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This must be one of the most harrowing articles on Wikipedia, an omnibus history of a feral girl named Genie. Her history holds scathing indictments of family, patriarchy, science, and social service institutions. Even more raw are the dimensions of implicit indictments of human life and society, that failed her so completely over and over. I do hope, somewhere, Genie finally has found a modicum of peace in this life.
Excavations on the Walbrook London Mithraeum (pdf)
The construction of the new Bloomberg building in London meant the reexcavation of a large section of the ground where the London temple of Mithras once stood. This temple was then reconstructed from its awful later situation to near its original prosition. This document interests both as an exemplary popular survey of the 2013-14 excavations, but also a snapshot of archaeological preservation literally under the bastions of late capitalism. On the whole, not a bad effort.
...is the only thing I recall from Harry Potter with any fidelity, or interest for that matter. I wish there was a Moaning Myrtle adventure tv series.
Elder Porphyrios and the Hippies
A nice psychic Greek Orthodox Christian monk remembers talking with some hippies at his monastery.
Gemini is smol!
Because it is smol, it will become more smol.
Smol is good for us.
If demons make it BIG, the smolness of smolnet makes it resistant.
Maybe demons can make it BIG, but it would be hard.
Because smolnet is smol.
I’m tired of latin right now. It is fun to play with but it is silly to believe it actually makes ideas more serious. That is a bug in English and it is dumb.
I’m so poor, I can’t even afford impostor syndrome.
All I want is 140 acres on a fecund Earth with a population capped at 100 million. Isn’t that a nice compromise? I’d rather have it capped at 500k. And why not? That’s still plenty of humans to slobber and jibber in a few big cities, making noise and jostling in their claustrophobic urban warrens, as most humans seem to enjoy. But with our technology it would be an easy paradise. Ah, but the breadth of space it would allow for those who prefer cleaner, open vistas. To wander days without encountering the reek of imperial excess...
America is pretty lonely.
I’m not even Yankee bashing, just saying... It is a lonely culture to live. That makes it harder.
I used to tell people, before it became moot, that if they were Type A stubborn go-getters, natural entrepreneurs, then it’s great. If all you want at heart is to make dumplings with granny and the kids, then... Not so much. America is brutal to anyone who doesn’t have dollar signs for eyes. And hard on many (most?) of them too.
Birdsite thread on Trump and likely pathways to electoral crisis.
Do read it. It’s on point. It’s intellectually astute. It is terrifying.
I’m too old for this era.
I prefer music about nice things. Friendship. Bicycles. Reincarnation. Exultation, joys quotidian and subtle. More of that please.
Watching a sweet film by the auteur of Saving Face. A new take on Cyrano, with a bisexual love triangle. But it strikes pangs for depicting with almost cruel clarity what it is like to be young, Queer, Chinese, and washed up in rural USA. Ellie Chu’s town is any town with a Chinese family who didn’t exactly find gold mountain in Americay. Worth watching.
Alice Coltrane - Reflections on Creation and Space (Web)
A beguiling psychedelic symphony which discomfits and exults by turns. Prophetic in the way music can only be. Good juju.
If you haven’t a refrigerator, but do have an air conditioner, you could do worse than to hang perishables in bags in front of the output grate. Not to block, mind, but along side the flow of air. This will add a few days to edibility.
富山 CityFM 77.7 MHz Smooth Jazz
This is a smooth jazz station stream in Toyama, JP. The music is soothing and pleasant, modern but with little pop. It’s a lovely Music station.
Southern Californians don’t say “okay” so much as mumble “nguh” through their noses. Nasalization is pretty common from surfer lingo.
Kollok - The Phobos Saga (Web video)
HyperRPG have been good enough to recently upload the prequels to Kollok 1991. These series used both the Ten Candles and the Kids on Bikes game mechanics. Mostly these play through alternate universes to Kollok prime, including the Kolob town the Radar quickly visited early on in Kollok. The early episodes are a bit raw, but Ten Candles does get quite good at points. The Kollok TTRPG-stories work well as either video or podcast. Give them a whirl!
...are manure. There’s a toxic thesis left, right, and centre (a stupid formulation anyway). The lie of politics is that *what* we are matters more than *who* we are at heart. Those who dehumanize always cut their sails that way. It does no service, in the name of justice, to concede this point to dehumanizers. Ultimately, the only way out is to knit community. And community is a slyly fluid thing which percolates into and around all castes and creeds. Whenever we are enjoined to staple dead identities to our faces, by whatever ideological cult, we are in for stormy weather. I refuse to be drafted in such armies of the damned.
