villeneuve's Arrival last night. Great movie. I figure you have seen it. Plus, heptapods!

2026-07-13 17:51:02 UTC

I'm minding my own business, documenting the ontology for my journal representation, and it turns out there are seven attributes and seven relations, and I so much want to embrace the seven.

2026-07-12 13:08:04 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/00c41e3eca24c55e16584587af5d2d097d025311dfd5eab36c4ea1bdbb57259f.jpg

2026-07-12 01:19:29 UTC

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641a

2026-07-11 17:46:42 UTC

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Are you going to use Tauri?

2026-07-11 15:42:51 UTC

I always enjoyed the #FermisParadox focus in the intro to this film. It is eleven years old, now. I often refer to the wonderful Gary Snyder reading of For the Children. Current culture tends to toss entire works that overall hit the mark, but have minor flaws.
http://www.crossofthemoment.com/

2026-07-11 15:33:10 UTC

If it doesn't make sense, pull the camera back. Carl Sagan pale blue dot? That might be useful, but that is a bit too far out if your goal is to be better aligned with nature. Did human consciousness cause the rift with nature? Written knowledge? Did it concretize the great filter? #FermisParadox

2026-07-10 17:56:21 UTC

I changed my Nostr banner image to my heptapp svg logo. I designed the icon so that time was in the center. This makes sense. The other heptad elements revolve around time in a quickly changing, collaborative knowledge effort. I used Pault Tol's "Vibrant qualitative colour scheme", which has 7 colors that are "distinct for all people, including colour-blind readers,distinct from black and white, distinct on screen and paper, matching well together." [1]. I noticed that when I make the logo a banner, the I, T, and E elements are across the center, left to right. This makes Nostr sense, as Nost has Identity, Time, and Endorsement (signature) elements. The other event object content is in the form of key-value pairs. Kind is an attribute, and Tags are a series of attributes against the original event content, so they aren't the same as G, S, P, O, which sets up the "ether" nodes [2]. In general, this is the same kind of cognitive jump around triples vs. key-value pairs that gets devs all confused [3]. We need to "fuck it, ship it!" [4]. We don't care that the magic of the WWW came from triples. If triples form a knowledge graph. N-quads form a hyper knowledge graph, and I, T, E show integrity and provenance over time. < Can't we just put attributes on the page instead, the chorus chants. > Also, I just noticed that Paul Tol has a similar favicon, but he didn't go for vibrant [5].
[1] https://sronpersonalpages.nl/~pault/
[2] https://youtu.be/sEoDkj4sBWQ
[3] https://microformats.org/wiki/triples
[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20150514145755/https://opbeat.com/blog/posts/fuck-it-ship-it/
[5] https://sronpersonalpages.nl/~pault/images/favicon.svg

2026-07-10 14:04:30 UTC

I saw this intro on a post by Owen McGrann: "A reminder for new subscribers who signed up thanks to “The Dead Economy Theory”—this isn’t primarily an AI or econ publication. There will be plenty of that, and if that’s what you’re interested in, you can select to receive only “are belong to us,” the vertical here that speaks to that." I laughed. Current culture/sub is almost all “are belong to us” verticals. We spend money and time filtering for attention to our verticals.

2026-07-09 19:24:01 UTC

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NM. Your domain expired today!! Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2026-07-09T07:00:00Z

2026-07-09 04:37:52 UTC

My guess is I've written 100 different personal journal programs. I am quite familiar with the kinds of things I like to see in a journal, and I have entries going back to 1990 when I was using an IBM 5150 and WordPerfect. My first GUI version was in 1994. It is a good fit for a knowledge graph.

2026-07-09 04:29:42 UTC

I was able to turn 11299 heptads into a fully functioning interactive journal reader in 46 lines of code. Next up, I'll publish the journal and code and create a video presentation. This year is the 40th anniversary of the two visions/meditations that started this journey ( which is in my journal).

2026-07-07 17:06:48 UTC

LLMs/AI are effective because they efficiently crank on existing stores without needing human analysis. The mistake of BFO and W3C is assuming a unified schema can be built, maintained, and applied at velocity. My heptad ideas are like Peirce's Monad;however, I *assume shifting human* perspective.

