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Yes, yes, yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, no, no…

VERMELHO ALCLEAR O policial pipocou.

Trying out Substack as a place to publish some crônicas (photos and short poetic pieces)
open.substack.com/pub/aguafuer...

Inspired by @arquipelago.org I printed and bound some PDFs I've been wanting to have around for reference. I used this video to learn the saddle stitch. youtu.be/aWHkY5jOoqM

I think this is true. I don't really have a background in the free software world, but it does seem to have failed. These days, I'm in a funny position where somehow it seems that LLMs might make e.g. personal websites and Linux on the desktop a thing by reducing activation energy.

My worry is that your stated paradox makes people confuse commoditized movements with mass movements.The latter is what shifts currents in the world, and becoming mass requires dealing with scale. A mass movement must implicate and interpellate ordinary people. It can't be a niche ideology.

This is mostly an issue with capitalization leading to loss of ownership. You raise money and lose authority to direct the movement.

I watched one a long time ago and have been winging it since!

Here’s a ghosted version of flipping through the pages.

Hurry hurry! A photobook of interlaced street photographs.

Some documentation of my latest photography project Hurry hurry! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/hurr...

The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

I often wrap print statements with a bunch of new-lines to make them easier to find in a fast moving debug log. I'm curious if anyway has the habit of using color with ANSI escape sequences? I wonder how common it'd be if languages had `print(msg, color="red")` baked in.

Someone should make really good FFmpeg, OpenGL, and Linux merch

I want a version of the timeline where posts show up on a delay proportional to the distance in the real world they have to travel to get to me.

an idea for a bluesky feed

Edmund Leach’s introduction to Levi-Strauss is very lucid and didactic.

Recent programming experience has me thinking that the divide between I/O and compute should extend to languages. You want Erlang-style observability, concurrency, lightness for the I/O part, and Rust-style correctness and performance for the compute part. These don’t need to be the same language!

the thing is, Runway wants you pay $14.99 to not pay $14.99...

“software knows about it”

The writing kit: Muji pouch, earbuds, two small notebooks, Kindle, three hand-bound books, an assortment of printouts, two pens (black and red) and two crayons (green and blue)

a combo of extension + arena: this augments a page with automatic wikipedia-like blue links to any Arena channel if the text is contained there

It is imperative that the government have an open online archive of every book in existence and readily accessible, high-quality printers distributed throughout every metropolitan area at the density of roughly one printer per acre.

The folded-in-half, two pages per sheet, A5-sized pamphlet is the zenith of reading. A laptop, a bunch of PDFs, and a printer is the basis of the contemporary library. All the rest is object fetish masquerading a conservative impulse to prevent the distribution of information.

I’ve read fresher thoughts on aesthetics, technics, and politics in a dozen pages of Haroldo de Campos, and another dozen of Lina Bo Bardi, then in all of the canonical stuff I’ve read on art and technology or any of the discourse on social media.

Added local model support by building on top of `simonw/llm` instead of directly calling the Antropic API. Seems like the right design decision: all API key management, model management, etc, is handled by that tool. Keeps the plugin simple.

Finally migrated fully from Vim to Neovim. No more funky vim.cmd('source ~/dotfiles/vimrc'). Bye NerdTree, Vundle, etc...

What plugins do you guys swear by?

"literally an emanation of the referent"

I'd say I'm both an ML true believer and an AI skeptic: super hyped about the concept of extrapolation from compressed distributed representation of statistical patterns in data, think it's useful and philosophically significant, not sure it's good at building genies

home!

contra-Borges, por lo inmaduro, lo bajo, la oscuridad de Retiro… cuenta un anarquista bastante turbio

isn’t search just compression?

A-side: MJ Lenderman, Wristwatch
B-side: Rod Stewart, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?