Digi & Geoff fighting is like Grant Morrison & Alan Moore fighting. Their criticisms of each other are accurate but comical because they make basically the exact same mistakes.
The basic reason why we don’t have the systems envisioned by Kay, Nelson, Engelbart, etc. is because we have ignored or forgotten the components of the systems those folks actually built that make what they envisioned possible.
People on twitter weirdly assume that I write all the links I share. Folks on mastodon basically don’t. I don’t know why.
We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.
Today, on the 50th anniversary of Englebart’s Mother of All Demos, is a great opportunity to introspect about why personal computers still basically don’t exist & the needs nLS was intended to fulfill still aren’t fulfilled.
Hot take: Cyberpunk only seems ‘prophetic’ because not enough has changed since the 80s to make it seem irrelevant, and this basically means that cyberpunk failed in its critical project by spawning insufficient praxis
GitHub - boriel/zxbasic: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC compiler! https://github.com/boriel/zxbasic
I keep reading this narrative where tech backlash only really started in 2017, and… guys, do none of you remember 2010? It’s basically been downhill for tech industry PR since 2010, if not 2008.
Xanadu Basics 3 - Browser Law - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_vYkSmkxk
Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0
Xanadu Basics 1c - Parallel Media. Parallel Subjects - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
Xanadu Basics 1b– INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
Making bad puns and then learning hidden truths by taking them too seriously is, basically, the most human form of human intelligence. That’s why we make fun of people for doing it. Dad jokes are the foundation of cognition.
Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html
Xanadu Basics 3 - Browser Law - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_vYkSmkxk
301 Moved Permanently https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl.git
Basically, if the antagonist of your story is actually a person or something person-like, it’s not really cyberpunk, because it’s not about the things cyberpunk is about. If you have an evil government or an evil corporation, it’s not cyberpunk either.
Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic-jobs-against-hijacking-utopia/
Bad idea of the day: MC Eliza, who rephrases your diss track in the form of a question. “How does that make you feel? Tell me more. Perhaps in your fantasies my flow is basic.”
Xanadu Basics 2 - Five working Xanadu Systems (four usable) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_o8q4Sp-w0
Prolog Basics Class https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3KMzm7tx_py67vc__JgoO1imlscNkVQ7_6ppvxOCoTWOUVQ/viewform
Xanadu Basics 1c - Parallel Media. Parallel Subjects - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
Xanadu Basics 1b– INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
GitHub - basic-gongfu/cixl: a minimal scripting language https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl
@tdemin@tdemin.github.io good points, though another that I’ve noticed is that it’s difficult to tell who in your network is actually reachable with your tweets. My HTTPS cert went unupdated for a brief while and now I have no idea who is still following me since I got it working again, so it’s difficult to tell where I can really have a conversation. A centralized service can tell who’s following who, but that’s basically impossible in twtxt.