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Issue One May 2021
===========================[ PREFACE ]=============================
Back in February, Anyone who has had The strategy of this
around the time of the pleasure of first run has been to
the ogre incident, perusing the many just get it out
Jone wondered out phlogs and gemlogs there. Rather than
loud on the here at prematurely
circumlunar.space circumlunar.space exhausting our energy
BBS, telem, about the will be aware of the on determining what
possibility of a CS impressive diversity it should be, or
zine. The idea was of interests, pidgeonholing
well-received by the talents, and ourselves into a
rest of us sundogs, backgrounds of the niche or format
and for some time, sundogs residing without actually
talk of the zine here. It will be having produced any
flooded telem as we interesting to see content, we elected
proceeded to howl at how these influence to first just give it
the moon in the zine over time, a go and see what we
excitement. Amidst but currently what get. So for this
this jubilee, I the zine is and how first issue, we have
somehow ended up it will be produced what has been
wearing the is largely still up endearingly termed a
proverbial editor in the air. It's "topic salad." And I
pants--for this really just a fun believe it has turned
inaugural issue, at experiment, and this out to be quite a
least. first issue is a kind nutritious one at
of pilot episode. that.
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issues of where and brief inhabitation of April 25, 2021
how to bi-host such a the Zaibatsu, I've Incheon, Korea
thing in an learnt a great many
accessible way. In things and have been
addition to Gopher inspired to create
and Gemini editions, and wonder about
we intend to provide things I would not
======================[ TABLE OF CONTENTS ]========================
[title] [line no.]
The Circumlunar Mixtape..........................................97
by sloum
Ask Jone........................................................159
by joneworlds
Manifesto of a Granular Ideologue...............................227
by tfurrows
What's the Deal with Leap Seconds?..............................279
by solderpunk
The Hearth of the Matter........................................596
by durtal
Why I Still Game Proprietary....................................668
by wholesomedonut
===================[ THE CIRCUMLUNAR MIXTAPE ]=====================
- - -[ sloum's covid-year playlist ]- - -
The Circumlunar Mixtape is an ongoing series for Circumlunar
Transmissions where one user per issue shares 10 tracks they have
been listening to. .------------------------. Y'all have all
kinds of ways to | CT001 | stream music, or
otherwise find and | __ ______ __ | listen to music, so
tracks are just | /. \|\.....|/ \ | listed and it is on
the reader to locate | \__/|/_____|\__/ | them. As a court-
esy, when a weblink | sloum | to streaming is
available, playlist | ________________ | curators may choose
to supply it. |___/_._o________o_._\___|
These are songs I have listened to at various points throughout the
last year. Some are old some are new. It has been a weird year and
this is a kind of weird mix. I provided Bandcamp weblinks for each
track except the Charlie Parr, which is a Youtube link because I
like this song live and this is my favorite performance recording
of it and the recording doesn't appear on any of his albums.
Enjoy!
[track name] [artist name] [album name]
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Forward Becons Rebound Adrianne Lenker Songs
https://adriannelenker.bandcamp.com/track/forwards-beckon-rebound
Catamaran talons' Songs for Boats
https://talons.bandcamp.com/track/catamaran
Possessed by the Devil Charlie Parr N/A (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P46hGYUycoE
Some Voices Pinback Some Voices EP
https://pinback.bandcamp.com/track/some-voices
Get To Know You Tomo Nakayama Melonday
https://tomomusic.bandcamp.com/track/get-to-know-you
Just a Cloud Lusine Sensorimotor
https://lusine.bandcamp.com/track/just-a-cloud-feat-vilja-larjosto
Good Morning Captain Slint Spiderland(Remastered)
https://slint.bandcamp.com/track/good-morning-captain-remastered
Step Into You Hum Inlet
https://humband.bandcamp.com/track/step-into-you
Kingfisher Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower
https://windhand.bandcamp.com/track/kingfisher
Nue Nils Frahm Wintermusik
https://nilsfrahm.bandcamp.com/track/nue
===========================[ ASK JONE ]===========================
Do you have a problem? Send your questions to:
joneworlds@mailbox.org
W. asks:
"I have a strained relationship with my sister.
What are some things I can do to help repair it?"
