"If the other side’s politicians try to change the public’s views, but our side only responds to the public’s views, we are consigning ourselves to an endless rightward political drift. It is the job of political leaders to tell the truth, even when those truths are unpopular, and while it would be foolish not to run on ideas that are both popular and good (such as free healthcare), the fact that a majority support a position in a public opinion poll can never be the end of our analysis. We also have to do the hard work of thinking about what justice requires and to strike the careful balance between deference to popular preferences and upholding the principles that we think ultimately best serve humanity."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-just-do-whats-popular-1
maybe:
- smol word processor
- telnet client
- gopher browser...
- audio and video player (??)
steve jobs was right about this much--you're not necessarily going to convince people to use a platform by enumerating the criteria by which your puter may be superior.
somehow i have to imagine what it feels like to be fascinated and immediately pleased with the human-computer interaction.
i wonder how little RAM you could get away with for a reasonably powerful lil written document preparation system...
@unlink2 lovely! i think i will return to atari 2600 dev eventually. the stella emulator has a very powerful debugger!
just thinkin' about late 1970s, early 1980s computing... sigh...
microsoft really did destroy all that, the hobbyist scene. it is back now, despite its relatively puny size and position as a 'subculture'.
i wonder what it would take to liberate the human from the computer today. something suggests to me that it lies in simple, expressive command prompts--staying clear of modern GUIs, while not necessarily rejecting WSIWYG
if i have enough money after i pay my bills tomorrow i will try and print out some magazines and do some deep research into the era of 8 bit computing. to try and answer the question: what would a powerful but minimal computer need for the average user today?
i'd love to make lil 8 bit games again
the stock market with their souped up graphics cards can take a hike
8 bit assembly is also so easy! race the beam ~
i wonder what 6502 assembler is the community standard for atari 2600 dev now
i always used this piece of vaporware everyone swore by on the atariage forums called dasm
Laid out a little tutorial dungeon for the milestone and recorded a walking tour. The tile memory works different now and I think it looks nice.
Time to pack this baby so full of skeletons 💀
If you've never read Worse is Better or the history behind it, it's worth reading https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
tl;dr: Yeah you think your tech is better designed and it may be but the Zerg Rush strategy works for tech (but with long-running consequences)
When you eat a lot of fruit
"Ladies and gentlemen
This is mango no. 5"
Anil Dash on why you should quit Substack while you still can: every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
people are so far removed from the systems that keep them alive - the internet comes out of a socket in the wall and that's basically it.
A new (old) song for the playlist: https://youtu.be/J6AiZaGBal0
#GiantIsopods #Isopods #music #doritos
if i was gonna make a VM
i think it would be either:
- something like CHIP-8, for making amazing games for the TV
- something like smalltalk, where you have very high levels of abstraction
i will meditate on this. i like DMA video RAM so CHIP-8 would be fun
I'm trying to #crowdfund ₹20k (~€224 or ~$237) by the 20th of December, to add
~350 POIs (shop, restaurants, healthcare, etc)
~150 building levels,
shop phone numbers,
shop addresses,
named commercial and apartment areas,
and much more to #OpenStreetMap in the city of #Mumbai, #India.
To learn more and to contribute, visit -
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/projects/osm-mumbai-2024.html
(I've been an OSM contributor since 2016, and this is my latest attempt at trying to contribute to it full-time.)
#LambdaMOO update available at https://lambdamoo.blogspot.com/
Power outage. In case you were unaware of this blog, now you know.
i think the entire australian welfare system must now be entering crisis because it changed its app name from mygovid to myid
THANKS 🌈
