Tim Raveling

This is very cool! Something about this project's vibe really reminds me of Becky Chambers' "Record of a Spaceborn Few", which is one of my favorite sci fi books of the last several years

Better together

Yeah it's so cool! And that part (hyprland) courtesy of a random Polish college student who I'm pretty sure started it in his dorm room. Open source is a really cool place to be right now imo

Nailed it

@ekhudson.bsky.social yo, I haven't tried it myself yet but I'm going to -- check out Omarchy. It's an out of the box easy setup of arch that looks super good, automatically handles drivers etc. Looks incredible and super stable!

itself a judgment

YouTube video by Carsie Blanton - Topic Empire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-D...

Anthem for the present day

The problem with monarchy is kings. but even more so, kings' dipshit sons

No Kings Rally in tiny Grand County, high up in the Colorado mountains!

AI is behind both the coming New Great Depression, and also my current personal depression

Yes and yes. This is basic ethics

So I quite like arch personally. incredibly customizable and was used as the base distro for the steam deck, so pretty solid for gaming. Only downside is that it's a pretty involved setup process compared to eg Ubuntu - but worth it imo!

What for? Work, gaming etc?

No

(in an increasingly less nerdy and more urgent tone) Time for Linux!

Yo @iwriteok.bsky.social, I'm finally getting around to the Heinrich Himmler episodes, and... this is definitely Vance for us, right? Thought it might be Miller up front but something about the smarminess and deep seated cringing kissass energy really sells it as Vance for me.

Like we really need to internalize that the response to fascism is to reject any equivalence between violent, supremacist, or exceptionalist ideologies & other ideologies that are defensive, communal, or constructive. Even when the former masquerade as the latter. You just have to reject that.

You know what, this is a good point

A deeply powerful final message.

I would argue Louisiana is better than Texas but u know whatever

(I don't know how many linguistics nerds are out there but this one's for you guys)

In America, history is aspirational

Just discovered @whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com and even though the news is stressful, the conciseness and clarity with which this site presents it is calming me down again

I think I prefer my dentist to be less passionate actually

I'm currently reading Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror", about the 14thc including precursors to protestantism, and this joke landed for me

i'm not sure if these kinds of things are worse if they're AI bots run increasingly amok to agitate on social media, or if people are really just this basic (p.s. it was a very touching original post, hard agree)

The one on the right (Alyssa Farah) was at my weird tiny Christian nationalist college right around when I met you -- I think I watched a movie with her and a couple other people a few weeks before I got kicked out of there. Odd small world.

I use programmer tags like [TODO: xx] and [TBD: xx] as this also makes them searchable!

An outstanding interview. Patrick Iber of Dissent Magazine has interviewed the legendary Polish political scientist Adam Przeworski about de-democratisation in the USA, and what lessons he’s gleaned from Chile, Peru & beyond.

Iber’s questions are stellar. Przeworski’s answers, chillingly candid.

Yeah kinda weird that people are so uncritical gung ho about promising a future that is either false, or slavery