I remember my dad feels like eating Chunk'n'Dunk? Not
and I went through anymore. Although great. And I guess
this patch where that stuff is dad's thinking along
we were both pretty just not very the same lines as me,
pissed off at each nutritious. But because every time I
other, not that I because I'm mad come by he leaves me
remember why at at him, I don't another pair of snow
this point. But bother to bring tires he found. But
sharing is caring, his favorite, the I'm not selling tires
right? So to keep meatball-carrot stew any more by then,
things going, I'm one. Instead, I bring so I don't want
still dropping off him can after can of them. And he knows
cans of Chunk'n'Dunk turkey-a-la-king. You that, but he keeps on
soup for him, because ever try getting tires anyhow.
it's all he ever that one from
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And so we go on like of cans. And some it I find that
this for weeks: falls on his head co-incidentally the
I come by and put and he falls over, big pile of snow
like 5 more cans of and the rest of the tires out there has
turkey-a-la-king on cans come crashing also fallen over,
his kitchen counter, down on him. Pretty and it's crushed some
and he stacks a few bad scene. So I go unlucky little gnome
more snow tires to help him up, but who must have been
outside his door I slip and trip on a milling around by
for me. And all can on the floor, and there. Those things
this stuff is piling hit the ground hard are so bad at staying
higher and higher and too. And if you've alive, I just can't
higher, and we're ever fallen on a believe it sometimes.
gradually getting pile of Chunk'n'Dunk
madder and madder at turkey-a-la-king Anyways, if you're
each other. Until one cans, you know that looking to patch
day I go over there hurts pretty bad. things up with your
with another box of sister, I would say
cans, and he starts So we're both maybe don't do it
screaming and yelling groaning on the with canned soup,
about how he hates ground, and then or snow tires. It
turkey-a-la-king. And there's this weird sure didn't help us
he gets so mad he sound by the front any. It just wasn't
accidentally knocks door. When I get a good result for
over the stack out there to check anyone, especially
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for that gnome. Or
if you have to
go with soup, at ________________________
least stick with |\ /|
the meatball-carrot | \ joneworlds / |
one. It's actually | \ @ / |
not bad. | \ mailbox.org / |
| \______________/ |
Thanks for writing | / \ |
in. I hope that | / \ |
helps. |____/_____________\_____|
-JONE
================[ MANIFESTO OF A GRANULAR IDEOLOGUE ]==============
by tfurrows
- - -[ Passing Thoughts of an Impractical Idealist ]- - -
Our ancestors stood on Permanence dammed the This is not the
the banks of the river, a logjam of manifesto to end all
Euphrates and cast ideas tossed in as if manifestos. It is a
their ideas into the each was a consummate message in a bottle
inexhaustible current. standard. Life-giving that few will find. It
First they cast in waters slowed, is a loose model for
words, ephemeral. Then intelligence waned, dealing with the
they learned the elastic mind mountainous dam of
permanence; epochs seized and crumbled. manifestos that stop
brought clay tablets The word manifesto the flow of
and papyrus, script dates to the creativity, passion,
and type, bits and fourteenth century, and progress. At the
clouds. but the notion dates risk of making the
to our earliest problem worse, I
written conclusions. proffer:
From a Message in a Bottle, Sitting Atop the Dam of Manifestos
..............................................................
* Let your mind move freely, become a seeker
* Accept that knowledge is scattered broadly
* Find kernels of truth and germinate thoughts
* Take something from every ideology,
fear nothing
* Subscribe to that which you find value in
* Mistrust labels, they carry unimaginable
baggage
* Acknowledge all that came before, but accept
the utility of your journey
* Never believe that you have the best vision
for the world
* Don't try to fashion the world to your
ideals; your ideals are cursory
* Be a maximal minimalist, distill purity from
immensity
* Find, purify, share, repeat
* To conclude means to cease to grow
<tfurrows@circumlunar.space>
<tfurrows@sdf.org>
==============[ WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH LEAP SECONDS? ]===============
================[ A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF TIMESCALES ]=================
by solderpunk
ASTRONOMICAL SECONDS
Why is a second as didn't, so you're "why is a day as long
long as it is, and not stuck reading this, as it is?" - one day
a little shorter or a instead: a brief, is the time it takes
little longer? This incomplete, possibly the Earth to complete
is a seemingly simple slightly inaccurate a single revolution
question which leads overview based on my about its axis. And
down a deep and own characteristically since there are 60
delightfully twisted obsessive reading on seconds in a minute,
rabbit hole. It's the topic over the 60 minutes in an hour
something that I wish past week or so. and 24 hours in a day,
Neal Stephenson had a second is simply one
written an epically For most of the time 86,400th of the time
long, inexplicably that the concept of it takes the Earth to
compelling 1990s Wired the second has been rotate once. Or, if
article about, in the around, its length has you like, a second is
spirit of his "Mother been defined the time it takes for
Earth, Mother Board" implicitly by that of the Earth to rotate
or "In the Kingdom of the day. Everybody one 240th of a degree,
Mao Bell". But he knows the answer to out of the full 360.
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End of story, right? observatories tracking enough to notice
the movement of this). In fact, the
Well, no. This is a distant radio sources Earth's rotation is
perfectly sensible way across the sky as the slowing down. Very
to define time - for Earth rotates. This slowly, of course.
some applications, is easier than making Every century, a
it's the best way to precision measurements complete rotation
do it. This of the sun, but is takes about 2
astronomically still measuring the milliseconds longer
define