pretty much no-one i know understands anything i find interesting--computers, philosophy...
it ranges from polite indifference, to ignoring when i raise the topic, to outright mocking.
i think it is a function of australia's toxic anti-intellectualism, we call it 'tall poppy syndrome'. which is meant to be a label that criticises it, but quite a few aussies i have met are enthusiastic about cutting down every tall poppy they see.
it is very frustrating having to do everything by yourself, knowing no-one else will join in. it has been like this since ny first memories.
australia is probably one of the most conformist white colonial nations i know. difference is treated with hostility. it is not the laid hack hippie surfer country AT ALL
As tech enshittifies, as climate worsens, as fascists dismantle the government, the gaslighting & greenwashing will be intense.
They'll appropriate anti-tech/antifa/green terms just like they steal data & water & natural resources.
Know your values.
Keep building a better world.
#noAI #ClimateChange #antifascist
Oh! Can’t keep up on your #LispMachine releases? Well! System 301.1 is out now! And it ain’t even a bug fix… now you can count or clean your dirty .. pages. #LispM https://tumbleweed.nu/r/sys/info/f2ac23283ebeaea9
with respect to computers, it is very obvious to me that this is the bad timeline
hard to continue believing in leibniz and his 'best of all worlds' hypothesis now, really
looking across another domain--agriculture--i would say computing now exemplifies a "monoculture"
i really want to use plan 9 but i just cannot do C
i understand well enough you can use scheme on it, but that's not the point
plan 9 has some great ideas and is indeed objectively better than UNIX, but C goes against everything i believe in
Another "blue screen of life"! #InTheLabDoingStuff #Commodore64 #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
i think a big reason i spend a lot of time doing common lisp and retrocomputing as an interest is every other computer subgroup is dominated by people who worship money/silicon valley culture.
lisp and retrocomputing existed before microsoft destroyed every other computer ecosystem, making independent thinking impossible.
capitalism is a lie
reject tradition - computers for money/war
embrace modernity - computers for human flourishing
just changed my emacs font to this:
https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/c64/
looks amazing, 11/10, chef's kiss
Crazy that my calculator from 1990 can do the cross product but a TI calculator from 2013 can't
I just flew across the country and hearing people cleaning planes only get $12-19/hr is WILD when every traveler pays several hundred or thousands of dollars to be past security.
Double their pay, at least. https://apnews.com/article/charlotte-airport-workers-strike-3a00ed15aedfdd8b5e2383feab53cb5a
weird teasing thought bouncing through the back of my brain about how the concept of "protocols, not platforms" could have, and should have, been applied more widely to society as an intervention to prevent the destruction of small-business by big-box capital.