2026-07-06 15:38:25 UTC

I woke up and had the urge to strip out graphologyjs, and process heptads in memory for page rendering on the client app as needed. Alternating between proper graph databases, though, has helped my data model/schema. If Charles Peirce had a computer/JS, it would help reveal the nature of triples.

2026-07-06 15:15:44 UTC

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Until a couple of years ago, I refused to be labelled as well. It can be confusing until you realize just how differently the experience of the world is between ND and NT. Now, I don't think my particular fucked onion of features is the same as anybody else. The key part is that the nature of my fucked is way, way different.

2026-07-06 14:59:05 UTC

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Your goals and expectations of the ride, to continue one of the metaphors, also forms your experience. Also, to used a mixed-drink metaphor: on the other side of the world, my coffee is hitting hard after a few cups and peaking on the day, and on the other side of the world , a couple of vodker and tonics could well be behind the keyboard. How many metaphors is that <counts on fingers>. From what I know, we share quite a bit of past experience, but I'm neurodivergent, and you seem neurotypical. There's that, too.

2026-07-05 22:07:56 UTC

Now... luckily I have my journal going back to 1990, so I really can trace my ideas and see where I've circled around. Also, I have dev stubs from my software archives where I built up to something and tried something else. I can see how I picked back up later when I had the skills to proceed.

2026-07-05 19:39:42 UTC

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I was referring to your statement "Today I did my first pull request." not your code. Your agent did the PR request, right?

2026-07-05 19:05:13 UTC

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I wonder at what point in the future when somebody says "I did something" do we assume that includes AI agents under their control? Quite serious, here. If we do manage to continue to push the complexity/entropy envelope with our techno civ we are part of, this will be more and more embedded in our assumptions about agency.

2026-07-05 18:39:52 UTC

The heptads for my journal edge case end up taking only 2.3MB in PNG form. These are 6.5MB uncompressed in JSON form. This includes signatures for each heptad. If I use a key of H7 in IndexedDB, it should still be painless to collaborate. Next step is to see what page load time is. I want < .5S.

2026-07-05 15:16:19 UTC

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Family first. Internet second. My mom and her mom helped with the early stuff, primarily. The internet existed, too, and Google had done a decent job indexing it and prioritizing via weighted knowledge graphs on the back-end, so it was a good resource. I was a very late father, but even before the Internet went beyond academic/military, Compuserve and The Source had online resources. I used to use The Source via one of these:
https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.html

2026-07-05 14:57:09 UTC

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Tron, the 1982 version of the movie. Which... small tidbit for devs... is trace on from BASIC. The movie was groundbreaking in its day.

2026-07-04 20:29:25 UTC

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https://youtu.be/B6ffKGhD3-Q

2026-07-04 20:25:39 UTC

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** CounterAntiDisIntermediation

2026-07-04 20:23:41 UTC

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In the last year, the only in-person meetups that sound interesting to me to attend were all in Berlin. Three of them (I only remember two right now, the counterantidisinformation Dmytri guy and his group and a permacomputing meetup). Not so sure there is a correlation with the OP or anything, but it is an interesting bit of info, no?

2026-07-04 17:47:14 UTC

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Just a few blocks from my house there is quite likely free hotdogs and a pop-up beer garden (not free beer, but perhaps free as in freedom). I'll have to walk over there for lunch and check. <hopeful>

2026-07-04 17:36:19 UTC

I use #vi keybindings, so my j key lost its ridge, and I was doing wacky things to my code. Usually the keyboard dies way before now. I have a stack of cheap kbds w/o transceivers and swap them out usually before this kind of wear. This dremel hack works! (do f the same).
https://blossom.primal.net/2a9b430a264d905c3fc67af8ea44813c2af2be87310d2f282139a7e33415a0fd.jpg

2026-07-04 16:56:24 UTC

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2026-07-04 16:33:37 UTC

If I use showdownjs, I can publish my journal with zero external libraries. It will be all native, including signature verification. It has always been a dilemma to use markdown with a markdown library or render it prior. No more! Plus, the project is still active.
https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown

2026-07-04 16:10:22 UTC

I spent time this morning mulling over results of my embedded heptad experiments yesterday. I think the 3D form for data/material is the best to demonstrate collaboration on models, but my biggest focus in the coming year should be the journal application with light collaboration on entry comments.

