peto (he/him)

I’d take his claim to have read it as seriously as anything else he says.

Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.

So this is how that meowing nun thing started…

As per my previous thrown brick.

Microsoft still pretending Linux doesn’t exist I see.

The lack of pain-empathy in healthcare is mind-blowing. I’m a white man in an excellent position to be listened to, but when I had appendicitis last year getting people to understand that no, I am in crippling pain and I think it’s urgent was far to much hassle for someone in crippling pain. I can’t imagine what it’s like for women.

I can understand folk getting jaded eventually but I often get the feeling that many people start out not caring.

‘vampire smut’ is almost, but not quite redundant.

You probably don’t want to know the details of any science done before… What? the 90’s?

For honour, for the hive, for things ordinary humans can not understand.

The real sad thing is after stabbing their opponent the winning beekeeper dies anyway.

As ever, the best bit is the comment section.

It’s worse than that. Some folks actually reject the idea that those poorer than them should have nice things, or even OK things. This is why there are voucher programs, why so much social housing (when it was built) are ugly, plain boxes showcasing the worst of brutalism.

To add some evidence (from a basic internet search, skimmed but not read in detail):

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/evidence-behind-putting-money-directly-pockets-poor

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5510957/

My point on art is that it can create an experience when perceived, rather than requiring you go there. If you listen to music, it will move you or it won’t, but you can’t choose (though you can lie). You can plug your ears but I don’t think you can sit there and just choose to feel nothing.

At the risk of getting too mystic, creativity is the ability to explore the inner world, communication is the ability to path and map that world. Art is the ability to push someone into that world, potentially forcefully and against their will. All of this is quite separate from ‘value’ or ‘worth’.

That said, capital is willing to pay for this because it has no connection to the inner world (interesting considering how it spawns some of the most foul and evil egregors out there.) They pay for solutions where necessary, but mostly they want it to be decoration within their egregors, defined only in those terms. You see this whenever anything gets committeed or focus-grouped out of their art-as-product.

Limits are imposed by culture and language, but those can be broken through, it’s just hard. But the inner world is infinite and contains all possibilities there to be found and pathed.

Probably because we don’t have any democracies, by that definition anyway.

[Edit] to add, I don’t think there is much desire for democracy either.

The best ones are when you scroll down the page and the video comes too. I wish suffering on no one but were I to meet that particular ‘innovator’.

Authority doesn’t exist. He does likely have the power however.

Died quicker too.

Just follow Baldrick’s recipe.

See the problem with this is that even if I write code with this font, I can’t force people to read it in this font.