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[tech] [spec] On extending gemini

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org

Mon Feb 22 17:37:52 GMT 2021

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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:33 AM Jason McBrayer <jmcbray at carcosa.net> wrote:

Solderpunk reaffirmed this on the new year.

I understand that Solderpunk is extremely busy, but I do think that the

mailing list is suffering in his relative absence; a limitation of the

BDFN (benevolent dictator for now) structure we currently have.

In another project, I like to describe myself as Chief Cook andBottle-washer For Now. Keeping that firmly in mind and telling peopleabout it helps to defuse anyone's fear (including mine) that I will aspireto be the Absolute Dictator of the Known Universe. ("But I could do somuch *good* that way." "Riiight. 'For nothing is evil in the beginning.Even Sauron was not so.' And 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute powercorrupts absolutely. Great men are often bad men.'")

I understand why this was not clear, and I'm sorry for the confusion.

Thank you for this; this does a tremendous amount to de-escalate the

situation.

Lesson to be learned, perhaps: when an actor in a position of power (real,potential, or even just perceived) issues a moderate threat, other actorsmay read it as an existential threat, and so eventually provoke the SecondComing (of Jesus or the Valar or both, it's going to be a rough ride in anycase). So the bigger you are, the meeker you should be; after all, themeek will inherit the earth, bit by bit, pushing back against violence.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgSo they play that [tune] on their fascist banjos, eh? --Great-Souled Sam-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210222/c7fa69cf/attachment.htm>