2026-07-04 15:38:00 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/491ba2a8d7b629d3ae39d41b6da3f51c28ff5f96e0fc12f5687fa6062889eea3.mp4

2026-07-04 04:46:25 UTC

I got the heptads to load in the HTML page directly. All that is left is to write the rendering code, now that the heptads are available in an object. I'm thinking that anything you want to collaborate on, you will see, first. So, since these are cumulative, Alice just views Bob's page, and the heptads are loaded into IndexedDB. Alice can modify/supplement, and post to her website, which will now contain both. Carol can view both and hers will update. A pub/sub w/ an MQTT topic of the graph ID?

2026-07-03 18:02:08 UTC

My desert island post reminds me of a story. When I was a freshman in high school we read Lord of the Flies. To kick it off, we had to show what we had in our pockets to see what we could build, etc. I had a pocket full of electronic parts that could conceivably build a radio, along with LEDs, a bunch of logic gates and a 5 volt regulator (lm309k). I'm sure there must have been a 555 timer too. I always had one of those. My pockets were banned from the scenario in disgust by our teacher.

2026-07-02 13:59:37 UTC

If I was stranded on a desert island and could take one thing, assuming my physical needs were met, and it had to be solo, I'd take a copy of MDN web docs (assuming I could read, use, and work along with it, which would mean a laptop and a PV setup). 2? Add #Proust. 3? #Shakespeare. What about you?

2026-07-02 13:41:09 UTC

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The question is, at what point do you call it creation?
[A snap of a homebrew Z-80 computer I spent a decade of my life building and repairing cold solder joints on in between jobs and on vacation. First breadboard version was 1979.]
I looked at Darshan's resume. The world is their oyster at this point.
https://blossom.primal.net/73ab3d26f509148c828fad6bd463268f6e41c86092bea771ac844cccd6770415.jpg

2026-07-02 13:26:26 UTC

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¡Wow BoB woW!

2026-07-02 02:08:35 UTC

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I got L1G3R (but that was a long time ago). I have a version of the site to put up, but I've been waylaid with hept.app. L1G3R is an OS/journal. I have an old 2010 doc on L1G3R here: https://hept.app/files/design.pdf if you are curious.
What are you going to do with adswn?

2026-07-02 01:54:33 UTC

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https://youtu.be/-pjQ0FNzkLQ

2026-07-01 21:09:50 UTC

@nprofile…8wek and his industrial stream today reminds me of a story. At the time when I was feeding myself coffee, front-242 and Gen (psychic TV Gen) as math study grind music, I didn't go much darker. Coil? A couple decades later, all of Gen's previous band's work (Throbbing Gristle) was re-released. It had never interested me before, because it was too dark and odd, but over the years I had dug into some of Gen's weirder post-Throbbing-Gristle stuff, so I thought I was ready. I was curious. This was right about the time that I had to clean up an attic crawl space filled with old dusty insulation and rat shit. I couldn't do it in the summer, as it was too hot, so I had to do it in the spring and fall. I had a tyvec suite, full face mask and n95 filter. I bagged up all the old insulation, vacuumed up the remaining dust with a HEPA vacuum, and painted everything. I was probably up there for a couple hundred hours all-in-all, and I played the entire work of Throbbing Gristle over and over again on my headphones. It was a PITA to unsuit. I had a big container I used to gather the old insulation before I bagged it. I'd just sit down in it and piss when I needed too. I was always dripping wet with sweat. It didn't matter (I was hugging the summer, going up there until it was too hot). Most of the time I was laid out reaching under the eaves, pulling insulation in a claustrophobic way. My roof doesn't have much of a pitch. I can still hear the screech of IBM and Gen's droning about hamburger lady, but ... completely serious here... I took on some trauma with the combination, and I haven't listened to Throbbing Gristle since. Now, when I go back up in the crawl space I get a dark overhang of that past trauma and weight pressing down on me.