Near as I can reckon... argots are about 10% jargon needful to specialized discourse and 90% pure in-group shibboleths. An argot is more than a simple sociolect. And it’s less than a true cryptolect, as it’s meant to be flamboyantly on display rather than truly hidden. Argot is not to hide, but to show to outsiders that they don’t know. There’s a kind of sociopathic menace in an argot which humour can’t elide, and often sharpens. “Irony”, to use the modern malapropism, is one such sharpening. It riddles all sides in contemporary politics. An argot is the language of the snub and snob.
Have you heard the good news of bro pages? I adore bro pages. (And no, “bro” doesn’t oFfEnD or exclude me; it’s just clever and whimsical humour.) Bro pages point the way forward to a shortening of the trail between tech muggle and 1337. For that, I’m eternally grateful. More “bro” referential prosthetics, please!
The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User
I’m trying to tone down my UX whining. But a discussion on Mastodon precipitated this link to Dr. Morbius’ considerations on the tension between power users and naive users, that bad corporate imperatives exploit the latter to poorly build for all.
Report on the Nazi networks rising in the German mil, int, police, &c.
Funtimes.
🎅🏻「名不正則言不順, 言不順則事不成。」
💁🏽♀️ 嘻嘻笑笑，嘰嘰咕咕！
My SDF Email is deprecated.
It is hotter than Charles Dickens with a new novel. But I am installing a brand new AC unit. It will take some days as I must manufacture the stand and bracket myself from aluminum and steel. Stand done, next up the flange and bracket. But I am knocking off for the day to enjoy the fruits of my labour. Obscene shore power use, but lovely. I reckon to start a phlog detailing my restoration and solarpunkification of my little Baba Yaga hovel. But not right now. Oh, no. Not right now, haha.
Bizzy for a few days with offline stuff.
Big tech will enthusiastically sign on to EARN IT and LAED as a way of passing the moral buck. “We were just following court orders.”
Regarding drama, old Dixieland proverb: Jesus don’t like ugly.
I am a very small person in the tech scheme of things, and easily befuddled. But before this decade is out I intend to make a NAPLPS or teletext bbs and see its flag fly high above the smolnet.
And huge thank you to Alex Schroeder, who also helped me get the giki running. It boots up jake, but needs a bit of spit and polish to daemonize it, which I shall do directly when my brain is not mush anymore. But it’s working nicely so far, both for Gemini and Titan. When I have something worth seeing I shall have a grand opening, haha. Next up is gophernicus.
Well, thanks heaps to Solderpunk’s coaching, Molly is now afloat in the Geminiskies. Let us hope unsinkably! Now, on to the giki and gophernicus. Then some actual content, methinks, for a soft open to shake out the bugs. I’ve tried to lay the foundation of this server as best I can, so that I shan’t have to go back to it too much, I hope.
On a Gus Van Sant spree lately. This is a gloriously dark comedy, based on a true tale of city slicker folly. Van Sant gets right up into people’s nostrils, grinding away at their provacy. But it’s less voyeurism than a kind of pleading. The camera is too demanding to be taken as a silent witness. Gerry gnaws on a Godot spareness with an intimate humour. There are awesome dollops of Jodorosky here which deepen significance, too.
Need to fill the wash and drinking cisterns from the well, fill the swamp cooler. Before dawn because I can’t bear seeing humans before a spit and polish. Eat so I can take medicines without being unwell, which means baking stovetop cornpone whilst it is still bearably cool. Fix up my botched server ware installs. John the ripper my own moribund pgp key because I forgot the password again... 🤦🏽♀️ Then put the new solar battery. Finally, sometime directly, scrounge the last bits to build a camper top adapter mount for my jalopy because I can’t afford buy a new shell which fits anytime soon and don’t want to drill mounts for antennas again soon.
Realization: I can’t abide reading cyberpunk because, apparently, I am cyberpunk.
“Never give up! Never surrender...”
Solderpunk’s Gemini Birfday glogpost
Happy Birfday, Gemini Protocol! (Image)
Since it is the 1 year anniversary of Solderpunk knocking hims head on the bathroom floor and coming up with the flux capacitor... Wait, that’s not right. In honour of Solderpunk inventing this brave humane future of which we are now partaking, I feel obliged to eat some more chocolate cake. It’s a hard task, but I feel duty bound.
Thanks, Solderpunk! Thank you, Gemini!
Spalding Gray Points at Us (Image)
From swimming to Cambodia.
Is morality a movable feast?
Marilyn Monroe knew, maybe...
(I miss you.)
USA:
Drive safe
Canada:
Please drive safely
IFSC Pan-American Championships 2020 (Climbing)
The winner’s joy when she learnt she was going to go to the Olympics was infectious. What a sweetie.
Release... the eggcream!
