specifically, fried chicken is near universal

• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

just make sure you’re in the right mindset when you watch Grave of the Fireflies – great movie BUT it is an emotional gut-punch

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

—Stephen Jay Gould, “Wide Hats and Narrow Minds” (1979)

Haiti paying reparations to France

ED-209 or Ed25519, I’m sure they work the same

Estonia – yes, I’d have a hell of a time with the language, but EU citizenship and politics that don’t sound completely fucked are really appealing

skip the DSA and go straight for IWW

as long as prompts are cheaper than therapy …

TIL: there are people who don’t sort by “New”

“Dear Alice” Decommodified Edition

“The things, you say,
You’re unbelievable.”

$ doas apk -U upgrade

• Codeberg
• sourcehut
• radicle
• self hosted

Vibe Coding Day 8

the Internet and the Web are fine – Web 2.0 was where things started going wrong – the cancer that begat the parasites of Web 3.0, crypto coin, and LLMs feeding off the twitching remains

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?

c/womensstuff is punching up, you’re punching down