2026-07-01 17:26:26 UTC

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This is the future IMHO (some intersects with the Nostr crowd).
https://credoeconomics.com/

2026-07-01 17:14:09 UTC

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We could loan you some blue angels.

2026-07-01 13:50:32 UTC

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I don't trust her anymore. She is working it too hard. It *seems* like she has cred.

2026-06-29 22:58:06 UTC

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those who make dichotomies of everything and... nevermind. :)

2026-06-29 17:50:33 UTC

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My experience is that different clients/apps handle it differently and sometimes it ends up being a long nasty unintelligible string. Plus, it is all assembled at the client, so it relies on relays, etc. But... I get your point.

2026-06-29 17:45:01 UTC

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Here ya go:
https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqem5aztzsk7n29qp32hdudwt62305tsrfct6jl7dxh2fe3647fhgzyzdzz45j2hg28208tuw79exgs0ymutjkzky87g4janmtrqfme4v86xkzhd7

2026-06-29 17:42:21 UTC

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I distinguish logical and physical layers differently: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqem5aztzsk7n29qp32hdudwt62305tsrfct6jl7dxh2fe3647fhgg6sjyh

2026-06-29 17:36:46 UTC

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NM. I see what you did there, Derek. Somehow I missed that. "The people building the next internet." The fucking HUBRIS of you folks (from somebody that read RFCs since... forever). But, a tip-o-the-hat for your signed JSON extensibility efforts. Also, I love it that your favicon is an Amanita muscaria. Fuck yeah! Jesus was a mushroom.

2026-06-29 16:46:03 UTC

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Derek, is there a WoT repo besides this? I know of the github one (nostr-protocol) and a few tries at pure Nostr repos, and some mirror/dumps to a website, but this is the only one I know of with WoT in the UI.

2026-06-29 16:04:28 UTC

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That reminds me a bit of when I compiled a custom kernel/OS for my chicken coop video cam back in the day:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060206182756/http://netadmintools.com/art266.html
(I sold the domain a decade ago, so it is safe to browse around on the wayback machine, but no idea what the state of the domain is now. I think some Indian company fluffs it up with articles to sell their monitoring product.)
At one point I purchased a rotating platform and was going to let the Internet feed my chickens by clicking a button while I was away. That never happened.

2026-06-29 15:57:16 UTC

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Luckily, we never had to worry about that (or didn't, anyway). I am curious how you are prepared and how you test. Just watch them with their first bite and see if their throat swells up? EpiPen ready? [Unknown to us at the time, but our child's grandfather ended up developing a bad allergy to *tree* nuts.] No judgement here in any case. I'm genuinely just curious how you are doing this.

2026-06-29 12:16:53 UTC

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Teeming

2026-06-28 19:19:01 UTC

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I mostly write in Markdown using Zettlr and let Pandoc do the heavy lifting on my current work, although I have a custom JavaScript filter which is kind of rogue (not Lua like sane people use). I do have some custom HTML spread around, too. I also had to modify the filter and template a bit to pass validation cleanly. So... not 100%, but I do appreciate that when I see it. I also appreciate the no-JS, just CSS/HTML sites. It is amazing what some people do with that.

2026-06-28 17:57:20 UTC

Who here still validates their HTML manually?
https://blossom.primal.net/0afd349a0d400dfe78481b9d67c2ddaf1c562d20676e24df16158b09d257c0da.png

2026-06-27 15:55:01 UTC

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That rule makes sense to me.

2026-06-27 00:24:34 UTC

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You know it.
https://blossom.primal.net/9505c862517655a0484d7ad94583dea94b10cc75e73806b8dc8dc5e1aa47ed8d.gif

2026-06-02 13:02:07 UTC

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The collaborative knowledge that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned ended up being a network of consumers on phones! Read all about it!

2026-06-02 12:55:36 UTC

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fucking great movie

2026-05-31 15:53:15 UTC

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One of the few AI tasks that make sense to me, and Anthropic is killing at this (or they say they can, and I don't care enough about current AI to follow up). Perhaps coming out of retirement to fix code that runs ATM machines is satisfying work, but I lump that in with the backhoe. Some tech has good applications.