This is “Dr.” Shufei reminding you that eggcream is medicine for body and soul.
Mistrust any who come at you with, “you’re either with us or against us”.
Fatalism is imperial propaganda; nothing is historically inevitable.
Look for the helpers, and the builders, makers, menders; that’s where to pitch in.
Evidently eminent Mr. Goerzen is retiring Pygopherd, one of the more popular gopher daemons. This, due to the incipient end of life for Python2. He has requested someone to take it over to port it to Python3. Pygopherd is my old standard, and evidently supports some oldschool UMN gophermap metadata what no other server does, so he would fancy another server support those at least. If any Python wizards happen to read this, please check it out.
Righto! The snooty server host just took me out of account jail. Time to get a Debian server going. A solid foundation for my wee cottage on the smolnet/textnet/slow internet.
What even are we calling this movement?
Pretty Please, Buy Me an Eggcream (Well, a month of server, haha.)
Please do drop any coins in my tin cup if you can. I’m doing this on a shoestring, but I still gnash a bit at the expense. I’ll have more options and the usual panoply of thank you rewards directly, once I’ve something to show for the bother...
I’m making my own Gemini site, hosted by VPS! It will include a giki (Gemini / gopher wiki), probably for retro tech and solar punk infos. Right now I’m still surveying the plot, then to lay the foundations. But I’ve tossed some pennies at it so I’m committed. Please keep abreast and support me! <3 I’ve never done my own site hosting before. I reckon it will do for my various experiments and such which I’d be shy about inflicting on the Zaibatsu. Eventually I’d like to host some other people’s goodies, maybe situate the thing as a Tilde/Circumlunar outpost, however that works. Anyway, stirring the ingredients as we speak.
I’m finding it a drag to contemplate gopher sometimes. The lack of much UTF-8 support is a real drag for me. Item types, wonky line formatting... I love Gopher, but it’s just such a fickle mule. So when, as now, I just don’t have the prefrontal cortex oomph, it’s much more pleasant to just phlog/glog to Gemini. I’m hopeful that some kind of Gem2Goph script will eventually be tenable so that I can punt down the Weiphlog at least.
I’m sure I have a backlog of phlog/email replies to do! Thank you all for being out there. I’m glad the “slow internet” as Fox/Tomasino put it is more forgiving with pace than the bizzy web mainstream.
I have been adding recipes now and then, as I cook something of note. I do rather hope they are entertaining to read, if not necessarily to consume.
The astute film aficionada ought to prepare for cinema as one does the opera. It behooves the audience to participate by being as educated as they can in reception of art. To that end, please saturate one’s mind with a choice selection of rock & roll until the debut of the new Bill & Ted film.
I signed your super secret guestbook with hex edit. I am happy of myself. Lovely Altair fun.
It’s a good time to tidy up a bit. Look around the noosphere and sweep away the cobwebs. Is this doohickey really important to you? No? Then sweep it up into the bit bin compost.
I’m behind in my textnet nice projects. But that will be rectified directly.
Marblympics Cravendale Cup (Video)
Since there will be no Olympics this year, why not watch the Marblympics, coming up on 18th of June? A preshow is being done now by Jelle and friends, with all the exciting marble races, intrigue, marble people’s sociology and history we can expect.
對我來說義勇軍進行曲聽起來狗屁不通了。
“Don’t confuse the problematic with the catastrophic.”
Another new Gemini client which supports terminal colours, and quite nicely. Acdw’s Bollox (haha) is clean and under active development. Great to see! So lovely!
Pasta is awful. Heavy on the stomach. Maybe it’s age. Going back to rice. Times like this call for soul food.
ssh altair@mpcclub.info -p 422
Jebug29 has put is lovely lil Altair on the internet for good children to play with. It doesn’t like me right now, but I shall talk slowly to hims later.
It’s very strange returning to look at fediverse after a fast, especially when occupying that time mostly with long form writing and Gemini/gopher. The character limits on “modern” social media are stifling. Yet somehow words feel embarrassingly disposable. The “clout” is cloying. Sound byte culture comes off as superficial. The outrageous agora clamours, hucksters with jaded postures. It’s all just too much sturm und drang, but without pith. And all that is as nothing when compared with Twitter and such. Oh, it has undeniable utility. But I think... Yes, I’m rather done with it all.
Druxx just started up a glog very worth reading, a diary given over for his son to peruse in 20 years or so. I adore this, both for its intrinsic heart, but for what it says about the textnet. People are longing for longevity, for an infotech which speaks to the future with clarity. We have an opportunity for that here. I’ll keep reading, with best wishes for the little chap!
acdw’s Thoughts about the Protocol.
