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i could easily eat you

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sunday, 9th may 2021

hello

  • This is a great read: github.com:dekuNukem/bob cassette rewinder
    • epic v apple is exciting
      • google v oracle went quite well
        • it's annoying to have to wait around until some rich prick decides to pick a fight
  • it's strange that the mac app "Preview" is called "Preview" and not "View"
    • pre- what?
    • what happens next
  • we spent all day yesterday playing Detroit: Become Human
    • one of the branch nodes is named [KARA](https://ghost.computer) BECOMES DEVIANT
    • my ps4 controller's sticks were drifting so i poured alcohol into them and squeezed them and spinned them around
    • so many problems can be solved by pouring alcohol on them
  • working on an album of ufo music
  • keep starting and stopping projects over the last few weeks. can't seem to keep to one thing
    • think it would be helpful to know when i'm going to die
  • we're in the park today. it's cloudy and nineteen degrees.
  • im sleepy
  • it feels like things could get better, doesn't it? feels weird
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sunday, 2nd may

  • i attended a book launch for joanne mcneil's Lurking.
    • it was hosted by archive.org.
    • brewster kahle was in the chat telling joanne to get her publisher to sell archive.org the book so they could lend it
    • i haven't read the book yet because i'm still reading the deficit myth
  • i listened to the song wounded by the cookies a lot. it's on our morning sunshine pop playlist. it's really good
  • when the first gulf war began the bbc banned 69 songs including Blondie's Atomic and Boom Bang-a-Bang by Lulu
  • we went to Westfield on Saturday. it was really busy, but we had a good time.
  • we bought a pretty mancala set from flying tiger and after lunch we played a few rounds on a grassy knoll

I spent some time this week reading about twitter's bluesky project trying to understand why jack wants Twitter to be a client of a decentralized social media protocol.

At first I thought: Jack doesn't want to be responsible for speech, he wants to surf. He's banking on Twitter remaining the primary interface for most people and hoping the network will take care of moderation and he won't be phoned by senators anymore saying “why haven't u blocked alex jones yet”

But after reading one of the articles bluesky links to,

I think Jack wants the new protocol to be based on the blockchain. He likes bitcoin. So does Square, Inc. (https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017).

This would help with his moderation problem, and his monetization problem. Interfaces earn bitcoin for having users, users earn bitcoin for retweets, that drives up the price of bitcoin and jack gets rich while he surfs.

Maybe it would be something less rainforest-burny like FileCoin or whatever. I'll bet Bitcoin is jack's preference, but it doesn't even matter if it's a brand new currency. jack would instantly have a huge amount of it, and its value would skyrocket.

I hope I don't think about it anymore this week.

  • yahoo answers shuts down in a few days. you can help archive it by running a warrior
  • we received an e-mail from the thirty days of art project we did in April telling us that they'd be deleting all our work on the 7th of May. so I have a few shell loops running submitting everyone's artist pages to archive.org
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sunday, 25th april 2021

  • We went Geocaching® yesterday. Drank some cider in the park. Good dogs out. Smoky Bacon Cow, Horace, Margaret the Carpet, Little Sausage.
  • I've forked this notetaking app, it's great but i want more
  • Cuba has created at least two potentially viable vaccines, because they knew they wouldn't be able to afford to compete with richer countries to buy them. Cuba needs syringes. It can't trade easily because of USA, and it is currently not making much money from tourism.
  • We found a lovely online café nearby that does gluten free brunches delivered in lovely boxes

I've been sick all week, and now Abe seems to have got whatever I've had. It's a really annoying fever-y thing.

Last night I had a dream where I was working on a garden with somebody from work. We were laying bricks and digging holes at the bottom of a residential hill. There were other people from work beside us working on different gardens. I looked up, there was an aeroplane flying overhead. It seemed to be hanging heavily to one side, and I saw steam or smoke escaping from areas other than the exhausts.

"is that okay?" i asked

"yeah, i think that's normal" said my colleage

"i really don't think that's OK," i thought (and didn't say)

Then the aeroplane swung dramatically to the right, up to the top of the hill. It was coming down at us very fast now, parts of it breaking off and nearly hitting folks who jumped out of the way at the last moment.

I looked over at my colleague, who was looking but didn't seem to have registered that we were going to die. Then I looked back at the aeroplane and woke up.

no reason to read into it