2026-05-31 15:28:44 UTC

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I'm not sure what I like more, that it is "Guest post by the author of Octopusyarn" or references Vervaeke and McGilchrist. A couple nights ago my wife wanted me to watch something called 15 minutes of Internet on youtube on the tv. It was a collection of vine-like funny vids. As she was trying to find it, a lecture by McGilchrist came up as something we might want to watch. I laughed a bit at the incongruence, both the subject matter, and the fact that it was an hour and a half long lecture by McGilchrist. (bookmarking this, but I have to use a different client)

2026-05-31 14:55:41 UTC

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2026-05-31 14:22:46 UTC

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Third sentence, for me, 💯. But I still try and fail 99.99% and go back for more like an insane person would. I view the internet as collaborative knowledge. That is what I want from it (Tim Berners-Lee's original primary requirement). But mostly it is used for a combination of Jung and Tomasello validation and progress towards shared cultural real-time cognition. This brings up structural double-binds and dead-ends. Tomasello believes and demonstrates with his science that humans have a super power of shared cultural cognition towards goals, but without backing maps (my add, not his stress) it is limited to a few tools and two teams in comprehension. I'm lumping Jung/Freud and Groddeck together and calling it Jung, and no need for explanation there.

2026-05-30 19:02:34 UTC

Now, my postscript stuff is still interesting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116223836/https://sysadmintools.com/1/5/
Tell you what!??? I've had a lot of fun.

2026-05-30 19:00:17 UTC

Ever find old code you wrote and it is so ugly it is useless? My-o-my, I was just starting out and figuring Python was the way. Ugh... not sure I can even use this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200502190509/https://tributarysoftware.com/1/5/

2026-05-30 18:56:17 UTC

My local-first vs. offline-only vs online-available needs a flowchart. Of course, I need to create a knowledge graph, so I had to look up some old work of mine from almost six years ago. I probably have a hundred thousand files to search through, so sometimes the Wayback Machine is easiest.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200917173642/https://itdocent.com/6/1/

2026-05-30 18:02:02 UTC

This one is growing on me. #NowPlaying #AnasaziKaha #CodingMusic
https://archive.org/details/anasazi_kaha_-_space?webamp=default

2026-05-30 17:32:44 UTC

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Yes. You are more famous than I. I drank beer in a tent with Larry Wall in 1999. I was fourteen feet away from him. He didn't know I was there, but that is my bit of fame.

2026-05-30 17:25:17 UTC

Anybody else sing all three every time? (Stevie onward)
https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg

2026-05-30 17:22:24 UTC

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you are direct to Coolio?

2026-05-30 17:12:43 UTC

My insistence on monolithic things over ecosystems has created some bad design decisions. I need to step back and rethink my stance in light of my interest.

2026-05-30 16:45:52 UTC

https://codeberg.org/ajcain/gibbon_declineandfall

2026-05-30 16:10:24 UTC

fetch messes up offline-first. I can hack it with a recent Electron binary release and a handful of JS or manual browser config (dangerous to suggest!), but it is still nice to be pure default browser. Today I'm figuring out if I can bypass the fetch based on a timestamp value in local storage without messing with the overall performance on initial load.

2026-05-30 15:49:16 UTC

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deep sound coming down https://archive.org/details/wild-at-heart-clip-dern-dafoe-2

2026-05-30 15:41:07 UTC

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Quite literally... this is on my screen right now. I'm running with the key as the node with graph/subject/predicate, and the value as the object. For most attributes, they are human readable. For other nodes, they are UUIDv4.
https://blossom.primal.net/0f328c511950f8f4c71bd382d2ca696aff00698067dba5148d0bc15dca4d6c7c.png

2026-05-30 15:35:10 UTC

I've long been aware that intellectually timid/lazy folks whine about semantic triples, and yet they overload keys with semantic information. If you do the hard work of the knowledge graph first, you can eventually arrive at concise and powerful key-value pairs and get both worlds.

