do these self-identifying capitalists understand just how close this is to old-school Marxism? much closer than the people they bizarrely demonize as “cultural Marxists”. these neoaccelerationists just make a different guess than Marxists did about what comes after what one group calls the singularity, the other the revolution. both imagine it must be something good and so work to drag us all heedlessly to our fates. https://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-tech-leaders-accelerationism-eacc-twitter-profiles-2023-7 ht @baldur

we mine history to garb atrocity in bright colors of false legitimacy.

i’m really tired of murder.

cancel any time.

i am tired of this golden age of the snuff film.

we are on the verge of essentializing one another to rubble.

#emacs org mode

@jamesarosen i'm pretty sure the one that comes up for me as RIGHT-FACING is the Third Reich associated one, open on the top in its upper-left quadrant. it looks like there's unicode for both.

(the distinction never did much for me given that flags are translucent.)

TIL the swastika is defined as unicode U+0FD5

was a bit weirded when tab-completing unicode chars beginning with RIGHT in emacs, that particular symbol showed up.

@sqrtminusone very cool.

@andregasser there is this one... https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/ (thanks @smallcircles)

what was branded "economic liberalism" (which was no more liberal than proclaiming a right to swing my arm regardless of the position of your nose) has largely discredited liberalism.

but recent history makes a stronger case than ever that pluralism (and therefore tolerance of wide variations of individual + group behavior), equal dignity, integration, and democratic governance respectful of pluralism form the only nondystopian modernity we've even glimpsed, and our best hope looking forward.

@John you could provide URLs to a content addressed system like IPFS, so if the content was altered the URLs would either continue to show the original or break.

it's just not a day that makes you feel hopeful about things.

@mattlehrer (of that i had no idea! it was just a thing that came up…)

@mattlehrer i wish! but for the moment i'm wanting my computer to save me the trouble.

really, Apple?

it's a bit pathetic how narrow the range of languages for translation this supposedly cosmopolitan, most highly valued corporation on planet Earth provides.

@qurlyjoe ouch.

@alice_i_cecile @dpp @evana Yes. Matching subsidy models are very interesting. I like in general terms ideas like quadratic funding, that provider bigger matches to the same dollars by many donors than by a few larger donors. I'd like to see states experiment with these models rather than just cryptophilanthropists biased towards very niche "public goods". https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656

@evana @dpp @alice_i_cecile Great points. Maintaining libraries that we already know are valued, but are not so exciting for people to work on, is a tractable target for straight paid work. That is, we could just have an agency that hires developers to maintain and enhance them, doing its best to keep tabs on what remains widely used in allocating developer resources. It's would be state maintenance of public infrastructure, a straightforward public role.