FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

the milky way is transbian

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-milky-way-galaxy-31212

tracker aerobics

we're providing our mental model of the structural factors underlying that change, so that people who have ideas about what they'd like to see can make informed decisions about how to navigate towards that world

anyway, the internet is a very mutable thing. it can be whatever we want it to be and work towards. we've seen it change many times in our time here.

WHERE AND HOW people talk to each other has changed a lot over the years - until pretty recently Reddit was one of the better sources of information, for this same reason

people talking to each other has always been, and will always be, the most useful source of information on the internet, both to people and to machines

anyway this is why you see things like the one that's going around today, where Google's ML search tool is allegedly providing helpful urine "facts" sourced from Cohost

(we can't verify it ourselves because the tool is not available in Canada, which we understand to be due to Canadian privacy law)

Cohost is full of a lot of people who are, with varying degrees of deliberation and intentionality, rejecting that profit motive wholesale

in a very real sense Google ATE the early internet, it flattened all the social structures that had existed and turned everything into search - search which would not have been possible without those structures

Google's existence disincentivized that kind of site, though, because suddenly there was a profit incentive in the mix. suddenly people started getting asked to link to other people's sites for pay... some people went along with that and some resisted doing it, but either way, linking to your favorite stuff started to seem not worth it

when Google was new, that description covered most of the internet. that's why citation analysis was such a highly effective tool for ranking websites

all y'all know WHY cohost ranks high on Google, right?

it's because it's a site where people write medium-length stuff to other people and the whole thing is highly interconnected in terms of links

Atari acquires longtime rival Intellivision https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163176/atari-acquires-intellivision-amico-console

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

it's important to understand that compiler developers are not dog people, but dag people. they love to go “ooh, who's a good puppy! who's so directed and acyclic! you are!!! you're a good little dag!! 🥰”

when I release a zine, I always make a version that looks good when printed at home on a black-and-white printer

so today I'm at a cafe reviewing the black and white version of the git zine

The system is working exactly as intended...