2026-05-30 15:29:44 UTC

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yes
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

2026-05-30 15:27:58 UTC

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There must be a label for somebody that starts a paren but doesn't finish, and another for somebody that notices and comments about it, and another for nested parens and even brackets surrounding that.

2026-05-30 15:26:22 UTC

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Watch her rule (a song off my second favorite album of hers... very close, very close. Speaking of Dylan... would have loved to have witnessed his "I don't believe you. You're a liar" conflict concert over his new electric sound and heckle of "Judas!"
https://youtu.be/zeaO5UZ5OcI

2026-05-30 15:19:01 UTC

Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
In flames our prophet witches
Be polite
A room full of glasses
He says "Your notches, liberation doll"
And he chains me with that serpent
To that Ethiopian wall
Anima rising
Queen of Queens
Wash my guilt of Eden
Wash and balance me
Anima rising
Uprising in me tonight
She's a vengeful little goddess
With an ancient crown to fight
Truth goes up in vapors
The steeples lean
Winds of change patriarchs
Snug in your bible belt dreams
God goes up the chimney
Like childhood Santa Claus
The good slaves love the good book
A rebel loves a cause
I'm leaving on the 1:15
You're darn right
Since I was seventeen
I've had no one over me
He says "Anima rising
So what
Petrified wood process
Tall timber down to rock"
Don't interrupt the sorrow
Darn right
He says "We walked on the moon
You be polite"
Don't let up the sorrow
Death and birth and death and birth
He says "Bring that bottle kindly
And I'll pad your purse
I've got a head full of quandary
And a mighty mighty thirst"
Seventeen glasses
Rhine wine
Milk of the Madonna
Clandestine
He don't let up the sorrow
He lies and he cheats
It takes a heart like Mary's these days
When your man gets weak
© November 17, 1975; Crazy Crow Music
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Off of my favorite Joni album Hissing of Summer Lawns

2026-05-30 13:53:07 UTC

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The best part of my walks is the children playing in public parks.

2026-05-30 13:47:53 UTC

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Sometimes elegance is simple. Sometimes "elegance is refusal".

2026-05-30 13:37:48 UTC

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For the Nostr crowd, the infrastructure problem is acknowledged. There is still a bit of fantasy in how it is addressed, but compared to a typical streaming service consumer, the understanding is much more sophisticated. This is also the Achilles heel of Bitcoin, in my mind, and why eventually culture will shepherd the infrastructure to centralized control for transactions. Like the WWW, the capability is there, but the instances end up matching cultural priorities. Trace the pragmatic financial motivations as we approach 21 million. Back to Nostr: The *crazy* thing is that the simple version of relays and simple signatures to validate events is exactly what we need, in my measure, for freedom from the infrastructure, but it is embedded in a culture where dev leaders all wannabe a typical social media app instead of a Scuttlebutt style "hey... in port. need water. what's the scuttlebutt today? what can I do to help." Along those lines I do appreciate Coracle more and more. Some of verbiricha/giorgio's work seems related and useful.

2026-05-30 13:19:39 UTC

You can see both the explosion and shift in culture around 2012. This was when the WWW showed its capability for collective intelligence. At the same time opportunists were figuring out how to capture and hijack the wealth for themselves. The story is not over. The tech is free; the power shift is a harder problem. The infrastructure for collaboration is harder still, but unacknowledged.

2026-05-30 00:03:26 UTC

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There is a follow-up to this: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

2026-05-29 22:25:04 UTC

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Some directly, some inferred, yes.

2026-05-29 20:44:00 UTC

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

2026-05-29 17:36:42 UTC

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I see the truth of what you are saying. I have no trouble with criticism, and when I do get it, it is great to have. With my technical stuff as I'm feeling my way through this, absolutely. I've received a few useful bits... thinking back, @nprofile…tl66 gave me some feedback, as did @nprofile…xvky , and I've used that. I'm human. I can get wadded up sometimes; however, if somebody takes the time to think about what I'm saying, actually reads what I wrote, and offers some criticism, that is gold. I wasn't very clear (or perhaps confused, or perhaps just wrong). My main point was that my approach of sharing any/all with an untargetted audience made me noisy and defeated the benefit of sharing.