When people ask why bother with combinatory logic, knowing that it maps so poorly to silicone, to the point of making it quite useless - I think of Thoreau's
βThis curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.β
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Would you rather have two ginormous instances or a million tiny ones?
One of the unexpected joys of the fediverse over other places is the addition of weird domains appended on to everyone's usernames.
It makes the web feel like more than just four websites again.
It's both a signal of a smaller more intimate internet and also a larger and far more diverse internet at the same time!
Happy International Workers' Day, everyone. #MayDay #TrueLaborDay #NoneOfThatDivideAndConquerCrap
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Something @FirstProgenitor said yesterday reminded me of the time one of my tweets caught the eye of the conservative loudmouth crowd and I got used as an example of "the left eating itself" for a week or so.
Hi! mastodon.social is being slow right now, as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have; I'm working on making it go fast again, but in the meantime, do remember to invite people to joinmastodon.org instead of directly to mastodon.social. People don't have to be on the same server to follow you! Thanks!
Y'all, I'm begging you. If you read this, I want you to look up the voice cast of Fallout 1. Every time I remember who is in it I am absolutely stunned at the fact that this low-budget mid 90s CD rom game managed to get the level of talent that they did.
Did somebody just have hella good connects and called in every favor or what?
protocols are hard. interoperation is hard. engineering is hard! but there's just... clearly no resources being put into it anymore. the parts of the internet that are interoperable (email, the web) were all designed before everything was stripmined by capitalists. nothing new is being built for interoperation anymore. there is not an engineering reason to be doing this, this is all deficient engineering. there are only market reasons, only capitalism to blame.
Sci-fi short story
They invented general artificial intelligence
At great expense
Years of research, vast resources expended
But they succeeded
A computer programmeβthe seat of subjectivity, a being with moral status
All because a billionaire wanted to kill something in his video game that could suffer,
And so he could do something profoundly
Wrong
Detroit Haskells Harder