oak sprout

"Community", like "Happiness", is something that cannot be obtained by aiming at it too directly

sometimes I just want so badly to be relieved of the pressure to be interesting

Grindset hustle bros quoting "what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life" as if they like Mary Oliver is so ironic like bro do you even let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

just like, feed in a screenshot of the game every turn and get back actions as a series of mouse coordinates to click on?

the correct approach to type theory is "exactly as much as I need to be useful and no more"

HKTs should be safe, legal and rare

discovering Eve for me was like finding the abandoned relics of an advanced alien civilization

anyway, if you like this, try
- www.cell-lang.net
- oceanpark.com/ap5.html
- any Datalog, really

mistlehead?

I just miss earnest posting about mental health, meditation, mysticism, etc. On old twitter it was more possible to carve out a little sub-community and tune out the tiresome stuff

sometimes I wish I could cause computer programming to happen via heavy lifting / physical exertion rather than via typing and screen-staring

(Bret Victor's Dynamicland is probably the closest thing to this, if only)

an unelected billionaire running our government like a king is un-American. our forefathers didn't fight and die in the Revolutionary War for this!

^ would really like to see electoral candidates take this kinda messaging and run with it

see this is less controversial / has less collateral damage than "unrealized capital gains tax", while still having much the same effect of hurting billionaires

yes, and?

which I mean, I do acknowledge you gotta go outside SV and accept that YC will never fund you if this is your mission, for a start. I think the core conceit was that you can somehow " improve the world and peoples' agency" and "get rich" at the same time

it sucks, not just bc of the negative effects on all society, but also for those of us hacker nerds who believed in the ethos of the 90s, who want to be scrappy and open-source and make tools that improve peoples' lives and see tech as a viable *anti*-authoritarian tool

how does it work? and are you open to collaborators?

how do you find the output quality to be?

it's not that so much; representatives and electors are apportioned according to population counts at the 10-yr census
if CA's pop shrinks while SD's pop grows (for example), and SD stays R, the net effect is more R votes in the House and Electoral College

something something stuck culture and simulacra

There’s a wide open space here politically / culturally for those who can articulate a compelling vision of a better future that isn’t a rehashing of the old

it’s open source, run a distillation locally!

what is the tactical value of saying “both parties are the same” at this particular moment?

generalizing further: the surest way to kill the inherent joy in an activity is to be dependent on the outcome

there's a case to be made for availability and archival. e.g Netflix/etc. can just pull a show and make it unavailable, unless you've downloaded a copy

(also, in that case, have the show's creators & actors have already been paid for their labor? not really clear on the contract terms there tbh)

app idea: a popup that appears every time you open the site and asks "are you sure you want to scroll through your timeline right now?"

there's a pretty good use case in turning unstructured -> structured data

Which requires taking actual effective action to bring your lifestyle in line with your values/intentions
Which requires the energy and health to put forth the effort
Which requires getting enough sleep …

To do that, be aligned enough in your day and life that you don't feel an unconscious need to self medicate & escape by forcing distracting stimulation into your face all evening, and you can go to bed tired & satisfied

To have a better life, better health etc - get enough sleep
To get enough sleep, go to bed on time
To get yourself to go to bed on time, stop scrolling & notice when you feel tired

A political movement built on energy and enthusiasm is more attractive than one built on doom and despair

css is the superior programming language

all you need to do is let selectors create/delete/modify elements and then it’s Prolog for web devs. this will never happen but one can dream

Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%