Some wise avuncular counsel from acdw on the “discourse”.
‘"The fact that you're worring about this right now means you're doing okay.
You're going to do just fine as a parent."
And I think the same thing about Gemini.’
Oh my goodness! I was reading the gemiphlog of plugd who was sad because EMACS won’t do certificates for Elpher nicely.
gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2020-05-31-Inanity-3%3A-Virtual-Gardening.txt
Wherein plugd gave the heads up for the above very cute (and colour enabled!) Gemcap called Astrobotany where you can grow a lovely ASCII garden! Now I have to reverse engineer how they did so many colours so nicely. Ta heaps, kids!
I don’t need nor want your mouldy Powershell, thanks.
s/“thanks”/“now scram”
對我來說，雙子網比地鼠網漸入佳境，在很大程度上因為做鏈接不是那麼複雜了。
行，可見雙子網上似乎廣播、輸入中文也可以。
Ashima Chocolate Brownie Clif Bars
I almost always eschew brands and all sorts of advertisement. I smugly look down on the droolers such tricks work on. Well, it seems I’m a sport nerd drooler because I find myself in fangirl conniptions to see Shiraishi Ashima on the cover of Clif Bars. What a dream boat...
Guardian Rolling Live Coverage (Web)
Rolling coverage on the fallout from the George Floyd murder. Trump is apparently ready to use the Insurrection Act to quell protests. A protester was shot dead by an attacker shooting wild from his SUV. 2020 funtimes.
I have printed up a proposal which I hope shall be the seed of a specification for GopherColour2. The basic notion is to paint colour and bold &c by interlacing text with format lines. This would allow far more colours to be articulated per line and make painting gophermaps more pleasant for the user.
GopherColour2 - A Naïvely Immodest Proposal (gopher link)
Been working heaps on GopherColour, learning what to do and, most often, what not to do for it to come off. I think I have a by hand method down now, more or less. It is awkward as one cannot see the Secret Magic Color Escape character. One can only copypaste it. Sometimes. And the line constraints of a gophermap create issues for the server when it makes a menu. But on the whole, I find it gloriously lovely. I may be the only one on Gopherspace to feel thusly. So be it! Release the colours!
Tom Foobaz (great name) at 1.21jiggawatts.net (GREAT NAME!) has an interesting post on the whats and whens of how Bluetooth low energy (BLE) works on iOS. Or rather, how it is restricted to work, generally.
A Short Summary of Bluetooth Contact Tracing
I got interested in scanning BLE beacons a while back, and rather concerned by the fine grain privacy implications. Time to crack out that programme and see who is pinging at the market.
I appreciate the heart Akiyo gives to her climbing, all the more poignant for her long experience. She would have countless golds if it weren’t for young Janja, whose perspicacity on a boulder is preternatural, if somehow a bit uninspiring. Akiyo often looks on the verge of tears, even if she usually is able at showing a good face for the audience. Akiyo pushes hard, as in 2018 when she came within a fingernail of 4 tops. Everyone cried with her.
All empires die. The Fates choose their own threads to weave poetry for our end. Memento mori.
The Alexander Mosaic (large image)
I’ve been pushing for GopherColour for years now. And now I wanna set it up. But whatever secret characters Tilde.pink used to get theirs pink is utterly invisible to both me and my tablet. I have tried every escape I can think of. Nano will copypaste it, but not my tablet. I can’t key it in. But cat can see it. VF-1 can see it. I’m about to go full bore Veruca Salt on this.
Int at 80h has made a clever way to serve Gemini on one of those lil babby esp chip devices. Gemini is suited for a tenuous adhoc meshnet, I daresay! I hope we see more such advancements soon.
A tiny tiny baby Gemini server for smol devices
Quite a few nice people wrote in; and someone pointed out errors in links or formatting. Thanks for that. If you find a link on my gopherhole or geminicap doesn’t work, please do give me a head’s up.
I am enjoying Gemini. I do hope more interactive deployments are made soon. Why not a guestbook system with cryptosigned or encrypted messages? It would be a cinch to slap GPG to the front of AV-98 or such. (She says, naively.) What I really would fancy is Gemini support in Lynx, natch. And colours. Gemini client colour escape support...
🎵...History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of Man...🎶
I updated quite a bit of the sites. Quite grateful that Solderpunk included me on the Zaibatsu and Gemini CS. There’s a wee bit more elbow room. Now if I can only use it with alacrity.
I’m tired of fediverse. I wanna do more in depth or long form writing anyway. But even the exhaustingly pedantic (Howdy!) need a coffee table for more concise knickknacks. Hence this 微博. I’ll try to refrain from posting the trite. But I doubt I’ll wholly succeed.
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